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Our Own Quiet Spaces
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Why this Universe?
Sea of Virtual Particles http://fermat.nap.edu/openbook/0309074061/gifmid/19.gif Who is to deny that such processes incorporated into our views of today would not have drawn the cosmologist and the deeper intracies of physics, to point to our nature and it’s beginnings in our universe . To raise questions about how such families were to arise from that place…
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Grue and Bleen
Brian Greene: In the late 1960s a young Italian physicist, named Gabriele Veneziano, was searching for a set of equations that would explain the strong nuclear force, the extremely powerful glue that holds the nucleus of every atom together binding protons to neutrons. As the story goes, he happened on a dusty book on the…
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Paul Dirac and Geometrical Thinking?
Into the Antiworld was originally staged at CERN inside the underground cavern that houses the Delphi experiment, in which collisions between electrons and their antiparticles – positrons – are studied. That setting must have been awe-inspiring, particularly as the show closed. The audience would have been whisked from the wonder and novelty of Dirac’s theory…
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Explanation on the Landscape
Photograph by Clifford Johnson While on Cosmic Invariance, Clifford brings a much needed attempt at explanation on how we view the landscape. I’ll have to spend sometime going over this becuase it is a critical position and difference between two facets of thinking within the scientific community. Susskind and Lee Smolin have lead this discussion…
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STRINGS ’05 PUBLIC LECTURES
Peter Woit: Dijkgraaf’s talk was completely standard string evangelism, and except for a couple slides mentioning D-branes and black holes, could easily have been given, completely unchanged, twenty years ago. Sometimes if you do not do this assessment for the general public, and make correct the way in which a Peter Woit, Robbert Dijkgraaf or…
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The Fifth Dimension, is the Spacetime Fabric
Perhaps Quantum Gravity can be Handled by thoroughly reconsidering Quantum Mechanics itself? by Gerard t’ Hooft I was attracted to Nigel Cook’s statement on Peter Woits blog entitled, “Panel Discussion Video” by the quote of his taken here below. What immediately struck my mind, was the Bekenstein Bound and how “temperature” would have been seen…
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Lee Smolin’s Case for Background Independence
While we were privy to the debate between Susskind and Smolin in a previous post, the origins and definitions have been drawn from the deeper requirements of an ideology. Where do these begin, and we find the inner compulsion of a scientist to find the means and defintions to extend the basis of our perceptions…
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The Black Hole Final State
Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature. – Hermann Weyl It was a nice vacation and now being back, I see Lubos is clarifying some issues…
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Why No New Einstein
To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.. -Plato, The Republic (Book VII) The inference of dimensional attributes scares many good minds away from the matters at hand?:) Lubos Motl: The only truly open questions about the interpretation of quantum mechanics are those that also require us…
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662) Born in Clermont-Ferrand (France), the young Pascal was introduced to mathematics and physics by his father. So precocious was his talent in these disciplines that he published his innovative Essai pour les coniques [Essay on conics] in 1632, at only sixteen. In 1631, he moved to…
