Principle for the “Proximity of Albatross”

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deep Bhattacharjee
Keyword(s):  
Physical Science ◽  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Theoretical Physics ◽  
Speed Of Light ◽  
Space Telescopes ◽  
Observable Universe ◽  
Mother Nature ◽  
The World ◽  
The Universe

Physical science means ‘to know the laws of nature’ and theoretical physics aims to get inside the deepest fathom of the universe to solve her mystery. Mother Nature doesn’t like getting investigated and therefore imposes restrictions in the specific domains so that her child, humans can’t explore her mysteries freely. And hence she imposes some stringent ways to prevent the physicists from getting the deepest point of nature. However, what can’t be seen can be explored by abstract and difficult mathematics. And hence we humans have probe through math’s, ‘what exists at the middle of the black hole?’, ‘what exists at the fundamental level of the Plank’s length?’, ‘what exists at higher dimensions to the maximum of 11?’, ‘what would happen if anyone tries to cross the speed of light? ’ Questions are thousands but answers are very few, just a tiny fraction of them. Physicists and mathematicians have struggled since the centuries to find out the cause of every event, to explore into the world of randomness, to create something from nothing, to explore patterns in chaos. However, the journey is not so easy, for most of the time we failed and in a limited attempt we have won. And then the world awarded us with rewards whereas the Mother Nature got surprised to see the intelligence of her creator and Our discovery is not only limited inside the boundary of Earth, but we have explored about 96 billion light years wide through the domain of the observable universe and sends signals to space in search of aliens and UFO’s. Our telescopes are not only limited to equatorial Earth bound but has emerged as high resolutions space telescopes. Even when those space telescopes failed to see the farthest limit of 1000 light years or more, then we have developed the techniques of ‘transit photometry’ and ‘radial velocity’ to signify our objectives in the hope of finding a new exoplanet vibrating with intelligent life forms as that of earth. We are now not only thinking of going to Mars or Jupiter’s moons but we are thinking of inhabiting in them along with asteroid mining. AntiGravity and perpetual machines are being developed to makeup space and solve the crisis for the shortage of fuels. However, we have to remember that these things are not easy; struggles are required against the Mother Nature to incorporate these techniques into reality.

Continuity and Peculiarities in Proto-Kazakh and Ancient Indian Early Religious Beliefs

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (121) ◽  
pp. 185-195
Author(s):  
Zatov Zatov
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Concept Of God ◽  
Common Features ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Universe

A comparative study of the mythological picture of the world, early forms of religion allows us to identify common features characteristic of the worldview and spiritual guidelines of mankind as a whole. These features can be traced in archaic ideas about the structure of the universe, in understanding their spiritual and bodily essence, the infinity of God and the eternity of the soul, the relationship and interdependence of life forms in the world. This allows us to assert the thesis of the unity of mankind in its spiritual origins, despite racial and ethnic diversity. In the process of a comparative analysis of mythology, early forms of religion, the concept of God, the pantheon and the function of the gods, similar moments and ethnological specifics of understanding the essence of the soul and reincarnation in totemistic beliefs, in cosmological and theogonistic concepts are revealed.The author also analyzes the role and significance of the cult of ancestors, traces the evolution of the idea of proto-monotism (the creative function of Tengri and Brahma, the intention of henotheistic faith) and its place in religious knowledge.

