Tag Archives: Smolin

Lee Smolin Public Lecture Special: Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution

Posted on April 19, 2019 by PlatoHagel

Dialogos of Eide

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Will Quantum Gravity Get Us to the Stars?

Posted on August 8, 2013 by PlatoHagel

The Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) 2nd International Conference in Ponta Delgada, Azores. July 7-12, 2009. Topics include cosmology, astrophysics, gravity, quantum gravity, quantum theory, and high-energy physics. http://www.fqxi.org/ The Meduso-Anthropic Principle is a speculative theory by Louis Crane (1994). The … Continue reading →

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Lee Smolin: Cosmological Natural Selection

Posted on August 7, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Which leads to a prediction or an observation that after many, many generations the population of the universes should be fine-tuned to maximize the production of Black Holes. And that has further implications for things that we can actually try … Continue reading →

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Think About Nature on Edge.Org

Posted on May 29, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Lee Smolin The main question I’m asking myself, the question that puts everything together, is how to do cosmology; how to make a theory of the universe as a whole system. This is said to be the golden age of … 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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The Cosmic Landscape

Posted on June 6, 2007 by PlatoHagel

I noticed a few blogs mentioning the landscape. Asymptotia(Clifford Johnson), The Reference Frame(Lubos Motl), and Not Even Wrong (Peter Woit’s) blog. The Cosmic Landscape:String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design by Leonard Susskind After reading Susskind’s book in regards … Continue reading →

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Finiteness in String Theory Landscape

Posted on April 4, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Quantum Effect, however allow a manifold to change state abruptly at some point-to tunnel through the intervening ridge to a nearby lower valley. Please take note of the underlined. Well after some thought here in terms of the landscape, it … Continue reading →

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Heralded from the 21st Century: String Theory

Posted on March 25, 2007 by PlatoHagel

I know not how, may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimensionality, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.” from Flatland, by E. A. Abbott It … Continue reading →

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The Mind Field

Posted on March 8, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Lee Smolin: Height is proportional to the number of things the theory gets right. Since we don’t have a convincing case for the right theory yet, that is a high peak somewhere off in the distance. The existing approaches are … Continue reading →

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Newton’s Space was the Sensorium

Posted on February 24, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Sir Isaac Newton, FRS (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) [OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727] was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher who is generally regarded as one of the greatest scientists and … Continue reading →

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