Cosmological Concepts Research Articles

Multi‐verse optimisation: a novel method for solution of load frequency control problem in power system

In this article, a maiden attempt has been made to derive an optimal and effective outcome of load frequency control problem (LFC) using a novel evolutionary algorithm called multi-verse optimisation. The main inspiration of this algorithm is based on three concepts in cosmology: white hole, black hole, and wormhole. To show the effectiveness, a four-area hydrothermal power plant with distinct proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller is investigated at the first instant and then the study is forwarded to the five-area thermal power plant. To enhance the dynamic stability, an optimal PID plus double-derivative controller (PID + DD) is designed and included in the control areas. The superiority of the proposed method has been established over some recently addressed control algorithms by transient analysis method. To add some degree of non-linearity, generation rate constraint and governor dead band are included in the model and their impacts on the system dynamics have been examined. Finally, a random load perturbation is given to the test systems to affirm the robustness of the designed controllers.

Quantum Empathy An Alternative Narrative for Global Transcendence (WITHDRAWN)

I propose an alternative narrative for global transcendence that has spirituality and religion at the core of reshaping the interface of society. I apply Frederick’s (1998) concept of cosmology that embraces the interdependence of all life, critiquing notions of the organisation ‘at the centre of the universe’. I therefore propose that spiritual and religious practices such as mindfulness, reflexivity and empathy may contribute to closing the gap between self and other. From this, I argue that we have the ability to tap into the harmonic frequency of the universe (quantum empathy) that may bridge across, through and beyond boundaries to link our human experience. At this quantum level, empathy is an interconnected shared existence, and I suggest that it may support the shift in human consciousness to a WE collective. This cosmological view of religion as a macrolevel organising mechanism does not present a tool-kit for organisational change, but rather offers a provocation of a future system-level interfa...

Javanese House Interior Study: A Philosophical and Cosmological Extraction of Java’s Heritage, as Design Principles Application in Local Content Context

Omah has interior arrangement system and regulation according to the life of Javanese people hereditarily. In its process of building and interior arranging, Javanese people hold on to the philosophical and cosmological concept, which was illogic for modern design study to be applied in the aesthetic study. This study aimed to examine the extent of the correlation between consideration of philosophical and cosmological Java community with modern design principles in making Omah. It was through observation on concept application to the realization in Omah form and also through literature analysis of both these principles. This research used the qualitative method in the form of observation and literature study. This research would observe and analyze the relationship between philosophical and cosmological extraction of Javanese interior with design principle through the study from another journal. It finds that a design that facilitates activities and way of life of Javanese people applies design principles and a modern study that becomes visual beauty guidance.

Multiferroics: from the cosmically large to the subatomically small

A small but hardy core of researchers is using multiferroic materials to address fundamental questions on the nature of the universe, testing concepts in cosmology and high-energy physics. Multiferroics can be used to address fundamental questions on the nature of the universe, providing a platform to test concepts in cosmology and high-energy physics, such as the formation of cosmic strings and the existence of an electron electric dipole moment.

KONSEP KOSMOLOGI HINDU DALAM TEKS BHUANA KOSA

<p>One of the truths implied in Scripture Veda is the doctrine or concept of cosmology (creation of the universe). Cosmology is one of the important knowledge in Hinduism, because cosmology not only provides knowledge about the creation of the universe, cosmology can further explain the nature of actual human will, which is still difficult to understand.</p><p>Doctrine cosmology in Bali is expressed in local theology. Particularly lontar or texts Siwaistik always focuses on the teachings or knowledge of the Lord (Shiva) and knowledge of the way to achieve them as well as the creation of the universe, be it Bhuana Agung or Bhuana Alit.</p><p>For this reason the right knowledge and also appropriately implement this concept, in particular the concept of Hindu cosmology in the text Bhuana Kosa very important to understanding in daily life towards a harmonious life and increased devotion to God.</p><p>The concept of Hindu cosmology In the Text Bhuana Kosa is taking the concept of Tattwa Rudra. Tattwa Rudra occur from Shiva as the supreme reality, then united with Rudra became Purusa, of Purusa born Awyakta, of awyakta born Buddhi, of Buddhi (as a symbol of sattwam) was born Ahamkara / Ahangkara (symbol tattoo), then born Panca Tan Matra as a symbol tamas, manas (mind) and Panca Maha Bhuta.</p>

Astronomy and Architecture in the Maya Lowlands

This article summarises recent systematic research into the use and significance of astronomical orientations in ancient Maya architecture, and shows how by applying a more rigorous methodology to a large number of orientations we were able to detect alignment patterns that shed light on the validity of former hypotheses and provide a basis for novel interpretations. Our measurements and analysis confirm that orientations to the Sun’s position on the horizon, which largely prevail, allowed the use of observational calendars composed of multiples of 13 and 20 days and were also intended to facilitate proper scheduling of agricultural activities. Further, while some buildings recorded Venus extremes, a previously unknown orientation group has been found to refer to major lunar standstill positions. Some important buildings, aside from exhibiting astronomical orientations, are aligned to prominent features of natural or cultural landscape, implying a deliberate selection of these places for their construction. Discussing some relevant contextual evidence, we argue that Maya architectural and urban planning was dictated by a complex set of rules, in which astronomical considerations and their practical uses were embedded in a broader framework of cosmological concepts.

