2,218 research outputs found
Evo-SETI: life evolution statistics on Earth and exoplanets
No full textThis book offers a vision of how evolutionary life processes can be modelled. It presents a mathematical description that can be used not only for the full evolution of life on Earth from RNA to modern human societies, but also the possible evolution of life on exoplanets, thus leading to SETI, the current Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence. The main premise underlying this mathematical theory is that the Geometric Brownian Motion (GBM) can be applied as a key stochastic process to model the evolution of life. In the resulting Evo-SETI Theory, the life of any living thing (a cell, an animal, a human, a civilization of humans, or even an ET civilization) is represented by a b-lognormal, i.e., a lognormal probability density function starting at a precise instant (b, birth) then increasing up to a peak time, then decreasing to senility time and then continuing as a straight line down to the time of death. Using this theory, Claudio Maccone arrives at remarkable hypotheses on the development of life and civilizations, the possibility of extraterrestrial life, and when computers will take over the reins from us humans (Singularity). The book develops the mathematical Evo-SETI Theory by integrating a set of articles that the author has published in various journals on Astrobiology and Astronautical Research
"La vida en el universo": The Oxford templeton visiting fellowship to Peru about SETI and bioastronomy
No full text"La vida en el universo: su origen, su naturaleza, su sentido" ("Life in the universe: its origin, its nature its meaning") is a Peruvian project about SETI and Bioastronomy which has been awarded one of the six Oxford Templeton Visiting Fellowships to Latin America offered by the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at the Oxford University and the John Templeton Foundation for the year 2017. The project, which was both research, teaching and dissemination, has been proposed by two Universities of Lima, the UCSS (Universidad Católica Sedes Sapientiae) and the UNIFÉ (Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón), and has been developed by the Visiting Fellow (i.e. Dr. Paolo Musso) from 20 February to 30 April 2017 in the Peruvian cities of Lima and Atalaya. The main topics to be investigated were: a) the relationships between the conditions required for the origin of life and the conditions required for the origin of universe; b) the philosophical and religious implications of the possible existence of life in other parts of the universe; c) the problem of the universality of reason, with a special focus on intercultural communication. The main activities of the project were: 1) a course of specialization for professors and students about the search for life in the universe; 2) a seminar about the origin of the universe and the origin of life; 3) a research work on interculturality to be developed in the UCSS Amazonian seat of Atalaya (called UCSS Nopoki); 4) an international congress about all the topics of the project with the participation of distinguished experts of SETI and Bioastronomy, who were to be put in touch with the local researchers in these fields. The present paper will account for the main outcomes of the projects and the future perspectives
Protecting the Moon farside radio-telescopes from RFI produced at the future Lagrangian-Points space stations
No full textPostal de Claudio Vivas a Maruja Vieira, junio 23 de 1955
No full textPostal de Claudio Vivas a Maruja Vieira, felicitándola por el reconocimiento que le fue otorgado a la autora de poemasPostcard from Claudio Vivas to Maruja Vieira, congratulating her for the recognition given to the author of poems.Publicación, fondo Maruja Vieira, carpeta 1, folio
Astrobiology and SETI in Peru: recent and future advances
No full textIn a previous paper presented at the IAC 2020 we spoked about a Peruvian project about Astrobiology and SETI. Unfortunately, the project was stopped for two years by the Covid pandemic, but we are now resuming it. The project is carried out by a group of professors of the Faculty of Physical Sciences of the San Marcos National University in collaboration with the InCosmiCon research center, and it moves along three main lines: 1) creating the first Peruvian School of Astronomy at the San Marcos National University in Lima, where Astrobiology will be one of the programs of the school; 2) activating the first Peruvian Optical SETI program at the new astronomical observatory that the San Marcos National University is currently building in Cusco; 3) carrying out a series of studies about some crucial topics of Astrobiology and SETI, like the extension of the galactic habitable zone, the encoding of advanced mathematics in interstellar messages, and the ongoing experience of intercultural dialogue at the Amazonian University UCSS-Nopoki of Atalaya as a possible model for interstellar communication. In this paper we will account for the recent advances already made and those expected in the next future
“Dialogue between Translators and Authors. The Example of Claudio Magris”
No full textThe paper focuses on the forms of cooperation between authors and their translator(s) in all cases in which the two operate simultaneously. This issue is explored on the example of the Trieste-born author Claudio Magris, who cultivates a very close relationship with most of his translators.
Writing and translation have been coexisting in this author throughout his career and have resulted in the heightened sensitivity of Magris the author with regards to translation, as the first part of the analysis shows. The second part describes the dialogue between Magris and the translators of his works, and ends with the more general question of the significance and role of such a form of exchange
Consideraciones sobre la poética de Claudio Rodríguez
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to study the poetics of Claudio Rodríguez, delimiting its components and trying to clarify them and to present them as a whole. The author left some pages written on his conception of poetry that encourage reflection and, in some cases, interpretation. So with his conception of poetry as a gift and inebriation, as an alliance and condemnation or celebration (giving title to his collections of poems), or with notions such as «participation», «living contemplation», «living expression » or «personal rhythm» that make up his way of understanding the poetic process.El propósito de este artículo es estudiar la poética de Claudio Rodríguez, deslindando sus componentes y tratando de clarificarlos y presentarlos en su conjunto. El autor dejó escritas algunas páginas sobre su concepción de la poesía que animan a la reflexión y, en algunos casos, a la interpretación. Así sucede con su concepción de la poesía como un don y una ebriedad, como alianza y condena o como celebración (que dan título a sus poemarios), o con nociones como las de «participación», «contemplación viva», «expresión viva» o «ritmo personal», que configuran su forma de entender el proceso poético
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