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Author: Harold Toliver Publisher: Dorrance Publishing ISBN: 9781638671855 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 356
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Playing Scales: Scanning and Sizing the Universe and Everything in It By: Harold Toliver Like its predecessor, Mythic Worlds and the One You Can Believe In, Playing Scales puts common concepts, measurements, and comprehensive views of world history in the context of the natural continuum. Its dimensions, extent, history, and atomic matter determinism pose difficulties in adjusting things human to it. We need to understand what that is. Only then can we adjust beliefs and concepts of human history to it. The composite picture frames such other disciplines as anthropology, paleontology, philosophy, and religion. It provides a framework for cultural histories from their origin to their current state. About the Author Harold Toliver is a retired professor of literature at the University of California Irvine. His main goal since retiring has been to improve the links between the humanities, mostly their philosophy and literature, and the sciences. In this book the latter are mainly physics from quarks to quasars, cosmology, and astronomy. What these and other disciplines say about the nearly fourteen-billion-year history of atomic matter and natural history is established well enough to be used as a guide to getting other pursuits in perspective.
Author: Harold Toliver Publisher: Dorrance Publishing ISBN: 9781638671855 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 356
Book Description
Playing Scales: Scanning and Sizing the Universe and Everything in It By: Harold Toliver Like its predecessor, Mythic Worlds and the One You Can Believe In, Playing Scales puts common concepts, measurements, and comprehensive views of world history in the context of the natural continuum. Its dimensions, extent, history, and atomic matter determinism pose difficulties in adjusting things human to it. We need to understand what that is. Only then can we adjust beliefs and concepts of human history to it. The composite picture frames such other disciplines as anthropology, paleontology, philosophy, and religion. It provides a framework for cultural histories from their origin to their current state. About the Author Harold Toliver is a retired professor of literature at the University of California Irvine. His main goal since retiring has been to improve the links between the humanities, mostly their philosophy and literature, and the sciences. In this book the latter are mainly physics from quarks to quasars, cosmology, and astronomy. What these and other disciplines say about the nearly fourteen-billion-year history of atomic matter and natural history is established well enough to be used as a guide to getting other pursuits in perspective.
Author: Antonio Insolia Publisher: World Scientific ISBN: 9814543462 Category : Languages : en Pages : 426
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CRIS (Catania Relativistic Ion Studies) is a recently established series of topical conferences held every two years in the Catania area, in Italy. The aim of these conferences is to discuss specific hot topics in heavy ion physics.The second CRIS Conference was devoted to the interferometric techniques for measuring the size of nuclear sources as well as astrophysical objects. The thrust of its program was somewhat cross-disciplinary. A historical review of early astronomical measurements, and some current applications in astrophysics were included, although the bulk of the program was concerned with the use of HBT in inferring nuclear source sizes and lifetimes.
Author: Cristian Suteanu Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031157338 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 329
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This book provides up-to-date, in-depth and accessible information on the concept of scale, and focuses on its applications in geography, Earth science, environmental science, and other fields in which the environment plays a significant role. Although the book presents methods and applications as a response to practical challenges, it is primarily concept-centered: it identifies a set of distinct, yet related notions of “scale”, analyzing and elucidating their evolving meanings in a systematic way. Concepts are defined with a focus on their practical operational applicability, and the introduction of methods is supported by concrete examples. The book links theoretical insights to illustrating applications, involving a broad range of themes, from maps, fractals, and chaos theory to fine art and literature. It approaches the subject in a spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal context, including a wide diversity of spatial features from Earth and other planets, as well as time series and space-time patterns. This monograph is expected to be useful especially because in practice the various scale-focused concepts are not neatly separated and immiscible. It is therefore helpful for scholars in physical and human geography, Earth and environmental sciences, and other fields, to benefit from a clear conceptual framework that distinguishes and illuminates the various scale-related concepts and their interconnections. Selected chapters can also support a deeper understanding of the concept of scale for graduate and undergraduate students in geography, the natural sciences, and the humanities. Information on recommended additional literature and comments about specific sources offer a guide to further reading on the topics addressed in the book.
