Signs of probability: A semiotic perspective on the Heisenberg principle

Semiotica ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (205) ◽  
pp. 87-93
Author(s):  
Baranna Baker
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Underlying Basis ◽  
Heisenberg Principle ◽  
Entire World ◽  
Semiotic Perspective ◽  
The Way

AbstractQuantum physics describes a strange, but exquisitely beautiful world in which science and the philosophical discipline of semiotics come into a perfect union with one another. Quantum physics describes the underlying basis of the realities of our world’s physical foundations. Semiotics explains the way in which we interact with this world. It is only through a synthesis of these two ways of knowledge that we can possibly hope to know this marvelous, awe-inspiring, yet puzzling world we live in and how our interaction with it plays a part in its existence as we experience it. Heisenberg’s concept of probability is essential to an understanding of this process. Through the process of semiosis, we create an entire world out of probabilities. What quantum physics indicates about how we influence this world in a semiotic fashion is of prime importance in understanding who we are as semiotic animals, the only animals who consciously use signs.

Artists and Gamblers on the Way to Quantum Physics

2014 ◽  
pp. 135-163
Author(s):  
Annarita Angelini ◽  
Rossella Lupacchini
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Physics ◽  
The Way

Milestones and a Fork in the Road

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael G. Raymer
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Physics ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Way

What aspects of quantum physics have we seen so far, and what topics should we discuss next? We find ourselves at a fork in the road on the way to understanding quantum physics. In a historical progression, it would make sense next to discuss...

Tensegrity Systems

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Motro ◽  
V. Raducanu
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
Double Layer ◽  
General Category ◽  
Tensegrity Systems ◽  
Entire World ◽  
The Way

This paper is a contribution to Tensegrity Systems understanding. The first part is devoted to a clarification of definitions. Among all the definitions that are known, we suggest a first one based on the description which is given in the three main patents, filed by Emmerich, Fuller and Snelson. We submit then an “extended definition”. According to this definition, tensegrity systems can be regarded as a pure field of forces satisfying some specific conditions. A double layer grid, which fulfils this definition is described. In the second part, tensegrity systems are placed within the general category of tensile structures. It can be seen that this work paves the way to an improvement within the entire world of shapes. Finally we give an example of tensegrity system theory applied to biology and developed by D. Ingber.

Who said it? Voices in news translation, from a semiotic perspective

Semiotica ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (207) ◽  
pp. 411-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rovena Troqe ◽  
Jacques Fontanille
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Think Aloud ◽  
News Production ◽  
Think Aloud Protocols ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Semiotic Perspective ◽  
General Method ◽  
The Way

AbstractIn Translation studies, it has long been understood that when translation is integrated into journalism, concepts such as equivalence and authorship become highly problematic. However, there is still no reference to a general method that might explain why news production impacts the very process of translation and affects the translated texts themselves. In this paper, we introduce a new semiotic approach that measures shifts in translated texts by using semiotic modalities and relates these shifts to axiologies by actants of the practice of translation. Translated texts by an Italian weekly magazine are adopted as a case study and an analysis of the textual corpora is coupled with think-aloud protocols by editors. The semiotic approach reveals that the actantial dynamics are conflictual: while the translators’ performance is compatible with the equivalence value, journalists endorse values that result in the content of the original being altered. The divergence between the axiology of the actant initiating the practice and the axiology pursued by the translators affects the way the concept of translation is generated.

scholarly journals “When will fieldwork open up again?” Beginning a project in pandemic times

2020 ◽  
Vol 198 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 230-233
Author(s):  
Katia Favilla ◽  
Tatiana Pita
Keyword(s):  
Health Systems ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
World Population ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
The Future ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Entire World ◽  
The Way

The entire world population was taken by surprise by the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic has transformed our lives through its impact on health systems, the economy, on work and the way that we work, and has created feelings of uncertainty about the future. We intend to reflect on how the Covid-19 pandemic has transformed academic life in general, but primarily how it has affected our research projects, given the closure of the field of study and the isolation of interlocutors. We reflect on the adoption of digital methods to communicate with our interlocutors and interviewees and its implications and ask ourselves when fieldwork will open up once more.

scholarly journals Era of Quantum Computing- An Intelligent and Evaluation based on Quantum Computers

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3S) ◽  
pp. 615-619
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Computing ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Quantum Computers ◽  
Newtonian Mechanics ◽  
Short Span ◽  
Area Unit ◽  
Enormous Quantity ◽  
Game Changer ◽  
The Way

