Essays on Relativity

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Robert Nemiroff, a physics professor at the Michigan Technological University, along with one of his students Teresa Wilson, through this article titled ‘Searching the Internet for Evidence of Time Travelers,’ explain the extensive effort that they had invested for crusading the internet and find evidence pertaining to time travelers. They continue to detail that there was hardly any evidence that they could find on the internet, either through google searches, tweets, or any other form of evidence, regarding any incident related to time travel. Actually, there was not a single evidence related to this on the internet, at the ...

Introduction

People have always been fascinated about how language affects their thoughts or even the process of thinking. Considering this thought, is it then right to say that people from different language groups speak differently? This paper’s thesis statement argues that language simply serves as a medium of communication and is therefore only a means that can be used to interpret how unique and different people and groups of people are from each other. The argument that suggests that language affects people’s thoughts is based on the idea that language is what determines how moral or crooked one ...

Mid Term Exam

Discuss the impact of the theories of Immanuel Kant, Charles Darwin and Jean-Paul Sartre on modernity.

Jean-Paul Sartre was flourished in Existentialism. He believed that a man acts in his free will in the society and time in which he lives. This philosophy inspired others to acknowledge their own free thinking and live the life they believed in. It broke the cookie cutter of what people were otherwise programmed to be and motivated others to break free in essence of their true self. It’s the true quest to fine a purpose in life. Because Jean Paul Sartre wrote and published many of his writings on Existentialism, his readers began to think ...

Abstract

Teenage pregnancy is a major problem affecting teenagers around globe. This is serious problem since it forces young girls and boys to drop out of school. Chances of these teenagers getting back to school after giving birth or later in life are minute. Thus, the dreams of these teen advancing to college and securing white collar jobs with sustainable income are shuttered. As such these girls and boys are forced to become young mothers and fathers at tender age while doing two to three jobs to have enough income to take care of the baby. Additionally, this problem does ...

Introduction

Fried Green Tomatoes is a 1991 comedy dram film written by Carol Sobieski and Fannie Flagg. The film tells the story of a friendship between two pairs of women – Ruth and Idgie during the Great Depression of early 1930s as well as that between Evelyn and Ninny in the 1980s. It happens that Ninny knew Idgie and Ruth and she tells of the stories about these two women to Evelyn who is in her middle ages (Avnet, 1991). The central issue in the film concerns the murder of Ruth’s abusive husband Frank after which numerous accusations on the ...

Geographical or Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) is a great way to represent data in a mapped format and analyze that data in a database environment. By providing a spatial analysis of suitably coded data, it is possible to provide striking, visual representations of data. These representations can often reveal patterns and trends that might otherwise have gone unnoticed without the use of GIS techniques (Nofal, 2012). GIS is defined as technological systems and databases that allow the recording of where, what, and when in a visual geographic or mapping format. GI systems were originally conceived as something separate from ...

Question One: People Involved

Television technology was not an innovation of a single person, but of many people who made milestone discoveries at different times in history. As such, the innovation towards realizing the modern technology took place for many years with various people contributing differently. In this light, the following is a list of the people involved.

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Russian scientist Boris Rosing Paul Nipkow John Logie Baird Charles Francis Jenkins Vladimir Kosma Zworykin Philo T. Farnsworth Louis Parker Question Two: Key Innovators Among the entire list of people involved, the following are the three key innovators Innovator 1: Philo T. Farnsworth He developed ...

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Introduction

In the last few centuries, our understanding of universe has grown by leaps and bounds. Before seventeenth century, people generally believed that the Earth is at centre of the universe and all heavenly bodies move around the Earth. Galileo challenged the idea and published his papers in support of Copernican heliocentric theory that the Earth and other planets move around the Sun. Our understanding of universe grew further. We realized that the Sun is not unique and there are hundreds of billions of stars in the galaxy, which are brighter ...

Likes: Theoretical physics and mathematics, developing theories such as the mass-energy equivalence equation (E=MC2), changing the world view about things In a radical manner. For example, proving that time does not pass in the same manner; for everybody, through his theory of physical relativity.

Music: Loves the violin, being a gifted musician. Lives daydreams in music and views his life in terms of music. Follows in his Mother, Pauline’s footsteps as she was a great pianist. He began learning how to play the violin at the age of six when they were in Munich. He tried to perfect his skills ...