The World Code

2008 ◽  
pp. 58-75
Author(s):  
Azamat Abdoullaev
Keyword(s):  
Big Bang ◽  
Theoretical Physics ◽  
Formal Ontology ◽  
Knowledge Domain ◽  
The Real ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The World ◽  
Theory Of Everything ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The Universe

Formalizing the world in rigorous mathematical terms is no less significant than its fundamental understanding and modeling in terms of ontological constructs. Like black and white, opposite sexes or polarity signs, ontology and mathematics stand complementary to each other, making up the unique and unequaled knowledge domain or knowledge base, which involves two parts: • Ontological (real) mathematics, which defines the real significance for the mathematical entities, so studying the real status of mathematical objects, functions, and relationships in terms of ontological categories and rules. • Mathematical (formal) ontology, which defines the mathematical structures of the real world features, so concerned with a meaningful representation of the universe in terms of mathematical language. The combination of ontology and mathematics and substantial knowledge of sciences is likely the only one true road to reality understanding, modeling and representation. Ontology on its own can’t specify the fabric, design, architecture, and the laws of the universe. Nor theoretical physics with its conceptual tools and models: general relativity, quantum physics, Lagrangians, Hamiltonians, conservation laws, symmetry groups, quantum field theory, string and M theory, twistor theory, loop quantum gravity, the big bang, the standard model, or theory of everything material. Nor mathematics alone with its abstract tools, complex number calculus, differential calculus, differential geometry, analytical continuation, higher algebras, Fourier series and hyperfunctions is the real path to reality (Penrose, 2005).

scholarly journals „Perspektywy gwiazdarskie”. Lunety w literaturze i piśmiennictwie naukowym polskiego baroku

2018 ◽  
pp. 213-251
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Raubo
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Popularization Of Science ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
The World ◽  
Celestial Bodies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Universe

The telescope played a crucial role in the modern scientific revolution and occupied a significant place in Baroque culture. Interest in the telescope has been confirmed by Polish literary sources and writings, including scientific treatises and compendia of knowledge. Telescopes are the subject of works on the popularization of science written in the scientia curiosa convention. Reflections on the telescope appear in the context of deliberations on the world system, on the possibility of the existence of life forms on the Moon and other celestial bodies, and in the context of polemic against Aristotelian cosmology. The telescope is an element of religious deliberations concerning eschatology and those focused on astronomy, whose aspiration to get to know the universe is motivated by secular curiosity. The matter of conducting observations of the sky with the use of the telescope has turned into a comedy show, in a satirical way relating to the practice of astrology.

Malebranche, Nicolas (1638–1715)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Nadler
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Nicolas Malebranche ◽  
Nature And Grace ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Mental Events ◽  
The Universe

Nicolas Malebranche, a French Catholic theologian, was the most important Cartesian philosopher of the second half of the seventeenth century. His philosophical system was a grand synthesis of the thought of his two intellectual mentors: Augustine and Descartes. His most important work, De la recherche de la vérité (The Search After Truth), is a wide-ranging opus that covers various topics in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, physics, the physiology of cognition, and philosophical theology. It was both admired and criticized by many of the most celebrated thinkers of the period (including Leibniz, Arnauld and Locke), and was the focus of several fierce and time-consuming public debates. Malebranche’s philosophical reputation rests mainly on three doctrines. Occasionalism – of which he is the most systematic and famous exponent – is a theory of causation according to which God is the only genuine causal agent in the universe; all physical and mental events in nature are merely ‘occasions’ for God to exercise his necessarily efficacious power. In the doctrine known as ‘vision in God’, Malebranche argues that the representational ideas that function in human knowledge and perception are, in fact, the ideas in God’s understanding, the eternal archetypes or essences of things. And in his theodicy, Malebranche justifies God’s ways and explains the existence of evil and sin in the world by appealing to the simplicity and universality of the laws of nature and grace that God has established and is compelled to follow. In all three doctrines, Malebranche’s overwhelming concern is to demonstrate the essential and active role of God in every aspect – material, cognitive and moral – of the universe.

