Author: H. Chris Ransford
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110440288
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
What is Time? Assuming no prior specialized knowledge by the reader, the book raises specific, hitherto overlooked questions about how time works, such as how and why anyone can be made to be, at the very same instant, simultaneous with events that are actually days apart. It examines abiding issues in the physics of time or at its periphery which still elude a full explanation ― such as delayed choice experiments, the brain's perception of time during saccadic masking, and more ― and suggests that these phenomena can only exist because they ultimately obey applicable mathematics, thereby agreeing with a modern view that the universe and everything within it, including the mind, are ultimately mathematical structures. It delves into how a number of conundrums, such as the weak Anthropic Principle, could be resolved, and how such resolutions could be tested experimentally. All its various threads converge towards a same new vision of the ultimate essence of time, seen as a side effect from a deeper reality.
The Far Horizons of Time
Author: H. Chris Ransford
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110440288
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
What is Time? Assuming no prior specialized knowledge by the reader, the book raises specific, hitherto overlooked questions about how time works, such as how and why anyone can be made to be, at the very same instant, simultaneous with events that are actually days apart. It examines abiding issues in the physics of time or at its periphery which still elude a full explanation ― such as delayed choice experiments, the brain's perception of time during saccadic masking, and more ― and suggests that these phenomena can only exist because they ultimately obey applicable mathematics, thereby agreeing with a modern view that the universe and everything within it, including the mind, are ultimately mathematical structures. It delves into how a number of conundrums, such as the weak Anthropic Principle, could be resolved, and how such resolutions could be tested experimentally. All its various threads converge towards a same new vision of the ultimate essence of time, seen as a side effect from a deeper reality.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110440288
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
What is Time? Assuming no prior specialized knowledge by the reader, the book raises specific, hitherto overlooked questions about how time works, such as how and why anyone can be made to be, at the very same instant, simultaneous with events that are actually days apart. It examines abiding issues in the physics of time or at its periphery which still elude a full explanation ― such as delayed choice experiments, the brain's perception of time during saccadic masking, and more ― and suggests that these phenomena can only exist because they ultimately obey applicable mathematics, thereby agreeing with a modern view that the universe and everything within it, including the mind, are ultimately mathematical structures. It delves into how a number of conundrums, such as the weak Anthropic Principle, could be resolved, and how such resolutions could be tested experimentally. All its various threads converge towards a same new vision of the ultimate essence of time, seen as a side effect from a deeper reality.
Far Horizons
Author: Frank Gardner
Publisher: CCV Digital
ISBN: 9781446421161
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher: CCV Digital
ISBN: 9781446421161
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Far Horizons
Author: Christopher Empson
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
ISBN: 9051706324
Category : Gauchos
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Christopher Empson organizes his narrative about Uruguayan rural life and tells his own experiences as the central element of his memoir. Like many texts written by Spanish conquistadors more than five centuries ago, Empson's memoir is about the encounter
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
ISBN: 9051706324
Category : Gauchos
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Christopher Empson organizes his narrative about Uruguayan rural life and tells his own experiences as the central element of his memoir. Like many texts written by Spanish conquistadors more than five centuries ago, Empson's memoir is about the encounter
The Heart Goes On: An Absolutely Heartbreaking Historical Romance Novel
Author: Kate Hewitt
Publisher: Far Horizons
ISBN: 9781800191082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher: Far Horizons
ISBN: 9781800191082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Far Horizons
Author: A.R. Knight
Publisher: Black Key Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
In the far future, a dormant android awakes on a vast starship to find humanity's last hopes rest with him. Launched to carry the human species across the galaxy, Starship's generations-long journey has crumbled as machines took everything from their human creators, including life itself. Given a mission by humanity's last digital remnants, Gamma must traverse Starship's vast, dangerous bulk in search of a way to preserve Starship's original purpose. Yet Gamma isn't the only intelligent machine on Starship, and some want a very different end as the spacecraft approaches its final destination. As he confronts the mechs that've claimed Starship as their own, the key to Gamma's survival will come not only from his metal fists, but from figuring out why Starship's humans fell in the first place. A far-future science fiction action adventure that blends the real and virtual worlds, The Far Horizons is a series that will have you wondering whether our biology or our beliefs make us human.
Publisher: Black Key Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
In the far future, a dormant android awakes on a vast starship to find humanity's last hopes rest with him. Launched to carry the human species across the galaxy, Starship's generations-long journey has crumbled as machines took everything from their human creators, including life itself. Given a mission by humanity's last digital remnants, Gamma must traverse Starship's vast, dangerous bulk in search of a way to preserve Starship's original purpose. Yet Gamma isn't the only intelligent machine on Starship, and some want a very different end as the spacecraft approaches its final destination. As he confronts the mechs that've claimed Starship as their own, the key to Gamma's survival will come not only from his metal fists, but from figuring out why Starship's humans fell in the first place. A far-future science fiction action adventure that blends the real and virtual worlds, The Far Horizons is a series that will have you wondering whether our biology or our beliefs make us human.
