Sentences with phrase «about gravity for»

What most people forget, however, is that Newton worked on his ideas about gravity for nearly twenty years until, in 1687, he published his groundbreaking book, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.

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The newspaper also reported that like other heroes, Morris had never talked much about his military service, «out of respect for the gravity of taking a human life.»

In January, it opted to defer five recent applications for projects using another in situ method, steam - assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), while it drew up new requirements for the applications, which it said lacked sufficient geological survey information about the integrity of caprock.

If you don't believe in an afterlife, or God for that matter, well then it's just a function of gravity and weak interfactions so there's nothing to worry about.

Journalism is a quest for truth and, up to this point, few film journalists have had the courage to ask Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón the most important question about his...

Anti-falling physicists have been theorizing for decades about the «electromagnetic force,» the «weak nuclear force,» the «strong nuclear force,» and so - called «force of gravity and they tilt their findings toward trying to unite them into one force.

Then light was liberated, and then gravity created the first stars and galaxies, then billions of years later, a local star went supernova and seeded the local nebula with heavier elements, elements necessary for life, elements that were not created during the Big Bang, then the sun was born, then the planets coalesced, and billions of years later some primate wrote a story about how the Earth was created at the same time as the rest of the universe, getting it wrong because that primate did not have the science nor technology to really understand what happened, so he gave it his best guess, most likely an iteration of an older story told prior to the advent of the Judeo Christian religion.

To add onto my point earlier about the higher you go in the sciences the more people you find who have a belief structure in some religion: Newton may have been known for «discovering» gravity and creating his three laws.

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From General Relativity, «Gravity is mass bending Time»; there has been no question about where gravity comes from in science for almost a cGravity is mass bending Time»; there has been no question about where gravity comes from in science for almost a cgravity comes from in science for almost a century.

Fairies and gods, if they exist, occupy something of the same conceptual space as organic cells, photons, and the force of gravity, and so the sciences might perhaps have something to say about them, if a proper medium for investigating them could be found.

John Calvin was extremely cautious about the music he sanctioned for use in worship, which he thought should exhibit moderation, gravity and majesty.

I was just reading an article right here on msnbc about reaction to Stephen Hawkin's recent comment about there being no need for god, gravity alone could have started the Universe.

For the person asking about squishing their bread while using the serrated bread knife: The trick is to let gravity and the knife do the cutting.

Speaking about the matter for the first time since Parliament brought a closure to it, Alhaji Muntaka insisted that he doubted if there was any true Muslim who would want to give false witness knowing the consequences and gravity of it in Islam.

The folks who volunteer to lie in bed for three months with their feet elevated slightly above their heads so that scientists can study the physiological effects of being in zero gravity tend to be passionate about space flight.

Those directions might have served equally well for locating Barbour's house at the time it was built in 1659, a few decades before another English physicist, Isaac Newton, wrote his Principia, setting down the ideas about motion and gravity that dominated physics for almost three centuries.

The anomaly is about a 10 billionth of the acceleration due to gravity on earth, so it's a 10 - billionth g of a g force, so it's a very, very small effect you're looking for and the kick you get, the rebound you get from light and heat coming off the spacecraft, is also very, very small.

And the decreased gravity, about one - sixth of Earth's, is perfect for taking slow, peaceful bounds among the craters.

For about a minute, running on half a hair dryer's worth of power, the orbiter - cum - probe beamed direct measures of the planet's atmosphere, along with final probes of its gravity and magnetic field, to mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

And Yan - Chuan Cai of the University of Edinburgh waxes similar about the fifth force he's hunting: «Cosmic voids are underdense environments where the fifth force is expected to be more active,» he says, so they «are perhaps better laboratories for testing modified gravity.»

As the craft ploughs deeper into the galaxy, the NASA team will look for an anticipated change in magnetic field direction that would indicate that Voyager 1 is at last clear of all solar influences except gravity, as well as anything that can be gleaned about interstellar space, before we lose contact.

«As for today, one could perhaps talk about a new «quantum gravity era» of tensor networks that is just starting,» he writes.

But for anything larger, Titan's gravity, which is one seventh that of the Earth and about the same as our Moon, dominates.

Dark matter neither emits nor absorbs light, primarily interacts with the rest of the universe through gravity, yet accounts for about 80 percent of the matter in the universe.

«If it's true that a galaxy exists where there is hardly any dark matter, I think that's a problem for all theories about galaxy formation,» says Erik Verlinde, a theoretical physicist at the University of Amsterdam who has proposed an alternative to dark - matter - dominated gravity and was not involved in the research.

«Black holes are a theoretical laboratory for trying out new ideas about gravity,» says Gonzalo Olmo, a Ramón y Cajal grant researcher at the Universitat de València (University of Valencia, UV).

