Tag Archives: Self Evident

First Principles by Howard Burton

Posted on June 17, 2009 by PlatoHagel

After returning home from our little vacation, I’ve hunkered down to read, and I thought this would be a good time to come to know of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada and how it started up. As … Continue reading →

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Understanding our Angels and Daemons

Posted on May 30, 2009 by PlatoHagel

So, every “story line” is about a Journey? IN Angel and Demons, we follow the story of Professor Robert Langdon. The Vatican summons Professor Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) and Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer) from CERN to help them solve the … Continue reading →

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More on Angels and Demons

Posted on May 30, 2009 by PlatoHagel

In a sentence, the observations are spectacular and the conclusions are stunning,” said Brian Greene of Columbia University in New York City. “WMAP data support the notion that galaxies are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky.” “To … Continue reading →

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All Possible Outcomes?

Posted on March 17, 2009 by PlatoHagel

I must say to you that in my case I am asking of Calabi Yau’s, can have some predictability to how universe selection is accomplished and thus any steady development in mathematics pushing that landscape to credibility? This entry is … Continue reading →

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The Differences

Posted on March 7, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Phil:….yet more importantly it is only in difference that often times much is learned. IT is appropriate that such a point( self evident) in terms of “differences” is brought forward here for introspection, as a “inductive recognition of our journey’s … Continue reading →

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Stargazers and Hill Climbers

Posted on February 13, 2009 by PlatoHagel

AS with Einstein, who was Socrates daemon?:) In Plato’s Apology of Socrates, Socrates claimed to have a daimonion (literally, a “divine something”)[6] that frequently warned him – in the form of a “voice” – against mistakes but never told him … Continue reading →

Posted in Kip Thorne, Plato, Plato's Cave, Self Evident, Sir Roger Penrose, Socratic Method, Stephen Hawking, Theory of Everything, TOE | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 26 Comments

SuperCritical Fluid

Posted on January 11, 2009 by PlatoHagel

What choice do I have but to quote myself.:) At 11:47 AM, January 09, 2009, Blogger Plato said… Superfluous is a mathematical construct for sure. Continuity, asked not from the condense matter theorist point of view as Jacque’s remind, or, … Continue reading →

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Fear and Ignorance

Posted on October 16, 2008 by PlatoHagel

This is a very significant physical result because it tells us that the energy of a system described by a harmonic oscillator potential cannot have zero energy. Physical systems such as atoms in a solid lattice or in polyatomic molecules … Continue reading →

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William Thurston

Posted on August 8, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Xianfeng David Gu and Shing-Tung YauTo a topologist, a rabbit is the same as a sphere. Neither has a hole. Longitude and latitude lines on the rabbit allow mathematicians to map it onto different forms while preserving information. William Thurston … Continue reading →

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The Inconceivable being Believable

Posted on July 28, 2008 by PlatoHagel

While string theory does not, at this point, predict our world, it can at the very least plausibly encompass it. No other theory has been shown to do that. Aaron Bergman’s book review of Peter Woit’s I think there is … Continue reading →

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