Sunday, July 31, 2005

Dealing With a 5d World

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A black hole is an object so massive that even light cannot escape from it. This requires the idea of a gravitational mass for a photon , wh...
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Friday, July 29, 2005

History of Gravity and the Equivalence Principle

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History rerun on bar ringings? That's it: the bar is in place. Our word gravity and its more precise derivative gravitation come from th...
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How the Natural World has Been Painted

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While some are intrigued by EM waves, I have a fascination for GW and the way we can portrait the natural world, we do not see. The sounds o...
Thursday, July 28, 2005

Shakespearean Quandry Has Limits

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As a measure how far can this be taken? Some like to think like Smolin, and Smolin's reference to Glast is a important one:)This defines...
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Torsors Made Easy

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John Baez : In Newtonian mechanics, we can only measure energy differences, not energies themselves. The reason is that we can add any real ...
Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Deep Impact craters on the moon.

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What do they reveal about the moon's geological structure? The colors in this image can be used to ascertain compositional properties o...
Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Lee Smolin's Case for Background Independence

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While we were privy to the debate between Susskind and Smolin in a previous post, the origins and definitions have been drawn from the deep...

Kilometric Radiation?

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So we use physics in ways to change the way we see? Here are some examles from the Cassini Project and Wikipedia . Cassini Plasma Spectromet...
Monday, July 25, 2005

Themis

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THEMIS's ground network of all sky imagers will have the density and time resolution to detect auroral onset within 10s and 0.5 degrees ...
Sunday, July 24, 2005

The Black Hole Final State

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Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting poi...