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  • Sylvester’s Surfaces

    Figure 2. Clebsch’s Diagonal Surface: Wonderful. We are told that “mathematics is that study which knows nothing of observation…” I think no statement could have been more opposite to the undoubted facts of the case; that mathematical analysis is constantly invoking the aid of new principles, new ideas and new methods, not capable of being…

  • A recipe for making strings in the lab

    All you educated people must forgive me here. I do not have the benefit, of the student and teacher relationship, yet I rely heavily on my intuitive processes. I cannot say whether for sure these are always right. IN this sense, I would not have been liked to call a Liar, or one who had…

  • The Unity of Mathematics

    Alain Connes Where a dictionary proceeds in a circular manner, defning a word by reference to another, the basic concepts of mathematics are infinitely closer to an indecomposable element”, a kind of elementary particle” of thought with a minimal amount of ambiguity in their defnition. I think what intrigues me most, is that a world…

  • The Calorimetric View?

    The Title, might seem somewhat strange, but a issue has developed for me that I see raised in the scourge of other intellectuals, who disavow the extra dimension scenario. So you have this view and you have this idea of missing energy? Where did it go and where did it come from? Pierre Auger linked…

  • Collision course creates microscopic ‘black holes’

    Physics At The End Of The Galactic Cosmic Ray Spectrum will take place in Aspen, Colorado at the Aspen Center for Physics from April 26 to 30, 2005. Sean Carroll: Among other responses to the post about fundamental physics in the U.S., there was a position that one occasionally hears: “Who cares about particle physics,…

  • Supersymmetrical Realities

    Fusion Power Within Reach? Controlling the eddies and whirls of the writhing plasma so that it can burst into life as a miniature Sun has been a formidable, and so far only partially met, engineering challenge. “If we follow the Mast idea and not the Jet one, we could imagine a string of medium-scale fusion…

  • Cosmological and Microstate Blackholes

    Perspectives On Nature’s Greatest Puzzles Nima Arkani-Hamed: First rule of progress in science-better to follow your nose, then twiddle your thumbs My perspectives are elementary generalizations from the views of those at the forefront of theoretcical research into comprehenson of the nature of this cosmo and the ideas of it’s cyclical nature. Where else shal…

  • On a Very Large Scale Spatial Curvature?

    These are beautiful pictures of flowers my wife grew, and as a collage they make a nice way of expressing the diversity of galaxies, within context of our whole universe.:) So you develope this sense on the large scale about what is possible given certain circumstances. What is driving inflation? As this universe expands and…

  • Bubble world

    Using a rubber band analogy over top of a ball is a interesting way to approach the circle used, and the energy determinations found of value in calculating 1r radius(KK Tower) of that same circle, as you move to the top. But if you move it along a length and you find that you can…

  • Where is Gravity Stronger?

    If one were to ask where this energy came from, would such a weak gravitonic scale lead us to stronger inidcations of the energies presence and becomes a trail leading us to it’s source? What would gravity mean, if it was considered in context of the fifth dimension, and only became realized at this time,…

  • Organization of Matter: The Theory of Everything

    I looked at Sean Carroll’s blog on the thread on emergence and for me first principle was a dirty word to Robert Laughlin, and for many of us, the forms are the resulting framework of the organization of matter states, versus reductionistic attempts leading to the first building blocks of matter? Robert Betts Laughlin (born…