Sentences with phrase «closed universe»
A person may spend a lifetime in such a stable but closed universe without ever approximating genuine selfhood.
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S. Gratton, A. Lewis, N. Turok, Closed Universes from Cosmological Instantons, Physical Review D65, 2002, 043513, astro - ph / 0111012
The idea is simple: create a closed universe of hardware, software and services that — thanks to tight integration — provide a superior experience for users.
But, as often observed, the method became more of an ideology with the advent and dominance of «scientific history,» which operates within a closed universe of material cause and effect.
«Information,» as it emerged into the world of mathematics, is a measure of the degree of selection which has been employed in choosing some particular configuration out of a closed universe of possible configurations.
Moreover, the amount of «information,» in this sense, has nothing whatever to do with bringing about any action outside the closed universe; that is to say, it has nothing to do with «meaning,» in any sense of that term.
Furthermore, «for the closed universes that might be created through such mechanisms to last for longer than infinitesimal times, something like inflation is necessary.»
That's a consequence of the fact, mathematically proven, that the energy of a closed universe is zero: The energy of matter is positive, the energy of gravitation is negative, and they always add up to zero.
«Therefore, creating a closed universe out of nothing does not violate any conservation laws.»
Tipler believes that the most favourable case realising this is presented by the collapse of a closed universe subject to a specific future boundary condition which, roughly speaking, requires the causal network of the universe to condense onto a single ultimate point.
«It's just down the road, and yet it feels so far away, this closed universe where sexuality between women is completely forbidden.»
It was a closed universe,» says Quealy.
The reason I write novels featuring crime in a corporate setting is just as Agatha Christie set her mysteries in a country estate, ship or train, a business is also a closed universe inhabited by a cast of characters
This scenario doesn't just occur in the closed universe of moot court briefs, however.