Sentences with phrase «time continuum in»

Macrophysics deals with a four - dimensional space - time continuum in which limitless space curves back on itself like a Möbius strip and time is diversely calculated by bodies in motion.

Each actual occasion prehends the space - time continuum in its infinite entirety; that, says Whitehead, is nothing but an example of the general principle (also illustrated by prehension of qualitative eternal objects) that «actual fact includes in its own constitution real potentiality which is referent beyond itself.»

To begin with, there is no space / time continuum in Eternity.

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Space, time, and change describe the relations of various actual entities in terms of this continuum.

What he fails to spell out in detail here but indicates elsewhere (e.g., PR 96-98/147 -150) is that the extensive continuum or, more specifically in terms of our cosmic epoch, the space - time continuum is not just a single overarching community of actual occasions but an interlocking network of communities or societies of occasions, each of which possesses its own laws and proper dynamism.

An actual supernatural thing would, for us to interact with it in any way, be required to impinge upon this space - time continuum, and we see that, regardless of scale, i.e. microscopic or macroscopic, there is absolutely zero evidence that there is anything interacting with us or our universe in any way.

Although they differ radically from one another and appear in widely varied contexts, in two regards these early prophets testify to a prophetic continuum from premonarchic times (and even from the age of Moses) to the decay and collapse of monarchy in Israel and on into the days of Jewish reconstruction.

Rather than see eternal life as a continuum begun in our baptisms and extended through life into eternity, we were tempted to posit instead a radical discontinuity between «time's wild wintry blast» and our destiny in time to come.

The way of distinction, therefore, puts a positive valuation on the time - space continuum and, though it sees divine redemption as the remaking of history into something new, it can not conceive of divine - human interaction in other than historical terms which preserve the qualitative difference between God and man.

In the final part of this discussion, Cobb makes the intriguing suggestion that the separated soul might exist in two - dimensional space - time rather than in our four dimensional continuuIn the final part of this discussion, Cobb makes the intriguing suggestion that the separated soul might exist in two - dimensional space - time rather than in our four dimensional continuuin two - dimensional space - time rather than in our four dimensional continuuin our four dimensional continuum.

For each actual occasion comes into being in a basic region in the space - time continuum.

Here's another one: An entirely natural wormhole opened in the space - time continuum, and a guy from the present got sent into the past, and told someone about the Big bang theory, and that story made it into the Quran.

Once a finite quantum of space - time has been actualized by the concrescence of a new occasion, the quantum may be divided into smaller parts in accordance with the mathematics of the continuum.

The B - series side of time taken alone will land us in Zeno's paradoxes because the B - series leads to isomorphism with the mathematical continuum and so to infinite divisibility.

When new qualities emerge, these qualities, belonging to that pattern of the space - time continuum, are wholly immanent in the new event in which they are realized.

Every occasion, as it completes its concrescence, is (1) located in a specific region of the space - time continuum, and (2) is perfectly definite in regard to the inclusion of every eternal object.

These passages should make it clear that the extensive continuum is not a container sitting there waiting for actual occasions to happen in it; it is not an analogue to the notion of absolute space and time; it is not a fact prior to the world.

With the becoming of any actual entity what was previously potential in the space - time continuum is now the primary real phase in something actual» (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 103 and 104).

The modernization perspective also suggests that a kind of wholesale movement in the world has been going on for some time — movement along the continuum from less modern to more modern.

In partial defense of this view, Parmenides» student, Zeno, showed that both science and common sense ran into paradoxes when they assumed (as they did at that time) that space and time are made up of elementary units, but still are continua.

«33 The whole continuum of conditions and consequences in time is set aside.

This helps keep the awe factor up and keeps people worshiping God in anticipation as to how in the world he can make all the confusing disjointed Biblical prophecies actually happen in any conceivable order within a time - space - continuum.

In the Newtonian cosmology, disembodied souls seemed thoroughly excluded from the space - time continuum.

