This subject was previously mentioned, e.g., here. James Hutton proposed introducing deep time into modern science in 1788. In the early 19th century it was accepted for the geologic time scale. Biologists followed with Darwinism in the late 19th century. Astronomers accepted it to explain cosmology. What’s wrong with the deep time postulate (DTP)? The […]
An object is stable. A rock is an object. Water is an object if it is in a container. A rigid rod is an object. A subject changes. A person is a subject. Air is a subject since it keeps moving. A clock is a subject. The grammatical subject and object are distinguished in a
Let us compare the motions of two bodies. Let the motion of one body be the reference motion. Let the motion of the other body be the target motion. Let the two bodies begin together at one place. Definitions: A place is the general term for an answer to Where? A point-place, or simply a
Other posts on contraries include this. Contrary opposites entail one another. There is no north without south or tall without short, for example. Some things such as sex are contraries in some respects but not in all respects. Contrary opposites are symmetric. Contraries can be reversed or inverted, and they are still there. Since mirror
In mathematical finance, a replicating portfolio for a given asset is a portfolio of assets with the same properties. Here we replicate time through motions that have the same properties as time. Step 1. Consider the motion of a rigid body A with a translation and a rotation around the same axis, such that the
This post continues previous posts on this topic, such as here. Once a theory becomes established, it is always valid. It is never falsified. What happens is that its limits are discovered. Any pretense to being universal breaks down. All theories are limited. Theories are analogies, and all analogies have limits. It is the scientific
We live in a political time. Politics intrudes everywhere because the state intrudes everywhere. So the political stakes keep getting higher. And the political rhetoric keeps getting louder and more vulgar. The only way to lower the intensity is for the state to back off. More issues need to be taken off the political agenda
There are many disciples of Jesus in the Bible, but there are twelve that are particularly the disciples, or simply, the twelve. Some of these are related to each other. In the small town region of Galilee where Jesus lived that would not be surprising. What follows is a summary of the disciples and relatives
The controversy over theories of creation vs. theories of evolution is often treated as an either-or, one-or-the-other proposition. In fact the creation models of today contain much that would be classified as ‘evolution’ (change over time). Before the 19th century, theories of creation accepted a static model in biology, geology, and astronomy. That is, the
There are three axes (dimensions) of motion with six degrees of freedom. There are two metrics of motion: a length metric and a duration metric. The length metric is the magnitude of the vector between two points, and is called distance. The duration metric is the magnitude of the vector between two instants, and is
