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Wed July 7
Abdul Latujeen
SCIENTISTS AT THE BENIN OLOKUN CENTRE FOR PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE DEVELOP REVOLUTIONARY CONCEPT OF SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM
Scientists at the Benin Olokun Centre for Philosophy and Science in Benin-City,Nigeria, have developed a revolutionary concept of the space-time continuum,thereby justifying the founding of the centre. The centre was founded on the premise that Benin Olokun symbolism and cosmology can operate as a platform for the exploration of a broad range of ideas in philosophy and science,particularly in cosmology,the study of the structure of the universe.This conviction emerges from the focus of Benin Olokun symbolism on relationships between space and time,in the context of conjunctions between ultimate and contingent reality,and the expansion of consciousness in relation to this framework.The Benin Olokun symbols known as Igha-ede and some of those known as Aghadaghada develop this idea from a variety of perspectives.
This revolutionary concept of space-time developed by scientists at the centre relates to the unification of gravity,weak nuclear forces and electromagnetic force in terms of the tension between space-time singularities as they converge at an event horizon.
Eki Imuentiyan,the leader of the Neutrino Research Group at the centre, which developed this concept,describes their breakthrough as coming from five years of hard work on the symbol of temporal and spatial unification developed by ohen Egiasagbon,an Olokun priest, which was published by Norma Rosen in her ground breaking article on Olokun iconography in the journal African Arts in 1999.
Indicating a fertile relationship between the imaginative world of art,its philosophical possibilities and the scientific transposition of imagination in science,Eki describes this symbol as proving intriguing on account of its suggestion of a mathematical equation represented by the presence of an X and an S within the space formed by two concentric circles bisected by two arrows pointing in the four cardinal directions.
The breakthrough emerged from the prompting given to the exploration of the speculative and mathematical interpretation of this symbol by Tamieri Dafieware,one of the members of the Neutrino Research Group ,as he wondered what insights might emerge if the point of intersection of the arrows were interpreted as a space-time singularity and the concentric circles as representing the event horizon describing the boundary of the laws of the universe as they shape the structure of the cosmos.
The publication of his now famous paper on this conjecture,henceforth known as the Dafieware Conjecture, led to the Neutrino Research Group working on this idea for five years,publishing in the process a number of academic papers that marked their progress..
The culmination of their research is the development of a theory that unifies the fundamental forces of nature:gravity,electromagnetism and nuclear energy in terms of space-time singularity.
The work of the centre has also led to the development of striking philosophical insights which we shall report shortly.
Scientists at the Benin Olokun Centre for Philosophy and Science in Benin-City,Nigeria, have developed a revolutionary concept of the space-time continuum,thereby justifying the founding of the centre. The centre was founded on the premise that Benin Olokun symbolism and cosmology can operate as a platform for the exploration of a broad range of ideas in philosophy and science,particularly in cosmology,the study of the structure of the universe.This conviction emerges from the focus of Benin Olokun symbolism on relationships between space and time,in the context of conjunctions between ultimate and contingent reality,and the expansion of consciousness in relation to this framework.The Benin Olokun symbols known as Igha-ede and some of those known as Aghadaghada develop this idea from a variety of perspectives.
This revolutionary concept of space-time developed by scientists at the centre relates to the unification of gravity,weak nuclear forces and electromagnetic force in terms of the tension between space-time singularities as they converge at an event horizon.
Eki Imuentiyan,the leader of the Neutrino Research Group at the centre, which developed this concept,describes their breakthrough as coming from five years of hard work on the symbol of temporal and spatial unification developed by ohen Egiasagbon,an Olokun priest, which was published by Norma Rosen in her ground breaking article on Olokun iconography in the journal African Arts in 1999.
Indicating a fertile relationship between the imaginative world of art,its philosophical possibilities and the scientific transposition of imagination in science,Eki describes this symbol as proving intriguing on account of its suggestion of a mathematical equation represented by the presence of an X and an S within the space formed by two concentric circles bisected by two arrows pointing in the four cardinal directions.
Benin Olokun Igha-ede symbol that suggested the idea for the unification of fundamental forces of nature in terms of a space-time singularity.Like all Igha-ede symbols,this one indicates,among other meanings,the convergence of time and space,the conjunction of ultimate and contingent reality and is used as a medium to expand consciousness in relating to working with the abstract ideas it symbolizes.
The vertical and horizontally intersecting arrows may suggest temporal and spatial coordinates as well as relationships between macrocosmic and microcosmic reality.
Philosophers interpret the concentric circles in terms of relationships between aspects of reality and the relationship between human consciousness and the cosmos.The scientists at the Benin Olokun Centre for Philosophy and Science interpret the arrows in terms of the arrow of time in relation to past,present and future in relation to the speed of light;the intersection of he arrows in terms of the event horizon defined by a speculative beginning of the universe when the lsaw of the cosmos were formed and the circles as indicating the boundary of physical laws that shape the structure of the cosmos.
The vertical and horizontally intersecting arrows may suggest temporal and spatial coordinates as well as relationships between macrocosmic and microcosmic reality.
Philosophers interpret the concentric circles in terms of relationships between aspects of reality and the relationship between human consciousness and the cosmos.The scientists at the Benin Olokun Centre for Philosophy and Science interpret the arrows in terms of the arrow of time in relation to past,present and future in relation to the speed of light;the intersection of he arrows in terms of the event horizon defined by a speculative beginning of the universe when the lsaw of the cosmos were formed and the circles as indicating the boundary of physical laws that shape the structure of the cosmos.
The publication of his now famous paper on this conjecture,henceforth known as the Dafieware Conjecture, led to the Neutrino Research Group working on this idea for five years,publishing in the process a number of academic papers that marked their progress..
The culmination of their research is the development of a theory that unifies the fundamental forces of nature:gravity,electromagnetism and nuclear energy in terms of space-time singularity.
The work of the centre has also led to the development of striking philosophical insights which we shall report shortly.
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