1. According to the Traditional Analysis of Knowledge (TAK), the objective of analyzing knowledge is to state conditions that are jointly and individually necessary for propositional knowledge. Hence, propositional knowledge should be differentiated from knowledge of acquaintance. Propositional knowledge is justified true belief, this means that a person cannot know P if they do not believe P. Secondly, a person cannot know unless P is true and lastly, there is a need to justify true belief in order to rule out lucky guesses. This way of thinking is related to knowledge goes back to Plato and this way of thinking goes unchallenged ...

- What is Philosophical Ethics?

Perhaps one of the most important functions of philosophy is the inquiry of human behavior and the rationale behind it. Philosophers are concerned about the broad field of ethics, morality and the effects of morality and facets thereof. While the said facets morality is related, they are also distinct and concerned about unrelated thinking process in the pursuit of consciousness. Still, ethics has come be defined as the study of morality in the realms of philosophy. Usually, ethics refer to the analysis of values and the concepts such as good, evil, right, wrong and the role of responsibility. Even ...

Question 1

The solar system is located in a spiral arm: Orion-cygnus arm. According to (Leong 5), it is a minor spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy some three thousand five hundred light-years (1100 parsecs) across and approximately ten thousand light years (3100 parsecs) in length. It is also known as local arm, Orion Bridge, local spur and Orion spur.

It is named for the Orion constellation, one of the prominent constellations of the northern hemisphere winter (southern hemisphere) (Leong 26).the brightest stars and numerous famous celestial objects of this constellation- Betelgeuse, Rigel, the stars of the Orion belt, the Orion ...

Halal and Haraam

The purpose of this paper is to give detailed definitions of the words ‘al-halal’ and ‘al-haram’ with an attempt to understand the various concepts they hold in the Arab-Muslim culture. The meaning and treatment of these two words is often misrepresented, underrepresented and sometimes imply incorrect in bilingual Arabic-English dictionaries. The paper will further examine how the concept of halal and haram are used in proverbs, common speech, connotations and collocations. The concept of halal and haram find their roots in Arab-Muslim history, culture, tradition as well as religion, having a deep impact on the day to day ...

Introduction

A black hole is a region in space-time, the gravitational attraction which is so large that it can not leave even objects moving at the speed of light, including photons of light itself. The boundary of this region is called the event horizon, and its characteristic dimension - the gravitational radius. In the simplest case of a spherically symmetric black hole Schwarzschild radius is equal to it. Theoretically, the possible existence of such regions of space-time should be of some exact solutions of Einstein's equations, the first of which was obtained by Karl Schwarzschild in 1915. The exact inventor of ...

M.C. Escher One great artist that has embodied art, mathematics, and the mystical is Maurits Cornelis Escher. He lived from 1898 to 1972. He was a graphic artist who revolutionized a new kind of art form that tickled the imagination of people. He has created around 2,000 drawings, and around 448 lithographs and wood art (M.C. Escher Foundation). He went to the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem, Netherlands to study architecture. However, an instructor of his convinced him to focus on graphical art instead of architecture upon seeing samples of his graphic art. Particularly, what inspired ...

Looking up to the sky has been one of the most important activities of humans. Early civilizations are finding answers to their theological principles in the stars while others look guidance as they travel (Rosenburg & Russo, np). Astronomy is a vital part for the foundation of the religious beliefs and concepts of most of the early civilization. They view astronomy as a tool or as a backbone to their religious, social and cultural beliefs (Sprajc 87). Curiosity and hunger for knowledge have been the fuel for mankind to search answers in space. The significance of astronomy to life could be hard to ...

Over the past few decades, social inequalities such as class, gender and race have been the leading cause in our world's societal problems. What leads one to believing that an individual is inferior to him based on his or her possessions or appearance? Emma by Jane Austen reflects upon the norms of nineteenth century’s England. Austen has always tried to address the social issues in her works such as Pride & Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma. In order to have a clearer understanding of the social conflicts criticized in Emma, one has to look closely at the social structure ...

Gravity is precisely defined as a pulling force; it pulls objects (matter) towards it. The intensity of force is directly proportional to the quantity of matter, so the things composed of more matter tend to be pulled with greater intensity of force. The mass of any object is the fundamental unit being used to measure the quantity of matter it that object. Therefore, the more heavy and matter in the object is, the higher gravitational pull will it put forth. Earth exerts a pulling force on the objects (Human beings) that move on its surface and as a result it pulls them ...

