Fra Ovidio e Brunetto, nel fiume del tempo

2021 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-84
Author(s):  
Marcello Ciccuto
Keyword(s):  
Dante Alighieri ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Absolute Time ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Earthly Paradise

Abstract This article attempts to show how Dante Alighieri, in defining the image of humankind as inspired by values of innocence and harmony in an earthly paradise, draws a condition of defective beatitude just before a burst of even superior joy. So in the aim of outlining a beatitudo huius vitae still valid for a Christian Eden, the poet appeals to the text of Ovid’s Fasti through which in many occurrences he is building a harmonic image of human living that, in the shadow of forebears’ sin, only a future intervention of Grace will dispose for Dante’s words. Through exact allusive quotations, Dante opposes to the absolute time of Eden the idea of an imperfect time, tied to the pattern of an all-human knowledge, which Dante himself connected to the teaching and character of Brunetto Latini.

scholarly journals Albanian Aorist and Time Reference Points

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Muhamet Reçica ◽  
Naser Pajaziti
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
The Other ◽  
Temporal Relations ◽  
Time Dimension ◽  
Relative Time ◽  
Absolute Time ◽  
Temporal System ◽  
The Absolute

Topics related to the structure of the temporal system of Albanian language always give opportunities for new discussions to deal with certain aspects related to various forms of this system, and one of them is the aorist, as a tense containing many semantic, temporal, aspectual, stylistic values, etc. The relationships that exist between the verbal tenses in this system within the absolute time-relative time dimension, which relate to the independent or dependent use of temporal forms against one another in different discoursing contexts, make up an interpretation-based approach to interest. Hence, the essential objective of this paper will be specifically the relations of the Albanian aorist to the other verbal forms, always observed with a time reference point, to illuminate the character of these purely temporal relations against each other under all circumstances of the actions that take place and are displayed by verbal forms in different contexts, relying on the corpus of examined materials.

scholarly journals Comparison of U-Series and Radiocarbon Dates of Speleothems

Radiocarbon ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Goslar ◽  
Helena Hercman ◽  
Anna Pazdur
Keyword(s):  
Frequency Analysis ◽  
Time Scale ◽  
Large Deviation ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Previous Suggestion ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Absolute Time ◽  
Large Spread ◽  
The Absolute

The paper presents a comparison of U-series and radiocarbon dates of speleothems collected in several caves in central and southern Europe and southeast Africa. Despite a large spread of dates, mainly due to contamination with younger carbon, the group of corresponding 14C and 230Th/U ages of speleothem samples seems to be coherent with the previous suggestion of large deviation between the 14C and the absolute time scale between 35 and 45 ka BP. This agrees with the result of frequency analysis of published 14C and 230Th/U ages of speleothem.

scholarly journals Newton’s Scholium on Time, Space, Place and Motion

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Rynasiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Relative Motion ◽  
Absolute Space ◽  
Absolute Time ◽  
True Motion ◽  
Absolute Motion ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Absolute Quantity ◽  
Rotating Bucket

In the Scholium to the Definitions at the beginning of the Principia, Newton distinguishes absolute time, space, place, and motion from their relative counterparts. He argues that they are indeed ontologically distinct, in that the absolute quantity cannot be reduced to some particular category of the relative, as Descartes had attempted by defining absolute motion to be relative motion with respect to immediately ambient bodies. Newton’s rotating bucket experiment, rather than attempting to show that absolute motion exists, is one of five arguments from the properties, causes, and effects of motion. These arguments attempt to show that no such program can succeed, and thus that true motion can be adequately analyzed only by invoking immovable places, that is, the parts of absolute space.

scholarly journals Effects of Order on Memory of Event Times

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelangelo Naim ◽  
Mikhail Katkov ◽  
Misha Tsodyks
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Bayesian Theory ◽  
Relative Order ◽  
Single Item ◽  
Absolute Time ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Event Times

Abstract Memorizing time of an event may employ two processes (i) encoding of the absolute time of events within an episode, (ii) encoding of its relative order. Here we study interaction between these two processes. We performed experiments in which one or several items were presented, after which participants were asked to report the time of occurrence of items. When a single item was presented, the distribution of reported times was quite wide. When two or three items were presented, the relative order among them strongly affected the reported time of each of them. Bayesian theory that takes into account the memory for the events order is compatible with the experimental data, in particular in terms of the effect of order on absolute time reports. Our results suggest that people do not deduce order from memorized time, instead people’s memory for absolute time of events relies critically on memorized order of the events.

scholarly journals Modified Lorentz transformations and quantum mechanics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae-Kwang Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Wave Function ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Euclidean Space ◽  
Coordinate System ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Lorentz Transformations ◽  
Relative Time ◽  
Absolute Time ◽  
Time Shape ◽  
The Absolute

