The Common World–A Model of the Perioperative Dialog, Its Ethos, and Characteristic Structural Caring Principles

The purpose for this paper was to explore, on the basis of a previous research program, the foundations of caring associated with the ethos in the common world of the perioperative dialog. A hermeneutic approach grounded in caring science was employed, in which ethos represents the ultimate meaning of caring. This approach resulted in a model comprising the caring properties and characteristic structural caring principles. As a guiding principle of the common world, ethos revealed a deeper principle of order, the responsibility of the face—“Here I am.”

DENOUEMENT OF A WORMHOLE–BRANE ENCOUNTER

Higher-dimensional black holes have long been considered within the context of brane worlds. Recently, it was shown that the brane-world ethos also permits the consideration of higher-dimensional wormholes. When such a wormhole, pre-existing in the bulk, impinges upon our universe, taken to be a positive-tension three-brane, it can induce the creation in our universe of a wormhole of ordinary dimensionality. The throat of this wormhole might fully constrict, pinch off, and thus birth a baby universe. Alternatively, the induced wormhole might persist. I show that persistence is more likely and note that the persistent wormhole manifests itself as a particle-like object whose interaction with cosmic matter is purely gravitational. I consider the viability of this object as a dark matter candidate.