Sentences with phrase «at any given instant»

In his equations Bars has solved these problems with a new symmetry that treats an object's position and its momentum as interchangeable at any given instant.

Since only a small proportion of the molecules are located near the surface and are moving in the proper direction to escape at any given instant, the rate of evaporation is limited.

To realize, for example, that the dominant occasion, as one example of an actual occasion, is what is called the self at a given instant (the organizing center of the person) can clarify the relevance of the cosmology.

The common language, or set of descriptors, developed by the team can only describe the microstructure of a material at a given instant in time.

Fox replies: It has been estimated that only 1 to 15 percent of neurons in the human brain are firing at any given instant.

Cognitive scientists in Australia have concluded that humans can juggle four «chunks» of information at any given instant.

An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be able to comprehend in one single formula the motions of the largest bodies as well as the lightest atoms in the world, provided that its intellect were sufficiently powerful to subject all data to analysis; to it nothing would be uncertain, the future as well as the past would be present to its eyes.

The Leaves are arranged side by side to form one big row that can be traversed by a horizontal swipe of the finger while three of the Leaves make up the entire screen at any given instant.

I would be surprised if increasing the Earth's population by a factor of around four in the century from 1900 to 2000, and increasing the use of coal, oil, gas etc., did not raise the instantaneous heat production at any given instant.

So even though each one is contributing more thermal energy to the lower half than the upper while it's there, there are more molecules in the upper half at any given instant which tends to offset that effect.

The occasions that make up the body, whether viewed at the subcellular or the major systemic levels, are not different in kind from the one that is the self at a given instant.

If an intelligence, at a given instant, knew all the forces that animate nature and the position of each constituent being; if, moreover, this intelligence were sufficiently great to submit these data to analysis, it could embrace in the same formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the smallest atoms: to this intelligence nothing would be uncertain, and the future, as the past, would be present to its eyes.

To measure anything's position precisely, at any given instant, is to lock in on one static frame of its motion, as in the frame of a film.

«At any given instant, the noise coming from the lab fault zone provides quantitative information on when the fault will slip,» said Paul Johnson, a Los Alamos National Laboratory fellow and lead investigator on the research, which was published today in Geophysical Research Letters.

At any given instant it can be argued that the cell is in a «state» defined by its components — their concentrations and locations, the interactions between components — that are modulated in space and time, and the complex circuitry — that involves a large number of interacting networks and a snapshot of the dynamical processes — such as gene expression, cell cycle, transport of components, etc..

What can the visitor of a gallery see, experience, or know at any given instant?