Heating up Galilean holography

Heating up the cold bounce

Self-dual string cosmological models provide an effective example of bouncing solutions where a phase of accelerated contraction smoothly evolves into an epoch of decelerated Friedmann–Robertson–Walker expansion dominated by the dilaton. While the transition to the expanding regime occurs at sub-Planckian curvature scales, the Universe emerging after the bounce is cold, with sharply growing gau...

Tokamak start-up with electron-cyclotron heating

Experiments are described in which the start-up voltage in a tokamak is reduced by about a factor of two by the use of a modest amount of electron cyclotron resonance heating power for pre-ionization. The solution of the zero-dimensional start-up equations indicates that the effect is due to the high initial density which increases the rate at which the conductivity increases in the neutral-dom...

Heating up the cutaneous flushing response.

A second Galilean revolution?

In the history of sciences, some apparently independent questions often have received the same answer. For example, the questions “What does make apples fall off trees?”, “What does make planets revolve around the Sun?”, “What does make matter hold together in a star?” all have received the same answer: “gravity”. When this happens, we can say that the concepts used in this answer structure a f...

On Galilean Isometries

Quite recently, Carter and Khalatnikov [CK] have pointed out that a geometric fourdimensional formulation of the non relativistic Landau theory of perfect superfluid dynamics should involve not only Galilei covariance but also, more significantly as far as gravitational effects are concerned, covariance under a larger symmetry group which they call the Milne group after Milne’s pioneering work ...