Showing posts with label Boltzmann. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boltzmann. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Boltzmann's Brain

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There is a new article by Dennis Overbye in the New York Times called, Big Brain Theory: Have Cosmologists Lost Theirs? It could be the weir...
Tuesday, February 20, 2007

The Perfect Sphere

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Before I begin I had to mention the following two entries below that I wanted to do but was short on time. This recording was produced by co...
Monday, May 22, 2006

Pattern Recognition

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Strominger : That was the problem we had to solve. In order to count microstates, you need a microscopic theory. Boltzmann had one–the theor...
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Friday, December 23, 2005

Collapse of the Blackhole

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String theory grew out of attempts to find a simple and elegant way to account for the diversity of particles and forces observed in our uni...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005

What are those Quantum Microstates

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Now two points occupy my mind that hold questions as to what and how such counting can be done in terms of geometric propensity, that would ...
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Monday, May 30, 2005

Microstates and Gravity

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Strominger: That was the problem we had to solve. In order to count microstates, you need a microscopic theory. Boltzmann had one–the theory...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662) Born in Clermont-Ferrand (France), the young Pascal was introduced to mathematics and phy...
Monday, March 21, 2005

Emergence= Phase Transitions of Symmetry?

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Witten said : One thing I can tell you, though, is that most string theorist's suspect that spacetime is a emergent Phenomena in the lan...
Friday, December 03, 2004

Quantum Microstates: Gas Molecules in the Presence of a Gravitational Field

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Andy Strominger: This was a field theory that lived on a circle, which means it has one spatial dimension and one time dimension. We derived...
Saturday, November 20, 2004

Fool's Gold

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Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906) In 1877 Boltzmann used statistical ideas to gain valuable insight into the meaning of entropy. He rea...
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