Fred Hoyle, «
The synthesis of the elements from hydrogen,» Monthly Notices Royal Astronomical Society 106, 343 - 83 (1946).
There were groundbreaking publications in the fields of superconductivity and astrophysics such as «Theory of Superconductivity» by John Bardeen, L.N. Cooper, and J.R. Schrieffer and «
Synthesis of the Elements in Stars («B ² FH»)» by Geofrey Burbidge, Margaret Burbidge, William Fowler, and Fred Hoyle.
We developed a voxel art, puzzle adventure game, PROMETHEUS & the Flames of Life which was honored with the 1st Prize & a distinction for
synthesis of elements.
E. Margaret Burbidge et al., «
Synthesis of the Elements in Stars,» Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol.
Interest in these calculations waned among most astronomers when it became apparent that the lion's share of
the synthesis of elements heavier than helium must have occurred inside stars rather than in a hot big bang.
«
Synthesis of the Elements in Stars.»
The reaction to «
Synthesis of the Elements in Stars» was immediate: praise, press conferences, a consensus among their peers that the Burbidges, Willy Fowler, and Fred Hoyle — or B2FH, as scientists to this day call them — had produced one of the seminal papers of the century.
This is because a significant role of such resonances in the development of neutron stars and in
the synthesis of elements during early evolution stages of the Universe after the Big Bang.
This finding ends a 35 - year - old debate on the possible presence of curium in the early solar system, and plays a crucial role in reassessing models of stellar evolution and
synthesis of elements in stars.
The synthesis of elements in the first few moments of the big bang and inside the cores of stars was not understood.
According to Doornenbal, «One of the significances of this finding is that it could help us gain a better understanding of nuclear
synthesis of the elements in our Universe — in other words, how our Universe came to have the nuclei that it does.
These relative entities have evolved in a cosmic totality which is our serial Universe; they represent a process of coming to be in which the composite is built up on the simple; and the process is a continuum; it progresses on and on, from the particles of matter to the most complex
synthesis of elements, from these to life, from life to the anthropoids.
Two of Whitehead's brief statements concerning religion seem to suggest
the synthesis of the elements which I am interpreting as essential polarities of religious experience.
Not exact matches
Synthesis is the fifth level where you begin to build your own structure and pattern
of thinking out
of the diverse
elements from the texts and doctrines.
Rather, argued Crane, «the plot
of any novel or drama is the particular temporal
synthesis effected by the writer
of the
elements of action, character, and thought that constitute the matter
of his invention» (TN 141).
In short, removing the
element of limitation / negation is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the theorization
of disjunctive
synthesis.
And it is because
of this, it is because there exists in you this ineffable
synthesis of what our human thought and experience would never have dared join together in order to adore them —
element and totality, the one and the many, mind and matter, the infinite and the personal; it is because
of the indefinable contours which this complexity gives to your appearance and to your activity, that my heart, enamoured
of cosmic reality, gives itself passionately to you.
Suffice it to say, «it» is that
element which functions as the agent
of communication between incompossibles, as the immanent operator
of disjunctive
synthesis.
This light is not the superficial colouring that a crude hedonism might discern; nor is it the violent glare that annihilates objects and blinds the eyes; it is the tranquil, mighty radiance born
of the
synthesis, in Jesus,
of all the
elements of the world.
Humanity, the spirit
of the earth, the
synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation
of the
element with the whole,
of the one with the many:
There he points out that the answers given have taken five main directions: Christ in opposition to culture, Christ in accommodation to culture, Christ as transcending culture but with some
elements of synthesis, Christ in paradoxical relation to culture, and Christ as the transformer
of culture.
However, as I have tried to show, while in Deleuze's metaphysics we find something like Whiteheadian pure potentiality reappearing in a radically decentered form, the net result is less a neo-Whiteheadian naturalism than a distinctly postmodern avatar
of polytheism: a vision
of multiple «little divinities» effecting random
syntheses of differential
elements within an immanent space
of possibilities: a theory
of evolution metamorphosed into Chaosmological Myth: an unqualified affirmation
of the endless, goalless, production
of Difference.
Now this soul, whose activity is always a
synthesis, in itself eludes the investigations
of science, the essential concern
of which is to analyze things into their
elements and their material antecedents; it can be discovered only by inward vision and philosophic reflection.
In any domain — whether it be the cells
of a body, the members
of a society or the
elements of a spiritual
synthesis — union differentiates.
It is a
synthesis between the two in which the Indo European
elements merged with those
of the mysticism that was germane to the Indian soil.
In The Sickness Unto Death Kierkegaard describes the self which is coming into being as a
synthesis of paradoxical
elements: the infinite and the finite, the temporal and the eternal, freedom and necessity.
Perhaps, however, «
synthesis» is not quite the right word, for it may imply the creation
of unity out
of originally diverse
elements.
