Some of the light passes through its atmosphere and key wavelengths of light are absorbed
by atoms in the atmosphere leaving a fingerprint of its makeup.
The extreme view that a person is «just a collection of atoms» is less persuasive in the light of tracer studies showing that the atoms in our bodies are replaced every few years; 6 the self that continues must be constituted by the relationships and patterns among atoms, rather than
by the atoms in themselves.
Our technology is based on a variant of chemical vapor deposition, which builds the diamond lattice atom
by atom in a reactor that creates a plasma akin to the outer core of the sun.
Instead, each particle of light, or photon, is briefly absorbed
by an atom in the material.
Working with Paul Kent, a computational materials scientist at ORNL's Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, the team collaborated with researchers at UCLA and Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry to combine world - class experimental data with world - class computing to do something new — simulate magnetism atom
by atom in a real nanoparticle.
Cuckoo was published
by Atom in August 2016.
Finally, «menicholas» says that a photon leaves an atom and is reabsorbed
by another atom in the same instant (from the photon's perspective).
Not exact matches
What Boger wants is to create a better way to develop drugs: through a process called structure - based design
in which scientists build up a new drug,
atom by atom, after determining the type of molecule that might interrupt the disease process.
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.
Based on previous research and work
in the field of plasma physics, the two former Creo laser printing employees believe they can build a reactor to fuse hydrogen
atoms together
by pneumatically - driven pistons and produce enormous increases
in energy.
God so commands all orbital velocities inwardly from the lowly
atoms and even outwardly toward issues of all that is made celestially orbital... Our humanoid embodiments of orbital
atoms are merely buildings structured just so to be inhabited
by godly generations on a scalar dimension unequaled
in the inward depths and breadths of spatial reciprocity...
If humans were not designed
by a higher authority, how can each individual's DNA be uniquely different among the human species, especially different than the other animals; how can the life sustaining elements be constantly available and exist
in exact formulations: O, H, C etc. water is always 2
atoms of Hydrogen and one
atom of Oxygen; sugar, fats, grains, and any bio-chemical products can be broken down to their simplest forms of elements, but can be re-constructed with specific (not
by chance) formula.
In advancing these theories they disregard factors universally admitted by all scientists — that in the initial period of the «birth» of the universe, conditions of temperature, atmospheric pressure, radioactivity, and a host of other catalytic factors were totally different than those existing presently, including the fact that we don't know how single atoms or their components would bind and consolidate, which involved totally unknown processes and variables, as single atoms behave far differently than conglomerations of atom
In advancing these theories they disregard factors universally admitted
by all scientists — that
in the initial period of the «birth» of the universe, conditions of temperature, atmospheric pressure, radioactivity, and a host of other catalytic factors were totally different than those existing presently, including the fact that we don't know how single atoms or their components would bind and consolidate, which involved totally unknown processes and variables, as single atoms behave far differently than conglomerations of atom
in the initial period of the «birth» of the universe, conditions of temperature, atmospheric pressure, radioactivity, and a host of other catalytic factors were totally different than those existing presently, including the fact that we don't know how single
atoms or their components would bind and consolidate, which involved totally unknown processes and variables, as single
atoms behave far differently than conglomerations of
atoms.
And when we realize how big it is, it's impossible to not be more awed
by our creator - God, who understands every cell and
atom and element and has arranged them perfectly
in accordance with His plans.
The probability of something as complicated as the DNA molecule being formed
by random collisions of
atoms in the primeval ocean is incredibly small.
I've never seen inside an
atom but I believe it has a dense nucleus and is surrounded
by electrons
in multiple energy levels.
Since no one has yet to SEE an
atom, the idea of the structure of the
atom can only be inferred
by experimental evidence — yet I see no Republican trying to stop teaching the structure of the
atom in school — oh that's right, its because major corporations and industries rely on this science (pharm, weapons manufacturers etc etc) whereas the theory of evolution is merely think piece of scientists on how life on Earth changes over time.
«The limitations of quantum thermal dynamics may only be attributed
by the heated degradation effects
in timed probabilities upon perpetual decaying ratios of certain
atoms structuralized accolades of which quantum physics remains allegorically aloof upon and can not be soundly fathomed via any mathematical physics conveyances which
by the way are fraught with faulty mathematical probabilities and unreasoned factual soundings.»
They're made up of
atoms, and
atoms are mostly space inhabited
by bits off energy flying around
in their orbits.
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).
This vision was disrupted to some extent
by the discovery that what were called
atoms were
in fact divisible.
Not a single
atom, however lowly or imperfect, but must co-operate — at least
by way of repulsion or reflexion —
in the fulfillings of Christ.
Were there not a certain invariance about the way
in which carbon
atoms bond with others under identical conditions, or about the manner
in which protein synthesis is charted and activated
by nucleic acids, life would be impossible altogether.
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).
atoms... all brought about
by the scientific method have evidence as to their the reason why things are the way they are... NOT god...
in EVERY instance god has proven not to be what it is... the reason a volcano explodes is not because the wrath of god is upon a community... we understand the process behind the event but we didn't always KNOW that.
