{"title":"The Evolution of Social Constructs","authors":"A. Nairn","doi":"10.22339/JBH.V3I1.3140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22339/JBH.V3I1.3140","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Big History","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124918838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Was there a Big Bang?","authors":"L. Grinin","doi":"10.22339/JBH.V3I1.3130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22339/JBH.V3I1.3130","url":null,"abstract":"The idea that our Universe emerged as a result of the extraordinary power of the Big Bang from singularity (i.e., a state of an infinitely small quantity and infinitely high concentration of matter) is still very popular today. It was one of the main postulates of the Big Bang theory that completely formed in the 1960s–1970s. However, at present this idea as well as the Big Bang theory is outdated, although it is still shared by many scientists. Being widespread since the end of the 1970s the Inflation theory appears more modern. The main reason for the emergence of the Inflation theory was that the Big Bang theory could not satisfactorily explain a number of the contemporary parameters of the Universe. The Inflation theory makes still widespread views of the Big Bang theory archaic as regards the following points: 1) the history of the Universe started with the Big Bang; 2) it started with the singularity. According to the Inflation theory, the Big Bang was not the beginning and the moment of the origin of the Universe, but it was preceded by at least two epochs: inflation and postinflationary heating. That is, the Big Bang or precisely the hot Big Bang is just a phase transition from the state of cold inflation to the hot phase. Since the Inflation theory does not consider the Big Bang as the initial phase there emerges an intricate problem of the role of the Big Bang in the process of the formation the Universe as a whole. The paper considers the confusion with the Big Bang notion, a number and sequence of ‘bangs’ and why the theory can dispense easily without the notion the Big Bang. We will also discuss some advantages and disadvantages of the Inflation theory.","PeriodicalId":326067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Big History","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128932606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The New Story, the Biggest Picture, and a Little Big History of Flight","authors":"B. Wood","doi":"10.22339/JBH.V3I1.3170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22339/JBH.V3I1.3170","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Big History","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125528183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kilauea Eruptions and the Hawaiian Archipelago","authors":"B. Wood","doi":"10.22339/JBH.V3I1.3110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22339/JBH.V3I1.3110","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Big History","volume":"222 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132358424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Alan Rutherford A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Told Through Our Genes","authors":"B. Wood","doi":"10.22339/jbh.v2i3.2360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v2i3.2360","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Big History","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127564637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"O que é a Grande História?","authors":"David Christian","doi":"10.22339/jbh.v2i3.2330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v2i3.2330","url":null,"abstract":"RESUMO A grande historia e um novo campo disciplinar academico que estuda o passado em todas as suas possiveis escalas. Sua abordagem e historica, mas reune disciplinas da cosmologia a geologia, da biologia evolucionaria a historia humana. A partir de \"O que e historia?\" de E.H. Carr, este ensaio descreve a evolucao da grande historia, e em particular, sua relacao com a Historia como disciplina. Descreve em que consiste a nova disciplina e aquilo em que pode se tornar. Argumenta que a grande historia pode ajudar a ultrapassar a fragmentacao caracteristica da educacao e pesquisa modernas em todas as disciplinas. Fazendo-o, pode propor algo como uma narrativa de origens moderna e global, baseada na melhor producao cientifica moderna possivel.","PeriodicalId":326067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Big History","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129656027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Сингулярность XXI века в контексте Большой истории: математический анализ","authors":"Андрей Коротаев","doi":"10.22339/JBH.V2I3.2310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22339/JBH.V2I3.2310","url":null,"abstract":"Представление о том, что в ближайшее время нас ждет некая «Сингулярность», стало в последнее время достаточно популярным, прежде всего благодаря деятельности технического директора Google в области технического обучения Рэймонда Курцвейла и его книге The Singularity Is Near (2005). Показано, что математический анализ приводимого им ряда событий, начинающегося с возникновения нашей Галактики и заканчивающегося расшифровкой кода ДНК, действительно практически идеально описывается (неизвестной самому Курцвейлу) крайне простой математической функцией с сингулярностью в районе 2029 г. Показано также, что составленный в начале 2000-х (совершенно независимо от Курцвейла) российким физиком А. Д. Пановым аналогичный временной ряд (начинающийся с возникновения жизни на Земле и заканчивающийся информационной революцией) также практически идеально описывается (не использованной А. Д. Пановом) математической функцией (крайне сходной с вышеупомянутой) с сингулярностью в районе 2027 г. Показано, что эта функция также чрезвычайно сходна с уравнением, открытым в 1960 г. Х. фон Ферстером, показавшим в своей знаменитой статье в журнале Science, что она практически идеально описывает динамику численности населения и характеризуется математической сингулярностью в районе 2027 г. Все это говорит о наличии достаточно строгих глобальных макроэволюционных закономерностей, которые могут удивительно точно описываться крайне простыми математическими функциями. Вместе с тем продемонстрировано, что в районе точки сингулярности нет основания вслед за Курцвейлом ожидать невиданного (на много порядков) ускорения темпов технологического развития; имеются бoльшие основания интерпретировать эту точку как индикатор зоны перегиба, после прохождения которой темпы глобальной эволюции будут систематически в долгосрочной перспективе замедляться.","PeriodicalId":326067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Big History","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122449844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alan Rutherford. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived","authors":"B. Wood","doi":"10.22339/JBH.V2I3.2333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22339/JBH.V2I3.2333","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Big History","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117326921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paul Raskin, Journey to Earthland: The Great Transition to Planetary Civilization","authors":"D. Christian","doi":"10.22339/JBH.V2I3.2332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22339/JBH.V2I3.2332","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Big History","volume":"245 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116280416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Refueling the Magic Furnace: Kilonova 2017 Rewrites the Story of Element Origins","authors":"B. Wood","doi":"10.22339/JBH.V2I3.2327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22339/JBH.V2I3.2327","url":null,"abstract":"For more than half a century, we have understood element creation in the stars—described in Marcus Chown’s colorful image as “the magic furnace.” From 1958 until 2017, supernova explosions were thought to be the primary site of element creation above Iron, No. 26 on the Periodic Table. This assumption was radically overturned with the August 17, 2017, arrival of signals from a catastrophic collision of neutron stars. This paper traces the history of element-creation science leading to the striking discoveries attending “Kilonova 2017” that now call for a rewriting of the nucleosynthesis chapter of Big History.","PeriodicalId":326067,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Big History","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124061763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}