Sentences with phrase «absolute point in space»

There is no absolute point in time, any more than there is an absolute point in space.

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And your «unless you're open to the slightest possibility that you are indeed a space alien born a millisecond ago from another universe, then you are claiming something to be an absolute truth» I think the point was the likelihood — why do you not believe the space alien without proof yet believe in gods and angels without proof?

Thus, just as it is necessary to surrender the notion of absolute space because there is no fixed point in space, so we must now surrender the notion of absolute time.

More to the point, Newton's «Scholium» which introduces the notions of «absolute, true, mathematical» space and time, and «relative, apparent, common» space and time (PNP 6 - 12), makes clear that absolute space and absolute time continua are thought to be necessary for a satisfactory theory of dynamics, that is, a theory of the forces which determine • the motion of material objects.7 The main idea in Newton's position is that not all physical frames of reference are suitable for satisfactory analysis of the motion of material objects; in fact, no physical frame of reference is completely suitable for this purpose.

We can even specialize projective geometry in a manner parallel to the specialization that gives us Euclidean geometry, to obtain what Whitehead termed «anti-space,» and Adams «counter-space» (Adams and Wicher 1960): a space characterized by an «absolute point center,» corresponding to the «absolute plane at infinity» that lifts Euclidean geometry out of the totality of geometries contained in projective space.

It establishes a sacred space through its use of cardinal points, circular globes surrounding the dynamic centre, flashes of light output from the crystals and the suggestion of symbolic arrival at the core in the search for the Absolute.