Income inequality and poverty

Abstract A number of international human rights watchdogs recently commented about the increasing gap between the rich and the poor. They argue that while middle classes tend to be gradually transformed into the rich, more and more people cross the line of absolute poverty. Many analysts advocate the idea that the cornerstone of the poverty is This paper seeks to establish the connections between the concepts of income inequality, operating the regression analysis method. It also discusses the differences between absolute and relative poverty in the context of global campaign for poverty reduction.

Introduction

The concepts of poverty ...

- Ethical business practices that take into account the needs of the major stakeholders. - Conclusion - Cultural differences and racial tensions. - Peaceful coexistence and doing the right thing’. - The right thing to everyone

Introduction

The film reviewed, Do the Right Thing. The film is the 1889 creation of Spike Lee. The film revolves around one day in the life of the people of Brooklyn with a focus on the underlying social and racial strains in the neighborhood. Thesis: In a society, “doing the right thing” is not only relative but also premised on a number ...

There are many reasons that artists choose to create art, but one of the many reasons that they choose to do so is to encourage the persistence of cultural or personal memories. While not all artists paint, sculpt, or recreate memories from their pasts, many artists do use elements of memory and memories from their past to create works of art that memorialize and speak to the past. This may be a personal history, or it could be a cultural or global history-- many of the works of art created after the first World War, for instance, are concerned with the ...

Introduction

The fact is all individuals are equally biased. Individuals cannot help it. They can only distinguish this innate bias and be able to counter against the same. The basis of economics provides that derivation or results and decision making needs to be supported by appropriate reason. It is dependent upon an exact consideration of something's value versus its expenses. However, life proves it to be totally wrong. Behavioral Economics shows that individuals are effectively affected by wrong information and different types of irrationality. Besides, the first year students are regularly unconscious of a drastic number of sources that impact their ...

As most can say, the universalism- cultural relativism is a debate that is full of assumptions, and it proceeds that the international human rights law states that most of these fundamental principles need to send justice into the norms of society cultural and political ventures. This debate further asserts that this relativity on the cultural perspective tends to deny the legitimacy of the IHML. As seen in the opening page, there is a challenge in the presumed linkage between this international law and the valid idea that depicts justice and the criteria behind it. Does this make one accept the relativity ...

A wormhole theoretically is known to be a passageway through space-time that can be used to create short routes for extensive journeys that go across the universe. Wormholes are mainly forecasted through the general relativity theory. Wormholes have been forecasted come with the dangers of high radiation, unexpected collapse, and unsafe contact with alien matter. A wormhole when viewed depicts a tunnel that has separated ends in space-time. It can be pictured as a two dimensional tube surface that connects various parts of the surfaces (Nelson, Peter & Rohitash Rao 67). There are no evidences that are observable about wormholes according to ...

Gawthriop argues that in the early stages of the formation of the United States, there was limited distinction between policy making and the art of governing. However, the elected officials had a deep commitment to their work and were deeply devoted to their work. Gawthrop also reasons that the framers of the constitution had a mindset that was alien to those of the framers of the constitution. Perhaps the distinction in the level of commitment amongst the early leaders of the United States sprang from the belief of a “divine mission” and the establishment of the new country was led by God. ...

The Arab Spring has been going on for the last two years. While the peaceful protest that started in Tunisia was over in the country after about 3 months, it took Libya about 6 months to finally stampede over the authoritative regime of Kaddafi. Kaddafi’s fall however, did not actualize the desires of a liberal and progressive democracy. Libya’s revolution backfired as the absence of a central authority led to civil unrest and the rise of extremists’ movements. In Egypt, the fall of Hosni Mubarak in 2011 was seen as the culmination of freedom and the triumph of democracy ...

“our own analysis of the semantic properties of classical Chinese is not meant to tell the reader how to impose a logical ordered reading on the Chinese texts, but merely to point out that they are not illogical and irrational, very different from our own patterns of language and thought though they might be.” P.310 Confucianism is a philosophy that was developed by Confucius between (551 BCE to 479 BCE). Confucius was born in the state of Lu in the province of China. He would later become a magistrate in the local courts. Confucius travelled across the country teaching people. For ...

Question 4: Morality, Rationalism and Subjectivity according Aristotle and Plato

Perhaps one of the most important functions of philosophy is the inquiry of human behavior and the rationale behind it. Kant argued that laws come from human desire to become rational and objective. He also insisted that the end results of human desire are happiness. The realization of this happiness means that people have to make certain sacrifices and draw standards. Using the idea of cultural relativity, and the concept of rationalism, I would explore the action of the humans as rational beings. I would make a case that no human being can be free from subjectivity. Because of the ...

