Relativity is fun
because in its thought experiments, it combines philosophy and what seems like magic.
Not exact matches
Engaging
in this kind of
thought experiment is great,
because it forces us to
think about the physicality of the coming kingdom and helps us picture a world full of human creations rather than one of fluffy clouds and winged babies babies flying around.
Hi Claire, lots of veg make awesome sauces — tomatoes are great
because they're so saucy but I definitely
think you could
experiment with slow cooking and blitzing any veg
in a pan with oil and seasoning — let me know how you get on!
Actually, when I first started this blog, I
thought that I would share more food and recipe stories
because I love cooking and
experimenting in the kitchen.
There are no weak teams or easy games anymore, more so this mad season... the time for
experimenting is well and truly over, personally I
think we should field our best team
in the league every game
because we can not afford to lose any more ground, City are starting to purr and we will be severely punished for any slip ups....
I
think it is funny that this happened today
because «got asked to write an obit about a guy who isn't dead» is the weirdest fast violation
in this whole
experiment — so far, at least.
Kinda makes sense though, the only reason people are asking for another CDM is
because we all fear the possibility of injury to coquelin and know flamini is usless, beilick is inexperienced so it begs the question what happens if an injury where to occur, but wîth how many midfielders we have
in the squad i
think it could allow us to change a tactical approach and potentially
experiment with people like Ramsey and Wishere potentially playing a deeper role??? But the striker is a must as i mentioned earlier Giroud went 8 games without scoring a goal and none of the other strikers stepped up to the plate, we cant have a drought of goals when your the quest for titles...
We tried and it was a beautiful
experiment that I
thought was very important but those
in power managed to sabotage its reputation by just constantly hammering that a new constitution should never be ratified
in dispute which was complete bollocks (for more on the dispute manufactured by the Independence Party see the «An Unexpected Hiccup» section of From the people to the people, a new constitution)
because those
in power will always fight against anything that brings more liberation and more rights to the public and thwarts their unconditional power.
Just a
thought experiment (covering the missing human part): If you were a sub commander
in charge of ICBMs and you learned your country was destroyed, and took the time to verify (days perhaps
because you have no communication) and you are somewhat certain but not perfectly certain as to who did the attack, and your state no longer supports life, and your head of state is gone, do you fire your weapons killing millions of innocent people?
I
think it would be a lot healthier if physicists would acknowledge that they are
in a different situation than we've been
in historically
because of this lack of
experiment, and under the circumstances people do need to behave differently.
«There are papers already out there that I've reviewed that I kind of wish my reviews were published with
because I
think it's important for any reader of the paper to take into account some of the concerns that I and other reviewers were bringing up — and I
think that's true for a lot of science that's out there,» says Michelle Wirth, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame
in Indiana who has published a paper with F1000Research, another journal
experimenting with open peer review.
As I say, if you have a basic scientific background, it doesn't just leave you
because you have children; you can still
think of what are the appropriate
experiments to do and what the next steps would be
in a project.
It would have been more poetic to choose the Tower of Pisa for his
thought experiment: Galileo,
in his own legendary
experiments there — truly legendary,
because he probably never actually did them — had shown that objects of different mass and composition are equivalent
in that they undergo the same gravitational acceleration.
«This
thought experiment was unbelievably perplexing at first,
because it seemed like probabilities were changing from one instant to the next without any explanation,» says Alan Guth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who along with Vitaly Vanchurin of Stanford University
in California, came up with the conundrum two years ago.
«There were already some clues
because arsenic and silicon are very similar
in terms of their location on the periodic table, and before that paper came out I had
thought about doing some competition
experiments between arsenic and silicon rice.
Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this
experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task
because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit
in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational
thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted
in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.
What we are developing now are a really unique set of tools that are going to allow us to monitor the changes
in the retina at the cellular scale over time
in the same person; and we
think that this is really going to have a transformative effect
because it's not only very powerful from the statistical point of view but it really is going to allow us to do
experiments that were not possible before.
«It's not fundamentally surprising,
because physicists have
thought for a long time that Majorana fermions could arise out of the types of materials used
in this
experiment.
