Sentences with phrase «ideas of relativity»

Based on basic ideas of relativity the Sun and the Earth don't react to that motion in any way.

He was able to teach us the basic ideas of relativity theory, such that we believed we understood it, which I now know is not true.

The question is, given the relativity of our thinking, what confidence, if any, can we place in any of our ideas, even our ideas of relativity?

The ideas of relativity and quantum physics, for example, which were so important to Bernard Meland as well as to Whitehead, could not be so described.

If the theory of relativity had also been necessary for salvation, it would have been revealed to Saint Paul or to Moses... As a matter of fact neither Saint Paul nor Moses had the slightest idea of relativity.»

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Mr. Hawking wins easy battles against uneducated (in science) religious persons, but taking his statement on perspective, He is based on assumptions with serious underlying problems, basically everything from mathematics, to the incompatibility of quantum mechanics and relativity, and the lack of proof and evidence for string theories, he is launching a very aggressive statement, probably his last effort on life to counter the anthropomorphic ideas of God, and this is very common in all scientists.

A disciple of Josiah Royce, also of the Cornell school of idealism which sought to combine relativity and absoluteness, infinity and finitude in the idea of the supreme reality, he was reasonably Open - minded and tolerant.

Although Hartshorne has not articulated the inconsistencies of the idea of divine relativity as openly as we did earlier, it seems that he is willing to take recourse in something like a spectator God who remains in «mere happiness» (not fearing) just as much as Plato denied existence to forms of negative elements of the world such as mud.

In this essay, I will argue that a major problem with the idea of divine relativity is that it assumes both God's exact knowledge of the whole, which is thus the One as it is a unified act of knowledge, and also precise knowledge of the fragmentary, concrete Many of experience.

This is an further extrapolation of the idea of divine relativity; and it is found perhaps most fully developed in Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes.

There are, as far as I can tell, two areas of possible inconsistency with the idea of divine relativity.

Tillich briefly discusses the idea of divine relativity as God's participation in human experience.

Part of the impetus for the idea of divine relativity comes from Hartshorne's interpretation of the Thomistic theory of knowledge in which the knower is in an internal cognitive relation to the known.

Hartshorne connects the ideas of relative and absolute in the act of knowing: «Unrestricted or literal relativity; so far from being the mere de facto character of our inferior human knowledge, is rather the precise ideal of knowledge in its most absolute meaning» (DR 10).

Even if God is thought of as having slightly less than perfect knowledge, the idea of God being able to fully appreciate ignorance seems categorically impossible.6 There are further problems for the theory of divine relativity.

The minimal claim of process thought is that «by reason of the relativity of all things» each actual entity is preserved everlastingly in the divine experience.154 «God is immortal,» Hartshorne writes, «and whatever becomes an element in the life of God is therefore imperishable... I think the idea of omniscience implies that we have such an abiding presence in the mind of God.

theory of relativity,» for example, uses the speed of light being a constant, faster than which nothing can travel, as a fundamental axiom, and to date nothing has challenged this idea.

Process theologians debating God's relation to space - time have focused on the theories of relativity and regional inclusion, grounding their speculation in Whitehead's escape from traditional theism to Process and Reality.1 That extended essay on organic cosmology with its interpretation of «God and the World» is an obvious quarry for ideas.

In particular, he continued his claim that the ideas of congruence and measurement as understood in the orthodox theories of relativity were not only wrong, but meaningless.

In a section entitled «The Relativity of the Idea of God in Meister Eckhart» in the Psychological Types, Jung shows how a mystical way can concretely collapse the dogmatic distinction between «God» and the «soul.»

I do not intend by my remarks about space - time to imply that, if Peirce had known relativity physics, he would have given up his notion of individual identity as consisting in a continuity of reactions and accepted the idea of a definite single event as intelligible by itself.

First, Whitehead's construction of the Special Theory of Relativity from a rather distinctive use of the word «event,» and secondly by his more general idea of events which related to each other without having a substratum which passed from one to the other.

Newton regarded himself as a philosopher, Galileo would never have done what he did without knowing Plato's ideas and Einstein would never have invented relativity without an appreciation of metaphysics.

