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The Original Concept Of Akalpurakh - Dr. Gurbhagat Singh
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<blockquote data-quote="Kanwaljit.Singh" data-source="post: 165723" data-attributes="member: 14616"><p>Some more interesting points from the etymology of Universe:</p><p> </p><p><em>The word universe derives from the </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_French" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>Old French</em></span></a><em> word Univers, which in turn derives from the </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>Latin</em></span></a><em> word universum.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#cite_note-9" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">[10]</span></a> The Latin word was used by </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>Cicero</em></span></a><em> and later Latin authors in many of the same senses as the modern </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>English</em></span></a><em> word is used.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#cite_note-lewis_short-10" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">[11]</span></a> The Latin word derives from the poetic contraction Unvorsum — first used by </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretius" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>Lucretius</em></span></a><em> in Book IV (line 262) of his </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Nature_of_Things" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>De rerum natura</em></span></a><em> (On the Nature of Things) — which connects un, uni (the combining form of unus', or "one") with vorsum, versum (a noun made from the perfect passive participle of vertere, meaning "something rotated, rolled, changed").<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#cite_note-lewis_short-10" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">[11</span></a></em></p><p> </p><p><em>An alternative interpretation of unvorsum is "everything rotated as one" or "everything rotated by one". In this sense, it may be considered a translation of an earlier Greek word for the universe, περιφορά, (periforá, "circumambulation"), originally used to describe a course of a meal, the food being carried around the circle of dinner guests.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#cite_note-11" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">[12]</span></a> This Greek word refers to </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_spheres" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>celestial spheres</em></span></a><em>, an early Greek model of the universe. Regarding Plato's </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor_of_the_sun" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>Metaphor of the sun</em></span></a><em>, </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>Aristotle</em></span></a><em> suggests that the rotation of the sphere of </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_stars" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>fixed stars</em></span></a><em> inspired by the </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primum_movens" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>prime mover</em></span></a><em>, motivates, in turn, terrestrial change via the Sun. Careful </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>astronomical</em></span></a><em> and physical measurements (such as the </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault_pendulum" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>Foucault pendulum</em></span></a><em>) are required to prove the Earth rotates on its axis.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>A term for "universe" in ancient Greece was τὸ πᾶν (tò pán, </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_All" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>The All</em></span></a><em>, </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(mythology)" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>Pan (mythology)</em></span></a><em>). Related terms were matter, (τὸ ὅλον, tò ólon, see also </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyle" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>Hyle</em></span></a><em>, lit. wood) and place (τὸ κενόν, tò kenón).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#cite_note-12" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">[13]</span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#cite_note-13" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">[14]</span></a> Other synonyms for the universe among the ancient Greek philosophers included κόσμος (</em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>cosmos</em></span></a><em>) and φύσις (meaning </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>Nature</em></span></a><em>, from which we derive the word </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>physics</em></span></a><em>).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#cite_note-14" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">[15]</span></a> The same synonyms are found in Latin authors (totum, mundus, natura)<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#cite_note-15" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">[16]</span></a> and survive in modern languages, e.g., the German words Das All, Weltall, and Natur for universe. The same synonyms are found in English, such as everything (as in the </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>theory of everything</em></span></a><em>), the cosmos (as in </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>cosmology</em></span></a><em>), the </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(philosophy)" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>world</em></span></a><em> (as in the </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_hypothesis" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>many-worlds hypothesis</em></span></a><em>), and </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>Nature</em></span></a><em> (as in </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_law" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>natural laws</em></span></a><em> or </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_philosophy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc"><em>natural philosophy</em></span></a><em>).