Introduction

The special theory of relativity is a theory proposed by Albert Einstein in 1905 that illustrates light and matter propagation at high speeds.

Einstein’s theory is based on two main ideas:

The principle of relativity: stipulates that the law of physics is invariable for anything that is in constant motion. The principle of speed of light: stipulates that the speed of light is also constant for any object in any point from which it is being referred. This means that it the same for various observers regardless of their movement in relation to the source of light. Einstein established this principle after noticing a rational flaw in the ...

The book is about a colonization “Bussard ramjet", named Leonora Christine with 50 colonists on-board put in space by the world with a mission to colonize a star. The crew aims at travelling to a planet thirty light years away; however with the ship set to travel at a speed close to speed of light, they hope to take just a few years thanks to relativity and time dilation. - The book includes physics, chemistry and engineering. Based on relativity, high ship speed and passage of time. Inter-relation between gas atoms, ship speed and passage of time is the main subject. The space ship ...

Introduction

Knowing what is right from wrong constitutes the main idea of ethics. In order to promote social order, societies have constructed sets of ethical norms constituting values shared by members thereof. However, there is an understanding that every society has different sets of ethical norms, simply because of the fact that external factors brought forth by the environment and conflict experiences have affected each of them, as they specifically thrive in a particular area. Different communities involve various members with their specific set of experiences that eventually form part of ethical systems when shared. Therefore, the idea of a universal culture ...

Procedures in the Physical Sciences

Part 1: Challenges in Measurement - Direct measurement in the field of physics refers to the process of exactly measuring the subject that the physicists is seeking to measure. However, the field of physics is challenged in making direct measurements. For instance, the key tenets of uncertainty principle makes it impossible for scientist to directly measure the wave function to be able to determine the state of a quantum system (University of Rochester, 2013). In the development of quantum systems, measuring the polarization of the sate of light was the foundation of direct measurement by determining related variables known ...

Introduction

In this world of science, the theory of relativity has certainly revolutionized the way people use to interpret the world, they are living in. Hence, the theory, E=mc^2, invented by the world’s famous scientist, Albert Einstein, has an important significance not only in physics but also in other domains of life for everyone. Keeping this notion in mind, ‘Harald Fritzsch’ wrote the book “E=mc^2 - An Equation That Changed the World” to bring into limelight the meaning and importance of this theory to the people of non-scientific background. The author creates a fictitious character named Haller to ...

Abstract

The universe contains 100 billion galaxies. Each of these galaxies has billions of stars, great gas and dust clouds with others having scads of moons and planets. The stars release an abundance of energy either from radio waves, X-rays or from other forms of energy that run at a speed of light across the universe. However, all that can be seen is like the tip of the cosmic iceberg and accounts for a small portion of the total energy and mass in the universe. About one-quarter portion of the universe is made up of dark matter that does not release any ...

In one of her prominent works, Ruth Benedict explains the story of a certain community that lives on an island northwest of Melanesia. Ruth Benedict describes the community as one in which people are so mistrustful of one another to the extent that they can barely afford to share anything or do anything together. The community, which is characterized by paranoia and mistrust, does not approve of such things as sharing food or accepting gifts from neighbors. Rationally, such behavior would be considered abnormal in the modern societies (Young 99). Ruth Benedict further tells the story of a man that went ...

Introduction

Waterfall painting is a lithograph print that was printed on 1 October 1961 by M.C Escher who was a Dutch artist. This print shows a visible paradox where water from a waterfall base runs downhill along water path, prior to reaching to its top. The artist utilizes propositions that are conflicting in nature to create a paradox that can be seen. The leat of the waterfall has two Penrose triangles structure. These types of triangles are impossible objects that were designed by Lionel Penrose and his son. According to this painting, M.C Escher violated a number of fallacies. A fallacy is a kind of reasoning ...

America was built on the values of what we call “freedom.” But we are finding on deeper and deeper levels that “freedom” in regard to citizenship in a country is a concept of deep relativity. And that is a vast platform of relativity. The collective mind of America loves freedom and the concept of it. But many times that “freedom” is confused with a right-to-rule concept. Right-to-rule is the idea that each individual citizen gets the opportunity to push society in the direction that he or she chooses by casting a free vote in a free election. The idea is that “freedom” should be ...

