Dmitry Paramzin

What is an event? Generally speaking, an event is an occurrence that brings about significant change in the state of an object from a certain point of view. For example, the "sunrise" is an event that is defined from the perspective of an earthling. Yet from the perspective of an alien, Earth's sunrise is not a sunrise at all, but merely a lonely planet's celestial rotation. On a simple scale, we can view the change of time as an event in itself. Consider a sun dial's interpretation of time. While a sun dial doesn't move, the forces of time act upon the object, thus causing an event. The former describes simple events, or a singular event defined from the perspective of its onlooker, whereas complex events are the product of an onlooker's interpretation of a series of events. The same event can be defined as either "complex" or "simple" depending on its context. For ... (more)