Plamen DamyanovCorresponding author and Plamen Damianov

The Accumulation of Change Depending on the Time Factor

Article
12/1 - Spring 2007, pages 177-192
Date of online publication: 15 juin 2007
Date of publication: 01 juin 2007

Abstract

Each phenomenon contains variable components, which are conservative. Because of their conservation, they accumulate. Present phenomena contain constituents of phenomena, belonging to the past which form the present and the future, and their dependence on time is an exponential one - S = Sₒe^t-tᵖ (S is a variable component, is a moment in the past). We assume that before and after tₒ = t-tᵖ = 0 the change pertains to phenomena of one type. The dependency is for each defined phenomenon of one and the same type (for its characteristics). The concrete aspect of the change S will depend on the type of the phenomenon. We show in our study how in some cosmological phenomena, the exponential dependence on time is present. The processes of radioactive disintegration of atomic nuclei, are also phenomena of this type. We present the real phenomena as a sum of exponents. Each phenomenon originates, develops and is destroyed. In reality most phenomena are formed as a composition of exponential dependencies of the change (of its characteristics).

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Damianov, Plamen. “The Accumulation of Change Depending on the Time Factor.” Forum Philosophicum 12, no. 1 (2007): 177–92. doi:10.35765/forphil.2007.1201.12.

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