Our four - dimensional space - time is the special form that the universal extensive continuum takes in our world.

The deeper question is how intuitively convincing is this claim when confronted by the fact that the whole earth is one fleeting speck in the observable space - time continuum of the cosmic process?

Space and time conjointly constitute the extensive continuum in our cosmic epoch.

To the extent that this is simply a reaction against a static and abstract rationalism, it is wholly salutary; but it becomes pernicious if it goes so far as to cause us to overlook what is truly exceptional and essential in the phenomenon of Thought — the power of Consciousness to centrate so perfectly upon itself as to be able to situate itself (itself and the Universe at the same time) in the explicit framework of a present, a past and a future — that is to say, in a Space - Time contintime) in the explicit framework of a present, a past and a future — that is to say, in a Space - Time continTime continuum.

Although both Newton and Whitehead claim that there is a uniform and independent metric structure of the space and time continuum, Whitehead's claim is on behalf of a uniform and independent system of relations, not a substantial entity in its own right.

In Wright's interpretation, which owes much to the realized eschatological views of C. H. Dodd and G. B. Caird, Jesus did not proclaim the imminent end of the world, if by «world» one means the space - time continuum.

This feature of a space - time continuum of uniform metric structure, which is familiar because of its association with fundamental congruence theorems such as in the Euclidean geometry of a plane surface, is not unique to Euclidean geometry.

Whitehead considers this uniformity a requirement for measurement in the space - time continuum; 22 and thus, as a presupposition of any physical analysis that would be considered scientific.

According to the Einsteinian formulation of GTR, the physical magnitudes so represented define the metric structure of the space - time continuum, and fields of gravitational force are interpreted as inextricably intertwined with this structure.29 According to the Whiteheadian formulation of 0TH, the physical magnitudes so represented define a physical characteristic, the «impetus,» against the background of a uniform metric structure.30 In effect, Einstein incorporates fields of gravitational force into a theory about the metric structure of the space - time continuum, whereas Whitehead retains such fields as special physical factors constitutive of the physical field associated with an event.

Whiteheadian cosmology embraces the notion of a uniform metric structure for the space - time continuum that is independent of the material objects commonly said to be «in» space - time and also that is independent of the material objects appropriated as standards of spatio - temporal measurement.

Second, the extensive continuum, of which spatiotemporal extensiveness is a more specific determination, is a «real potential» factor of thc universe in the Whiteheadian cosmology as opposed to absolute space and absolute time continua as real and actual things comprising the universe in the Newtonian cosmology (PR 113f; cf. 101 - 06).

Standard conditions may be shown to prevail in the space - time continuum, or the need for correction factors indicated, by a simple test.

Whitehead offers an alternative formulation and claims on behalf of his formulation that it can account for all experimental results accounted for by the Einsteinian formulation but that it represents a different interpretation of these results in terms of a more adequate concept of nature (PNK vi; CN vii, 182; IS 125 - 35).18 The major theoretical difference between the two formulations is that whereas in the Einsteinian formulation the metric structure of the space - time continuum is variable from point to point and in differing directions (that is, heterogeneous and nonisotropic), in the Whiteheadian formulation the metric structure of the space - time continuum is uniform from point to point and in differing directions (that is, homogeneous and isotropic).

In light of the definition of «a straight line,» however, this would mean that in diverse regions of the space - time continuum under consideration the measuring rod, under prevailing standard conditions or the introduction of correction factors, is not deformed in its length as it is moved from point to point or in differing directions in the space - time continuuIn light of the definition of «a straight line,» however, this would mean that in diverse regions of the space - time continuum under consideration the measuring rod, under prevailing standard conditions or the introduction of correction factors, is not deformed in its length as it is moved from point to point or in differing directions in the space - time continuuin diverse regions of the space - time continuum under consideration the measuring rod, under prevailing standard conditions or the introduction of correction factors, is not deformed in its length as it is moved from point to point or in differing directions in the space - time continuuin its length as it is moved from point to point or in differing directions in the space - time continuuin differing directions in the space - time continuuin the space - time continuum.

