(See the Introduction to the collection for more background information.) DSS texts are identified by a number and letter combination, indicating the cave from which they were recovered: 1Q indicates the text was found in Qumran cave 1; 4Q means found in Qumran cave 4.
ETHICS IN A NUTSHELL. Ethics: A branch of philosophy that comes from the Greek word ethos (ÎµÎ¸Î¿Ï ) meaning habit or custom. In common English usage, it refers to a code or set of principles by which people live righteously. Ethics are the principles that regulate a just society and prescribe how one ought to behave.
Smolin took issue with what he called the Newtonian Paradigm, the conceptual division of nature into two elements: (a) the state of the world, and (b) the laws of physics. The state of the world is defined in space. In classical mechanics, such as the rules that govern a pool table, the state consists of the positions and velocities of objects. The laws of physics operate in time. They take one state to the next.