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Horizon (disambiguation)

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The horizon is the line at which the sky and the Earth's surface appear to meet.

Horizon or The Horizon may also refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

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Films

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Games

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Music

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Albums

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Songs

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Periodicals

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Television and web series

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Other arts, entertainment, and media

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Companies and brands

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Radio and television providers

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Events and organizations

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Places

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Schools

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Science

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Computing

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Earth science and archeology

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  • Horizon (archaeology), a distinctive sediment, artefact, style or other cultural trait that is found at archaeological sites across a large geographical area
  • Horizon (geology), a bedding plane or a thin bed of distinctive character within a stratigraphic sequence
  • Marker horizon, a distinctive stratigraphic unit, of the same age across several locations
  • Soil horizon, a specific and distinctive layer in a land area

Physics

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  • Horizon (general relativity), that play a role in Einstein's theory of general relativity
  • Absolute horizon, a boundary in spacetime in general relativity inside of which events cannot affect an external observer
  • Apparent horizon, a surface defined in general relativity
  • Cauchy horizon, a surface found in the study of Cauchy problems
  • Celestial horizon, a great circle parallel to the horizon
  • Cosmological horizon, a limit of observability: the maximum distance from which particles can have travelled to an observer in the age of the universe
  • Event horizon, a boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect the observer
  • JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System, an interactive facility that computes the position of many solar system objects
  • Killing horizon, a null surface on which there is a Killing vector field
  • Radio horizon, the locus of points in telecommunication at which direct rays from an antenna are tangential to the surface of the Earth

Transportation

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Other uses

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  • Fusion of horizons, understanding that results from the dynamic process of integrating the 'Other' and the familiar
  • Project Horizon, a study to determine the feasibility of the construction of a military base on the moon conducted in 1959

See also

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