tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81178351855570637122012-01-25T01:26:39.448-05:00This blog is all about my explorations and research relating to science, science studies, the history, philosophy, politics, sociology and culture of scientific knowledge-making. The meaning of legitimate and illegitimate knowledge. To study the societal constitution of pseudosciences and to understand the makings of epistemology.Media Physicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02918724286478162545noreply@blogger.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8117835185557063712.post-32733589698800856742012-01-16T17:11:00.002-05:002012-01-25T01:20:34.952-05:00

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Recently, I've been geeking out alot on Amazon, looking for non-library material to fill my dissertation hit list. As I receive each of these books, I'll talk about them here. What I am happy about, most recently, is that I finally found a compromise for my dissertation: I get to, somewhat, write about what interests me, while conforming to the strictures of my discipline and the dissertation.

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I've been thinking about the necessity of performing some sort of a science apprenticeship as a way of better understanding how science at a deep level. I don't think taking courses will help as much as attempting to work on a problem. But what problem should that be? Time to hit the archives.

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In case anyone is interested, you can find my contribution to the HCP 2011 Symposium in Paris over here. It's called "Speculative Reading, Speculative Physics" :)

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Over the last week, between fighting a bad cold and slumming over the various sitcoms, mysteries, and intense dramas to forget how my life suck with that cold, I took to revisiting some of the ideas I have initially toyed with in an attempt to revise the outline for my dissertation prospectus 1. Natural laws and counterfactuals: I've been reading into how physical/natural laws as produced

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Being home for a day since the past 1.5 weeks of very stimulating while also exhausting excursion to Europe means that it is now time to sit back and think through all that I have learned. I have two separate conferences to follow up on, in terms of content and direction. For now, I will begin by revisiting the material from the emergent quantum theory conference, mapping out the foundational

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Since last summer, and after my last posting, I have been spending much of my time tracking and defining the limits from which I want to situate my research (summer is great for that, though a big portion of my time was also taken up doing other unrelated academic activities) and also my dissertation proposal, and ultimately, my dissertation itself. The route taken has been rather long and in

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This is the piece I'd submitted to my committee on macrostates and microstates. Of course, more of it will crop up in my dissertation proper. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The experiential world we live in is structured around the micro- and macrostates. They are so tightly entwined and entangled within each other’s spatial-temporal worlds that we

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Big experiments with hundreds of physicists and tens of organizations involved. The process for scientific grant application was minimal Discussion of JJ Thompson Rutherford's "discovery" of the atomic nucleus - it was considered an utter failure as nobody outside Manchester paid any attention. This was in 1911. Plagiarism in physics Quatenspringerei, anno 1913. 1928: quantum mechanics valid for

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Unlearned Mind: Scientists/Science communicator/scientist novelists

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First results from Heavy Ion collisions at the LHC (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS) I missed the first two events because I overslept (!) due to my weird sleeping habits nowadays (I can't sleep when I try to sleep earlier). But at least I caught Jurgen talking about ALICE's results. I can look at the slides for the rest (not that one can make as much sense to me without some explanation). It does seem as if

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This idea came to me as I was working on a project for a visual studies class that tries to use as its subject matter the history of Durham (see www.digitaldurham.duke.edu).  I worked on history of the Duke Family (because their papers are most readily accessible from the University Archives of Duke, where I go to school). But the larger idea was the excavation of 'dead' epistemology, and working

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Yes, I am trying to build an epistemological database that will also reveal the ontological. To do that, I have to be able to effect negative information, blank spaces (which does not mean that it is empty, just that it is not visible because there is no 'textual' marker). Which theorists can I turn to for help in that? Gadamer? Foucault? Deleuze? Lacan? Fuller? Kant? Simondon? Merleau-Ponty

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Well, I have to admit that I haven't done more work on the LHC at this point, being distracted as I am with completing the final leg of my coursework requirements. However, there are other things I am working on at the other end which will be useful for taking a distant approach to my research. However, I would have to start going back to direct research once I am done with exams and all. At the

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Yesterday, I had a very fruitful discussion with one of my professors on my work (and very intense as well) and since that has revived some thoughts I have on my project that is currently on hold due to other commitments, I will jot them here ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CERN is like the UN in some ways, but not in all ways. For example, not all the

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The confluence of science fiction, cybernetics, and scientific ontology constitutes an intersection between predictions, myth-making, hypotheses, phenomenal gestures, thought-experiments and material realization. Science fiction is not a genre by which one can easily position textual productions and reproductions of scientific ideas in either sublimated or pedagogically direct forms. At the same

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The result of my summer stint at CERN and Niels Bohr has enabled me to further narrow the focus of my dissertation topic. But I am not all there yet! --------------------------------------------------------------- I am sending you and the Center for the History of Physics a short report regarding my almost 7-week stint at the Niels Bohr Library at the ACP. I was there from July 19-23, and then