Author: Marino Mezzetti Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9400909039 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 489
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The 1980's have been times of great excitement in Astrophysics and Cosmology. Professors Dennis Sciama and Fabio Mardirossian and all the other Members of the Organizing Committees are to be congratulated for having given us a taste of this excitement in Trieste, by inviting the leaders of the subject to the meeting they have organized. The excitement has corne from the new observations of the three-dimensional structure of the universe through a large number of new measurements of redshifts. These have revealed that clusters of galaxies are distributed on the surface of big empty bubbles of diameters of the order of 20-50 Mpc. Additionally, there is some evidence for invisible dark matter (whose composition is not known) as well as evidence for the gravitational lens effect. To cap this has corne the supernova of 1987, an event which last occurred 383 years ago. For the first time in history, the neutrino flux from the supernova was measured, giving limits to neutrino masses and numbers of neutrino types. (The dark matter problem is related to Particle Physics - beyond this standard model). It is good to be alive when all this happens and to try to comprehend this. Once again, our appreciation to the organisers and to those who presented their beautiful results.
Author: International Astronomical Union. Symposium Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9789027727442 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 662
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Proceedings of the 130th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, dedicated to the memory of Marc A. Aaronson (1950-1987), held in Balatonfured, Hungary, June 15-20, 1987
Author: Eugene Cernan Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 1429971789 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 469
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From the Apollo 17 commander and NASA veteran, “an exciting, insider’s take on what it was like to become one of the first humans in space” (Publishers Weekly). Eugene Cernan was a unique American who came of age as an astronaut during the most exciting and dangerous decade of space flight. His career spanned the entire Gemini and Apollo programs, from being the first person to spacewalk all the way around our world to the moment when he left man’s last footprint on the moon as commander of Apollo 17. Between those two historic events lay more adventures than an ordinary person could imagine as Cernan repeatedly put his life, his family, and everything he held dear on the altar of an obsessive desire. Written with New York Times–bestselling author Don Davis, The Last Man on the Moon is the astronaut story never before told—about the fear, love, and sacrifice demanded of the few who dare to reach beyond the heavens. “Thrilling highlights . . . a book not just about space flight but also about the often-brutal competition that went on between the US and the Soviet Union.” —Washington Times “A fascinating book.” —Charlotte Observer
Author: Waltraud C. Seitter Publisher: Springer ISBN: Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 348
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This book will certainly be considered an important reference for astronomers and astrophysicists handling large amounts of data in observational and theoretical approaches to the large scale structures in the universe. The contributions are written with an emphasis on methods. The volume contains among many other topics recent observational results on redshift surveys of clusters and distributions of galaxies and quasars, together with articles on the importance of these findings for future standards and for theoretical predictions. A long historical chapter serves as an introduction. This mixture of textbook and review is aimed at the newcomer to the field as well as at the specialist. Graduate students will find it useful for additional reading.
Author: Harold Toliver Publisher: ISBN: 9781778833311 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 0
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One of the faults in philosophy generally―even the philosophy of science―is ignoring the extended scale of the natural continuum and putting in its place something Anthropomorphic. This book suggests a means of keeping score that puts common situations, places, topography, and even home ground in the context of that continuum, the whole of atomic matter and its history. As shown here, the discrepancy between normal measurements and what actually exists is similar to that between 'yardsticks' and 'light years'
Author: Frank Bauer Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110714884 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 324
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Was wäre, wenn wir das multistabile, ambivalente und anpassungsfähige Verhalten aktiver Materie als offenen Gestaltungsspielraum verstehen? Die Beiträge dieses Bandes erkunden das formbildende Potenzial des Prozessua-len und Unverfügbaren - von mikrobi-ellem Co-Design über morphogeneti-sche Experimente und atmosphärische Kreationen bis hin zu Plastizität und Lebendigkeit in Architektur, Kunst und Begriffsentwicklung. Im Grenzgang zwischen analogen und digitalen For-men überschreiten die hier vorgestell-ten 19 Perspektiven disziplinäre und methodologische Grenzen und zielen darauf ab, ein neues Paradigma des Materiellen zwischen den Kulturen der Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften und des Designs zu begründen. Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zu aktiven Strukturen, adaptiven Materialien und Nachhaltigkeit Analoge Codes und Praktiken im Zeitalter des Digitalen Forschungsergebnisse des Exzellenzclusters "Matters of Activity. Image Space Material" an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Author: Harold Toliver
Author: Harold Toliver
Author: Antonio Insolia
Author: Cristian Suteanu
Author: Marino Mezzetti
Author: International Astronomical Union. Symposium
Author: Eugene Cernan
Author: Waltraud C. Seitter
Author: Harold Toliver
Author: Waltraut Carola Seitter
Author: Frank Bauer