Sentences with phrase «degrees of absolute»

Friction then does the actual heating because microwave radiation in and of itself can't raise the temperature of anything that isn't within a couple degrees of absolute zero.

With colleague Fred Baas, he installed equipment to chill a shoebox - size chamber to within several degrees of absolute zero and depressurize it to a near vacuum.

Before the discovery of these materials was announced in late 1986, superconductivity was only known to happen within a few degrees of absolute zero -LRB--273 °C), a temperature that can be achieved only when the much more costly liquid helium is used.

They found that certain metals completely lose their electrical resistance when cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero.

Unlike superconducting metal alloys, which must remain within a few degrees of absolute zero in order to display their resistance - free electron flow, high - Tc superconductors can operate at temperatures around 77 kelvins.

Beyond this explanation, the workings of the machine — a 37 - cubic - metre black box in which a thumbnail - sized superconducting chip is cooled to within 0.01 degrees of absolute zero — are shielded from the layperson's understanding by the opacities of quantum theory.

Five years ago, her group demonstrated a novel technique to optically trap and cool a coin - sized mirror, bringing it to within a degree of absolute zero (0.8 K).

Cornell and Wieman were trying to cool a puff of rubidium gas to within a few billionths of a degree of absolute zero — colder than any place in nature, even the 2.73 kelvins of space.

The superinsulating capacity of titanium nitride occurs only at supercold temperatures, within one - tenth of one degree of absolute zero, the temperature at which all motion ceases.

Trying to sustain this degree of absolute certainly, and denying rival views, is bad for science, which needs open, pluralistic, debate and challenges to keep it as objective as possible.

Despite the rhetoric of «mutual obligation'to the extent that governmental power is underwritten by a «social contract», the contract involves citizens giving up a small degree of their absolute personal freedom in exchange for the protection of the state.

Not exact matches

VIX is largely price - agnostic; it doesn't attempt to reflect the absolute value in the market, merely the degree of price fluctuation.

In science there are no absolutes, only degrees of certainty with regard to that which is known.

These degrees of excellence can be understood only as degrees of approximation to an absolute norm by which they are judged.

But if that is done by the Church's magisterium, it can only be through propositions which are not themselves absolute dogma but serious and valid items of knowledge (in varying degrees, of course, and of very many different kinds), but knowledge which in principle is subject to revision and capable of improvement, and which can be deepened, clarified, given greater discrimination, improved in this or that respect, or even abandoned.

In essence the reader becomes a part of the novel as experienced; the logos irrupts momentarily into reality where to some degree the reader's potential is actualized in the absolute present.

When we say that the system of which Adolf Hitler has been the prophet (and that, to an increasing degree, is his rôle) is fundamentally religious, we mean that it includes the element of absolute commitment which is everywhere the distinguishing mark of religion.

One of the problem people sometimes have with this sort of definition, however, is that we think that there are degrees of faith, or (to put it another way), faith is on a sliding scale, where one end is «wishful - hope - so - thinking» and on the other end is «absolute certainty.»

No sacrifice is involved here, since the body and lower passions given up are less intense degrees of being, truth, and goodness; the absolute degree of these things includes the reality of the lower, and so nothing is truly lost.

To measure the degree of certitude of testimony of the absolute by the norm of one of the functions of consciousness is to surrender the problematic of self - consciousness to the most deplorable metabasis eis allo genos.22 Original affirmation can not be subsumed by the standard of knowledge of objects.

It was not in a Roman Catholic country, but in Protestant England and Scotland and in the Protestant Netherlands that the resistance to the domination of the Church by the Crown in this age of absolute monarchies first met with some degree of enduring success.

But granted the impossibility of setting absolute limits to this event or of regarding any part of history as being entirely irrelevant to it, degrees of relevance can surely be discerned.

As this Age of Great Enlightenments contnue onwards the Kingdom Domains of God does progressively teach one and we are taught from its outward creviced distances toward almost absolute finiteness or the very very smallest of distinguishable degrees, God will allow our students and teachers of such studies to meaningfully create manly made biologic mechanisms for the betterment's welfare of all our physical needs and trade orientated desires.

Zoos would be regarded as barbaric as 14th century prisons, and we would subordinate our own desires for immortality to the cold hard reality of an uncaring Universe in which every species on the planet lives in a narrow 7 mile wide soap film below which there is 1,000 degree magma and above which there is the near absolute - zero vacuum of outer space.

