{"id":695,"date":"2009-07-01T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=695"},"modified":"2009-07-01T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T09:01:00","slug":"how-environment-shapes-cosmology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/how-environment-shapes-cosmology\/","title":{"rendered":"How environment shapes cosmology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further to the post <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2009\/06\/language-and-thought\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">below<\/a> about the relationship between language and thought, a friend has just remarked to me that the absolute (East-West-North-South) spatial reference system in the language of the Kuuk Thaayorre is in fact a relative system, relative to the magnetic poles or (since they are unlikely to have known about the poles) relative to the movements of the sun.\u00a0 Accordingly, such a language would have been unlikely to have developed in parts of the world with continuous cloud cover.\u00a0\u00a0 Which observation\u00a0brought to mind a famous article by French mathematician and physicist Henri Poincare, where he considered what type of mathematical physics humans may have\u00a0 developed if the earth had been always covered in cloud:\u00a0 no theory aiming to predict the return of meteors, no models of planetary motion, not much study of ellipses and related number theory, and perhaps a\u00a0theory of gravitation long delayed.\u00a0 (Thanks:\u00a0 DW).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to the post below about the relationship between language and thought, a friend has just remarked to me that the absolute (East-West-North-South) spatial reference system in the language of the Kuuk Thaayorre is in fact a relative system, relative to the magnetic poles or (since they are unlikely to have known about the poles) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,50,67,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-mathematics","category-prophecy","category-science","p1","y2009","m07","d01","h09"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}