Sentences with phrase «confusion about gravity»

Much of today's confusion about gravity is the fault of that brilliant troublemaker Albert Einstein.

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For most of the running time, it's hard to understand or care about what's going on, and some of the ideas thought up in the 11th hour — such as the addition of a second zero - gravity sex scene, with James Spader and Angela Bassett's heads digitally attached to the bodies of the principals in the film's other weightless shag, Facinelli and Robin Tunney — just add to the confusion.

The current confusion about the thermal behaviour of the Earth system is that no one seems to realise that the rate of conversion to and fro between the latent heat of phase changes and potential energy during adiabatic uplift and descent is variable with any forcing element other than mass, gravity or insolation.

Even though I can't imagine gravity functioning as a Maxwell Demon, even though Caballero in section 2.17 both states and leaves as a student exercise the proof that the thermodynamic equilibrium state of a vertical column of gas is isothermal, there has been a lot of confusion and strange assertions about a gas arriving at a state because of bulk transport that sorts out temperature differences approximately adiabatically (neglecting conduction), but that is somehow thermodynamically stable without transport and with conduction in the end.