Metaphor

To nnderstand the internal molecnlar motions, we have placed great store in classical mechanics to obtain a picture of the dynamics of the molecnle and to predict associated patterns that can be observed in quantum spectra. Of course, the classical picture is at best an imprecise image, becanse the molecnlar dynamics are intrinsically quantum mechanical. Nonetheless, the classical metaphor mnst surely possess a large kernel of truth. The classical stnichire brought out by the bifiircation analysis has accounted for real patterns seen in wavefimctions and also for patterns observed in spectra, snch as the existence of local mode doublets, and the... 

Wall Piece IV (1985), a kinetic sculpture by George Rhoads. This complex meehanieal art form can be viewed as a metaphor for the molecular apparatus underlying electron transport and ATP synthesis by oxidative phosphorylation. (1985 ty George Rhoaeh)... 

Fredkiii s universe is a universe in which there is only a finite amount of information and, for want of a better or more suggestive metaphor, is thought to evolve according to some underlying local CA rule. While the information content of the universe is assumed to be finite, it is also tacitly assumed that all of that information resides on an underlying lattice, whose own existence comes, so to speak, free-of-charge. This underlying lattice supplies an arena for an informational dynamics to take place in, but, except for its role as dynamical mediator, it itself remains effectively uninvolved in that dynamics. Clusters of information may form and dissipate and all sorts of interactions may take place within it, but the lattice remains separate and fixed. 

P should also minimize distinction.s between conventionally distinct but atomic. primitives (such as space, mass, time, etc.). The vision is to take one more step along the metaphoric road remove jnan from the center of the universe —> remove all privileged frames of reference —> remove all absolutes —> remove all distinction between space and matter—r remove all distinction ( ) Start by eliminating the tacit assumption that whatever physics is self-organizing itself out of the soup of the current crop of physicists is the physics of this universe in short, go from a solipsistic phys-ics to a fundamentally relativistic physics, wherein even physics itself becomes a set (an infinite hierarchical set ) of self-consistent world-views rather than a prescribed set of exactly/uniquely prescribed laws operating independently of all observers. 

My private metaphor was that of a zoo of factors in a jungle of interactions surrounded by deep morasses of acronyms and bleak deserts of synonyms [1]. 

Nernst, in his Theoretische Chemie, devoted a whole chapter to a critical examination of the rule of Thomsen and Berthelot, and he concluded that in many cases the heat of reaction certainly does correspond very closely with the maximum work, AT, which latter magnitude he took from van t Hoff as a measure of the chemical affinity. Whilst pointing out that it very often gives results wholly incompatible with experience, and cannot therefore be indiscriminately applied, Nernst showed that the rule nevertheless holds good in too many cases to be wholly false in an appropriate metaphor he claimed that it contains a genuine kernel of truth which has not yet been shelled from its enclosing hull. This labour of emancipation was partially effected in the newer work of the same author, Applications of Thermodynamics to Chemistry, 1907, which is an attempt to place the rule of Berthelot on a scientific basis, and to determine under what conditions its use is legitimate. He points out that the equation ... 

Fig. 2.t Climbing the ladder and developing vertigo as a metaphor for the problematic situation of the domain of miero-maero thinking in ehemieal edueation... 

Heterogeneous nucleation of polymer crystallization resembling a visualized metaphor compare the way meat is prepared in an oriental way shish - kebab. 

More developed accounts of this alchemical Cosmic Body of Anthropos are located in alchemical texts published in the late Renaissance, such as the Liber Platonis quartorum printed in Zetzner s Theatrum chemicum (Strassburg, 1622). (It was known in manuscript prior to this appearance). The text of the Liber Platonis quartorum describes the construction of an alchemical vessel out of a human skull, an image intended perhaps to have only a metaphorical meaning ... 

It is Luther s mode of interpretation, however, that facilitated the development of his alchemical theosophy of Christ as the Ruah-Elohim, the quintessential Spirit of Nature and the creative Principle of alchemy. Metaphors of Christ as the philosopher s stone had been... 

Michelspacher s title-page is not, in fact, a monument to empirical learning, but takes the form of a memento mori. Far from applauding the new Renaissance humanism, on the contrary, he employs the science of anatomy as a metaphor to demonstrate the futility of rational knowledge in the face of death and decay.The prospect of immortality is available only to those who seek an intuitive Gnosis, a divine epiphany concerning God s work in Nature. 

As in the case of Fludd, Boehme s Christ was a metaphor for his own spiritual experiences and he employed alchemical terminology in order to describe these sacred moments of illumination. He regarded the purpose of life as being the effort to harmonise the oppositions within and without the human being, uniting them with God the Light. 

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