Does not this suggest that, by using the degree of complexity as a guide, we may advance very much more surely than by following any other lead as we seek to penetrate to the truth of the world and to assess, in terms of absolute values, the relative importance, the place, of all things?

There is no absolute standard of «concrete» description against which to measure the degree of abstractness of other descriptions.

This means that the degree of consciousness attained by living creatures (from the moment, naturally, when it becomes discernible) may be used as a parameter to estimate the direction and speed of Evolution (that is to say, of the Cosmic Coiling) in terms of absolute values.

Any system of material objects in accelerated motion relative to absolute space manifests forces — the «inertial forces» — that vary in accordance with the degree of acceleration; the centrifugal force discussed above is an example.

Relationally defined standards can be accepted as having the same degree of objectivity in those circumstances to which the standards apply as absolute standards are alleged to have in all circumstances.

Fortunately, the post-post Modernist realization that, although human reason can not provide us with absolute certainty since that would require omniscience [a Divine, not a human attribute], we can know many things with a relatively high degree of probability.

Once the critical mass has moved from absolute certainty vs. radical scepticism to the possibility of knowing objective truth with high degree of probability through subjective trial and error methodology we will once again begin to experience a «Golden Age» of learning.

But in each of these features I see a difference of degree between science and religion rather than an absolute contrast.

He also grants the common - sense view that a human corpse is a dead thing as a human body, but he still makes his panpsychistic point by insisting that even a corpse is composed of many living things and, as far as our knowledge runs, nothing else.29 In addition, he claims that his belief that there is only a relative and not an absolute distinction between mind and matter is given support by recent developments in physics that have shown that the differences between matter and various kinds of radiation are differences of degree and not of kind.

In the pre-modern ages human consciousness was dominated by a feeling of helplessness in the face of all natural and supernatural forces, causing people to acknowledge their absolute dependence on divine help, whereas the modem age has been marked by a high degree of human self - confidence and the belief that humans can at last master the forces of nature, justifying an optimistic hope for the human earthly future.

It can offer some degree of pain relief, though absolute relief can not be guaranteed.

Even though this dust is just a few degrees above absolute zero, it still emits feebly in the infrared; the power of the telescope coupled with the relatively small distance to the galaxy make it easier to spot.

As they are opaque to visible light it is difficult for astronomers to observe their inner workings, and so other tools are needed to unveil their secrets — observations in the infrared or in the submillimetre parts of the spectrum, for example, where the dust clouds, only a few degrees over absolute zero, appear bright.

A BEC is one - millionth to one - billionth of a degree above absolute zero, a temperature found only in the laboratory.

The temperature of that radiation is almost a perfectly uniform 2.725 degrees Celsius above absolute zero.

This tugs at nearby rubidium atoms which have been chilled to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero: a positive charge on the surface of the nanotubes attracts the rubidium atoms» electrons, while the positively charged nucleus is repelled.

Both atoms were cooled to less than one ten - thousandth of a degree above absolute zero.

Cooling this to a few degrees above absolute zero and applying a magnetic field aligned the spins of one phosphorus electron per atom.

Absolute zero can not be reached experimentally, but scientists have cooled small samples of atoms to just one ten - billionth of a degree above absoluAbsolute zero can not be reached experimentally, but scientists have cooled small samples of atoms to just one ten - billionth of a degree above absoluteabsolute zero.

Strikingly, the temperature of space is everywhere the same, just 2.7 degrees Celsius above absolute zero.

A cooling unit circulates liquid helium around the seven - foot - high, nine - foot - wide cylindrical icebox, chilling the detectors to just 50 thousandths of a degree above -459 degrees Fahrenheit: absolute zero.

Working out of a lab in WSU's Webster Hall, physicist Peter Engels and his colleagues cooled about one million atoms of rubidium to 100 billionths of a degree above absolute zero.

The research group of Professor Yasunobu Nakamura at the University of Tokyo Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology has succeeded for the first time to couple a magnon in a magnet to a photon in a microwave cavity at an ultralow temperature near absolute zero -LRB--273.14 degrees centigrade).

In the new project, physicists enhanced that trick by chilling a gas of sodium atoms to within 50 billionths of a degree above absolute zero.

In this quantum Hall state, particles of light mimic the orbital action of electrons in more standard experiments that involve powerful magnetic fields and ultra-cold conditions of near absolute zero (minus 459.6 degrees Fahrenheit).

When cooled to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero, atoms are easier to control, and their quantum properties come to the fore.