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...The author's motivating interest the past few years has been the development and dissemination of G-dimensional theory (GDT). K. Toshihara, from Japan, proposed the concept of a paper defining G-Dimensional theory in relation to the Smarandache quantum paradoxes. After reviewing a draft, Dr. M. L. Perez, Editor of the ...

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...ities cover up their misdeeds and embarrassing situations, now finds himself trying to unravel the mystery that could change the world and the future of the international space station. ...

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...Weaving international intrigue with a high-level murder case, The Mystery of Jamieson Stone will leave you on the edge of your seat. When the world’s most famous television news anchor, Jamieson Stone, apparently commits suicide on live international television, Stone’s widow hires detective Mi...

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... - J.Cross/Stone 2 THE MYSTERY OF JAMIESON STONE A Novel by Jonathan Cross ... ...ross/Stone 3 CHAPTER 1 WASHINGTON, D.C. The studios of WNN (Worldwide News Network) were as hectic as usual. Pr... ...ic as usual. Producers, assistant producers, directors, assistant directors and a beehive of workers were all scurrying around pawning off papers an... ...r the gun.” “What are you looking for?” Barton asked. “Patience, my friend.” Several frames into the video, Brand yelled, “Stop. Can you zoom in... ...ged with Stone’s eyes filling most of the screen. Brand watched with a trained eye as the frames passed one by one. “Thank you, Mr. Greene. You’ve ... ...lf, Brand said. “Now, just watch it again. This time focus solely on Stone’s eyes.” The frames slowly slipped by, one by one. “There. Freeze it!” B... ...ollowing: ‘The Cipher of Satan’, anything pertaining to the space station, especially any references to weapons, or other Nation’s involvement, in p... ...ntist appeared on a regular basis. There was nothing unusual in the memos, only innocuous references to military satellites and of course the space ...

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...A compilation of quotes by U.G. Krishnamurti that can alter your life. Someone once said to his daughter who had met U.G., "Damned be the day you met this man; your life will never be the same." Whether we feel cursed or blessed, our comin...

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...The Natural State In the Words of U.G. Krishnamurti Peter Maverick Introduction 1972-... ...1990—Various Places Publisher's Note When I read the manuscript of Peter's book, it was as though U.G. was talking through the pages. It w... ... It was wonderful to hear him without all the questions and interjections of the people who normally surround him. It felt very personal. Coming ... ...ten to me without interpreting. I am all the time trying to knock off the reference point. When the reference point is absent, there is no need to un... ...t or reject what I am saying. You accept a statement because it fits your reference point, your assumptions, like self-realization, God-realization, ... ... point, your assumptions, like self-realization, God-realization, etc. The reference point is you. There is nothing other than the reference point th... ...ere all the time, what is there is living from moment to moment. It's all frames, millions of frames, to put it in the language of film. There is no ... ...he rest of creation, the rest of life around us. We all live in individual frames. We try to establish a relationship at the level of, “What do I get...

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...The Book of Zohar (Book of Radiance) is perhaps the most mysterious composition ever written. It contains the secrets of the whole of Creation, but until recently these secrets were shrouded in mystery and misconceptions. Now the Zo...

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... 85th Street #51, Brooklyn, New York, 11214, USA Printed in canada No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permis... ...is book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critic... ... embodied in critical articles or reviews. ISBN 978-1-897448-59-5 Library of congress control Number: 2011903649 copy Editor: c. gerus Associate Ed... ................................................... 147 aPPeNdIx 1: Selected References in Praise of The zohar .................................149 aPPe... ...ire, through which the Reshimot begin to traverse in a chain as though in frames on celluloid film. I feel that it is my life that I am living, but i... ...Baal HaSulam, “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah” Appendix 1 Selected References in Praise of The z ohar Co NTe NTS z ohar for All ............ ...hbi and the group that Authored The zohar ..................172 Selected References in Praise of The zohar 151 Zohar for a ll The prohibition from A...

