CONSTANT REFLECTIONS

Reflections on Reflections

The graduate student workshop ''Buddhist Art: Objects and Contexts'' was an unusual event. Like Reflections of the Buddha, the exhibition it addressed, it was in constant dialogue with its physical setting, the singular Tadao Ando ¯ building home to the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, as the four sessions moved through the four galleries in changing light. The event was also distinguished by ...

Time Domain Reflectometry Surface Reflections for Dielectric Constant in Highly Conductive Soils

This paper presents a model-based approach to determine dielectric constants from time domain reflectometry TDR measurement in highly conductive soils. It makes use of information contained in the TDR signal from the reflection at the surface of the soil rather than the reflection from the end of the probe. The TDR method is widely used to determine the volumetric water content of soils. Common...

Reflections on reflections in explicit mathematics

We give a broad discussion of reflection principles in explicit mathematics, thereby addressing various kinds of universe existence principles. The proof-theoretic strength of the relevant systems of explicit mathematics is couched in terms of suitable extensions of KripkePlatek set theory.

Newton's Constant Isn't Constant

According to Newton’s law of gravity, two masses interact with each other via a central force which can be derived from the potential VN (r) = −Gm1m2/r where G is a universal constant known as Newton’s constant. Likewise, according to Coulomb’s law, two electrically charged particles with charges n1e and n2e interact via the central potential VCb (r) = αn1n2/r where e is the elementary charge a...

An Investigation on Tadao Ando’s Phenomenological Reflections