Spirituality in the Philosophical Thought of Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Spirituality for Seyyed Hossen Nasr is an inner reality that becomes a religious central in Islam. It is the esoteric dimension hidden in the reality of exoteric Islam. That view on spirituality brings Nasr to the philosophical thought that cannot be separated from religious metaphysical doctrine. Nasr argues that philosophy is more than just a ratio but also the activity of intellect that can reach the meta-cosmic nature to find the essence of truth namely the universal and eternal truth that lies behind the physical and relative truth. The philosophical efforts to find this truth are a combination of the optimizing potential of reason and intellectual intuition. Nasr refers to ḥikmah or wisdom as a kind of philosophy that combines logic and intellectual intuition. That philosophical view brings Nasr on a dualistic view of nature which not only has a cosmic dimension as such but also has a meta-cosmic dimension. This dualistic view is his fundamental reason in formulating the concept of metaphysical cosmology as a solution to the crisis of modern science that has caused a variety of ecological damage due to the secular vision. 
 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20414/ujis.v20i2.812

What language advertises: ethnographic branding in the linguistic landscape of Yakutsk

Yakutsk, capital of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in Russia’s Far Eastern Federal District, was often described in 19th and early 20th century accounts as being unique in the Russian Empire in that it was not a solely “Russian” city; rather, it was a Sakha (Yakut) place. Its population, Russian and Sakha alike, were conversant in the local Sakha language during that earlier period, though over the Soviet era, progressively stricter policies of Russification led to communicative norms shifting and the Sakha language becoming less visible (and audible) in this urban centre. Using a survey of Yakutsk’s linguistic landscape in 2013–2015, we analyse the presence of Sakha and the indexical meanings connected to its usage; examples from the commercial sphere suggests it is becoming prominent in a campaign of “ethnographic branding” (Manning and Uplisashvili in Am Anthropol 109(4):626–641, 2007) that relies on significant Sakha historical figures, cosmological concepts, as well as references to the rural (and Sakha-associated) spaces of the Republic to create a sense of “Sakha-ness” in the city. Though Russian remains dominant within the linguistic landscape of the city both when considering top-down and bottom-up policy and planning, we draw attention to the places where Sakha is indeed being used to reveal the dynamics of creating a more “Sakha” Yakutsk, and create a kind of “commodified” authenticity (see Heller in Annu Rev Anthropol 39:101–104, 2010; Heller et al. in J Socioling 18(4):539–566, 2014; Coupland in J Socioling 7(3):417–431, 2003).

Mempertimbangkan Spiritualitas Ekonomi Berdasarkan Intuisi Kosmotheandrik Raimundo Panikkar

This essay going to argue that Raimundo Panikkar's concept of Cosmotheandric Intuition has strong significance in forming an economics spirituality. Economics system nowadays tend to become a system of greediness. By considering cosmology concept such as cosmotheandric intuition and its significant relation, writer made a counter spirituality to all of negative effect of capitalism economics. At the first part of this paper will briefly explain about Raimundo Panikkar and his proposal of Cosmotheandric Intuition. After showing problems in contemporary economics discourse, this paper explain the meaning of spirituality, as a basis understanding to form an economics spirituality. At the part of analysis about economics spirituality, writer wrote counter arguments to capitalist economics system based on Cosmotheandric Intuition. Therefore writer find it usefull to form an economics spirituality based on it.

Young, Gifted, and Brown: the Liberation of Oceanic Youth in The Beautiful Ones

Recently a number of young, ultra-talented, Māori and Pacific Island performers have emerged on local stages in Aotearoa (the Māori name for New Zealand) and beyond. Exemplifying this bright, youthful energy is Hone Kouka's multi-media production The Beautiful Ones, a joyful exploration of luminous rangatahi (youth) unleashed in a liminal realm. Adopting the Māori cosmological concept of Te Kore, in this article Nicola Hyland explores the depiction of rangatahi in this performance as transformational: liberated – culturally, sexually, and performatively – from historical tropes of youth and indigeneity. Nicola Hyland is a lecturer in Theatre at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and has ancestral ties to the Te Ati-Haunui-a-Paparangi and Ngati Hauiti iwi tribes of Aotearoa.

