Monad From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Monad may refer to: Philosophy[edit] Mathematics and computer science[edit] Music[edit] Biology[edit] Monad, a historical term for a simple unicellular organism Proper names and popular culture[edit] See also[edit]
Hypostasis of the Archons The Hypostasis of the Archons or The Reality of the Rulers is an exegesis on the Book of Genesis 1–6 and expresses Gnostic mythology of the divine creators of the cosmos and humanity. Text's origin and content[edit] The work is presented as a learned treatise in which a teacher addresses a topic suggested by the dedicatee of the work. The treatise begins with a fragment of cosmogony, which leads to a revisionistic "true history" of the events in the Genesis creation story, reflecting Gnostic distrust of the material world and the demiurge that created it. Within this narrative there is an "angelic revelation dialogue" where an angel repeats and elaborates the author's fragment of cosmogonic myth in much broader scope, concluding with historical prediction of the coming of the savior and the end of days.[4] Mythic characters[edit] Notes[edit] ^ Bullard in Robinson 162; Bullard 3^ Layton (1995) 65^ Layton (1995) 65^ Layton (1995) 65^ Layton (1995) 67^ Layton (1995) 66 References[edit]
Antimatter In particle physics, antimatter is material composed of antiparticles, which have the same mass as particles of ordinary matter but have opposite charge and other particle properties such as lepton and baryon number. Encounters between particles and antiparticles lead to the annihilation of both, giving rise to varying proportions of high-energy photons (gamma rays), neutrinos, and lower-mass particle–antiparticle pairs. Setting aside the mass of any product neutrinos, which represent released energy which generally continues to be unavailable, the end result of annihilation is a release of energy available to do work, proportional to the total matter and antimatter mass, in accord with the mass-energy equivalence equation, E=mc2.[1] Antiparticles bind with each other to form antimatter just as ordinary particles bind to form normal matter. For example, a positron (the antiparticle of the electron) and an antiproton can form an antihydrogen atom. History of the concept Notation Positrons
Chaos From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Chaos or CHAOS may refer to: Mythology, philosophy, and religion[edit] Disorder[edit] Lawlessness, a lack of laws or law enforcement People[edit] Computing[edit] Science and mathematics[edit] Arts, entertainment, and media[edit] Fictional entities[edit] Films[edit] Games[edit] Literature[edit] Chaos, novel by Patricia CornwellChaos, short title of a treatise by Heinrich KhunrathChaos, novel by Alexander ShirvanzadeLiber Chaos, an alchemical treatise by Raimundus LullusChaos: Making a New Science, a 1987 book by James Gleick"The Chaos", a poem by Gerard Nolst Trenité which illustrates English spelling and pronunciation Music[edit] Groups and labels[edit] U.S. Albums[edit] Songs[edit] Television[edit] Other arts, entertainment, and media[edit] Other uses[edit] See also[edit]
Tesla Memorial Society of New York Lectures on the Essence of Religion - Lecture XXX Feuerbach Lectures on the Essence of Religion THE DEMONSTRATION that the meaning and purpose of God are immortality, that God and immortality are one, that God, starting out as an independent being, as immortality, ends up as an attribute of man, completes my task and with it this series of lectures. I have tried to prove that the god of nature religion is nature and that the God of spiritual religion, of Christianity, is the spirit or essence of man. However, it is not necessary, in dealing with such a theme as ours, to go into every detail and particular. God, I have said, is the fulfiller, or the reality, of the human desires for happiness, perfection, and immortality. Man has many wishes that he does not really wish to fulfil, and it would be a misunderstanding to suppose the contrary. Accordingly, we not only find individuals stopping once they have achieved a certain stage of education or perfection, but whole nations marking time for thousands of years. What a modest desire!
