http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4187 Index terms fr 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3102 The notion of the "passage of time" addresses the experienced fact of motion in time. Depending on the respective viewpoint, we may either say that the conscious now is moving through the once-and-for-all fixed space-time universe, or we may say that the space-time universe is moving through the constant now. In this article I try to explain the "subjective illusion" of dynamical flow on the basis of a static space-time universe as it is suggested by relativity theory. The conceptual toolkit for this undertaking is provided by the philosophy of spacetime holism, which I have suggested as a useful approach to a variety of problems. While the argument has already been developed in an earlier publication from a more technical point of view, this article concentrates on the experiential aspects of the involved concepts. Fri, 06 Sep 2024 16:10:04 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:30:23 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3102 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3750 The dual torus topology occupies a central role in the spinor, twistor and quaternionic formulation. This topology appears to be ubiquitous in astrophysical and cosmological phenomena and is predicted by the U4 bubble of the affine connection in the Haramein-Rauscher solution to Einstein's field equations. The geometric structure of the complexified Minkowski space is associated with the twistor algebra, spinor calculus, and the SUn groups of the quatemionic formalism. Hence quantum theory and relativity are related mathematically through the dual torus topology. Utilizing the spinor approach, electromagnetic and gravitational metrics are mappable to the twistor algebra, which corresponds to the complexified Minkowski space. Quaternion transformations relate to spin and rotation corresponding to the twistor analysis Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:31:23 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:17:20 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3750 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2925 Internet has made a revolution that is often being compared to Guttenberg's invention of book print. However, from the point of contents, today's Internet still does not enable to communicate much more than print - words and pictures (albeit dynamic and generated on-the-fly from a database). However, people think in concepts and laws when reasoning about real world things and systems. We propose how these concepts as well as things could be represented on Internet in a live and working form, developed, shared and used for practical purposes by all Internet users. This approach would lead to a cooperative development of an environment containing the Common Sense (similar to Wikipedia, but in a live computational form) and to the seamless interconnection between the real world things and their virtual counterparties - e-things on Internet. Tue, 03 Sep 2024 15:51:47 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:14:43 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2925