Ethics/Fundamentals of Ethics by Russ Shafer Landau

1.) Write an essay explaining the difference between monistic and pluralistic approaches to ethics. Give an example of a monistic theory, and explain why it qualifies as monistic. What are the two main types of pluralistic theories? Is ethical pluralism preferable to ethical monism? Defend your answer. Monism is used to explain a philosophy which considers only one Supreme Being in the universe. It explains all expansions and survival of creation which includes mental and corporal or spiritual beings. Monism in ethics is the belief of being optimistic or idealistic. A pluralistic approach to ethics on the other hand contains ...

In 1905, Einstein determined that the laws of physics apply in the same manner to all non-accelerating observers. He also determined that the speed of light in a vacuum was not dependent on the motion of all observers. Einstein called this, the law of special relativity. This theory introduced a new framework for physics by proposing new concepts of time and space. Einstein argued that the time-space around the earth could not only be distorted but also twisted due to the planet’s rotation (Einstein, 1950). Newton quantified the force between two objects (gravity) by his three laws of motion. In ...

Considered the world’s most famous Scientist, Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm Southern Germany (Saw 35). His father was in the electronics industry. Despite being considered imprudent, he was naturally talented and curious and had an interest in contemporary scientific developments (Saw 35). He later on moved to Switzerland, securing a job in which he was expected to study the descriptions sent in by inventors and decide whether he inventions were new and deserved a patent. Since some of the patents were poorly written, he had to rewrite them thereby managing to acquire the knowledge and ...

Linguistic relativity is a principle which obtains that the structure of a language influences the manner in which its speakers are capable of conceptualizing their world view (Gumperz and Levison 1996). The principle is based on the idea that language and thought are interconnected (Boas, 1911). There are several foundational ideals of the principle of which this paper discusses in summary. One such ideal is the unconscious nature of language. This tenet holds that language constitutes automatic or second nature behavior. By this it is meant that we internalize the body of knowledge that our native language represents. Consequently, we ...

Scientific background information

The Big Bang Theory is the cosmological model that explains how the current state of the universe came into existence. Scientific theories explain that approximately 13.75 billion years ago, the universe was dense, compact and extremely hot (Wollack 5). It then expanded rapidly releasing massive amounts of energy. The rapid expansion was followed by rapid cooling which resulted in the conversion of energy into sub-atomic particles (electrons, protons and neutrons) (Menegoni 13). According to scientific theories, the neutrons and the neutrons combined atomic nuclei minutes after the big bang to form the nuclei. According to Wollack, the electrons took ...

Introduction

The subject about time and how time travels is really very fascinating. What is time? What is time travel? Is time travel really possible? We naturally know what time is since we sense it every day but we cannot seem to completely define it. The question of time travel is also very hard to answer. A deeper question is to ask if time is real. Another is to know if time just moves into one direction only. Does time have a beginning or an end? Up to now, we have never truly answered these questions with great satisfaction. By merely ...

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Introduction

Lenn Goodman- ‘Some Moral Minima:’ A Perspective

Challenges to Relativism

Conclusion

Introduction Relativism is a concept that forges reality advancing assumptions which declare nothing to be absolutely true or valid. This is so because what has been proven true or valid is always based on personal perceptions which may be influenced by various predisposing factors. Often they may be merely subjective sentiments which are not universal since they only represent the view point of a few, the minority, majority or imposition of a dictator (Baghramian, 2004) When conceptualized within the context of morality it impinges on the framework that ...

Moral and cultural relativism attempts to draw the relationship between the differences contained in moral judgments and cultural practices across diverse cultures. It supposes that what is right or wrong, or what is moral or not moral can only be determined through a subjective approach as what is moral or right to one person may not necessarily be so to the other. Allan Bloom in his book The choosing of the American mind; How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished The souls of Today’s Students(1987) explains that an average American Student is a moral relativist and believes that ...

For far too long, humanity has been content with unquestioned faith in subjective knowledge passed down from generation to generation. This has been especially true on issues regarding the origins of our species and, indeed, the universe. However, in the last 100 years, a new culture has emerged. A culture rooted in the ideals espoused by such trailblazers as Bertrand Russell; a belief in scientific understanding of the world we live in and veneration of acquisition of knowledge. The human race is no longer content with fables and fairy tales. We want to know how, when and why our universe came ...