Abstract We live in the 4-D Euclidean space. The 4th dimension is assigned as the absolute time (ct) axis and energy axis (cPt = E0) based on 4-dimensional Euclidean space. This 4th dimension can be indirectly felt through the observable relative time (ctl) and observable total energy (cPtl = E). The space-time distance is d(x1x2x3x4) = ctl. The modified Lorentz transformations are introduced by the time-matching of the absolute times in the 4-D Euclidean space. The size of x’ (or Dx’) of the moving object is expanded to the size of x = gx’ (or Dx = gDx’). These modified Lorentz transformations are approximated to the Lorentz transformations as t à tl when v/c << 1 and to the Galilean transformations as v/c is close to zero. The relative time (tl) and energy (E) are defined as the 4-dimensional distance and 4-dimensional volume, respectively. The geometrical space-time shape has the (x1,x2,x3,ct) coordinate system with the metric signature of (+ + + +) but not the (x1,x2,x3,ctl) coordinate system with the metric signature of (+ - - -). Therefore, d(x1x2x3x4)2 = (ctl)2 = (ct)2 +x2 = x12 + x22 + x32 + x42 and V(x1x2x3x4) = E = mc2 = D(ct)Dx1Dx2Dx3 from (x1,x2,x3,x4) of the geometrical space-time shape. The warped shape can be described as the wave function of the quantum mechanics. The instant force action, twin paradox and possible space travel are explained by the absolute time and wave function collapse of the modified Lorentz transformations and quantum mechanics.

Philosophy of the Pseudoabsolute

1998 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Sergi Avaliani
Keyword(s):  
Human Person ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Human Origins ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Great Role ◽  
The Absolute

Since human knowledge is relative, human beings consciously (or often unconsciously) dismiss the relative by creating the absolute. The absolute thus created is the psuedoabsolute which, by virtue of its human origins, is relative. However, it functions in both the practical and theoretical life of homo sapien as a genuine absolute. Hence, the psuedoabsolute is relatively absolutized by the human person. The psuedoabsolute is a dialectical unity of the absolute and relative and, as a "third reality," plays a great role in the spiritual life of humankind.

scholarly journals Effects of order on memory of event times

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelangelo Naim ◽  
Mikhail Katkov ◽  
Misha Tsodyks
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Bayesian Theory ◽  
Relative Order ◽  
Single Item ◽  
Absolute Time ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Event Times

AbstractMemorizing time of an event may employ two processes (1) encoding of the absolute time of events within an episode, (2) encoding of its relative order. Here we study interaction between these two processes. We performed experiments in which one or several items were presented, after which participants were asked to report the time of occurrence of items. When a single item was presented, the distribution of reported times was quite wide. When two or three items were presented, the relative order among them strongly affected the reported time of each of them. Bayesian theory that takes into account the memory for the events order is compatible with the experimental data, in particular in terms of the effect of order on absolute time reports. Our results suggest that people do not deduce order from memorized time, instead people’s memory for absolute time of events relies critically on memorized order of the events.

scholarly journals Unifying the Galilei Relativity and the Special Relativity

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Lyra ◽  
Marcelo Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Euclidean Space ◽  
Special Relativity ◽  
Lorentz Transformation ◽  
Dimensional Euclidean Space ◽  
Low Velocity ◽  
3 Dimensional ◽  
Absolute Time ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Relativistic Spacetime ◽  
The Absolute

We present two models combining some aspects of the Galilei and the Special relativities that lead to a unification of both relativities. This unification is founded on a reinterpretation of the absolute time of the Galilei relativity that is considered as a quantity in its own and not as mere reinterpretation of the time of the Special relativity in the limit of low velocity. In the first model, the Galilei relativity plays a prominent role in the sense that the basic kinematical laws of Special relativity, for example, the Lorentz transformation and the velocity law, follow from the corresponding Galilei transformations for the position and velocity. This first model also provides a new way of conceiving the nature of relativistic spacetime where the Lorentz transformation is induced by the Galilei transformation through an embedding of 3-dimensional Euclidean space into hyperplanes of 4-dimensional Euclidean space. This idea provides the starting point for the development of a second model that leads to a generalization of the Lorentz transformation, which includes, as particular cases, the standard Lorentz transformation and transformations that apply to the case of superluminal frames.

scholarly journals Synchronization-Free RadChat for Automotive Radar Interference Mitigation

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6891
Author(s):  
Canan Aydogdu ◽  
Henk Wymeersch ◽  
Olof Eriksson ◽  
Hans Herbertsson ◽  
Mats Rydström
Keyword(s):  
Interference Mitigation ◽  
Time Synchronization ◽  
Use Cases ◽  
Automotive Radar ◽  
Relative Time ◽  
Short Intervals ◽  
Absolute Time ◽  
Simulation Results ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Radar Sensing

Automotive radar interference mitigation is expected to be inherent in all future ADAS and AD vehicles. Joint radar communications is a candidate technology for removing this interference by coordinating radar sensing through communication. Coordination of radars requires strict time synchronization among vehicles, and our formerly proposed protocol (RadChat) achieves this by a precise absolute time, provided by GPS clocks of vehicles. However, interference might appear if synchronization among vehicles is lost in case GPS is spoofed, satellites are blocked over short intervals, or GPS is restarted/updated. Here we present a synchronization-free version of RadChat (Sync-free RadChat), which relies on using the relative time for radar coordination, eliminating the dependency on the absolute time provided by GPS. Simulation results obtained for various use cases show that Sync-free RadChat is able to mitigate interference without degrading the radar performance.

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