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LIT 20: Science in Context: Imagining science through culture, gender, and art Course DescriptionThe course begins by teasing out the multiple facets of science; looking at the origin of its meaning and the multiplicity of meanings beyond what you have been taught in science classes in high school and college. We will be reading excerpts of books on the subjects of the course title, some journal

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I know I haven't had time to write up on my last few days at CERN, despite the interviews I've conducted and discussions with two eminent theoretical physicists (one of whom was a colleague of Richard Feynman, John Ellis). But I will try to get to it soon once I am done with my sojourn to the the library at the American Center of Physics, College Park. As I am now reading through the files on

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I know I haven't written about the last few days about my work, and I hope to remedy that soon. So far, too many things to catch up on and I'm exhausted post international travel. But I'll like to paste the page to this interesting site that will keep you informed of some of the most important parameters experimentalists at the LHC are looking up for and how much weight they place on these

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Which of course, is less exciting for the particle physicists and also the public at large. Today, the PS (Proton Synchrotron) Booster had a bit of a problem, so they had to trace the entire diameter of it in the tunner to find out what's causing the 'beam leak' during the injection process. While I managed to learn more about how luminosity can be increased by improving the capability of

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THere are tonnes I can say about what I've learnt today after the visit to the LHCb and ALICE control rooms, and also in conversations with the students. At the same time, I am spending more time digging into the publications produced by CERN to fill in all the gaps and clarify further much of the knowledge I've gained by seeing physics in practice. After all, as a shift leader at the LHCb

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CERN has a smaller and often less visible group of theoretical physicists who hand around the same building as the library. They tend to have less students and they move between experimental groups in pursuit of the goals of fulfilling certain predictions that were perhaps made mathematically 30 years or more ago. They are perhaps more reticent than most when it comes to highlighting new

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Sure, I managed to meet with the current spokesperson of the LHCb (b stands for the beauty/bottom quark, which is one of the two third generation quark, the other being 'top,' that are beloved of the HE physicists) experiement. Today is also when I get the clarification of how physicists would define the term 'phenomenology,' which is the effort to correlate data with existing theoretical models,

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Yesterday was moving day for me, so I got to work later than usual. However, I was able to catch the same amount of part 2 of the heavy ions lecture and also met with a CMS experimental physicist to get a better understanding of how 'quality' data is being hierarchically determined across different groups and the thousands of people entasked with selecting and optimizing usable data. I will not

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Today is the first day of the summer student lecture series and I was about 20 minutes late, no thanks to getting out late and then getting a little lost on my way over (though less loss than when I first biked home). The lecture was on heavy ion collisions and is the first of a tripartite series. For those back home interested in following these lectures, which are at a level that undergraduate

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Today I got up a bit later than the day before, being overtired from getting lost when biking and from a long day with interrupted sleep (plus jetlag). After morning breakfast and some reading, I took a very long walk (about 45 min) to the nearest bus stop to take me to CERN (I chose not to bike today since I was to be going off somewhere else at the end of the day and would want to have my bike

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In my other blog, I will be writing about my first impression upon arriving in the little township of St Genis-Pouilly. I would have written yesterday except that I was feeling out of sorts and trying to orientate my way around via the Internet. But here, I'll say a little about how it was like to be at CERN for the first day and the first time of my life Today is both eventful and non-eventful.

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I've spent more than three weeks reading a bunch of books that I hope to include in my exams reading list and also for research trip that I'll be making next month. Some research questions popped to mind and I am not sure if I'll make them part of my exams question. They will be refined and refocused along the way but I think I'll just post them as they are for now, and perhaps elicit some

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I haven't been getting to it as much as I could due to some other work that I had to finish since the ending of the Spring semester two weeks back (not to mention being , but I am happy to say that I managed to finish reading a book that gives one a good basic overview of the LHC, have managed to keep up with the research updates going on in CERN (especially where the Top quark is concerned) and

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UPDATE: See live webcast now before it ends in a few more hours. Perhaps even right now. It is scheduled for 7 am. I will know soon. Unfortunately, I could not access the site from my IP. Hopefully I can find some way to access the webcam images. At any rate, I'll be paying the physics building, HEP section, a visit tomorrow, on my way to class. Work is going rather slowly in this area, for

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I wish fervently that there is a specific fund I can apply to where the jury that dispenses the fund will understand what I am trying to drive at with this project that I am doing with the LHC, high energy physics and basically comparative critical theory on science, gender and epistemic politics. I suppose I am beginning to despair slightly over ever getting funding to go to CERN this summer,

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At the reading group on phenomenology today, we were discussing Mark Hansen's latest work on ubiquitous sensations in talking about new media art, which attempts to interrogate the notions of the "atmospheric, impersonal and microtemporal" in media even as we are trying to make sense of Varela's project of using neuroscience to fill in the gaps of the Husserlian phenomenological model (I don't