Einstein

Lightspeed ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 144-158
Author(s):  
John C. H. Spence
Keyword(s):  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Relativity Theory ◽  
Theoretical Physics ◽  
Simple Explanation ◽  
Flowing Water ◽  
Theory Of Relativity ◽  
Speed Of Light ◽  
Nuclear Explosions ◽  
Absolute Frame ◽  
The Universe

The confused state of theoretical physics in 1900 and the great unresolved issues are summarized, one of which led to the birth of quantum mechanics, and the other to relativity. How it seemed impossible to reconcile Bradley’s measurements of the speed of light with Fresnel’s Aether drag hypothesis, which was well supported by Fizeau’s measurements in Paris of the speed of light in a moving medium (flowing water). Maxwell’s equations predicted a constant speed of light, suggesting an absolute frame of reference in the universe, but did not “transform” in the same way as Newton’s equations from one moving observer to another. How Einstein made sense of all these rival theories and experimental results with his unifying theory of relativity, based on two assumptions. His life and work is discussed, and a simple explanation given of his relativity theory. How the failure of this search for an absolute frame of reference in our universe led him inexorably to perhaps the most famous equation in physics E = mc2, giving the energy release from nuclear explosions and the stars.

scholarly journals Limitations of Observational Cosmology

1990 ◽  
Vol 123 ◽  
pp. 543-550
Author(s):  
Menas Kafatos
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Theoretical Physics ◽  
Observational Cosmology ◽  
Observable Universe ◽  
Fundamental Properties ◽  
Distant Galaxies ◽  
The Big Bang ◽  
The Universe

AbstractUnlike the usual situation with theoretical physics which is testable in the laboratory, in cosmological theories of the universe one faces the following problems: The observer is part of the system, the universe, and this system cannot be altered to test physical theory. Even though one can in principle consider any part of the observable universe as separate from the acts of observation, the very hypothesis of big bang implies that in the distant past, space-time regions containing current observers were part of the same system. One, therefore, faces a situation where the observer has to be considered as inherently a part of the entire system. The existence of horizons of knowledge in any cosmological view of the universe is then tantamount to inherent observational limits imposed by acts of observation and theory itself. For example, in the big bang cosmology the universe becomes opaque to radiation early on, and the images of extended distant galaxies merge for redshifts, z, of the order of a few. Moreover, in order to measure the distance of a remote galaxy to test any cosmological theory, one has to disperse its light to form a spectrum which would cause confusion with other background galaxies. Since the early universe should be described in quantum terms, it follows that the same problems regarding quantum reality and the role of the observer apply to the universe as a whole. One of the most fundamental properties of quantum theory, non-locality, may then apply equally well to the universe. Some of the problems facing big bang cosmology, like the horizon and flatness problems, may not then be preconditions on theoretical models but may instead be the manifestations of the quantum nature of the universe.

scholarly journals On the foundations of dynamics

1936 ◽  
Vol 154 (881) ◽  
pp. 22-52 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Characteristic Velocity ◽  
Natural Origin ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
Newtonian Dynamics ◽  
Single Body ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire Universe ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Mutual Action

1— Observations of red-shifts in the spectra of the extra-galactic nebulae are compatible with the view that the nebulae are receding from one another, and the theory incorporating this phenomenon makes it appear probable that the universe had a definite beginning about 2 x 10 9 years ago. There is thus a natural origin for the reckoning of time, and a definite epoch can be assigned to any given event. Further, at each point in space, at any given epoch, there is a characteristic velocity relative to any chosen observer, and this defines a standard of local rest. This absolute time and characteristic velocity may possibly be involved in the description of the fundamental laws of nature, for example the laws of dynamics and gravitation. It is the object of the present paper tentatively to examine what, if any, modifications in certain laws of nature are to be anticipated in this way. The guiding principle will be to retain the forms of Newtonian dynamics and gravitation as far as possible unchanged. Mach’s Principle 2— It was held by Mach that the property of matter we call inertia is due to the presence of other matter in the universe. Mach’s view was that since (in addition to a temporal experience for the observer) we can describe the motion of a particle only by reference to other particles, these other particles are essential to the description of the motion and so to the possibility of observations which could disclose the possession of inertia. For example, “When we say that a body preserves unchanged its direction and velocity in space , our assertion is nothing more or less than an abbreviated reference to the entire universe.”Again:“ We see that even in the simplest case, in which we deal with the mutual action of only two masses, the neglecting of the rest of the world is impossible.”Lastly:“ In all the dynamical propositions that we have discussed, velocity plays a prominent role. The reason of this, in our view, is that, accurately considered, every single body in the universe stands in some definite relation with every other body in the universe, that any one body, consequently also any several bodies, cannot be regarded as wholly isolated.

