Sentences with phrase «closer objects would»

But predicting such radiative heat transfer between extremely close objects has proven elusive for the past 50 years.

Not exact matches

In addition, Waymo said it has now developed short and long range LIDAR sensors that allow its vehicles to «see small people and objects close to the car, and spot tiny objects far away, too,» the CEO said.

Thus, in recent years the Supreme Court has invalidated a Connecticut law (passed to replace the prior Sunday closing law) allowing workers to select their Sabbath day as their day off from work, struck down a Massachusetts statute allowing churches and schools to object to the issuance of liquor licenses in their near vicinity, and abolished an Alabama law allowing students in public schools a moment of silence.

They have recognized also that actual entities and eternal objects are the closest analogues, in Whitehead's metaphysics, to particulars and universals, respectively (PR 76).

«The best view is by no means the closest view... we consciously stand back and create distance in order to look at the world, i.e., at objects as parts of the world: and also to be unembarrassed by the closeness of that which we wish only to see; to have the full liberty of our scanning attention.»

It may, of course, be objected that this analysis has drawn our noses so close to texts that the general tenor of the whole is lost.

CG: It's wrong to think, and Whitehead comes far too close to it, that things have quality by having universals, eternal objects ingressing in their experience.

Third, it is for - the - whole of all relations, the totality of both possibility and actuality in that it has internal relations (of segments of the pattern during the instantiation as it ingresses in actual occasions) and external relations (to, in the close perspective, some other eternal objects).

Princeton's James McCosh objected to such latitude and kept his college closer to the Presbyterianism that had spawned it, but even at Princeton the unsettling effect of scientific reason on religious tradition began to appear.

We believe that if biology could ever get as close to its object as mathematics does to its own, it would become to the physics and chemistry of organized bodies, what the mathematics of the moderns has proved to be in relation to ancient geometry.

But Christians had no idols, no objects and they closed their eyes in prayer, and had no visible object of worship and so they were branded as «atheists».

As mother held him / her close, the baby's span of gazing enlarges since the baby have already learned to focus on a certain object with both eyes visually.

He said the staff also intends to consult with people who live near the pools to find out whether they would object to the late - night closings.

4) You will have a closer relationship with your pump and all of its parts than you ever believed possible with an inanimate object.

The state governments, Madison argues, are closer to the people and can focus on the welfare of the people, regulating ordinary affairs such as the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, as well as the internal order of each state, and should have numerous undefined powers to do so, while the national government, being bigger and possessing national resources, can bring victory in war, protect the people's liberty, and maintain peace between the states, and should have clear, few, defined powers to do so, mostly focusing on external objects such as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce and national taxation.

Commenting on the Department for Education's consultation on a College of Teaching, which closes today, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The NASUWT has never objected in principle to the creation of a dedicated professional body for teaching.

More than two dozen protesters have briefly occupied the Capitol Hill office of Sen. Charles Schumer, objecting to close ties to Wall Street by the man poised to lead Senate Democrats.

Republicans attempted to close debate at 11:36 p.m. Sen. Daniel Squadron objected saying that 2 hours had not passed and debate should continue.

«When I first saw the object in question, I immediately thought it was an NEO that had not been seen before, being quite close to the Earth,» Weryk says.

According to Posselt, Geminga may have magnetic poles quite close to the top and bottom of the object, and nearly aligned spin poles, much like Earth.

«I would like to be surprised — and I'm hopeful — but I'm not sure we'll find planets closer to Earth twins than the objects we present in our paper.»

These observations also represent the closest celestial object Hubble has observed, other than the moon.

«We found nothing, but as the first object of its class to be discovered, «Oumuamua has given us an interesting opportunity to expand the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence from traditional targets such as stars and galaxies to objects that are much closer to Earth.

Mathematical models, combined with our understanding of how planets and comets form, suggest that the objects in the Oort cloud must have been flung there by one of the giant planets closer to the sun.

