In Greek mythology, Philotes was a daughter of Nyx. She was the personification of affection. Greek mythology comprises the collected legends of Greek gods and goddesses and ancient heroes and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. ... In Greek mythology, Nyx was the primordial goddess of the night. ...
In Philosophy, philotes are the plural form of philote. Philosophy (from a combination of the Greek words philos meaning love and sophia meaning wisdom), as a practice, aims at some kind of understanding, knowledge or wisdom about fundamental matters such as reality, knowledge, meaning, value, being and truth. ... Philote is a term coined by science fiction writer Orson Scott Card to describe theoretical rays or lines which have the size of a geometric point and possess no mass or inertia. ...
In the Ender's_Game_series, a philote is a physical partical that binds all things in the universe and is the fundamental building block of the story's fictional machine, the Ansible. The Ender Series is a series of science fiction books by Orson Scott Card, started with the Enders Game short story, later expanded into a novel with the same title. ... The term ansible is used in science fiction literature to describe a hypothetical faster-than-light (in fact instantaneous) communication device. ...
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