Kierkegaard's understanding
of personality as a
synthesis of opposing
elements leads us to understand the concept
of scapegoating in dialectical terms, in relation to the spheres
of existence which humanity divides itself into.
For Kierkegaard, the self which God is calling into being is a
synthesis of these paradoxical
elements.
If by the fundamental mechanism
of union the
elements of consciousness, drawing together, enhance what Is most incommunicable in themselves, it means that the principle
of unification causing them to converge is in some sort a separate reality, distinct from themselves: not a «center
of resultance» born
of their converging, but a «center
of dominance» effecting the
synthesis of innumerable centers culminating in itself.
It was the accentuation
of one
element in a given
synthesis to that point at which the old
synthesis collapsed and a new one was formed around a new center.
The Sikh movement is such a
synthesis of Hindu and Moslem
elements.
Caught within its curve the layers
of Matter (considered as separate
elements no less than as a whole) tighten and converge in Thought, by
synthesis.
Similarly, on a higher level, it is through sympathy, and this alone, that the human
elements in a personalized universe may hope to rise to the level
of a higher
synthesis.
The anthropomorphic God
of the Bible was replaced by a new doctrine that wove together
elements from the Bible and from Greek philosophy in a new
synthesis.
The process
of synthesis by which azoic
elements have reached their present multiplicity and complexity is an evolution, the same process entirely as the biologist traces in the order
of living things, and the synthetic chemical compound embodies in itself a complex relativity capable
of being expressed in most exact laws, which reflect the evolutionary emergence
of its substance as much as do the organs
of an animal explained in terms
of evolutionary development.
The preferred
synthesis (or better, the
synthesis - as - preferred - by - the - past), however, is itself but an
element of the complex datum to which the becoming occasion must respond.
Over the course
of his writing life, Augustine combined a number
of elements from his fragmented culture — Neoplatonic philosophy, Roman civic morality, the heritage
of the great Roman poets, Manichaeism — with his dominant but open - ended Christian faith, into a new
synthesis.
Being now called upon by biology to consider the effects
of synthesis, it is beginning to perceive that, parallel with the phenomenon
of corpuscular disintegration, the Universe historically displays a second process as generalized and fundamental as the first: I mean that
of the gradual concentration
of its physico - chemical
elements in nuclei
of increasing complexity, each succeeding stage
of material concentration and differentiation being accompanied by a more advanced form
of spontaneity and spiritual energy.
On most occasions, the prehension
of the divinity is not significant in the final
synthesis, but on some occasions, such as moments
of prayer or spiritual enlightenment, it can be the dominant
element.
Conduct research, analysis, and
synthesis of the scientific literature to assess implementation processes and their effectiveness related to key
elements of responsible commodity supply chains (e.g., curtailing deforestation and ecosystem destruction, avoiding forest degradation, promoting ecosystem restoration, improving land governance, and protecting human rights);
Even when the menu being presented mixes and matches
elements of cuisines for nouvelle or fusion effects, diners assume that the ingredients will reflect the essence
of the dishes that were the inspiration for the
synthesis.»
For us experimentalists, it is a formidable experimental challenge because the
synthesis of super-heavy
elements is incredibly difficult.
They found IL - 10 promotes intestinal epithelial wound repair through the activation
of cAMP response
element - binding protein (CREB) signaling at the sites
of injury, followed by
synthesis and secretion
of the WNT1 - inducible signaling protein 1 (WISP - 1).
«This is quite amazing; Dr. Hu creatively came up with this powerful technique, carbo - thermal shock
synthesis, to produce high entropy alloys
of up to eight different
elements in a single nanoparticle.
In this pathway, dopamine - and an adenosine 3 ′, 5 ′ - monophosphate (cAMP)-- regulated phospho - protein
of 32 kilodaltons (DARPP - 32) is phosphorylated or dephosphorylated at three sites, in a pattern predicted to cause a synergistic inhibition
of protein phosphatase — 1 and concomitant regulation
of its downstream effector proteins glycogen
synthesis kinase — 3 (GSK - 3), cAMP response
element — binding protein (CREB), and c - Fos.
«I suggest patent GB 970091, «Transmutation
of Elements», which claims the
synthesis of helium and the simultaneous generation
of energy by mixing aluminium powder, solid sodium hydroxide and water in a steel pressure vessel,» he writes.
In the 1950s he showed that most
elements could be produced from hydrogen by
synthesis in the hot interior
of stars.
Their discovery could aid in the
synthesis of new «radiotracers» — chemical compounds that contain a radioactive form, or isotope,
of an
element — for use with a noninvasive, high - resolution 3 - D medical imaging technology known as PET (positron emission tomography) scanning.
A group led by Piero Carninci, a biologist at Omics, looked at how genetic
elements known as retrotransposons scattered through genomes affect the
synthesis of RNA.