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The second law is offered as a simple observation in the same essay but its status as Clarke's second law was conferred by others. It was initially a derivative of the first law and formally became Clarke's second law where the author proposed the third law in the 1973 revision of Profiles of the Future, which included an acknowledgement. [4]
Clarke's three laws, formulated by Arthur C. Clarke. Several corollaries to these laws have also been proposed. First law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
"The Nine Billion Names of God" is a 1953 science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. The story was among the stories selected in 1970 by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the best science fiction short stories published before the creation of the Nebula Awards .
Clarke as depicted in Amazing Stories in 1953 Clarke's novelette "The Songs of Distant Earth", the cover story for the June 1958 issue of If, was expanded to novel length almost three decades later. For much of the later 20th century, Clarke, Isaac Asimov , and Robert A. Heinlein were informally known as the "Big Three" of science fiction ...
The work of Clarke on the existence of God set off a British debate that lasted to the middle of the century. [13] Edmund Law and other writers represented Clarke as arguing from the existence of time and space to the existence of Deity. [9] Law was influenced by a 1718 work of Samuel Colliber that modified Clarke's approach. [13]
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And I'm like, 'f--k you,'" Clarke said. Momoa's role on the HBO series didn't extend beyond season 1 (save for a few references in season 2), and "Aquaman" has made him a bonafide movie star.
The origins of the cosmological argument can be traced to classical antiquity, rooted in the concept of the prime mover, introduced by Aristotle.In the 6th century, Syriac Christian theologian John Philoponus (c. 490–c. 570) proposed the first known version of the argument based on the impossibility of an infinite temporal regress, postulating that time itself must have had a beginning.