Thus, at the lowest level, electrons tend to unite and converge
in the
atom;
atoms converge
by molecularization, crystallization; molecules unite
by polymerization; cells unite
by conjugation, reproduction, association; nerve ganglions concentrate and localize to form a brain
by what might be called a process of cephalization; the higher animal groups form colonies, hives, herds, societies, etc.; man socializes and forms civilizations as foci of attraction and organization.
Who among us has not been affected, and perhaps somewhat troubled,
by the dramatic new discoveries about the stars,
atoms and life on earth that have taken place
in this century?
The
atoms and molecules are
in turn constituted
by tiny «energy events,» invisible even under the most powerful microscope.
Let us think of an electron microscope giving the situation of a target T with an
atom A
in the target with an electron coming
in and being scattered
by the
atom.
Christians have always brushed aside the notion that the world is self - generating, a random concatenation of miscellaneous
atoms accidentally thrown together
by no one
in particular and serving no larger purpose than their own survival.
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.
Only recently has it been discovered that inorganic compounds
in the manufacturing process can cause disease and death and the greatest explosive weapon ever devised
by man is based upon the reaction of
atoms which can not be seen
by any conventional microscope.
For me, and I hope many others, the last word
in Ancient Greece on this topic was given
by Epicurus and his talk about a mixture of chance and necessity, and the bits of free «swerve»
in the movements of
atoms.
Of course mind - only partisans do not mean
by «mind» just human mind, or even only the mind of cells or
atoms, but rather mentality;
in all platonically «self active» singulars.
Ultimately, the whole natural world can
in principle be explained
by atoms moving
in relation to one another according to the laws of motion.
there's really no room for the concept of an independent entity possessed of «will»
in a worldview shaped
by cause and effect; the only place for «will» to retreat to is the zone of true randomness, of complete uncertainty, which means that truly free will as such must be completely inscrutible [sic]... Statistical laws govern the decay of a block of uranium, but whether or not this
atom of uranium chooses to fission
in this instant is a completely unpredictable event — fundamentally unpredictable, something which simply can not be known — which is equally good evidence for the proposition that it's God's (or the
atom's) will whether it splits or remains whole, as for the proposition that it's random chance.
He goes on to comment: «if we wish to explain the observed world
in terms of Matter without reference to Mind, then it must be explained
by things material, ultimate and simple all at the same time —
by indivisible, notional «
atoms» and a chance «swerve» that sets them
in random motion.
In the cosmic sense, because it is the expression and prolongation of the primordial process whereby, at the uttermost extreme from the disintegrating
atom, psychic force is born into the Universe and continuously grows, fostered
by the ever more complicated grouping of matter.
«What we have described as globalization is remarkably close to Teilhard de Chardin's planetization,
in which «[mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, come [s] gradually to form round its earthly matrix, a single, major, organic unity, enclosed upon itself.4 Thus the globalization of humankind could lead to the formation of a new kind of living entity — a social organism — on the same cosmic principle as that
by which
atoms join to form molecules, molecules join to form mega-molecules, mega-molecules unite to form living cells, and innumerable cells constitute an organism.
A corollary of this view, on the part of some scientists, is that the phenomenon of mentality
in human beings can be explained
by the complex interaction of molecules and
atoms in the brain, as epiphenomenon of matter.
The 1st GOD,
in the Greco - Romanian periods was so named to be «Chaos» or the yawning of nothingness wherewhich was created
by Chaos, these elemental gods of the absolute miniscule or as we know of being the
Atoms.
At a conservative estimate, say 15 Sites per enzyme must be fixed to be filled
by particular amino acids for proper biological function... [T] he probability of discovering this set
by random shuffling is one
in 1040,000, a number that exceeds
by many powers of 10 the number of all
atoms in the entire observable universe [Science News, Vol.
We are aware that all material beings are composite, composed of
atoms, that these particles are discrete within the continuity they integrate, that
in themselves even they are miniature solar systems, and that these orbits are wide open spaces
in relation to the miniature elementswhich are bound within them: bound and determined
by the fixed laws that define the still mysterious phenomena of centrifugal and centripetal force.
Mutations are indeed not, so far as we know, selected
by any overall purpose favoring evolution; but this is compatible with there being short - run and very naive purposes, desires, or feelings
in the
atoms and molecules constituting the genes, as well as
in every cell and every metazoan with a nervous system.
In my view this arises from the striving of partly completed
atoms and molecules to complete their forms
by capturing electrons.
THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE
ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY AND YET... YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER
IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME... SOME RIGHTNESS
IN THE UNIVERSE
BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
In 1945 the whole world was stunned
by the explosion of the first
atom bomb over Hiroshima, Japan.
Now since about 1900 it has been established not only that what had been taken to be
atoms, i.e., not divisible, are
in fact compounds but also that the classical laws of motion do not hold for the sub-atomic constituents, which display variations
in their motion, so that their paths are determinable only
by statistical probability.
Concerning the conceivability of nothing, Craighead asserts that there is no logical or practical difficulty
in our thinking of every contingent item of our experience becoming nonexistent and then not being replaced
by anything else;
in fact, he holds, the reason we can appreciate a magician's trick or the steady - state theory of cosmology is that we can indeed conceive of a rabbit or of hydrogen
atoms appearing out of absolutely nothing.