Because we live in the physical world, he explains, we're very familiar with physical concepts such
as spatial distance, or warmth and cold.
Thus, in the mythological manner of representation, God's transcendence is thought of
as spatial distance.»
Not exact matches
That's
as simplistic
as I can so write CK... For before the Holy Spirit became flesh and bones, Chaos ensued and immeasurable amounts of Big Bangs began to multiply within great
distances from each other... We are aware of but one Big Bang and I am in sorrows that our astrophysicists can not rightly fathom the plausible conditionings that permeate the theoretical potential for immeasurable amounts of Big Bangs leisurely being born / established within the Holy Spirit and / or
Spatial Nothingness...
I shall refer to this
as perception at a
distance, meaning not the psychic otherness of anything perceived in the matrix of externally related events in relation to the act of perceiving, but the
spatial distance between any attended event and the percipient, which itself is part of the matrix (CN 3; II 132f).
As Whitehead observed, since the advent of relativity, «
spatial relations must stretch through time» (Whitehead 1925, p. 6); in other words, there are only spatio - temporal, but no merely
spatial distances.
The effects of gravity leaking into such dimensions would be visible only over long
distances — explaining why gravity on smaller scales, such
as the size of the solar system, behaves
as if there are three
spatial dimensions.
That time lengthened with the
distance between features, suggesting — but not proving — that the brain pans across an imagined scene depicted with the same
spatial topography
as a retinal image.
It helps refine their
spatial cognitive abilities, such
as object discrimination and visually ascertaining the location and
distance of an object.
Accents of small cobalt blue triangles and dots intermingle with the outlines of lightly traced hurdles; it is these that ground the picture in the history of landscape painting,
as they interrupt the fluid swathes of pastel brushstrokes to demarcate
spatial distance and establish a foreground that would otherwise be intangible.
Berlind's particular contribution came through the manner in which he superimposed layers of space and
distance, foreground and background,
as though the substances within each
spatial level were compressed under a microscope's cover slide, or seen through sheets of Mylar, one above the other.
The
spatial interpolation can be further elaborated by taking into account geographical parameters such
as distance from the coast, altitude, latitude and longitude if the values are sensitive to these parameters.
The panelists will discuss how their work is creating a more just foodscape and how urban agriculture can be used
as a means to bridge
spatial and social
distances in the food system.
«Although it has been suggested that such interpolation is unreliable owing to the
distances involved1, large
spatial scales are not inherently problematic if there is high
spatial coherence,
as is the case in continental Antarctica4.»