Dismantling the Big Bang
Dismantling the Big Bang

Author: Dr. John Hartnett

Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group

Published: 2005-07-01

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1614582173

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Why did Ptolemy's theory cause problems for the church? What is the big secret concerning the "?Age" of the earth? Why do many scientists reject the use of design in explaining origins? The seemingly absurd idea that all matter, energy, space, and time once exploded from a point of extreme density has captured the imagination of scientists and laypersons for decades. The big bang has provided a central teaching for the eons of time of "cosmic evolution", undermining the history and cosmology of the Bible. It is a theory that fails, even violating the very physical laws on which it is purportedly based. In this easy-to-read format, authors Alex Williams and John Hartnett explode this naturalistic explanation for the universe, and show that the biblical model provides a far better explanation of our origins. This fully indexed, illustrated analysis of the big bang theory is an invaluable help in understanding and countering a world view that is as chaotic and destructive as its name implies.

The Epochal Nature of Process in Whitehead's Metaphysics
The Epochal Nature of Process in Whitehead's Metaphysics

Author: F. Bradford Wallack

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1980-06-30

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780873954549

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“While my book attempts to reflect the full range of scholarly debate, I have also attempted to make it useful to anyone interested in Whitehead. To this end, I have introduced the Whiteheadian terms one by one, explaining each in the light of my interpretation, and I have used examples wherever possible. I try to show that Whitehead intended his philosophy have a place in our lives by reshaping our common conceptions, and that he did not intend it to be relegated to purely abstract or esoteric application.” — F. Bradford Wallack The twentieth century has seen the greatest innovations in philosophical cosmology since Newton and Descartes, and Alfred North Whitehead was the first and greatest of the philosophers to work out these innovations in systematic ways. In a book that will be controversial in the philosophical community, F. Bradford Wallack argues that interpretations widely accepted by Whiteheadians need revaluation because these interpretations are based on materialist and substantialist assumptions that Whitehead sought to replace. Specifically, she proposes a thorough revision of accepted interpretations of Whitehead’s concept of the actual entity. Wallack then elucidates Whitehead’s ideas in order of their increasing dependence upon other basic Whiteheadian terms to complete the study of Whiteheadian time and to clarify its purpose within the cosmology of Process and Reality. Whitehead’s philosophy then emerges as more intelligible and cohesive than is generally believed.

Education, Modernity, and Fractured Meaning
Education, Modernity, and Fractured Meaning

Author: Donald W. Oliver

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1989-07-18

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780887069420

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An indictment of the ideology of modernity, which has resulted in our leading incoherent and fragmented lives, Oliver and Gershman’s book explores the profound paradigmatic differences that exist among the world’s people and describes a rich theory of knowing and being, commonly called “process philosophy.” The promise of process philosophy is in its potential to allow us to participate more fully in the flow of all of time and nature. But what does it mean for a teacher and student in the learning situation to have a process point of view? The authors also discuss many of the various implications in regard to language, space, power relationships, and time as they place process philosophy in the educational context.

A Lover's Dismantling: Fragments of a Scenic Discourse
A Lover's Dismantling: Fragments of a Scenic Discourse

Author: Andy Bragen

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-06-30

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 1365230686

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A LOVER'S DISMANTLING: FRAGMENTS OF A SCENIC DISCOURSE is a play by Elena Guiochins, translated by Andy Bragen. There are only two kinds of thoughts: memories and imagination. This story of two couples finding, living, and losing love wanders whimsically through time, distance, dreams, and heartbreak. Commissioned by Lark Play Development Center's Mexico/United States Playwright Exchange. Published in collaboration with NoPassport.

Beating Time & Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era
Beating Time & Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era

Author: Roger Mathew Grant

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0199367280

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Beating Time & Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era chronicles the shifting relationships between ideas about time in music and science from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. Centered on theories of musical meter, the book investigates the interdependence between theories of meter and conceptualizations of time from the age of Zarlino to the invention of the metronome. These formulations have evolved throughout the history of Western music, reflecting fundamental reevaluations not only of music but also of time itself. Drawing on paradigms from the history of science and technology and the history of philosophy, author Roger Mathew Grant illustrates ways in which theories of meter and time, informed by one another, have manifested themselves in the field of music. During the long eighteenth century, treatises on subjects such as aesthetics, music theory, mathematics, and natural philosophy began to reflect an understanding of time as an absolute quantity, independent of events. This gradual but conclusive change had a profound impact on the network of ideas connecting time, meter, character, and tempo. Investigating the impacts of this change, Grant explores the timekeeping techniques - musical and otherwise - that implemented this conceptual shift, both technologically and materially. Bringing together diverse strands of thought in a broader intellectual history of temporality, Grant's study fills an unexpected yet conspicuous gap in the history of music theory, and is essential reading for music theorists and composers as well as historical musicologists and practitioners of historically informed performance.

Shambhala
Shambhala

Author: Victoria LePage

Publisher: Quest Books

Published: 2014-08-22

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0835631273

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For thousands of years, stories have been told about an inaccessible garden paradise hidden among the icy peaks and secluded valleys of the Himalayas. Called by some Shangri-la, this mythical kingdom, where the pure at heart live forever among jewel lakes, wish-fulfilling trees, and speaking stones, has fired the imagination of both actual explorers and mystical travelers to the inner realms. In this fascinating look behind the myth, Victoria LePage traces the links between this legendary Utopia and the mythologies of the world. Shambhala, LePage argues persuasively, is "real" and may be becoming more so as human beings as a species learn increasingly to perceive dimensions of reality that have been concealed for millennia.

Cosmic Origins
Cosmic Origins

Author: M. Mitchell Waldrop

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-03-23

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 3030982149

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Cosmic Origins tells the story of how physicists and astronomers have struggled for more than a century to understand the beginnings of our universe, from its origins in the Big Bang to the modern day. The book will introduce the science as a narrative, by telling the story of the scientists who made each major discovery. It will also address and explain aspects of our theories that some cosmologists are still hesitant to accept, as well as gaps in our knowledge and even apparent inconsistencies in our measurements. Clearly written by a master of scientific exposition, this book will fascinate the curious general reader as well as providing essential background reading for college-level courses on physics and astronomy.

The Cosmic Time of Empire
The Cosmic Time of Empire

Author: Adam Barrows

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0520260996

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Combining original historical research with literary analysis, Adam Barrows takes a provocative look at the creation of world standard time in 1884 and rethinks the significance of this remarkable moment in modernism for both the processes of imperialism and for modern literature. As representatives from twenty-four nations argued over adopting the Prime Meridian, and thereby measuring time in relation to Greenwich, England, writers began experimenting with new ways of representing human temporality. Barrows finds this experimentation in works as varied as Victorian adventure novels, high modernist texts, and South Asian novels—including the work of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, H. Rider Haggard, Bram Stoker, Rudyard Kipling, and Joseph Conrad. Demonstrating the investment of modernist writing in the problems of geopolitics and in the public discourse of time, Barrows argues that it is possible, and productive, to rethink the politics of modernism through the politics of time.

The Universal One
The Universal One

Author: Walter Russell

Publisher: Ravenio Books

Published:

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13:

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In The Universal One, Walter Russell presents a groundbreaking perspective on the nature of the universe and the fundamental principles that govern it. Through a unique blend of science, philosophy, and spirituality, Russell challenges conventional understanding and offers a thought-provoking exploration of the interconnectedness of all things. This book invites readers to expand their consciousness and reconsider their perception of reality, as Russell unveils the universal laws that shape our existence.