Planets orbiting more compact objects, such as white dwarfs, pulsars and black holes, might have even shorter years since they can get closer in.

We're edging closer, but so far no one has announced the discovery of a truly Earth - size object.

Put another way, those distant objects would be nearer, and therefore brighter, than you would naively expect if you simply extrapolated back from the way the universe is expanding closer to home.

The techniques are, in a sense, complementary to the «global» methods which Penrose pioneered: they can not handle «generic» collapse, where there is no special degree of symmetry, but they do produce a more quantitative picture of what would happen if a black hole were perturbed (for instance, by, a smaller object falling into it or orbiting close to it).

Despite improvements in detection methods and more accurate ship positions, as well as warmer seas, ships continue to have close encounters with frozen, floating objects

If so, Phoebe has given astronomers their first opportunity to study an object from distant space at close range.

«I try to imagine how it would be to stand on the surface of this icy object — small enough that a fast sports car could reach escape velocity and drive off into space — and stare up at a 20 - kilometre wide ring system 1000 times closer than the Moon.»

In the past few years, space probes, improved ground - based telescopes, and orbiting observatories have shown us close - up pictures of hundreds of objects in our solar system.

Any protoplanetary object drifting too close to proto - Jupiter would have gone on a wild ride: The gravity of the mighty proto - Jupiter was capable of tossing the smaller newborn planet (pdf) completely out of the solar system.

Although the consequences are roughly comparable in either case, an important difference is that objects in the solar system that circle far away from the sun on long - period orbits before returning, such as comets, would hit the earth at much greater velocities than close - orbiting (short - period) bodies, such as asteroids.

These new observations with ESO's VLT have shown that the cloud appears to have survived its close encounter with the black hole and remains a compact object that is not significantly extended.

Last year, Qi and his colleagues at Georgia Institute of Technology, in collaboration with scientists at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, used a composite made from an acrylic and an epoxy along with a commercial printer and a heat source to create 4 - D objects, such as a flower that can close its petals or a star that morphs into a dome.

Scientists at Queen's University Belfast have led worldwide investigations into a mysterious object that passed close to Earth after arriving from deep interstellar space.

In the second type of models, or «common envelope» models, the companion is even closer and fully enters the envelope of the AGB star so that the two objects have a «common» envelope.

Gomes's model implies that the other Kuiper belt objects might also have formed far closer in than they are now.

Professor Shanhui Fan (left) and graduate student Sid Assawaworrarit have developed a device that can wirelessly charge a moving object at close range.

Now, similarly detailed models that tracked the fate of thousands of objects closer to our nascent sun reveal what effects those peregrinations had on material in the inner solar system.

This means it has a more elongated orbit than Sedna, another distant Pluto - sized object, whose closest approach is 76 AU and whose estimated far point reaches 937 AU.

An asteroid, after all, is thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs, and the statistical threat of another strike motivates NASA's Near Earth Object Program, which aims to locate most of the bodies more than 1 kilometer in diameter that swing close to Earth.

Satellite images can help determine whether objects that slam into Earth have a friend following close behind

Intrinsic brightness is a determination of how bright an object would be if observed at a common distance, eliminating the fact that a bright star can seem dimmer if it is far away and a dim star can seem brighter if it is close.

«You have metal - rich objects closer to the star, because you can't push them.

This research has shown that these early human - like people were very clever about how they opened these large freshwater mussels; they drilled a hole through the shell using a sharp object, possibly a shark's tooth, exactly at the point where the muscle is attached that keeps the shell closed.

Similarly, all of the 20 objects that appear to have remained outside the moon's orbit for the past 500,000 years are ruddy — they have not passed close enough to Earth for a resurfacing seismic shake.

A later regulation gave close relatives the power to witness that the dead person had objected to their organs being removed.

In addition to everyday electronics, Brückner would like to see these used in medicine, or on the gripper hands of robots as a secondary eye, providing a view as the hand closes in on an object and blocks the main camera.