Machian derivation of the Friedmann equation

Despite all fundamental objections against Newtonian concepts in cosmology, the Friedmann equation derives from these in an astoundingly simple way through application of the shell theorem and conservation of Newtonian energy in an infinite universe. However, Friedmann universes in general posses a finite gravitational horizon, as a result of which the application of the shell theorem fails and the Newtonian derivation collapses. We show that in the presence of a gravitational horizon the Friedmann equation can be derived from a Machian definition of kinetic energy, without invoking the shell theorem. Whereas in the Newtonian case total energy translates to curvature energy density, in the Machian case total energy takes on different identities, depending on the evolution of the horizon; we show that in the de Sitter universe Machian total energy density is constant, i.e. appears as cosmological constant.

AGOUROS DE UM ESPELHO PARTIDO: LUTA E RESISTÊNCIA NO PROCESSO DE AFIRMAÇÃO ÉTNICA DOS ÍNDIOS DO NORDESTE – O CASO DOS TAPUIAS–KARIRIS DE SÃO BENEDITO

Este artigo tem como propósito apresentar parte da pesquisa de campo sobre o processo de afirmação étnica dos Tapuia-Kariri de São Benedito ─ comunidade coletiva indígena do estado do Ceará. A análise resulta de uma etnografia entre os Tapuias e das observações realizadas junto a outras comunidade indígenas do Ceará, na condição de docente do magistério indígena da Secretária de Educação do Estado do Ceará (SEDUC). Os Tapuias-Kariris constituem o grupo mais recente a autoafirmar-se como indígena. No processo de autoafirmação e reconhecimento, a primeira dificuldade que o grupo enfrenta é a negação social em reconhecê-los enquanto indígenas. Diante dessa rejeição, o grupo está constantemente negociando e afirmando sua identidade. Esse processo é realizado por meio da reelaboração das imagens, da cultura material e das práticas culturais, elementos coletivos que passam a ser concebidos pelo prisma de pertença étnica. A cultura material e o conjunto de práticas e de saberes a ela incorporada ocupam um lugar central no cotidiano desses grupos indígenas. Advindos de conhecimentos ancestrais, os objetos, assim como as danças, as músicas e os rituais, narram de modo particular a vida e a concepção cosmológica. Analisar o processo de afirmação, suas dificuldades intrínsecas, bem como o papel das manifestações culturais e das imagens, é o objetivo deste trabalho.

English

The leading theories suggest that in the first fractions of the second following the Big Bang, equal amounts of matter and antimatter were formed, and annihilated. Therefore, the asymmetry of matter and antimatter, and formation of the visible universe is one of the major unsolved problems in physics. Surprisingly, when the major characteristics of the cosmic matter- antimatter interactions, were compared to the biologic body- antibody system, unexpected similarities were observed. They relate to the outcomes of weak and strong interactions, their specificities, annihilation of most of the antimatter, excess of matter over antimatter, difficulty in producing antimatter, early deletion of antimatter, and the material nature of the antimatter. Based on these similarities, it is suggested that a mechanism, different from the charge- parity symmetry (CP) violation, allowed the formation and preservation of the visible universe. This hypothesis could have far reaching consequences on basic concepts in cosmology. Key words: Visible universe, CP symmetry violation, matter, antimatter, cosmology.

Confusion in Cosmology and Gravitation

In a series of papers, Santilli and collaborators released various strong statements against the general theory of relativity (GTR) and the standard ΛCDM model of cosmology. In this paper we show that such claims are due to misunderstandings of basic concepts of gravitation and cosmology. In particular, we show that Santilli and collaborators demonstrated neither that the GTR is wrong, nor that the Universe is not expanding. We also show that the so-called iso-gravitation theory (IGT) of Santilli is in macroscopic contrast with geodesic motion and, in turn, with the Equivalence Principle (EP) and must therefore be ultimately rejected. Finally, we show that, although the so called iso-redshift could represent an interesting alternative (similar to the tired light theory historically proposed by Zwicky) to the Universe expansion from a qualitative point of view, it must be rejected from a quantitative point of view because the effect of iso-redshift is 10−6 smaller than the effect requested to achieve the cosmological redshift.

Brébeuf Was Never Martyred: Reimagining the Life and Death of Canada's First Saint

Jean de Brébeuf was a Jesuit missionary who established residence in what is conventionally called the Huron Nation but was actually the island of Wendake where the Wendat people lived. The Catholic Church celebrates his death on 16 March 1649 as an act of martyrdom, and for the past three-and-a-half centuries, secular historians have more or less agreed. Even today, one can find scholars who describe his battle on behalf of “God” against “infidel Indians” as both brave and superhuman. But if we rethink the conventional narrative of Brébeuf's life, death, and sainthood, if we reorient his story around his Wendat name, Echon, and set his life on Wendake within the cultural context in which he lived, we can begin to see a completely different history that upsets the historiographical edifice that clerics and scholars alike have built atop his blessed bones. Indeed, the conventional history of Brébeuf's life and death embodies all of the hallmarks of a colonialist historiography premised on the invasion and conquest of America. Privileging Indigenous concepts of practice, identity, and cosmology, however, can challenge how we might write about such cultural encounters.

