An introductory exploration of the mechanical influence of long-term gyricity or gyroscopic effect on the dynamics of the Earth is presented. Gyricity exists in a deformable, energy-dissipating, and thus rotationally unstable Earth in the form of internal torques, or the rate of change of angular momentum independent of external torques. The kinematics of the internal torques appear compatible ...

Atheists are distrusted in societies with religious majorities. However, relatively little is known about the underlying reasons for this phenomenon. Previous evidence suggests that distrust of atheists is in part the result of believers thinking that being under supernatural surveillance by a watchful God underlies moral behavior. However, secular rule of law, including institutions such as po...

Ethics is a concept used by people in everyday life. Apart from ethics existing in the wider social environment (secular ethics), another form of ethics found in a specific environment has been supported, that of Christian Ethics. While secular ethics has been studied quite intensely through a variety of theories, the issue of Christian Ethics especially within the framework of Orthodox Church ...

In the inner solar system, the planets' orbits evolve chaotically, driven primarily by secular chaos. Mercury has a particularly chaotic orbit and is in danger of being lost within a few billion years. Just as secular chaos is reorganizing the solar system today, so it has likely helped organize it in the past. We suggest that extrasolar planetary systems are also organized to a large extent by...

Recent religious studies and international relations scholarship has highlighted secularism as a critical element in dominant modes of identity, power, and exclusion in global politics. Yet, the implications of these insights for global justice theory and practice have rarely been considered. This article suggests that the current dominance of secularism within global justice theory and practic...

Abstract Many Canadian Muslim couples are hesitant to resort civil legal processes and attempt resolve their disputes within the religious community. Islamic law’s exclusion of non-Muslim judges from holding judicial authority in certain family law matters limits feasibility aligning commands with court orders. By extrapolating contemporary opinions ( fatāwā , sing. fatwā ) issued by institutio...

We consider the characteristic polynomials of random unitary matrices U drawn from various circular ensembles. In particular, the statistics of the coefficients of these polynomials are studied. The variances of these “secular coefficients” are given explicitly for arbitrary dimension and continued analytically to arbitrary values of the level repulsion exponent β. The latter secular coefficien...

secular ethics – which is known as the de-religionized, human, or conventional ethics – contrasts the religious and divine ethics. its roots are in humanistic thought that adapts itself to the needs and the direction of the society. therefore, the contraction and dilation of secular ethics will be unstable, gradual, and accidental. moreover, it is not possible to expect this thought system to p...

We perform numerical simulations to study the secular orbital evolution and dynamical structure in the HD 69830 planetary system with the best-fit orbital solutions by Lovis and coworkers (2006). In the simulations, we show that the triplet Neptunian system can be stable at least for 2 Gyr and the stability would not be greatly influenced even if we vary the planetary masses from Neptune-mass t...

Why do we need some more questionnaires to measure aspects of spirituality/religiosity when we already have so many well-tried instruments in use? One answer is that research in this field is growing and that new research questions continuously do arise. Several of these new questions cannot be easily answered with the instruments designed for previous questions. The field is expanding and, con...