Far Horizons
Author: James J. White
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1618970054
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
"Hello, my dear, take a seat," were the kind words spoken by the doctor. His quiet manner exuded a self-assurance and efficiency, and his office radiated the warmth of a cheerfully decorated Christmas Eve. "Kathy, I have the results of your tests here. They indicate that you have MDS-Myelodysplasia Syndrome 5q-." "What does this mean, doctor?" "In layman's terms you have a rare form of leukemia, a blood cancer," he said. And so began my journey to Far Horizons.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1618970054
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
"Hello, my dear, take a seat," were the kind words spoken by the doctor. His quiet manner exuded a self-assurance and efficiency, and his office radiated the warmth of a cheerfully decorated Christmas Eve. "Kathy, I have the results of your tests here. They indicate that you have MDS-Myelodysplasia Syndrome 5q-." "What does this mean, doctor?" "In layman's terms you have a rare form of leukemia, a blood cancer," he said. And so began my journey to Far Horizons.
The Far Horizon
Author: Lucas Malet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Far Horizon
Author: Lucas Malet
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The Far Horizon is a Victorian-era adventure novel by Mary St Leger Kingsley, working under the pseudonym of Lucas Malet. The Far Horizon was one of her 17 novels. It was published in 1906 when the author's career was at its peak. Critics often compared the success of Malet's novels of the time to that of Rudyard Kipling and Tomas Hardy.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The Far Horizon is a Victorian-era adventure novel by Mary St Leger Kingsley, working under the pseudonym of Lucas Malet. The Far Horizon was one of her 17 novels. It was published in 1906 when the author's career was at its peak. Critics often compared the success of Malet's novels of the time to that of Rudyard Kipling and Tomas Hardy.
Writing History with Lightning
Author: Matthew Christopher Hulbert
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807170909
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett’s doomed charge at Gettysburg, the proliferation and destruction of plantation slavery in the American South, Custer’s fateful decision to divide his forces at Little Big Horn, and the onset of immigration and industrialization that saw Old World lifestyles and customs dissolve amid rapidly changing environments. Balancing historical nuance with passion for cinematic narratives, Writing History with Lightning confronts how movies about nineteenth-century America influence the ways in which mass audiences remember, understand, and envision the nation’s past. In these twenty-six essays—divided by the editors into sections on topics like frontiers, slavery, the Civil War, the Lost Cause, and the West—notable historians engage with films and the historical events they ostensibly depict. Instead of just separating fact from fiction, the essays contemplate the extent to which movies generate and promulgate collective memories of American history. Along with new takes on familiar classics like Young Mr. Lincoln and They Died with Their Boots On, the volume covers several films released in recent years, including The Revenant, 12 Years a Slave, The Birth of a Nation, Free State of Jones, and The Hateful Eight. The authors address Hollywood epics like The Alamo and Amistad, arguing that these movies flatten the historical record to promote nationalist visions. The contributors also examine overlooked films like Hester Street and Daughters of the Dust, considering their portraits of marginalized communities as transformative perspectives on American culture. By surveying films about nineteenth-century America, Writing History with Lightning analyzes how movies create popular understandings of American history and why those interpretations change over time.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807170909
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett’s doomed charge at Gettysburg, the proliferation and destruction of plantation slavery in the American South, Custer’s fateful decision to divide his forces at Little Big Horn, and the onset of immigration and industrialization that saw Old World lifestyles and customs dissolve amid rapidly changing environments. Balancing historical nuance with passion for cinematic narratives, Writing History with Lightning confronts how movies about nineteenth-century America influence the ways in which mass audiences remember, understand, and envision the nation’s past. In these twenty-six essays—divided by the editors into sections on topics like frontiers, slavery, the Civil War, the Lost Cause, and the West—notable historians engage with films and the historical events they ostensibly depict. Instead of just separating fact from fiction, the essays contemplate the extent to which movies generate and promulgate collective memories of American history. Along with new takes on familiar classics like Young Mr. Lincoln and They Died with Their Boots On, the volume covers several films released in recent years, including The Revenant, 12 Years a Slave, The Birth of a Nation, Free State of Jones, and The Hateful Eight. The authors address Hollywood epics like The Alamo and Amistad, arguing that these movies flatten the historical record to promote nationalist visions. The contributors also examine overlooked films like Hester Street and Daughters of the Dust, considering their portraits of marginalized communities as transformative perspectives on American culture. By surveying films about nineteenth-century America, Writing History with Lightning analyzes how movies create popular understandings of American history and why those interpretations change over time.
FAR Horizons
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : International relations
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : International relations
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description