Sanskrit and the Yoga Sutras: Certainty of Freedom

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-18
Author(s):  
Vyaas Houston
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Yoga Sutras ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Spiritual Freedom

In Sanskrit the concept of spiritual freedom exists as a certainty. It exists within the context of an ancient proven science, equally precise as our modern science which has managed to send human beings into outer space and have them actually walk on the moon. For modern science to accomplish that extraordinary feat, there had to first exist the certainty that it was possible. For this to even be considered, there had to be an already existing language, that could gauge the precise requirements to get a vehicle beyond the gravitational field of the earth, find the moon, land, and return.

Dodging the Asteroids?

Impact! ◽  
1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerrit L. Verschuur
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Scientific Investigation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Large Problem ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Near Earth Objects ◽  
The U.S

Finding asteroids and comets that may someday slam into our planet is the first step. What do we do then? This question is being given a whole lot of attention. In early 1993 NASA and the U.S. Congress received a report of the Near-Earth-Objects Interception Workshop (Spaceguard), the first step toward creating a program for pushing aside approaching asteroids. The report stated that “There is a clear need for continuing national and international scientific investigation and political leadership to establish a successful and broadly acceptable policy.” There are two or three options open to us to avoid being wiped out. The first is to step out of the way. This may not sound very practical, and it isn’t, at least not for a planet-load of people. However, if we plan ahead we could ship a few thousand human beings to other parts of the solar system so that if the earth were to be struck, they, at least, would survive. This would only be a privilege for a few, and getting back to earth after the cataclysm could be a rather large problem in itself. Who will welcome them back upon their return? Where would they land? If we could afford to set up colonies on the moon or Mars, the colonists could wait until after the dust had settled before attempting to return. The problem with this option is that, after a really healthy thwack, the earth’s environment would be so altered that returning human beings might find this to be an alien planet. The second way in which we could avoid getting hit would be to place an object between the onrushing comet or asteroid and ourselves. For such an emergency it might pay to place a few asteroids in geocentric orbit to be maneuvered when we need them. Then we could watch the spectacle as one asteroid slams into another, possibly showering the planet with small bits of debris that might do no more than create a spectacular display of fireballs—if we get it right, of course.

scholarly journals Vito Volterra, 1860 - 1940

1941 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 691-729 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Restricted Problem ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Short Intervals ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Vito Volterra ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Town ◽  
Mathematics And Physics

Vito Volterra was born at Ancona on 3 May 1860, the only child of Abramo Volterra and Angelica Almagià. When he was three months old the town was besieged by the Italian army and the infant had a narrow escape from death, his cradle being actually destroyed by a bomb which fell near it. When he was barely two years old his father died, leaving the mother, now almost penniless, to the care of her brother Alfonso Almagia, an employee of the Banca Nazionale, who took his sister into his house and was like a father to her child. They lived for some time in Terni, then in Turin, and after that in Florence, where Vito passed the greater part of his youth and came to regard himself as a Florentine. At the age of eleven he began to study Bertrand’s Arithmetic and Legendre’s Geometry , and from this time on his inclination to mathematics and physics became very pronounced. At thirteen, after reading Jules Verne’s scientific novel Around the Moon , he tried to solve the problem of determining the trajectory of a projectile in the combined gravitational field of the earth and moon: this is essentially the ‘restricted Problem of Three Bodies’, and has been the subject of extensive memoirs by eminent mathematicians both before and after the youthful Volterra’s effort: his method was to partition the time into short intervals, in each of which the force could be regarded as constant, so that the trajectory was obtained as a succession of small parabolic arcs. Forty years later, in 1912, he demonstrated this solution in a course of lectures given at the Sorbonne.

scholarly journals ROLE OF HEMANT RITU (EARLY WINTER) FOR MAINTEINANCE AND ENHANCEMENT OF BALA (STRENGTH)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 829-832
Author(s):  
Shilpa Kachhawaha ◽  
Rajesh Kumar Sharma ◽  
Dinesh Chandra Sharma
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Heating Effect ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Body Strength ◽  
The World

Seasons (Ritus) are the inherent global earth clock and the rhythm of the world. As per Ayurveda year is divided into six seasons, in which three season Shishira, Vasanta and Greeshma are known as Aadanakala . Other three seasons Varsha, Sharad and Hemanta are said to be Visargakala. In Visarga kala, as the Sun is located in southwards position, its heat reduces or slows down due to the effect of time and its position with respect to the Earth, wind, cloud and rain. The power of the Moon is predominant. Rainwater decreases the heating effect of nature. All of these lead to the predominance of non- dryunctuous, amla (sour), lavana (salty), and madhura (sweet) rasa respectively and step by step rise of body strength in human beings during these three seasons. Out of all the Ritus, Hemanta Ritu is a unique Ritu in terms of having uttam bala. Falling in Dakshinayana, moon is very powerful than sun, Madhur rasa is predominant in this Ritu, so the strength (Bala) of person enhances during this period. This article focuses to disclose thorough review of literature of Hemant ritucharya and its implication towards maintenance and enhancement of Uttam Bala. In Ayurveda oja, veerya, prana, kapha etc terms are considered as synonyms of Bala. Besides prakruti(genetic), sara(physiological) and aahar(diet), kala (season) is one of the prime factors to govern the Bala of the person. Bala stands for the strength of the body in terms of physical, mental, immunological and resistance to the body, the word Bala is being used in different contexts to denote various aspects accordingly. Keywords: Visarga kala, Hemant ritu, Bala

scholarly journals DESAIN MATERI PENDIDIKAN KOSMOLOGI (KAWNIYYAH) PERSPEKTIF AL-QURAN

