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Reality & Consciousness

Reality & Consciousness

[Colorized engraving found in the book "The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology"
published by French astronomer Camille Flammarion (1888)]

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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) | Wikipedia

  • William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) | Wikipedia
    Among a great deal of other things: "Hamiltonian mechanics including its Hamilitonian function
    are now central both to electromagnetism and quantum mechanics."
  • Who is Hamilton? | The Royal Irish Academy

  • Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804-1851) | MacTutor
  • Carl Jacobi German mathematician (1804-1851) | Britannica

  • Peter Gustav Dirichlet (1805 – 1859) | Larson

  • Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) | MacTutor

  • Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909) | Britannica
    His idea of combining the three dimensions of physical space with that of time into a four-dimensional
    “Minkowski space”—space-time—laid the mathematical foundations for Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity.

  • Albert Einstein's Site Online

    Walther Nernst, Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Robert Millikan, and Max von Laue in Berlin, 1931

    “The idea of an objective real world whose smallest parts exist
    objectively in the same sense as stones or trees exist, independently of
    whether or not we observe them…is impossible.” Werner Heisenberg

    "Before there were space and time, there was empty, formless stillness. The vacuum seethed
    with ghost virtual particles coming into being in conjugate pairs of matter and anti-matter."

    "Spacetime is but a large-scale manifestation of some more fundamental entity."

    "Space and Time can be born and thus can die.1"

    From: Barrow, John D.; Pi In The Sky