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In the first chapter of this book we discuss Einstein’s thought experiment with atomic clocks.

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...Preface (Many Relativities ) In the first chapter of this book we discuss Einstein’s thought experiment with atomic clocks: A rocket travels at a constant speed v with respect to the earth. In the rocket, a light pulse is emitted by a source from A to a mirror B that reflect...

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... On Einstein’s Thought Experiment with the Light Clocks: 19 1.1. Einstein’s Thought Experiment with the Light Clocks: 20 1.2. Relativistic Addition of Velocities: 23 1.3. Counter-Intuitive Results of the Relativistic Addition of Velocities: 23 1.4. Contradictory Results of the Relativistic Addition of Velocities: 24 1.5. Relativistic Addition of Superluminal Velocitie...

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...This book is devoted to an emerging branch of Information Fusion based on new approach for modeling the fusion problematic when the information provided by the sources is both uncertain and (highly) conflicting. This approach, known in literature as DSmT (standing for...

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...Preamble xi Prefaces xiii I Advances on DSmT 1 1 Presentation of DSmT 3 1.1 Introduction . . . . . 3 1.2 Short introduction to the DST . . . . 5 1.2.1 Shafer’s model and belief functions . . . 5 1.2.2 Dempster’s rule of combination . . . 5 1.2.3 Alternatives to Dempster’s rule of c...

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...This second book devoted on advances and applications of Dezert-Smarandache Theory (DSmT) for information fusion collects recent papers from different researchers working in engineering and mathematics. Part 1 of this book presents the current state-of-the-art on theoretical inv...

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...tribution Rules for Information Fusion 3 by Florentin Smarandache and Jean Dezert 1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 The principal rules of combination . . . . . . . 6 1.2.1 Notion of total and partial conflicting masses . . . . . 6 1.2.2 The conjunctive rule . . . . . . . . . 6 1.2.3 The disjunctive rule . . . . . . . . . 8 1.2.4 Dempster’s rule of combin...

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...As shown, experiments registered unmatter: a new kind of matter whose atoms include both nucleons and anti-nucleons, while their life span was very short, no more than 10-20sec. Stable states of unmatter can be built on quarks and anti-quarks: applying the unmatter principle her...

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...INPHYSICS A quarterly issue scientifc journal, registered with the Library of Congress (DC). This journal is peer reviewed and included in the abstrac... ...nal is peer reviewed and included in the abstracting and indexing coverage of: Mathematical Reviews and MathSciNet (AMS, USA), DOAJ of Lund University... ...534 (print) ISSN: 1555-5615 (online) 4 issues per annum Electronic version of this journal: http://www.geocities.com/ptep_online To order printed issu... ...per to the memory of Dr. Leonard S. Abrams: (27 Nov. 1924 — 28 Dec. 2001). References 1. Crothers S. J. On the general solution to Einstein’s vacuum f... ...e gravitational feld is linked to the feld of the space-time metric in the frames of the General Theory of Relativity. For this reason one regularly c... ...v in the 1940’s [2, 3]. Its essence is that if an observer accompanies his reference body, Alternatively, Landau and Lifshitz in their The Classical... ...perators b α = dx α ds and h αβ =−g αβ +b α b β which fully defne his real reference space (here b α is his velocity with respect to his real referenc... ...ravitational waves are determined independently of both spatial coordinate frames and space-time reference fra- mes. In contrast to gravitational wave... ...’s reference frame falls freely and is free of rotations. Such refer- ence frames are known as synchronous [15], because there all clocks can be synch...

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...In a lecture that Einstein gave to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1921, he said the following: "Geometry predicates nothing about relations of real things, but only geometry together with the purport of physical laws can do so... The idea of the measuring rod and the idea of ...

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...According to the Dictionary of Mathematics (Borowski and Borwein, 1991 [1]), the paradox is “an apparently absurd or self-contradictory statement for which there is prima facie support, or an explicit contradiction derived from apparently unexceptionabl...