In today's world, the necessity for prime speed computing is extremely high that the classic computers area unit undoubtedly not sufficient. Because of the limitation of Newtonian mechanics, quantum technicalities are taking the position of game-changer in competition of calculation. Quantum computing is the study of quantum pc that works underneath the laws of quantum physics like tunneling, annealing, web, and superposition to complete tasks that take an enormous quantity of your time. During this paper we'll concisely see however quantum computers work and the way it will be employed in decrypting personal keys that the classic computers cannot reach during a short span of your time. One in all the most blessings of victimization quantum computers area unit that the work with efficiency and area unit 1000X times quicker than our classic computers.

scholarly journals African Immigrant and the Struggle against Class, Racism and Xenophobic Consequences in Post-Apartheid South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 1460-1468
Author(s):  
Ernest Muchu Toh
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
African Continent ◽  
African Unity ◽  
African Immigrant ◽  
Black African ◽  
Entire World ◽  
The Way

This paper brings to understanding the effects of class and racism which are manifested in xenophobic attacks against foreign blacks in South Africa. Xenophobic attacks have been persistent in the country for over the last two decade. It has amongst other things slowed the economy, particularly affected the country’s relations with the African continent and tainted the image of South Africa to the entire world. These attacks turn the livelihood of Africans immigrants into a daily struggle to adapt, survive, integrate themselves and contributes to the development of the country. The article seeks to unveil the reasons South African blacks behave the way they do against their fellow Black African counterparts despite the call for African unity and solidarity also known as ‘Ubuntu’. From the findings, it demonstrates that the act of xenophobia is a manifestation of effect of mindset influenced by the apartheid policy, which was based on hatred, class, race, and violence.

Barbarian Disturbances in North Africa in the Mid-Third Century

Antichthon ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 78-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.W. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Open Letter ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
Entire World ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Way

Gibbon describes the years that correspond with the lifetime of Cyprian of Carthage thus: ‘the whole period was one uninterrupted series of confusion and calamity’. On the whole the impression to be gained from the extant correspondence of Cyprian of Carthage (the eighty-two letters are to be dated between the years c.249 and 258) is not of this kind and this evidence ought to act in some degree as a brake on exaggerated descriptions of the chaos of the period. Cyprian can assume, without the slightest hint of doubt, uninterrupted ease of communications all around the Mediterranean, freely cross-referring to other public letters of his on the assumption that they must have come the way of his correspondents. Similarly he is prepared to claim of an open letter written by the Roman clergy that it ‘has been circulated throughout the entire world and has reached the knowledge of every Church and of all the brethren’. The official correspondence which Cyprian conducted is indeed of notable breadth and frequency—among the letters which we chance to have figure communications with Christian communities in Spain, in Gaul, in Cappadocia (all suggesting previous correspondence with these areas), and of course in Rome and elsewhere in Italy. As Metropolitan of the African Church he sends to Rome on one occasion a list of all the orthodox African bishops and their sees, no doubt in order to keep the Roman records up-to-date—and also their address-list for their communications. Furthermore, after the abortively threatening persecution of Gallus the regular meetings in Carthage of the African synod appear to have been resumed. At Carthage, at any rate, life appears to have been little affected by the military and administrative débâcle that was becoming evident in imperial circles and from Cyprian’s point of view the Mediterranean world still appeared to be very much a unity.

Under the Watchful Eye of Mimī Bin cAbd Allāh: The Voyage of the Dutch Merchant Pieter Van den Broecke to the Court of Djacfar Bāshā in Sana'a, 1616

Itinerario ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.G. Brouwer
Keyword(s):  
Entire World ◽  
As If ◽  
The Way

When on the morning of 4 May 1616, after having been received in state by cavalry, noblemen and citizens, Pieter van den Broecke descends from the splendidly caparisoned mount with which he has been presented; when his feet sink into the carpets of the audience-hall of the Castle of Sana's, then he realizes, striding along between two rows of dignitaries standing with crossed arms, that a crucial moment in his voyage to the court of the “Governor-General” of the Ottoman province of Yemen has come. Djacfar Bāshā is sitting enthroned on a platform, dressed as if he were “the monarch of the entire world”. The Dutch opperkoopman (”upper-merchant”), in his black suit, greets him with reverence, whereupon the beglerbegi commands him to sit down. What! Sit down, on the carpet, on the floor, he, Captain of the Dutch? What else could that mean, in this formal entourage, but his submitting to the wālī? Then his interpreter retrieves the situation: “Sir, may Allāh bless You! The Dutch captain cannot sit in the way we are accustomed to do …”

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