Select a measuring rod and construct a second measuring rod of a material differing from the first but otherwise identical; place the two rods together so that their endpoints coincide; and move the pair of rods about in the space - time continuum.

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.

It is this uniform and independent metric structure of the space - time continuum that Whitehead refers to as the «system of uniform relatedness» or the «systematic framework» in the quotations above.

The possibility of the circularity involved in practical measurement in a space - time continuum of variable metric structure is emphasized by C. I. Lewis, «The Categories of Natural knowledge,» The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, ed.

Now, if measurement can be significant only if the measuring rod is free of all deforming influences, not simply those attributed to the influence of «differential» forces, then given a space - time continuum of variable metric structure, no set of conditions can be specified to ensure that the measuring rod does not undergo deformation in its length as it is transported from point to point during the process of measurement.

In a space - time continuum of uniform metric structure, the angle - sum of the interior angles of these two rectilinear triangles will be equal.

For Whitehead, a uniform and independent metric structure is presupposed by measurement in the space - time continuum and in particular is necessitated by any attempt, so it seems to Whitehead, to establish standard conditions or to introduce correction factors ensuring the self - congruence of measuring devices under transport.

As the «one relational complex in which all potential objectifications find their niche,» (Process 66) for Whitehead the extensive continuum certainly corresponds to the breadth of vision of the divine primordial nature, even as the space - time continuum as a partial realization of the extensive continuum corresponds to the more limited character of the divine consequent nature here and now Thus, even though Whitehead does not make explicit use of field - oriented imagery to describe the God - world relationship, the concepts are at hand to sustain that line of thought.8

I think Creel is correct in claiming that on Hartshorne's view God learns about possibilities as time goes on; indeed, earlier portions of this paper imply that this is a consequence of any view which understands possibilities as a continuum.

The only thing basic to sensation apart from its feeling - element is the respect in which it involves a sense of reaction, and in this respect «it does not involve the sense of time (i.e. not of a continuum)» (8.41).

Gödel's incompleteness theorems, critique of the continuum hypothesis, and examination of time in general relativity all have theological implications.

He can in this way realign philosophy with contemporary scientific theory, while at the same time providing the latter with a «ground» in immediate experience which had been lacking in traditional empiricism, modeled as that was on corpuscular theories of nature.8 In his early work, Whitehead employs Bradley's antiatomism within a classically empiricist framework; redefined as a continuum, sensation still plays its conventional role as a theory of «presentation» (EPNK 60), the given foundation of the reflective processin this way realign philosophy with contemporary scientific theory, while at the same time providing the latter with a «ground» in immediate experience which had been lacking in traditional empiricism, modeled as that was on corpuscular theories of nature.8 In his early work, Whitehead employs Bradley's antiatomism within a classically empiricist framework; redefined as a continuum, sensation still plays its conventional role as a theory of «presentation» (EPNK 60), the given foundation of the reflective processin immediate experience which had been lacking in traditional empiricism, modeled as that was on corpuscular theories of nature.8 In his early work, Whitehead employs Bradley's antiatomism within a classically empiricist framework; redefined as a continuum, sensation still plays its conventional role as a theory of «presentation» (EPNK 60), the given foundation of the reflective processin traditional empiricism, modeled as that was on corpuscular theories of nature.8 In his early work, Whitehead employs Bradley's antiatomism within a classically empiricist framework; redefined as a continuum, sensation still plays its conventional role as a theory of «presentation» (EPNK 60), the given foundation of the reflective processIn his early work, Whitehead employs Bradley's antiatomism within a classically empiricist framework; redefined as a continuum, sensation still plays its conventional role as a theory of «presentation» (EPNK 60), the given foundation of the reflective process.9

In his relations with other people, he can act from the dictates of his own conscience; at its highest the relationship of love can be elevated to a degree of complete service and good will which seems to transcend the space - time continuum.