Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Richard Feynman

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" The adventure of our science of physics is a perpetual attempt to recognize that the different aspects of nature are really different...
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Sunday, April 06, 2008

Incompatible Arrows

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Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred. Ralph Waldo Emerson I just happen t...
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Friday, April 04, 2008

Kurt Godel

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He turned the lens of mathematics on itself and hit upon his famous "incompleteness theorem" — driving a stake through the heart o...
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Thursday, April 03, 2008

Time is Like a River

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How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above? (Greene, The Elegant Universe , pa...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Images of Super-Kamiokande events from tscan

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The Navier-Stokes equations are also of great interest in a purely mathematical sense. Somewhat surprisingly, given their wide range of pra...
Monday, March 31, 2008

What is AMS?

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General objectives :To collect precision cosmic ray data at high energies, including 10^10 protons; to discover or rule out certain particle...

Numerical Relativity and the Human Experience?

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"I’m a Platonist — a follower of Plato — who believes that one didn’t invent these sorts of things, that one discovers them. In a sense...
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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Cosmic censorship hypothesis

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The New Bet Whereas Stephen W. Hawking (having lost a previous bet on this subject by not demanding genericity) still firmly believes that n...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Blackhole Information Paradox

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W hat good is a universe without somebody around to look at it? Robert Dicke John Archibald Wheeler (born July 9, 1911) is an eminent Ameri...
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Epistemology

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“ Some people have difficulty with accepting Plato’s mathematical world as being in any sense ‘real’, and would gain no comfort from a view ...