Sentences with phrase «atom for atom»

Using epitaxy, the semiconductor nanowires can then be grown atom for atom out of these holes.»

Not exact matches

Radiohead and Atoms for Peace frontman Thom Yorke last year described the service as «the last desperate fart of a dying corpse,» while pop megastar Taylor Swift pulled her entire catalog from Spotify in November.

Because it was being used for atom bomb calculations and other classified tasks, ENIAC was kept secret until February 1946, when the Army and Penn scheduled a gala unveiling for the public and the press.

But the end of the war meant that the machine was needed for many other types of calculations — sonic waves, weather patterns, and the explosive power of atom bombs — that would require it to be reprogrammed often.

At the Livermore lab, for example, lasers the length of football fields are being used to compress atoms into fusion.

And while Intel's surviving higher end «Apollo Lake» and Core M lines sell for more than the discontinued Atom chipsets, they are also more suited to the kind of mid-level tablets, Chromebooks, and convertible Windows PCs with removable touch screens that seem to be growing in popularity right now.

Fusion power — pressing atoms together until they fuse into heavier elements and release energy, just like they do inside the sun's core — is an old dream, and for just as long, a scientific bugbear.

For example, if an A.I. is tasked with proving or disproving the Riemann hypothesis, one of the most important, unsolved problems in mathematics, it might pursue this goal by trying to convert the entire solar system into a computer, including the atoms in the bodies of whomever once cared about the answer.

«We did not reach the moon or split the atom or find treatments and cures for countless diseases by under - investing in basic research,» Pritzker said.

The transistors on the processor inside your PC might be only about 100 atoms across, and improvements in manufacturing technology will keep them shrinking — at least, for the time being.

But like a well - made atom - bomb, it is compactly designed for maximum reverberation to blow up its intended target.

Helion — a name derived from a term for the nucleus of a helium atom — grew from research at the University of Washington.

The authors are three brothers including Neil Gershenfeld, who runs the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT.

They don't take the sugar compound from their placebo, randomly switch out one carbon atom for a hydrogen atom, run a split test, and hope for the best.

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The nuclear power plants in use around the world today use fission, or the splitting of heavy atoms such as uranium, to release energy for electricity.

Answer this if you can: what is the probability for a lifeform to reincarnate (spatial rearrange of the same atoms on a n - future universe (hypothesis: universe expands and collapse)-RRB-, and therefore, allowing the «same computer components» of your brain to re-exist?

Elizabeth Anscombe noted this in reviewing the justifications offered for the use of the atom bomb.

makes more sense than «there was just one microscopic atom in all of «non-creation» and for an unknown reason, this one atom exploded and from this atom, all other atoms came to be.

Second: The Creation tale is simply a way for early humans to explain mans creation and «fall» from God's predetermined path... The old testament is full of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «Gods word» However, this revelation has not made me less of a christian... In Contrast to those stuck in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and us.

When the question was asked of Nye about where did all the atoms come from for the big - bang... I thought his answer of «don't know» was good.

But people that reject him, they get a much simplier view, they get odds like no atoms right out of any atoms to pick from, even one... they get nothing... you for instance... nothing.

I have no idea how you would go about finding all the possible «tracings» for a carbon atom, but I think you'd need a stack of graph paper and some sort of computer program?

I mean that the atom bomb hid from us the ending going on all around us, and that far from destroying modern times, the atom bomb kept modern times alive for nearly fifty years.

Tom tom: I'm sure you accept many things without absolute proof - for example, you probably accept that matter is made of atoms which you can not see; you probably accept that gravity is not going to disappear tomorrow; you probably believe that testing a theory over and over will yield reliable results.

If he says the atoms were created, why then not a planet or the universe, for the same logic.

When they are cremated they are, in the form of molecules and atoms, headed for the sky.

Or, rather, for the modern man and modern woman there is no explanation (though perhaps environmental pollution now replaces the atom bomb in the fully modern eschatology).

«A few hundred years ago, there was no evidence for atoms or molecules, and so it goes.

If you watched an atom of carbon 14 undergo beta decay to an atom of nitrogen 14, what was the cause for that atom of nitrogen 14?

Secularization, the view that human beings are collections of atoms, sexual freedom, the scramble for wealth, careerism — these are facts that infiltrate everywhere, including our souls, making the beauty of an integrated life of faith elusive, difficult, and rare.

The atomic model, for example, is just a model that seems to explain the little bit that we do know and can observe about atoms.

There's empirical evidence that supports the existence of oxygen, atoms, neurons, gravity, etc., but none for God.

This article implies that you can not believe in atoms and the wonder of evolution without being atheist or non-Christian, which is simply not true (I feel more theistic in a biochem class than I do talking to close - minded «Christian» creationist idiots, interestingly enough for the same reasons the author does).

But it would allow Whiteheadians to affirm the unitary reality of atoms and molecules simply as democratically organized societies of occasions rather than as mini-organisms requiring a dominant subsociety of occasions for their ontological cohesiveness.

For example, consider the similarity between an atom and the solar system.

If it took «forever» for the atoms to interact as you say, why hasn't our universe already come into and gone out of existence forever ago?

The science side of me looks at the systematic ways that systems, elements, molecules and atoms come together to form life and I realize it is very easy for me to believe that an intelligence greater than mine is definitely a possibility too.

For this reason, this object of speculative thought was called an «atom», meaning that which could not be divided.

Mr Deighan will have read in these pages «something very close» to the idea that Thomistic epistemology tends to emphasise «immutable essences» and static forms, and that this emphasis has been powerfully challenged by the success of modern science (for example Jaeger's article in our last issue and in our September 2006 issue the editorial and the quotes from Ronald Knox's God and the Atom).

Scientists buoy our longing for clarity by enumerating laws and speaking of atoms and electrons, but, laments Camus even they are reduced to using the «poetry» of planetary systems, i.e., they Can not rationally seize the reality they study.

Once and for all he understood that, like the atom, man has no value save for that part of himself which passes into the universe.

«Particle» is a new term for something like the earlier atom, which turned out, despite its name, to be divisible.

Long after his death, some physicists continue to suggest that Lemaître had apologetic motivations for introducing his Primeval Atom Hypothesis.

Some of it we put to use in technology, but much «big» science is for the sheer love of knowing how the universe began or what atoms are made of.

This is an important and helpful book for the Catholic community as it struggles to respond appropriately to the challenge outlined by Watkin — and by Ronald Knox two years earlier in 1945 (see the first part of his God and the Atom, summarised in Faith Magazine Nov / Dec 2012).

«This book is for everybody who can't do the denial, reductionist route which says «you are just a finely tuned collection of atoms and this whole thing is just a material accident»,» Bell says.

A value for Hoyle state 2 % higher than the measured value would prevent the formation of carbon.5 A value 2 % lower than the measured value would produce lots of carbon, but no oxygen.5 Both are essential atoms for life.

All of these — animals, cells and atoms — are thus called «organisms» by Whitehead, one of Hartshorne's main sources for his psychicalism.

For example, he said, look at the Buddhist theory of impermanence, the idea that the physical world is changing by the second, which was later proved by quantum physics in the movement of atoms.