If this happens, or if there are aliens out there who actually visit and study the Earth, then, digging through the geological record (and applying archaeological techniques as well) they would uncover traces of a distinctive transient epoch, and ponder the all-too-brief flourishing of a species that failed in its stewardship of "spaceship Earth".
Each possesses its own distinctive character, reflecting the epoch in which it was built.
"What's distinctive about the present epoch is that nowadays anti-utopias can be based on entirely factual material," Nevinsky's agent says.
Modern architects simply took 19th-century historicism -- the view that every epoch produces a distinctive architectural style -- and projected it onto the 20th century.
However, because of the distinctive "metaphysical conditions" of different epochs, they express this objective reality in radically different forms.
The idea that each epoch should produce its own distinctive style of art was one of historicism's fundamental tenets.
It involved the crumbling of historicism: the 19th-century belief that each epoch should produce its own distinctive style.
The brief epoch of inflation would leave a distinctive pattern of high- and low-density patches in the primordial soup — which correspond to the hot and cold spots in the CMB — and the high-density patches later would evolve into the galaxies and galaxy clusters that we see today.
Be that as it may, on top of every other determination, though certainly not independent of it, the ideals of the new countries are given them by the distinctive character and decision of the new leaders that the present epoch has spawned.
In order for it to take an official place alongside the Mesozoic Era, the Jurassic Period and the Pleistocene epoch, geologists need to be convinced that we are leaving behind a sufficiently distinctive sequence of rocks and stand-out fossil record in the sediments being laid down in today's seas, lakes and flood plains.
Last month, Yale University announced that $20 million had been donated to restore the epoch-making building, with 37 changes of level in seven stories and distinctive hand-hammered "corduroy" concrete walls embedded with classical fragments.
