Tag Archives: Witten

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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IN Search of Mandelstam’s Holy Grail

Posted on March 14, 2007 by PlatoHagel

There are two posts that reflect the purpose of this post today. One is Clifford’s linked through Lee Smolin’s comment and the other, at Backreaction. Good Physics is Conflict A lot of you may never understand the significance of the … Continue reading →

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Finiteness of String Theory and Mandelstam

Posted on December 2, 2006 by PlatoHagel

It might be that the laws change absolutely with time; that gravity for instance varies with time and that this inverse square law has a strength which depends on how long it is since the beginning of time. In other … Continue reading →

Posted in Finiteness in String theory Landscape, Genus Figures, Gravity, Holonomy, Intuition, Inverse Square Law, Loop Quantum, Mandelstam, Quantum Gravity, Smolin, String Theory, Supersymmetry, Theory of Everything, Thomas Kuhn, Topology, Witten | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Quantum Computation and Evolution?

Posted on November 8, 2006 by PlatoHagel

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding out that we must learn a great deal more about ‘and’.”- Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1944) Of course a lot … Continue reading →

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"Lead by Physics," Faces the "Trouble With Physics"

Posted on October 15, 2006 by PlatoHagel

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory is a world-class scientific research facility that began operation in 2000, following 10 years of development and construction. Hundreds of physicists from around the world use RHIC to study what … Continue reading →

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What’s on the Condense Matter Theorist’s Mind?

Posted on September 13, 2006 by PlatoHagel

The Theory of Everything Prof. Robert B. Laughlin The crystalline state is the simplest known example of a quantum , a stable state of matter whose generic low-energy properties are determined by a higher organizing principle and nothing else. Robert … Continue reading →

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Types of Blogging Software

Posted on June 5, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Ask yourself this? What is the new kernel to be, if we had for one moment presented the opportunities for the using Riemann hypothesis, and contained the very idea as a philosophy presented within this blog? A VIEW OF MATHEMATICS … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog Developers, Brain, Complexity, Concepts, Cosmology, Gauss, Induction, Laughlin, Mathematics, Riemann Hypothesis, Witten | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Is the door open to the eruption of the sociology of knowledge?

Posted on May 1, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Nobody really thinks about the subtle perceptions that can make their way into the scientist’s mind? Do they? While, I had talked about the quiet places we like to go to find that peace of mind, it might be different … Continue reading →

Posted in Analogies, Art, Brain, Carl Jung, Creativity, Emergence, Landscape, Law of Octaves, Loop Quantum, Mandalas, Mendeleev, Music, Nothing, Octave, Sound, Steven Weinberg, The Six of Red Spades, Thomas Kuhn, Witten | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

What the M really stands for

Posted on January 27, 2006 by PlatoHagel

A more serious problem: The name M-theory is slightly ambiguous. It can be used to refer to both the particular eleven-dimensional theory which Witten first proposed, or it can be used to refer to a kind of Uber theory which … Continue reading →

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Laughlin, Reductionism, Emergence

Posted on December 10, 2005 by PlatoHagel

I am still operating from the idea of Xtra-Dimensions. What motivating force would have brought such a quantum gravity group together and the aspect it might have spoken from? What mysterious forces motivates all these ladies/ gentlemen? Everyone knows that … Continue reading →

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