All of those changes I
think are good, but I believe that
in particular the increase
in sat fat intake has been clearing up my acne
because I was already
experimenting with sat fat intake before finding your site and buying your book a few weeks ago and I was noticing immediate improvement on the days that I cooked my food with coconut oil compared to the days that I was limiting sat fat intake.
I don't
think i would ever purchase more shades
because I'm into a more glossy natural look but they do come
in a lot of different shades which is awesome for people who like to
experiment with their colors.
We gave the students, right from the word go, a very simple engineering model of: Look at the problem, brainstorm —
think about some ideas, draw some initial designs (and we get the children to sketch those)-- but what we've also brought
in is some
experiment as well
because children will be using the hands - on materials and they love to
experiment.
For now, King, who
experimented with writing a digital book, «Riding the Bullet,»
in 2000, when it had to be read on a computer,
thinks people are reading more «
because the screen now feels like home to them.»
(while maintaining solar heating, which is actually a hypothetical excercise
in part
because removing clouds would change the albedo, though albedo could be artificially maintained by other means for the sake of this
thought experiment)
So to answer the question
in the lede, I
think private sector
experiments should focus on collecting data rather than changing the environment,
because human - produced changes never work out like we
thought and often have major unforseen problems (we're NOT that clever, folks).
In this it shares a lot of characteristics with some of the engineering and social sciences for example (as an aside I get a wry smile when I hear people say climate science is unique
because we only have one
experiment, and
think about the way social scientists leap on those rare longitudinal studies to help them understand things like learning and criminal behaviour).
But this isn't the grand scheme of things, it's basically a
thought experiment because in the grand scheme of things, there's no way to produce an instantaneous step change
in the CO2 concentration.
I don't go up to an astrophysicist and tell him that decades of work on black holes are all wrong
because I did a quick
thought experiment in my head and decided none of it made sense.
In this case we happen to know beyond all doubt (because that's the condition of the thought experiment) that UHI is in reality the only facto
In this case we happen to know beyond all doubt (
because that's the condition of the
thought experiment) that UHI is
in reality the only facto
in reality the only factor.
All the weak attempts to disprove it, such as a
thought experiment with a wire outside a cylinder of gas, are flawed, simply
because they neglect the temperature gradient
in the wire itself, or other similar oversights.
Does not your
thought experiment fail,
because most of the molecules
in the atmosphere are all at the same heat (kinetic energy), while the difference
in temperature with altitude (on a thermometer) is simply an effect of the number of molecules you meet (pressure and density).
But this is a
thought experiment, and Jelbring himself establishes true equilibrium after a long time as a feature of the system
in question,
because he wishes to assert that gases will be warmer at the bottom without any external thermal driving,
in particular the heating at the bottom and cooling at the top associated with the Sun and the GHE.
Aaron Street: Yeah, and I
think the thing to take away from this little conversation is if you're having client acquisition challenges
in your firm, if there isn't enough coming
in it could be
because your marketing efforts are insufficient and you're not getting enough people to contact your firm but it's just as likely that there are opportunities for you to improve by working on your intake and sales conversion functions of getting the people who call or email your firm to convert into consultations and then clients at higher rates using a variety of client experience
experiments and intake improvement
experiments.
Building on the hugely successful Disrupt San Francisco 2017 event, which included discussions on blockchain startups, cryptocurrency and ICOs with guests such as Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin, we're delighted to host TC Sessions: Blockchain on July 6
in Zug, the city
in Switzerland known as «Crypto Valley»
because of the numerous blockchain companies that have moved there to capitalize on Zug's openness to blockchain
experiments and forward -
thinking approach to regulation.
First, its use of the term «radical» (for which the Critique offers no citation): The relevant discussion
in the article refers to two explicitly «experimental» proposals included at the end of the article,
in a section titled «
Thinking Outside of the Box...» The introduction to that part of the discussion states «I call this a «
thought experiment»
because I am well aware that the practical realities of child protection practice may mean that it would not work...» Later the text notes that one proposal is «less radical» than the other.