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  • Things to scale in Powers of Ten

    You know it won’t make sense until you see that the underlying perspective is as if you can look at the world with a microscope or, look at the universe in terms of a large scale. NanoTechnologies then are useful in terms of the job your doing and holds comparative views in terms of that…

  • Strangelets and Strange Matter

    Of course I will point to some of the “inherent nature” that some scientists encounter as they develop the geometrical basis to “all the concepts could ever mean?” But first, “the journey.” If not fundamental, though, quark nuggets zipping around the galaxy would still be an amazing addition. And perhaps even more amazing, in the…

  • Mersenne Prime: One < the Power of two

    It looks as though primes tend to concentrate in certain curves that swoop away to the northwest and southwest, like the curve marked by the blue arrow. (The numbers on that curve are of the form x(x+1) + 41, the famous prime-generating formula discovered by Euler in 1774.) This is part of the education of…

  • Understanding the Tonal

    Sir Isaac Newton So, you have your units, and the powers of ten? Distances shorter than 1 µm 1 micrometre (micron)Items with lengths between 1-10 µm (microns)1.55 µm — wavelength of light used in optical fibre6 µm — anthrax spore6-8 µm — diameter of a human red blood cell7 µm — diameter of the nucleus…

  • Historical Approach of the Sand Reckoner

    I should pave the way for how the thoughts that are unfolding this morning. But nothing afflicted Marcellus so much as the death of Archimedes, who was then, as fate would have it, intent upon working out some problem by a diagram, and having fixed his mind alike and his eyes upon the subject of…

  • At What "Point" does the Universe Make itself Known?

    According to the basic laws of physics, every wavelength of electromagnetic radiation corresponds to a specific amount of energy. The NIST/ILL team determined the value for energy in the Einstein equation, E = mc2, by carefully measuring the wavelength of gamma rays emitted by silicon and sulfur atoms. This, was encapsulated in a “point before…

  • Foundational Perspectives

    Do I work in construction, of course not. But I like models we develope. How we go about building them. While I may have developed them in my own mental and physical life, this entry, is about what the youth of today, can do in their own lives. I also wanted to speak about the…

  • Intuitive Self and Structure: My Past

    One qubit at a time by the Economist COMPUTING is about to hit a problem. In each new generation the components are smaller than they were in its predecessor, and the speed at which this miniaturisation is happening means that within 15 years or so a fundamental limit will be reached. At that point, not…

  • Tabula rasa: The Glass Room

    For a person like me, I would want to define the origination and source of all possibilites. While it might have been a philosophical journey of John Locke, or further rendition by Stephen Pinker. I have a perspective on this, that I think would seem a little strange. I mean really, if, each of us…

  • Strings: The First Three Seconds

    I didn’t want to invoke God here, but in any “flash” is there not some pattern that mathematically needed to describe the way everything began? A word, or sound? An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.Srinivasa Ramanujan Before the BeginningInterview with Sir Martin Rees, Part 2 Helen Matsos (HM):…

  • A Perspective on Powers of Ten?

    What do chance encounters bring to the quality of life? Tabula rasa >(Latin: “scraped tablet”, though often translated “blank slate”) is the notion that individual human beings are born “blank” (with no built-in mental content), and that their identity is defined entirely by events after birth. Sometimes we see ingenuity display itself and having a…