Eusebius Greek church historian Although Eusebius' works are regarded as giving insight into the history of the early church, he was not without prejudice, especially in regard to the Jews, for while "Eusebius indeed blames the Jews for the crucifixion of Jesus, but he nevertheless also states that forgiveness can be granted even for this sin and that the Jews can receive salvation. Sources[edit] Little is known about the life of Eusebius. Early life[edit] In his Ecclesiastical History, Eusebius writes of Dionysius of Alexandria as his contemporary. By the 3rd century, Caesarea had a population of about 100,000. Soon after Pamphilus settled in Caesarea (ca. 280s), he began teaching Eusebius, who was then somewhere between twenty and twenty-five.[29] Because of his close relationship with his schoolmaster, Eusebius was sometimes called Eusebius Pamphili: "Eusebius, son of Pamphilus". Bishop of Caesarea[edit] Death[edit] Works[edit] Armenian translation of Chronicon. 13th century manuscript Doctrine[edit]
Prenatal memory Prenatal memory, also called fetal memory, is important for the development of memory in humans. Many factors can impair fetal memory and its functions, primarily maternal actions. There are multiple techniques available not only to demonstrate the existence of fetal memory but to measure it. Fetal memory is vulnerable to certain diseases so much so that exposure can permanently damage the development of the fetus and even terminate the pregnancy by aborting the fetus. Maternal nutrition and the avoidance of drugs, alcohol and other substances during all nine months of pregnancy (especially the critical period when the nervous system is developing) is important to the development of the fetus and its memory systems. Background Information and Functions[edit] Fetal memory is integral to mother-infant attachment There is substantial evidence that fetal memory exists within the first and second trimester after conception when the egg is fertilized. Development[edit] Functions[edit]
Gaia Greek primordial deity, goddess of Earth Etymology[edit] The Greek name Γαῖα (Gaĩa)[5] is a mostly epic, collateral form of Attic Γῆ[6] (Gê), Doric Γᾶ (Gã, perhaps identical to Δᾶ Dã)[7] meaning "Earth", a word of uncertain origin.[8] Robert S. In Mycenean Greek Ma-ka (transliterated as Ma-ga, "Mother Gaia") also contains the root ga-.[9][10] Mythology[edit] Hesiod[edit] Because Cronus had learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overthrown by one of his children, he swallowed each of the children born to him by his Titan older sister, Rhea. With the help of Gaia's advice,[21] Zeus defeated the Titans. Other sources[edit] Gaia also made Aristaeus immortal.[25] Depiction[edit] In classical art Gaia was represented in one of two ways. Cult[edit] Oaths sworn in the name of Gaia, in ancient Greece, were considered the most binding of all. In ancient times, Gaia was mainly worshipped alongside Demeter and as a part of the cult of Demeter, and does not seem to have had a separate cult.
Introduction - The WRC site - Walter Russell Herbert Spencer Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era. Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. He was "an enthusiastic exponent of evolution" and even "wrote about evolution before Darwin did."[1] As a polymath, he contributed to a wide range of subjects, including ethics, religion, anthropology, economics, political theory, philosophy, literature, biology, sociology, and psychology. Spencer is best known for coining the expression "survival of the fittest", which he did in Principles of Biology (1864), after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.[6] This term strongly suggests natural selection, yet as Spencer extended evolution into realms of sociology and ethics, he also made use of Lamarckism.[1]
Gospel of Thomas Apocryphal gospel preserved primarily in the Coptic language The Gospel of Thomas (also known as the Coptic Gospel of Thomas) is an extra-canonical sayings gospel. It was discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in December 1945 among a group of books known as the Nag Hammadi library. Scholars speculate that the works were buried in response to a letter from Bishop Athanasius declaring a strict canon of Christian scripture. The Coptic language text, the second of seven contained in what modern-day scholars have designated as Nag Hammadi Codex II, is composed of 114 sayings attributed to Jesus. The introduction states: "These are the hidden words that the living Jesus spoke and Didymos Judas Thomas wrote them down." The Gospel of Thomas is very different in tone and structure from other New Testament apocrypha and the four Canonical Gospels. Finds and publication[edit] The manuscript of the Coptic text (CG II), found in 1945 at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, is dated at around 340 AD. P. Early camp[edit]
String theory String theory was first studied in the late 1960s[3] as a theory of the strong nuclear force before being abandoned in favor of the theory of quantum chromodynamics. Subsequently, it was realized that the very properties that made string theory unsuitable as a theory of nuclear physics made it a promising candidate for a quantum theory of gravity. Five consistent versions of string theory were developed until it was realized in the mid-1990s that they were different limits of a conjectured single 11-dimensional theory now known as M-theory.[4] Many theoretical physicists, including Stephen Hawking, Edward Witten and Juan Maldacena, believe that string theory is a step towards the correct fundamental description of nature: it accommodates a consistent combination of quantum field theory and general relativity, agrees with insights in quantum gravity (such as the holographic principle and black hole thermodynamics) and has passed many non-trivial checks of its internal consistency.