Sentences with phrase «arbitrary measure of energy»

In fact, what horsepower is — aside from an arbitrary measure of energy popularized by a guy who needed to sell steam engines — depends on where you live.

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At the 1930 Solvay meeting Einstein proposed a thought experiment purporting to defeat Heisenberg uncertainty by opening the shutter of a box arbitrarily briefly to allow a photon to escape at an accurately known time then measuring the resulting decrease m in weight of the whole box to arbitrary accuracy so as to estimate the photon's energy E accurately as mc ^ 2.
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