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#cite_note-16" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">[17]</span></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kanwaljit.Singh, post: 165723, member: 14616"] Some more interesting points from the etymology of Universe: [I]The word universe derives from the [/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_French"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]Old French[/I][/COLOR][/url][I] word Univers, which in turn derives from the [/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]Latin[/I][/COLOR][/url][I] word universum.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#cite_note-9"][COLOR=#0066cc][10][/COLOR][/URL] The Latin word was used by [/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]Cicero[/I][/COLOR][/url][I] and later Latin authors in many of the same senses as the modern [/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]English[/I][/COLOR][/url][I] word is used.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#cite_note-lewis_short-10"][COLOR=#0066cc][11][/COLOR][/URL] The Latin word derives from the poetic contraction Unvorsum — first used by [/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretius"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]Lucretius[/I][/COLOR][/url][I] in Book IV (line 262) of his [/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Nature_of_Things"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]De rerum natura[/I][/COLOR][/url][I] (On the Nature of Things) — which connects un, uni (the combining form of unus', or "one") with vorsum, versum (a noun made from the perfect passive participle of vertere, meaning "something rotated, rolled, changed").[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#cite_note-lewis_short-10"][COLOR=#0066cc][11[/COLOR][/URL][/I] [I]An alternative interpretation of unvorsum is "everything rotated as one" or "everything rotated by one". In this sense, it may be considered a translation of an earlier Greek word for the universe, περιφορά, (periforá, "circumambulation"), originally used to describe a course of a meal, the food being carried around the circle of dinner guests.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#cite_note-11"][COLOR=#0066cc][12][/COLOR][/URL] This Greek word refers to [/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_spheres"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]celestial spheres[/I][/COLOR][/url][I], an early Greek model of the universe. Regarding Plato's [/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor_of_the_sun"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]Metaphor of the sun[/I][/COLOR][/url][I], [/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]Aristotle[/I][/COLOR][/url][I] suggests that the rotation of the sphere of [/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_stars"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]fixed stars[/I][/COLOR][/url][I] inspired by the [/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primum_movens"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]prime mover[/I][/COLOR][/url][I], motivates, in turn, terrestrial change via the Sun. Careful [/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]astronomical[/I][/COLOR][/url][I] and physical measurements (such as the [/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault_pendulum"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]Foucault pendulum[/I][/COLOR][/url][I]) are required to prove the Earth rotates on its axis.[/I] [I]A term for "universe" in ancient Greece was τὸ πᾶν (tò pán, [/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_All"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]The All[/I][/COLOR][/url][I], [/I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(mythology)"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]Pan (mythology)[/I][/COLOR][/URL][I]). Related terms were matter, (τὸ ὅλον, tò ólon, see also [/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyle"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]Hyle[/I][/COLOR][/url][I], lit. wood) and place (τὸ κενόν, tò kenón).[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#cite_note-12"][COLOR=#0066cc][13][/COLOR][/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#cite_note-13"][COLOR=#0066cc][14][/COLOR][/URL] Other synonyms for the universe among the ancient Greek philosophers included κόσμος ([/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]cosmos[/I][/COLOR][/url][I]) and φύσις (meaning [/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]Nature[/I][/COLOR][/url][I], from which we derive the word [/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]physics[/I][/COLOR][/url][I]).[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#cite_note-14"][COLOR=#0066cc][15][/COLOR][/URL] The same synonyms are found in Latin authors (totum, mundus, natura)[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#cite_note-15"][COLOR=#0066cc][16][/COLOR][/URL] and survive in modern languages, e.g., the German words Das All, Weltall, and Natur for universe. The same synonyms are found in English, such as everything (as in the [/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]theory of everything[/I][/COLOR][/url][I]), the cosmos (as in [/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]cosmology[/I][/COLOR][/url][I]), the [/I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(philosophy)"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]world[/I][/COLOR][/URL][I] (as in the [/I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_hypothesis"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]many-worlds hypothesis[/I][/COLOR][/URL][I]), and [/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]Nature[/I][/COLOR][/url][I] (as in [/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_law"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]natural laws[/I][/COLOR][/url][I] or [/I][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_philosophy"][COLOR=#0066cc][I]natural philosophy[/I][/COLOR][/url][I]).[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#cite_note-16"][COLOR=#0066cc][17][/COLOR][/URL][/I] [/QUOTE]
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