With the black hole merger, general relativity has passed the first such test, says Rainer Weiss, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, who came up with the original idea for LIGO.

Einstein's problems with relativity were nothing compared with the passionate manner in which he rejected the legacy of his ideas in quantum physics.

The trouble with time started a century ago, when Einstein's special and general theories of relativity demolished the idea of time as a universal constant.

A little more than a year ago, Milgrom, a professor of physics at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel, gained new support for his ideas when his longtime collaborator, Jacob Bekenstein, published a new, more powerful version of the theory, one fully consistent with Einstein's general theory of relativity.

As a result, many of the most stunning ideas associated with the theory of relativity were developed not by Einstein but by other scientists interpreting his work.

Almost as soon as Einstein completed his 1905 paper introducing the special theory of relativity, he found his ideas taking on a life of their own.

This head - spinning idea is one cosmologist's conclusion based on a modification of Einstein's equations of general relativity that changes our picture of what happens at the core of a black hole.

Shortly after completing general relativity, he published a paper that expressed these ideas in rigorous terms, essentially inventing the field of cosmology, the study of the cosmos as a whole.

Einstein's theory of general relativity had overturned Newton's ideas about gravity and showed how to describe the structure of the universe with a simple set of equations.

Postmodernism adopted ideas from cultural anthropology and relativity theory to argue that truth is relative and subject to the assumptions and prejudices of the observer.

Albert Einstein introduced the idea of dark energy mathematically in 1917 as he further developed his theory of general relativity.

Besides revealing his life story during his visit to Science News Letter, Mandl also communicated the essence of his new idea, based on Einstein's theory of gravity, otherwise known as the general theory of relativity.

Combining quantum mechanics — the newly developed framework for describing the world of the atom — with Einstein's revised notions of space and time as expressed in his «relativity ideas» is related to understanding the interaction of light with matter.

It aims to explain the whole of special relativity in nonmathematical language, from the idea that laws of physics do not change with speed to the search for proton decay.

Old reliables did draw some bidders: a handwritten letter by a 16 - year - old Einstein that alludes to ideas about relativity was the top seller, going for more than $ 670,000, and a fresh first edition of Darwin's Origin of Species (yawn) topped $ 150,000.

The idea behind this result is a remarkable connection between quantum field theory and Einstein's theory of relativity.

Release Date: No concrete date yet, but Relativity Media are eyeing an awards - season - friendly fall 2013 release, having briefly flirted with the idea of putting it out in 2012.

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The Washington researchers designed tutorials in which students were led to confront the fact that they held two mutually - exclusive ideas, one mistaken and one correct (in this case, about the concept of time in special relativity).

The combined elements create a mesmerizing effect, through which Kentridge offers an informal lesson on changing notions of time — from the celestial model in antiquity and Newton's mathematical view to Einstein's theories of relativity — and suggests the idea of time being «refused,» whether to resist the impact of colonial forces or to deny the simple truth of human mortality.

«White lines in movement symbolize light as a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life,» he wrote of these works, «bringing a dynamic to men's minds, ever expanding their energies towards a larger relativity.»

Reflecting on the relativity of an object's role, the artist gives a personal interpretation of this chaos and mixture of positions and tasks, dismounting the implicit idea of order and function we naturally have in the relation to objects.

String Theory identifies nature's most basic building blocks and brings together the diverse ideas of 20th Century physics, such as quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity.

He frequented the Café du Dôme, where artists congregated to discuss not only ideas about art, but new theories of the universe, from Einstein's theory of relativity to Bergson's notion that movement and constant change are basic characteristics of reality.

Just ask Albert Einstein and Rene Descartes, two dreamers who can thank their nocturnal adventures for delivering to them the ideas behind the theory of relativity and the scientific method.

The rest is history in the discovery of chaos theory as the third great idea — along with relativity and quantum mechanics — of 20th century physics.

The idea had been around for decades in chaos theory — which along with relativity and quantum mechanics is one of the three great ideas of 20th century physics.