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Can we look at history through the lens of physics ?
Does the flow of social events bear any resemblance to the flow of fluids ? Are there Eulerian and Lagrangian approaches to look at the history of our civilisation ? We may not have the answers yet, but we can
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Interesting thought of both local abd general views of physical system
Thank you, glad that you found it interesting.
The Tagre citation is accurate and very beautiful, as are his other verses, which I often turn to for solace and beauty. The biblical reference is, however, wrong. In Judges 5,5 the King James version translates accurately the hebrew as : "The mountains melted from before the Lord" It does not mean melting because of God's "infinite timescale" but the melting is because of the very presence of God, as indicated also by the continuation of that biblical sentence: (King James, again) "even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel". This refers to the Mount Sinai event where god descended on the mountain in fire, cloud and smoke, to hand down to Moses the Tablets of the Ten Commandmends.
Dear Professor @Moshe Deutsch , thank you for sharing this. It is so elegant, so beautiful !
The Tagre citation is accurate and very beautiful, as are his other verses, which I often turn to for solace and beauty. The biblical reference is, however, wrong. In Judges 5,5 the King James version translates accurately the hebrew as : "The mountains melted from before the Lord" It does not mean melting because of God's "infinite timescale" but the melting is because of the very presence of God, as indicated also by the continuation of that biblical sentence: (King James, again) "even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel". This refers to the Mount Sinai event where god descended on the mountain in fire, cloud and smoke, to hand down to Moses the Tablets of the Ten Commandmends.
@Moshe Deutsch Thank you for your kind comment. The biblical verse that inspired Reiner's definition of what is now known as the Deborah number. Reiner quoted Prophetess Deborah as saying, 'The mountains flowed before the Lord' [1]. As I pulled up some further literature, I see it indeed contrasts with the King James version that states, 'The mountains melted from before the Lord' - which you have rightly pointed out. I imagine that the verse may have a different context and scope, yet, Reiner's use of it to define the Deborah number is intended to indicate the fluidity of materials at different time scales. A famous example of which is the pitch ball drop experiment. Thank you again for the note.
[1] On the concept of the Deborah number, R R Huigol, Trans Soc. Rheo. (1975).