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Ah. Zakki Fuad
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Material ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Material Loss ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Exploitation And Utilization ◽  
Thematic Approach ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia

<p><strong>Bahasa Indonesia:</strong></p><p>Eksploitasi dan pemanfaatan sumber kekayaan alam yang berlebihan dan tidak terkendali di Indonesia telah mengakibatkan banyak  bencana alam yang menelan  korban jiwa dan harta. Bencana alam ini tidak akan terjadi apabila manusia mempunyai hubungan dan pengetahuan yang baik tentang alam semesta. Hal yang harus dilakukan adalah menyiapkan generasi masa depan dengan bekal ilmu yang cukup tentang kosmos/alam semesta/kawniyyah melalui lembaga-lembaga pendidikan. Lembaga pendidikan sebagai desainer harus menyiapkan materi pendidikan kosmologi bagi peserta didik yang baik dan aplikatif. Materi pendidikan kosmologi banyak ditemukan dalam ayat-ayat kawniyyah  dalam al-Quran, tetapi ayat-ayat tersebut masih belum didesain sebagi sebuah teori yang aplikatif bagi lembaga pendidikan. Dengan pendekatan tematik (mawdhu’i)  ayat-ayat al-Quran yang masih sangat luas bisa dibuat menjadi desain materi pendidikan kosmologi bagi lembaga pendidikan. Materi pendidikan kosmologi dalam al-Quran dibagi menjadi tiga jenis; 1) Kosmologi daratan yang meliputi bumi, tanah, tumbuh-tumbuhan dan hewan. 2) Kosmologi lautan yang meliputi air dan perikanan. 3) Kosmologi angkasa yang meliputi matahari, bulan, bintang, awan, hujan dan angin. Pengetahuan dan pemahaman yang baik tentang kosmologi akan menghindarkan manusia dari musibah dan bencana alam.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>English:</strong></p><p>Uncontrolled exploitation and utilization of natural resources in Indonesia has caused several natural disasters with victims and financial-material loss. The disasters would not happen if human beings has better understanding about the universe. Therefore, the next generations must be prepared with cosmology/kawniyyah in educational institutions. A more applicative cosmology in school is urgently needed. In a framework of thematic approach, Quranic verses is widely opened for the instructional material in educational institutions. Cosmological mystery in the Quran is defined into the following three categories: (1) land cosmology involving the earth, soil, plants, and animals; (2) sea cosmology including water and fishes; and (3) space cosmology mentioning the sun, the moon, clouds, rains, and winds. Better understanding of cosmology prevents human beings from natural disaster.</p>

scholarly journals Militarisation and Privatisation of Outer Space: A Grave Threat to Humanity

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-124
Author(s):  
Prabhu Ray Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Earth

Nations are spending millions of amounts in amassing arms and nuclear weapons on Earth and even in Space. Such a situation is bound to lead humanity to the brink of a catastrophic war on Earth and even in Space. In this context, sensible human beings should oppose all war-mongering activities that could ultimately invite the very extinction of humanity. This paper tries to emphasize the consequences of the misuse of arms and ammunition on Earth and in Space. This paper focuses on spreading the need for co-existence of people worldwide and eschews the thoughts of waging a war that may wipe out the humanity’s face from the Earth.

scholarly journals Constants related to the Earth and Moon

1965 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 67-79
Author(s):  
Harold Jeffreys
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Field ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Earth’S Gravitational Field ◽  
Tesseral Harmonics

The author discusses various determinations of zonal and tesseral harmonics of the Earth's gravitational field, the values of the solar parallax, and the constants related to the figure of the Moon and its motion.

Cosmic Plots in Early Soviet Culture: Flights of Fancy to the Moon and Mars

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-199
Author(s):  
Michael G. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Soviet Culture ◽  
Bolshevik Revolution ◽  
Real Science ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Soviet Science Fiction ◽  
Soviet Experience

This article explores two classics of Soviet science fiction – Konstantin Tsiolkovskii’s Beyond the Earth (1918) and Aleksei Tolstoi’s Aelita (1923) – in their related historical contexts. Both had their origins in the popular nineteenth-century “cosmic romance,” owing to their staple characters, settings, and plots. These were extraordinary adventures into the heavens, modern signposts of how the fantastic was becoming real. Yet both novels also became leading texts in the genre of Stalinist Socialist Realism, stories that made “fairy tales come true.” Tsiolkovskii and Tolstoi both appealed to the Bolshevik Revolution as a radical break in time here on earth, much as they predicted that the rocket would become a radical new means to reach beyond into outer space. They centered their stories on real science and technology, articles of comprehension and anticipation. They created characters that revealed the utopian potential of human beings to create new regimes of equality and freedom. Part inheritance from abroad, part innovation at home, the cosmic romance in their hands became a successful medium to situate and justify the Soviet experience.