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...INPHYSICS A quarterly issue scientifc journal, registered with the Library of Congress (DC). This journal is peer reviewed and included in the abstrac... ...nal is peer reviewed and included in the abstracting and indexing coverage of: Mathematical Reviews and MathSciNet (AMS, USA), DOAJ of Lund University... ...534 (print) ISSN: 1555-5615 (online) 4 issues per annum Electronic version of this journal: http://www.geocities.com/ptep_online To order printed issu... ...der). Eddington [1] wrote that a source of this approximation is a specifc reference frame which differs from Galilean reference frames by the tiny co... ...imation is a specifc reference frame which differs from Galilean reference frames by the tiny correctionsζ αβ , the origin of which could be very diff... ...v in the 1940’s [1, 2]. Its essence is that if an observer accompanies his reference body, his observable quantities (chronometric invariants) are pro... ...erators b α = dx α ds andh αβ =−g αβ +b α b β , which fully defne his real reference space. Thus, chr.inv.-projections of a world-vector Q α are b α Q... ...va L. B. Relative oscillations of test-particles in accompanying reference frames. Doklady Acad. Nauk USSR, 1975, v. 225 (4), 786–789. 5. Borissova L.... ...ill refer to all particles located in zero-space as zero-particles. In the frames of the particle-wave concept each particle is given by its own wave ...

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...As an alternative to the existing logics we propose the Neutrosophic Logic to represent a mathematical model of uncertainty, vagueness, ambiguity, imprecision, undefined, unknown, incompleteness, inconsistency, redundancy, contradiction. It is a non-classical logic. Eksioglu (1999) explains some of them: “Imprecision of the human sy...

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... Florentin Smarandache editor Proceedings of the First International Conference on Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic L... ...phic Probability and Statistics University of New Mexico - Gallup 1-3 December 2001 (sec... ... (second printed edition) FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE editor PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEUTROSOPHY, NEUTROSOPHIC ... ...is only a definition in order to give scientists an impulse for research. References: [1] Atanassov, K., Burillo, P., Bustince, H., On the i... ...tics, 38, 325-339, 1967. [8] Dezert, J., Autonomous navigation with Uncertain Reference points using the PDAF, In Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking ... ...elieve in ). More generally, a belief function Bel can be characterized without reference to the information granule if Bel satisfies the following thr... ...le. The complexity of DS rule of combination is important in general with large frames of discernment since the computa tional burden of finding all p... ...bination of two independent bodies of evidence and ), it is necessary that both frames of discernment and (related to each source and ) have to be co... ... system, any extrinsic value or systemic distinction will fail 'truth' in many frames of reference, whilst the intrinsic value of 'existence-in-itse...

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...In aesthetics, the paradox means the apparent resolution of an enigmatic situation (the result of such a process is the satisfaction of a distention), the emotional moving force being the unforeseen, the unexpected (which generates and also perturbs a new tension). Therefore, the...

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...For most of the 20th century, both relativity and star travel fascinated this writer. The reasons Albert Einstein concluded there is an absolute barrier at the speed of light seemed at first clear, then later not so clear upon closer...

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...ceed one's grasp. Thus we reach for Alpha Centauri with a round-trip manned and womanned mission as the proposed overarching goal under a clear plan of exploration - a grand experiment described in later chapters. Whether or not we succeed in grasping the goal under this or under any plan is not as important as it is to set a definite plan and work towards its goal. The...

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...xtraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation?and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. (futureoftheinternet.org)...

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...ternet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Pres... ...s.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan... ...trations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), ... ...rnet—and how to stop it / Jonathan Zittrain. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-300-12487-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. ... ...n one of two ways. First, there was the large-scale Hollerith model of main- frames managed by a single firm like IBM. These computers had general-pur-... ...m more genera- tive. Generative outputs can also be judged as good or bad by reference to exter- nal values. If people use a generative system to prod... ... M W, T  T 27 (1984) (arguing that meaning is made with reference to particular social contexts that are “shared across a society...