Saturday, January 13, 2007

Aerogels and Stardust

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IN a previous post on "Stardust," I was enamoured with "the product," that could do all the things that it said it could...
Friday, January 12, 2007

Music of Hemispheres

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Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Edward M. Hubbard Modern scientists have known about synesthesia since 1880,...

Clock Work Universe

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Fig 1.4 A two-dimensional coordinate system can be used to locate the position of any point in terms of its x- and y-coordinates Figure 1.4 ...
Monday, January 08, 2007

Hubble Maps the Cosmic Web of "Clumpy" Dark Matter in 3-D

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Three-Dimensional Distribution of Dark Matter in the Universe This three-dimensional map offers a first look at the web-like large-scale dis...
Sunday, January 07, 2007

PLATO:Mathematician or Mystic ?

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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty, a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal...
Saturday, January 06, 2007

Mersenne Prime: One < the Power of two

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It looks as though primes tend to concentrate in certain curves that swoop away to the northwest and southwest, like the curve marked by the...
Friday, January 05, 2007

Images or Numbers By Themself

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“Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that i...
Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Latex Rendering

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Andrew Roberts : Here are some tutorials I have written for getting up to speed with this excellent document processing system. If you are n...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

The Sun's Before Us

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The Cosmic Ray of Creation We are "shadows" of the Sun's creations. Sometimes it good to go back to "the beginning" ...
Monday, January 01, 2007

Symmetries Can be Chaotically Complex

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Imagine in an "action of a kind" you start off from one place. A photon travelling through a slit of Thomas Young's, to get th...