Introduction: Being in Outer Space

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Adam Pryor
Keyword(s):  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Geological History ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Being

This work represents a transdisciplinary theological project. It is committed to fostering mutual understanding that stretches transversally across disciplinary boundaries by thinking through how tenets of astrobiology intersect with various reflections on human ways of being in the world and belonging to the world. The structure of the book is broadly inductive. The chapters provide a series of specific examples drawn from astrobiology, doctrinal reflection on the imago Dei, and reflections on the Anthropocene, to suggest an alternative approach to framing how human beings meaningfully are in the world and belong to it. Braiding together these diverse traditions, I suggest the Earth is not only a living planet but an artful one. To be an artful planet requires we take seriously geological history and the significance of the geological agency of homo sapiens. It also requires that we, as members of a species, own our responsibility for inducing new technobiogeochemical cycles into our planetary history.

Structure of the terrain and gravitational field of the planets: Kaula’s rule as a consequence of the probability laws by A.N. Kolmogorov and his school

2019 ◽  
Vol 485 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-496
Author(s):  
E. B. Gledzer ◽  
G. S. Golitsyn
Keyword(s):  
Random Walk ◽  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Spherical Harmonics ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Linear Coefficient ◽  
Water Flows ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
Celestial Bodies

Kaula’s empirical rule has been known for more than 50 years: the coefficients of expansion over spherical harmonics for the fluctuations of the gravitational field and terrain of the planets decrease as the number of the harmonic squared. This was found for Venus, the Moon, Mars, the asteroid Vesta, and very small celestial bodies. The inverse-square line spectra were also found for various types of the Earth’s surface on a scale of up to a hundred kilometers. From this it follows that the spectra of the terrain slope angles are constant, i.e., “white noise”. This, they are delta-correlated horizontally. These are the assumptions under which the random walk laws were derived by A.N. Kolmogorov in 1934. Using them, the equation of the horizontal probability diffusion of the terrain with the linear coefficient diffusion D is derived. Based on the empirical data, D = 1.3 ± 0.3 m for the Earth, while for Venus it is almost an order of magnitude less. The slopes resist the wind; the rock crumbles, and the water flows down the slopes as well. This consideration turns Kaula’s rule into the random walk laws (over terrain) developed by Kolmogorov in 1934.

scholarly journals Squeezing of the Super-Elastic Double-Helix Photon in the Gravitational Field (Hidden in Very-Well Known Old Formulae). Pound - Rebka - Snider Effect Studied by the Advanced LIGO Instrument, Pioneer Anomaly and CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background) (23.11.201

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Jiri Stavek
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Solar System ◽  
Double Helix ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Gravitational Fields ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Pioneer Anomaly ◽  
Squeeze Rate ◽  
Squeeze Effect

In our approach we have combined knowledge of Old Masters (working in this field before the year 1905), New Masters (working in this field after the year 1905) and Dissidents under the guidance of Louis de Broglie and David Bohm. Based on the great experimental work of Robert Pound, Glen A. Rebka and J.L. Snider we have proposed a squeezing of the super-elastic double-helix photon in the gravitational field. We have newly defined the squeeze rate of that photon particle on the helical path. We have inserted this squeeze rate into the very-well old formulae of Newton, Soldner, Gerber and Einstein and might glimpse traces of the quantum gravity. The squeeze rate of photons can be studied in details using the Great instrument - the Advanced LIGO - located on the surface of the Earth (USA, Italy, Japan). The observed strains on the level 5*10-19 should be caused by the gravitational field of our Earth. The observed strains on the level 5*10-22 should be caused by the gravitational fields of the Moon and the Sun. We estimate that the experimental value of the gravitational constant G studied by the LIGO instrument can achieve the accuracy to the level of ppb (parts per billion) after the removal of those strains from the measured signal and the removal of the gravitational influences of the Earth, the Moon, the Sun, Venus and Jupiter. To study the squeeze effect on a bigger scale we propose to analyze the Pioneer anomaly where Pioneer&acute;s photons have been flying around the planets in our Solar system causing the squeeze effect - the anomalous blueshift. Similarly, we can study cosmic microwave photons flying around the objects in our Solar system that might create &ldquo;the axis of evil&rdquo; - temperature fluctuations in the CMB map (Wien displacement law). Can we prepare in our Solar system &ldquo;tired&rdquo; light by frequent blueshift - redshift transitions? Can it be that Nature cleverly inserted the squeeze rate into our very-well known Old Formulae? We want to pass this concept into the hands of Readers of this Journal better educated in the Mathematics and Physics.

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