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Yup, I paid another visit to the high-energy physics lab over here to have a pow-wow with one of the group leaders, so that I can get out as much of the FAQs as I could. Also of course, so that he could also ask me a bit more question about my intended project. I supposed first and foremost, I wanted to ask him to suggest some more general reading materials I could get through to help me sift

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 I wrote this as a manifesto to the project that I am doing here as recorded in this blog. It is still at an early stage and I wish I have had more time to pour through all the materials I've captured since that will be so very useful to updating and thinking through this manifesto. But this will act as draft 1 for more to come. As I work on it more and develop it further, and make the meaning of

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The end of the Fall 2009 saw a dearth of posting on this blog. The project for which this blog was started is still ongoing. Whast I am doing now is sit back from the actual creation of the project to work on two levels 1. To collect data and observations by participating in conferences, meetings and even to attempt to go to the original source of the 'blackbox' site. 2. To explore and analyze

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I have been moved to think more on the meaning and motive of speculative computing as outlined in Johanna Drucker's book Speclab: Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing and how that may jive with my own work in thought experiments, which I have shared at the SLSA conference in Atlanta a few weeks ago. As the semester comes to a close, I have to now spend time thinking even

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This whole idea started from when I was in the royal garden of Vienna. :) Now I hope posting it here will generate enough interest that people will come back to me with kick-ass comments. I think the whole idea of secrecy over the most basic issues (rather than sensitive information) is more or less a thing of the past. But be reminded that this posting below does not represent what will be the

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Is love and logic programmable in the same way? Can I write a database of love by using an abductive-based algorithm, putting into the database, a long narrative, logical history of love, love-calls, responses, wooing and so-frth, that can be called on by the algorithm through the trigger effect of particular key words. How possible is it to create an algorithm that can close-read text messages

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Some interesting titbits found from my twitter stalking A speculative future of the LHC Another attempt at putting another date as to when the LHC could finally be revived. Sounds like one of those Doomsday prediction to me. Last time it was Sept. That has past. Now it's the Dec holiday season. I am still waiting for whoever that has the Don Lincoln book, The quantum frontier : the large

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They are both indeterminate! As much as you can’t tell if the computer or person in the other room knows Chinese, or if the cat is alive or dead or both, as one is blurred into the other, however, you can find a solution by direct observation (if you know what goes behind closed doors).  The image on the left is taken from http://www.macrovu.com/CCTMap4ChineseRm.html. The picture is Searle's

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I am motivated to write this posting for two-fold reasons; firstly is because I did promise that I would post about critical thoughts and ideas behind computer-human interface in an attempt to understand the consciousness of machines and humans, to look at the continuity and disjunction between both, by way of phenomenological approaches, the other is to try to understand the materiality of

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In reading through Aspet's work on the meaning of Ergodic Literature, in light of the class discussions and blog posts (and I found David Gruber's post on this very enlightening), I a now thinking as to what is it about media art that is poignant or ground-breaking compared to hand-crafted or even machine-crafted art (after all, art created with the help of machines and the skills of artisans, be

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A database of imagination with a psychological nature. I kinda like this phrase I've read in Lev Manovich's article The Language of New Media. From the examples cited, maybe I should start thinking of it in terms of the database of consciousness. I am thinking along these same lines.Also, I was asked this very pertinent question, what the heck is critical theory, really?And as a friend suggested,

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Ok, I know that I am suppose to post this in a blog for a class but I thought I'll post it here, since the topic of remediation, based on the introduction (for now) of a book I'm reading for class called "Remediation: Understanding New Media" by Jay David Boulter and Richard Grusin, is something which I should be thinking about in light of my own work.1. Is remediation concerned with the

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And read! It started out really slowly. I was on a downbeat despite looking forward to vegetating after an exhausting tour, which I have yet to blog about. And after one week of being back, a week to recover from exhaustion, I find myself having no more time..arrghDVD driver working perfect now, which is great. Time to go through all the stuff from Siggraph, and also some.I told a class today

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It has been a hectic two weeks, thus the lack of posts. I am now in New Orleans, Louisiana, attending Siggraph 2009, an almost direct transversal from Paris, France, via Dublin, New York, RDU, and Atlanata, before arriving in NOLA. I’ll blog more about what I’ve gathered about from my European tour, and also to revisit some of the ideas and material I’d first thrown out in my previous blog post

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Due to the hecticness of my schedule, running around for the last 2 weeks, it has been hard to settle down to blogging. I'll write more about my European tour in scandalousthoughts when I get back to Durham. Right now, I am in New Orleans, attending Siggraph 2009, the conference for all CG geeks, whether gamers, film-makers, designers, animators, writers, directors, or students.It's been a rather

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It is best to begin this blog by outlining some of my intellectual absorption and obsession. I have to admit that I came from a highly eclectic background; to many, I epitomize the very personification of the dilletantte in this age of professional specialization. Yet, I want to argue that it is this very unstructured and unformal nature of my thoughts and personality, one that is at once

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