Metod Saniga

Current Address (till 18/OCT/2010): Astronomical Institute Slovak Academy of Sciences SK-05960 Tatranská Lomnica SLOVAK REPUBLIC Phone: ++421-52-78791-28 Fax: ++421-52-4467-656 (attn. M. S.) E-mail: msaniga@astro.sk Going Beyond Metric: Black Holes, Non-Locality and Cognition (An Intensive Mini-Workshop) Finite Projective Geometries in Quantum Theory (An Intensive Mini-Workshop) Endophysics, Time, Quantum and the Subjective (ZiF Workshop) The Nature of Time: Geometry, Physics & Perception (NATO ARW) Current Research Current and Recent Scientific Projects Publications & Contributions Curriculum Vitae Interviews Visitors

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the sower of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger... is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms -- this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center to true religiousness.
Albert Einstein

To be perfectly honest, neither scientists nor philosophers really know what time is or why it exists.
Paul Davies (Scientific American 15/3 (2005) 82-88)

Time is the supreme Law of nature.
A. S. Eddington

What is time? Don't even ask me. It's just too hard to think about.
R. Feynman

It's not so much that there's something strange about time, the thing that's strange is what's going on inside time. We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange time is.
J. A. Wheeler

The great field for new discoveries... is always the unclassified residuum. Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations... Any one will renovate his science who will steadily look after the irregular phenomena. And when the science is renewed, its new formulas often have more of the voice of the exceptions in them than of what were supposed to be the rules.
W. James

FIELDS OF INTEREST:

• Gravitation
• Arrow of Time
• Dimensionality of Space
• Internal Structure of Time Dimension
• Finite Geometries in Quantum Theory

• Projective Spaces (Varieties of Segre, Veronese, Grassmann, etc)
• Galois Fields
• Algebraic Geometry
• Web Geometry
• Finite Geometries
• Plane Algebraic Curves
• Resolution of Algebroid Singularities
• Blowing Ups
• Unibranch Compound Singularities
• R-Way Spaces
• Knots & Links
• Enumerative Geometry
• Non-Orientable Manifolds (Steiner Surfaces, Boys' Surface, Klein Bottle,...)
• Ruled Surfaces
• Cremona Transformations
• Weighted(Twisted) Projective Spaces
• Plane Representations of Rational Surfaces
• Del Pezzo Surfaces
• Del Pezzo Threefolds
• Generalized Polygons
• P-adic Numbers and Valuations
• Hyperreal Numbers and Other Non-Archimedean Fields
• (Hjelmslev) Geometries over Rings
• Outer Automorphisms of Finite Groups
• Nearrings
• Theta-Characteristics
• Snarks

• "Altered" States of Consciousness
• Near-Death Experiences
• Distorted Perceptions of Time and Space
• "Out-of-Body" States
• Extra Sensory Perception
• "Deja-vu" Experiences
• Precognition
• Dreams
• Psychedelic, Religious & Mystical States/Experiences