Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher born in 544 B.C. said, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”

Heraclitus was known to his contemporaries as the ‘dark’ philosopher, so-called because his writings were so difficult to understand. To Heraclitus, only the philosopher, the one who pursued Truth, was fully awake and fully alive, and he seemed to consider himself the only philosopher of his time.

Why is Heraclitus important? Heraclitus was a Greek philosopher who is remembered for his cosmology, in which fire forms the basic material principle of an orderly universe.

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Change is the only constant thing in this world. Just like seasons, life and people changes too. You get things the way you like it and then something beyond your authority bumps you off.

Quote by Toto: “The only permanent thing in this world is change.”

The only constant in the universe is change. The one thing we can predict about our own lives is that they will be unpredictable.

Examples are Gravitational constant, Planck constant, Hubble’s constant, Speed of light in vacuum etc. Pi is the ratio of the area of a circle to the square of its radius. It is universal, because no matter where in the universe, or what time in past/present/future is it measured, its value will be the same (22/7).

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But 137?” The number 137, according to Lederman, “shows up naked all over the place”, meaning that scientists on any planet in the universe using whatever units they have for charge or speed, and whatever their version of Planck’s constant may be, will all come up with 137, because it is a pure number.

If time had not existed at all, nothing could have started, nothing could have progressed from the instant of the big bang, so no stars would have condensed out of the soup of primitive particles, no planets would have formed around the stars and no life would have evolved on the planets and so no you or me or this …

It is just spacetime, expanding. “All the measurements indicate that all of the universe we can see, including the edge of the observable universe, looks approximately like our local universe does today: with stars, galaxies, and clusters of galaxies and lots of empty space.”

The edge of the Universe, as it appears to us, is unique to our perspective; we can see back 13.8 billion years in time in all directions, a situation that depends on the spacetime location of the observer who’s looking at it.

The end result is unknown; a simple estimation would have all the matter and space-time in the universe collapse into a dimensionless singularity back into how the universe started with the Big Bang, but at these scales unknown quantum effects need to be considered (see Quantum gravity).

Bottom line: New observations of the oldest light in the universe indicate that the cosmos is 13.77 billion years old, and help resolve inconsistencies with other previous estimates.

As long as it doesn’t get absorbed by something, then yes, light will continue to travel indefinitely. However, due to the expansion of the universe that light wave will get stretched out along with the space it travels through, becoming lower in frequency and energy.

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One comic book did provide an explanation for a fictional universe existing as a parallel universe. The parallel world does “exist” and it resonates into the “real world”. Some people in the “real world” pick up on this resonance, gaining information about the parallel world which they then use to write stories.

But many prominent scientists—Martin Rees, Alan Guth, Max Tegmark—have taken it to be evidence that we live in a multiverse: that our universe is just one of a huge, perhaps infinite, ensemble of worlds.

With an infinite amount of space, every possible event will occur an infinite number of times. However, the speed of light prevents us from being aware of these other identical areas. The inflationary multiverse is composed of various pockets in which inflation fields collapse and form new universes.

A universe contains, by definition, all of the stuff anyone inside can see, detect or probe. And because the multiverse is unreachable, physically and philosophically, astronomers may not be able to find out—for sure—if it exists at all.

The Weeping Philosopher

Heraclitus > Quotes

1. “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
2. “Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
3. “The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -”
4. “Even a soul submerged in sleep.
5. “The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.
6. “Nothing endures but change.”
7. “To be evenminded.

In the philosophical study of ontology, the concept of becoming originated in ancient Greece with the philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus, who in the sixth century BC, said that nothing in this world is constant except change and becoming (i.e., everything is impermanent).

hat was the essence of reality for Heraclitus? What is reality according to a follower of Parmenides? One and unchanging. What did Anaxagoras do?

Émile Durkheim (1858—1917) Émile Durkheim was a French sociologist who rose to prominence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Durkheim defined social facts as things external to, and coercive of, the actor. These are created from collective forces and do not emanate from the individual (Hadden, p. 104).

As nouns the difference between being and becoming is that being is a living creature while becoming is (chiefly|philosophy) the act or process in which something becomes.

Being is a concept encompassing objective and subjective features of reality and existence. Anything that partakes in being is also called a “being”, though often this usage is limited to entities that have subjectivity (as in the expression “human being”).

The world of Becoming is the physical world we percieve through our senses. This world is always in movement, always changing. The world of Being is the world of forms, or ideas. It is absolute, independent, and transcendent.

Being is part of the essential nature of some abstract entities. They are ideas that exist in the immaterial realm of pure information and do not change. Becoming is the essential nature of concrete material objects, which are always changing.

‘Phile’ comes from the ancient Greek word, ‘phileein’ meaning to love. thefreedictionary defines ‘Phile’ as One that loves or has a strong affinity or preference for.

1. Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)
2. Aristotle (384–322 BCE)
3. Confucius (551–479 BCE)
4. René Descartes (1596–1650)
5. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 82)
6. Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
7. David Hume (1711–77)
8. Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)