Tag Archives: Outside Time

The Socratic Method…..and Plato’s Ideas, is Replaced by Google?

Posted on June 14, 2011 by PlatoHagel

http://youtu.be/dk60sYrU2RU The idea that truth is timeless and resides outside the universe was the essence of Plato’s philosophy, exemplified in the parable of the slave boy that was meant to argue that discovery is merely remembering. Lee Smolin  Bold added … Continue reading →

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Color of Gravity 4

Posted on June 6, 2011 by PlatoHagel

This is the most important song I’ve ever written, it’s a time capsule song. I will listen to it every day of my life if I need to. It’s honest to God the most important song I’ve ever written in … Continue reading →

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The Truth of Symmetry?

Posted on May 23, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Fidel wrote: Canadian Tom Harpur wrote that modern day religious scholars began to realize that indigenous people in this hemisphere possessed what are some of the most sophisticated and deeply held spiritual beliefs in the world. I agree with your … Continue reading →

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Life After Death Question

Posted on May 20, 2011 by PlatoHagel

It’s obvious that some humour can make light of a dead situation?:) Stephen Hawking dismisses belief in God in an exclusive interview with the Guardian. Photograph: Solar & Heliospheric Observatory/Discovery Channel In the interview, Hawking rejected the notion of life … Continue reading →

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Plato’s Problem and Meno: How Accurately Portrayed?

Posted on January 23, 2011 by PlatoHagel

SOCRATES: Then he who does not know may still have true notions of that which he does not know? MENO: He has. SOCRATES: And at present these notions have just been stirred up in him, as in a dream; but … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Life

Posted on January 7, 2011 by PlatoHagel

 For me there has to be a beginning for any object of presentation,  so that the understanding fully incorporates how one is looking at say “our skies historically” can be the seed of what matures tomorrow. While that process and … Continue reading →

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Time Dilation

Posted on December 9, 2010 by PlatoHagel

……. is a phenomenon (or two phenomena, as mentioned below) described by the theory of relativity. It can be illustrated by supposing that two observers are in motion relative to each other, or differently situated with regard to nearby gravitational … Continue reading →

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Thinking Outside the Box, People Like Veneziano, Turok and Penrose

Posted on December 5, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Credit: V.G.Gurzadyan and R.Penrose Dark circles indicate regions in space where the cosmic microwave background has temperature variations that are lower than average. The features hint that the universe was born long before the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago … Continue reading →

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Holometer

Posted on December 2, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Holometer Revised This plot shows the sensitivity of various experiments to fluctuations in space and time. Horizontal axis is the log of apparatus size (or duration time the speed of light), in meters; vertical axis is the log of the … Continue reading →

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Quantum suicide and immortality

Posted on October 6, 2010 by PlatoHagel

But for the first time, quantum physicist Seth Lloyd of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests that memories of entanglement can survive its destruction. He compares the effect to Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights: “the spectral Catherine communicates with her … Continue reading →

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