All-Russian Scientific Research Institute (VNII)
FAQs - General
Q What is “logarithmic world”?
A It is “still” the name of the web page, based on the paper “Bradford’s law of scattering for climate-friendy technologies and metainformational effect of time”.
Q Where is the author of this paper from?
A Irina Zerchaninova (Moscow, Russia) formally belongs to information science and management. Besides, she is a rather known expert on energy & environment in the light of related methods. With experiences in (physical) optics and in some other areas. However, explorations of the nature of time are beyond the formal topics of the research institute, where she worked for many years as the head of the department for information & research in electrical engineering and industrial development. It may be beyond topics of other (academic and university) structures with which she collaborated, too.
The main place of work was All-Russian Scientific Research Institute (VNII) "Informelectro", later transformed into the federal center Industrial Development Institute "Informelectro". In terms of scientific research in recent years, close cooperation with the Institute for Time Nature Explorations, informal association on the site of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Q Are the proposed effect, its formulation and the concrete formulas new?
A As of the date of the publication, the author had not found such ones. New.
Q Are these formulas useful for information science and its applications?
A Yes. They have their primary and own values here, and these values are reflected in a number of official scientific reports. But it happens so that they can be useful for the time’s research, too.
Q Where could some basic publications be seen?
A You can read:
- Zerchaninova, I.L. Vozobnovliaemaia energetika: globaljnye tendentsii i stimuly razvitiia [Renewable power engineering: global tendencies and development stimulus]. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference “Global problems of modern power engineering security” (4-6 Apr. 2006, Moscow). International Independent University of Environmental and Political Sciences (IIUEPS). P. 444-459 (2006). ISBN 5-85377-075-6;
- Zerchaninova, I.L. K monitoringu novykh napravlenij razvitiia [Toward monitoring the development trends]. Nauchnoe, expertno-analiticheskoe i informatsionnoe obespechenie natsionaljnogo i strategicheskogo proektirovaniia [Scientific, expert-analytical and information support for the national strategy planning, innovation & technology development of Russia]: Collection of Scientific Papers. Part One. Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS INION). P. 233-236 (2009). ISBN 978-5248-00496-6;
- Zerchaninova, I.L. “Strela vremeni“ i zolotye proportsii (na primere tendentsij technologicheskogo razvitiia) [“Time’s arrow“ and golden proportions (technology trends case study)]. Proceedings of the All-Russian Scientific Conference “The Futurological Congress: Russian & World futures” (4 June 2010, Moscow). Nauchny Expert [Scientific Expert]. P. 637-647 (2010). ISBN 978-5-91290-131-7.
- Zerchaninova, I.L. Sokrashcheniye vybrosov parnikovykh gazov kak mirovoy tekhnologicheskiy trend [Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions as a global technological trend]. Russia: Development Trends and Prospects. Yearbook. Issue 8. Part One. Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS INION). P. 517-523. ISBN 978-5-248-006287-8.
Q Was this paper published somewhere else?
A Yes, it was included in the Library of Electronic Publications of the Institute for Time Nature Explorations under the Moscow State University, see http://www.chronos.msu.ru/RPUBS/rgenrepublications_1.html (within the list of research works in Russian and in English). The paper was qualified as electronic technical report on prognostics.
Q Is the author sure that the “metainformational effect of time” has been named correctly? Why not “time’s effect of metainformation”, for example?
A If to consider the effect as the originating from information science … yes, possibly, the other name would sound better. But the same name seems right, if to consider the effect as one of the different effects of time. For publications on information science, informetrics and sci-tech monitoring, the author uses brackets.
Q Why Bradford’s law as the base - from all the information science?
A The effect was first revealed experimentally. Thus, it looks like an accident. Nevertheless, Bradford himself was a physical chemist. When discussing this scientometric (informometric) law, figurative analogies were considered, including those with the structure of the atom. (What did Bradford “conceal”? It is, in turn, a question of the author. And physical chemists should appreciate it …)
Q Whether the author had a permission to publish results based on the used given data?
A Yes.
Q Will the author update the logarithmicworld’s web page?
A Yes.
Key words - General
Bradford distribution
Effect of time
Geometric progressions
Golden ratio
Metaentropy
Metainformation
Arrows of time
General physics
Optics
Quantumness
'Cheshire Cat'
Evolution