Comments on: Lighting Up The Dark

By: Plato

Plato — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:22:59 +0000

…a first tell tale sign of the neuroncial expansion taking place Clifford is the links to other links, within the thnking brain.

That you could have reached your other selves is amazing

By: Dissident

Dissident — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:13:15 +0000

Clifford, where did you get the notion that I believe you exist?

By: Clifford

Clifford — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:34:47 +0000

Dissident. Well, my hair colour is different from what it was when the blog started too. And how do you know that I exist? Recall my recent revelation. -cvj

By: Dissident

Dissident — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:05:00 +0000

Is that really Risa in the picture? Looks very different from the one here: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/risa

I know it’s small, dark and at a different angle, but even the hair color seems wrong.

And while I’m out asking funny questions, why are there so few posts by the lady?

Inquiring minds want to know: does Risa really exist?

By: Clifford

Clifford — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:42:51 +0000

It was great to meet you, and everyone enjoyed the visit. Next time, you stay for dinner, you hear? JoAnne (among others) will tell you that it can be worth it. There’s a lot to choose from in LA!

Cheers,

-cvj

By: Risa

Risa — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:27:28 +0000

My goodness, Clifford — you really do take that camera everywhere.

Thanks for the props, it was great to finally meet you!

By: Plato

Plato — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 06:42:32 +0000

Andrey Kravtsov are modelling the formation and evolution of galaxy clusters using supercomputer simulations designed to follow the evolution of dark matter, gas and stars starting from realistic cosmological initial conditions

I clicked on June 4 slides/summary and came up with a different link. I was thinking was about Kravtsov and true to word this quote popped up. But also ideas about the cosmic string Andrey's model help me to see this way and wonder about the very begginning and how such strings formed?

One such field, called the dilaton, is the master key to string theory; it determines the overall strength of all interactions. The dilaton fascinates string theorists because its value can be reinterpreted as the size of an extra dimension of space, giving a grand total of 11 spacetime dimensions-Gabriele Veneziano

I mean if you didn't see the early uiverse as Andrey depicts it in his model, then such ideas as supersymmetry wouldn't make sense either, would they?