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The Inner Reaches of Outer Space is a 1986 book by mythologist Joseph Campbell, the last book completed before his death in 1987.In it, he explores the intersections of art, psychology and religion, and discusses the ways in which new myths are born.
Isaac Newton suggests the existence of an aether in the Third Book of Opticks (1st ed. 1704; 2nd ed. 1718): "Doth not this aethereal medium in passing out of water, glass, crystal, and other compact and dense bodies in empty spaces, grow denser and denser by degrees, and by that means refract the rays of light not in a point, but by bending them gradually in curve lines? ...
His elongated figures, such as Walking Man (1960), evoke a sense of isolation and alienation, with the surrounding space emphasizing the emptiness and solitude of the figures. Giacometti's work reflects existential themes, where the Void becomes a metaphor for the human condition and the pervasive sense of nothingness that can accompany it. [30]
Spoons are used as a metaphor and visual representation for energy rationing. Spoon theory is a metaphor describing the amount of physical or mental energy that a person has available for daily activities and tasks, and how it can become limited. The term was coined in a 2003 essay by American writer Christine Miserandino.
The Casimir effect shows that quantum field theory allows the energy density in certain regions of space to be negative relative to the ordinary matter vacuum energy, and it has been shown theoretically that quantum field theory allows states where energy can be arbitrarily negative at a given point. [29]
Nicola Armaroli, Vincenzo Balzani: Energy for a Sustainable World: From the Oil Age to a Sun-Powered Future, Wiley-VCH 2011, ISBN 978-3-527-32540-5. Nicola Armaroli, Vincenzo Balzani and Nick Serpone: Powering Planet Earth: Energy Solutions for the Future, Wiley-VCH 2013, ISBN 978-3-527-33409-4.
Forms are aspatial in that they have no spatial dimensions, and thus no orientation in space, nor do they even (like the point) have a location. [17] They are non-physical, but they are not in the mind. Forms are extra-mental (i.e. real in the strictest sense of the word). [18] A Form is an objective "blueprint" of perfection. [19]
Metaphysics is the study of the most general features of reality, including existence, objects and their properties, possibility and necessity, space and time, change, causation, and the relation between matter and mind.