Sentences with phrase «by planetary movements»

Not exact matches

Consequently one feels less inclined to reject as unscientific the idea that the critical point of planetary reflective consciousness which is the result of the forming of humanity into an organized society, far from being a mere spark in the darkness, corresponds on the contrary to our passage (by a movement of reversal or dematerialization) to another face of the universe: not an ending of the ultra-human but its arrival at something trans - human at the very heart of reality.

Now this comes from a, this piece of it comes from a 2003 paper by a planetary scientist named Jack Wisdom at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and what he discovered is that you can move, as you [were describing] through curved space by moving, [let's] say, your arms and legs, or if you're an alien as it is described in the article, a tripod alien — just for the simplicity of demonstrating how the movements are with, sort of, heavy feet and a ball at the end of the tail that helped to move the [weight] around, just to make it kind of simple to look through — you can move through curved spacetime without pushing against anything, and this is the key here.

And, «In April 2008, it was announced that two simulations of long - term planetary movement, one at the Paris Observatory and the other at the University of California, Santa Cruz, indicate a 1 % chance that Mercury's orbit could be made unstable by Jupiter's gravitational pull sometime during the lifespan of the Sun.

The precise geometric and organic forms of the two sculptures on view by John Duff (American, b. 1943) are from the series titled «Inside the Kepler Conjecture,» referring to the complex mathematical theories proposed by Johannes Kepler, a 16th century astronomer who was the first to explain planetary movement.