Semiotics – Another Window on the World

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Hongbing Yu
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
Book Series ◽  
Intellectual Inquiry ◽  
The World ◽  
Normal University ◽  
The Universe

Abstract Contemporary semiotics proceeds and progresses along two major paths of human intellectual inquiry in general: One is to constantly extend and deepen social studies; the other is to use theoretical and logical reasoning to examine and even predict the laws of nature and the universe. To highlight these two paths and reflect the latest trends in current semiotic inquiry, we have launched the book series of “Select Works of Eminent Contemporary Semioticians,” published by the Nanjing Normal University Press. The first five English monographs included in this book series are Basics of semiotics (eighth expanded edition) and Logic as a liberal art by John Deely, Marshall McLuhan: The unwitting semiotician by Marcel Danesi, Signs in society and culture by Arthur Asa Berger, and The way of logic by Christopher S. Morrissey. These five books afford not only revelations in the ways of knowing and the dimensions of thought, but also new perspectives for interpreting contemporary sociocultural phenomena and their developments.

Freedom, Knowledge, Belief and Causality

1969 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 132-154
Author(s):  
David Wiggins
Keyword(s):  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Physical Nature ◽  
Physical Effect ◽  
The Other ◽  
Causal Determinism ◽  
The World ◽  
Causal Nexus ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Better Than

When we try to think about the causal nexus and the physical nature of the world as a whole we may be struck by two quite different difficulties in finding room in it to accommodate together (a) knowledge or reasoned belief and (b) causal determinism. (a) may seem to us to exclude (b) and (b) may seem to us to exclude (a). Taking it as a fact that there is knowledge and that knowledge seems to be indefinitely extensible, it has been felt by some philosophers that we can disprove total determinism by showing that if there were laws of nature which purported to govern all movements of matter in the universe there would still be something which even an ‘all-knowing’ predicter could not predict, viz. his own predictions or his own actions; and that given enough knowledge any agent could refute anybody else's predictions of his actions. So it has been thought that the phenomenon of knowledge somehow shows there cannot be laws to govern all movements of matter in the universe. This comfortably anodyne reflection is examined in the second part of the lecture. It elevates human minds and even confers a sort of cosmic importance on them. The other difficulty in making room for both (a) and (b) is in some loose sense the dual of this. Instead of taking knowledge for granted and questioning total determinism, it merely takes causality for granted but then deduces the total impossibility of knowledge. It simply asks: ‘How can we take a belief seriously, or consider it seriously as a candidate to be knowledge, if it is no better than a simple physical effect?’ This is a more pessimistic reflection and I shall begin with it.

Cosmology and Moral Philosophy

1998 ◽  
pp. 63-68
Author(s):  
Vladimir N. Dubrovsky
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Theoretical Physics ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
The Universe

The universe as a whole can be shown to consist of two worlds: the real world and the transcendental world. The real world is a multitude of passing things in a gravitational field: it is the world of nature, every unit of which is born (from the transcendental world), develops, degrades and dies (that is, it returns to the transcendental world). The transcendental world is the world of the integrated, nonpassing, unborn and undying, internally functioning Unity, which is the other side of the real world (so to speak) as roots to a tree and its branches in relation to the surface of the Earth. The fundamental science of the real world is theoretical physics. The transcendental world is also a 'physical' but energyless world. In this paper, I outline characteristics of the real world, and the basic characteristics of the transcendental world which are essential for constructing a theory about the functioning of the cosmological vacuum.

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