Researcher Alex Klotz reimagined the calculation for this classic, problem, altering assumptions about gravity and density.

Traditionally, this remark has been interpreted as indicating Newton's modesty, and his recognition that earlier scientists such as Johannes Kepler, Galileo and Descartes had laid the foundations for his laws of motion and his great work on gravity — which is odd, because in 1675 Newton had not made public his ideas about gravity and motion.

But it turns out we can actually indirectly measure gravity waves by looking out at the cosmic microwave background that's come to us from the big bang and imprinted in there, it turns out for reasons I think I won't talk about here, [is] a signal maybe of the big bang and I've just, in fact, written a bit about how you might be able to entangle that signal.

The spacecraft, which launched in 2016, swung back by Earth on September 22 for a quick gravity assist on its way to Bennu, a carbon - rich asteroid that comes within about 300,000 kilometers of Earth every six years (SN Online: 9/8/16).

Once he's president for the Royal Society, he can finally say what he really thinks about light and God and matter and gravity and living inside God's brain and fermentation - all these things that he can only say at the end.

And the researchers say that the rediscovered Russian reflector is particularly useful for studying the moon's liquid core and testing ideas about gravity.

«The new gravity map will be helpful for future Mars exploration, because better knowledge of the planet's gravity anomalies helps mission controllers insert spacecraft more precisely into orbit about Mars.

The Psyche spacecraft would orbit the huge metal asteroid for about 12 months, studying the topography, gravity, magnetic field and other surface features, and carry a suite of instruments, including magnetometer, imager, gamma ray and neutron spectrometer.

For this Hubble 25th anniversary science article, read about how Hubble «sees» gravity and how astronomers are using gravity to make ground - breaking discoveries at the edge of the observable universe.

For an object of 2.5 million solar masses, its Schwarzschild radius — or outer edge of the «gravity well» from which not even light itself can escape from the black hole's pull — would be only about 7.5 million kilometers.

The best explanation for the observations is that a suspected unseen planet, about one to 20 times the mass of Jupiter and in an orbit within the secondary disk, is using gravity to sweep up material from the primary disk.

«It gives scientists a highly sophisticated instrument for detecting gravitational waves, which we believe carry with them information about their dynamic origins and about the nature of gravity that can not be obtained by conventional astronomical tools.»

That nearly simultaneous arrival time is a very important test for theories about dark energy and gravity.

Today we're going to be using gravity and our sliders to add that resistance - intensity to our training — with this core - focused workout that you can do in about 12 minutes with me (or repeat for a longer workout of course) to really make the most of our time and get stronger!

Water, even though Cheryl isn't crazy about it, deep water with a belt or shallow between navel and nipple depth walking is wonderful for removing the effects of gravity and allowing full range of motion with some resistance from the water.

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Much has rightly been made over the years about how the franchise became a platform for some of the best British actors working, a truism that brought it force and gravity as one after another great — Michael Gambon, Gary Oldman, Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent, Maggie Smith, David Thewlis, Jason Isaacs — stepped up, often wonderfully.

Inevitably, «The Post» will be politicized (those involved haven't been shy about discussing their motivations for making it), but the story stands on its own, establishing a powerful sense of drama and gravity with the attributes of a thriller, even knowing the outcome.

Warners could find a date in November, if they're not worried about clashing with «Catching Fire» and «Thor 2,» but they also still have to find a slot for Alfonso Cuarón «s «Gravity,» so they may end up deciding to hold fire until the spring or summer of 2014.

For top dramatic pictures, the selections made by the HFPA's fewer than 100 voters were the historical drama «12 Years a Slave»; the Somali piracy thriller «Captain Phillips»; the 3 - D space spectacle «Gravity»; «Philomena,» about a mother's search for her son; and the car racing film «Rush.&raqFor top dramatic pictures, the selections made by the HFPA's fewer than 100 voters were the historical drama «12 Years a Slave»; the Somali piracy thriller «Captain Phillips»; the 3 - D space spectacle «Gravity»; «Philomena,» about a mother's search for her son; and the car racing film «Rush.&raqfor her son; and the car racing film «Rush.»

«Gravity,» Alfonso Cuarón's thriller about a space disaster, dominated the BAFTA awards Feb. 16 with six wins out of 11 nominations, including trophies for Cuarón and outstanding British film.

For other film about surviving against all odds, check out The Poseidon Adventure, (or the 2006 re-make called Poseidon), The Day After Tomorrow, and Gravity — or one based on a true story, The Impossible.

There is ultimately something a bit soft and nebulous about Arrival: for all the forehead - furrowing concepts it entertains, it can't actually, as a big - budget Hollywood movie, sell us big ideas without packing them in the cotton floss of meaningful intimate experience, which was also the case with Interstellar and even Gravity (one movie where the protagonist could easily have done without a heart - wrenching back story).