Cosmology episodes: a reconceptualization

A qualitative meta-analysis of 164 citations to the phrase “cosmology episode” was conducted in order to create an evidence-based reconceptualization of the concept, yielding three findings. The first finding is the literature has moved towards the study of cosmology episodes at multiple levels: i.e. individual, team, organizational, community, and national cosmology episodes. The second finding is the literature has moved towards the study of cosmology episodes as resilience processes: i.e. anticipating, sense-losing, improvising, sense-remaking, and renewing. The third finding is the literature on cosmology episodes has diversified toward five distinct types: i.e. catastrophic, disastrous, contextualized, ancillary and metaphorical cosmology episodes. Taken together, these findings constitute a reconceptualization of the concept of cosmology episode.

An Exploration Into Neo-Confucian Ecology

In this article, I lay the groundwork for hermeneutically reconstructing Neo-Confucian discourse as a viable, twenty-first century ecological worldview. I begin by outlining the tenets of complex systems theory, which are integral to contemporary ecological worldviews. I then provide an ecological reading of central concepts in the Neo-Confucian cosmology of Wang Fuzhi. As Neo-Confucian cosmology is rooted in the Book of Changes, I provide an ecological interpretation of this classic. This discussion demonstrates that contemporary ecological discourse provides a cogent hermeneutic position from which we can productively read Neo-Confucianism.

English

Similarities in the birth and development of cosmic and biologic systems provide unexpected proof for the major theories of formation of the universe - the Big Bang and the String theories. They include similarities in the theory of their formation, one unit origin, preexisting states, conception, fertilization, gestation, information, basic units, flatness, fluctuations, smoothness, lumpiness, reproductive and excretive organs, differentiation, composition, organization, function, expansion and homeostasis. Based on these similarities, alternative suggestions are proposed to explain various past and present cosmic events and phenomena, and to predict the future of the universe. The relevance of these predictions could be far reaching, and could revolutionize major concepts in cosmology.   Key words: Cosmology, universe, big bang, string theory, biology, hypothesis, similarities, birth, evolution, fate, predictions. &nbsp

Towards an Aesthetics of Gaelic Song Performance

Identifying criteria for the judgement of execution and performance in folk or traditional contexts presents considerable challenges. Primarily addressing the question of the presence of the body in entertainment and performance, this paper interprets various examples from Ireland and Scotland to initiate a discussion around such questions. Drawing on the ethnographic present and historical evidence from the past to argue that such matters originate in the body and that metaphors arising from traditional discourse foreground the body as a site upon which these ideas are culturally inscribed. Dancing, singing and performance in general speak to an aesthetic where the body is engaged and active, usually in the presence of others either in dance or song or in combination. The Reformation, colonialism, the rapid onset of modernity and other processes have disguised, but not eradicated, the continuity of these deeply ingrained attitudes. Modern folk aesthetics relate diachronically to the cosmological concept enech, a term meaning both ‘face’ and ‘honour’, engaging an idea situated at the interstices of aesthetics, politics and indeed, economics, within an older Gaelic worldview. The paper argues for an ethically grounded notion of aesthetic principles, capable of great transformations when executed with proper ability, skill and judgement. Although focusing on the Gaelic world, the paper suggests that such concepts also apply to other cultures beyond it.

The pre-iconography, iconography and iconology of a sixth to fifth millennium BC Near Eastern incised bone

ABSTRACTThe motifs appearing on an incised bone artifact retrieved from the underwater site of Neve-Yam, dating to the sixth–fifth millennium BC and associated with the Pottery Neolithic/early Chalcolithic, Wadi Rabah culture, are subjected to systematic analysis using a methodology for research into symbolic subjects which tracks iconographic survival, focusing on the fusion and renewal of symbols. Mythical and historical evidence is assembled and assessed and art history sources are drawn upon, to provide a more comprehensive explanatory approach for the diverse lines of evidence. Iconographic links between motifs on the bone figurines with later Sumerian mythology require a re-evaluation of the chronological dispersion of symbolic graphemes; the application of new research on the relationship between art and writing suggests that narrative-making rather than evocation can be identified in this material. Such narratives reveal Neolithic precursors of ancient cosmological concepts and bring to light a tantalizing set of features which help to illuminate pre-literate, aniconic narratives of an early pantheon in the Neolithic period of the Near East.