Comments on: Categorically Not! – Really?

By: Plato

Plato — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 20:21:42 +0000

okay:)

By: Clifford

Clifford — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:39:54 +0000

Plato, people can comment whenever they want. They can do it on this post if they want to since the title is correct for the event in question. I can move things if need be. People might be excited to share their thoughts immediately and might not want to wait for me to post some pictures. They might want to do their own description of the events. My point of view is only one of many, and so can wait.

Ok? Please don’t confuse other readers and potential commenters further.

Thanks,

-cvj

By: Plato

Plato — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:31:01 +0000

That’s fine. Comments preferably, when you do new post? Sort of keeps it together. Just checking, and any thoughts written to the website? I know your a busy man.

Thank you

By: Clifford

Clifford — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:17:14 +0000

Will do a post about it soon….. then people will hopefully come in a comment there. Although people who attended can start commenting on it here if they wish to, since I might not do the post in a speedy fashion.

-cvj

By: Plato

Plato — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:10:44 +0000

So how did it go, and any opinions by those who went?

By: Hidden Treasures | Cosmic Variance

Hidden Treasures | Cosmic Variance — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 01:20:44 +0000

[...] Turns out that there is a society/club whose mission in life is to arrange chamber music concerts in several of these stately homes and other historic places all over Los Angeles County, and this was one of the perfomances I was attending! They are called the Da Camera society, and their website is here. We saw the Avalon String Quartet perfom pieces by Schubert, Schumann and Wolf, and it was wonderful. They arranged the Quartet in a circle (facing inwards), and we the audience surrounded the musicians, sitting very close to them, so it was especialy intimate, and also afforded an interesting hearing of the pieces, since the no-traditional positioning allowed you to separate out the parts in interesting ways. I like to do this a bit in my head when I listen anyway, and so it was nice to be helped a bit by geography. Turned out (I learned from speaking to one of the musicians afterward) that the musicians found it fun to do, since they too had not heard it in that way before. (They are performing the same programme tonight -in a traditional confirguration- in Santa Barbara, for readers up there looking for something to do. They were excellent.) The excellent pre-concert lecture was given by MaryAnn Bonino, the Founding Director of the Society, who I’d met before a lot at Categorically Not!….. I’d previously no idea that she had an office so close to me all this time. [...]

By: Plato

Plato — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 05:46:45 +0000

Oh I was wondering if the the website of these events can somehow contain some information of the talks as well. Especially if all events are not possibly described in Cosmic Variance format.

I see you are busy now, so perhaps later?

Thanks

By: Plato

Plato — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 05:41:05 +0000

I wonder if it is appropriate to relate Abraham Maslow’s “peak experience” to moments of intuition?

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:07:40 +0000

K. C. Cole is quoted as saying: “space and time” are simply an illusion while “quantum weirdness and blackholes are real.” I do not question the assumption that “space and time” is an illusion while quantum weirdness is reality. However, I view blackholes as a perfect hybrid between illusion and reality. Stated differently, I view blackholes as a complete intertwinement between General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. Perhaps it is hopeless to assume that GR and Qm can be reconciled at the Planck scale as well as at the Hubble scale. Perhaps on “the road to reality,” QM will always usurp GR?

By: Spatulated

Spatulated — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:39:08 +0000

grrrr…. it sounds so extreamly interesting but I am in ohio, and that is quite a hefty distance. well hope you guys have fun