Sentences with phrase «distance measurement has»

Using a light year as a distance measurement has another advantage — it helps you determine age.

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Around 1918 Weyl attempted to modify general relativity so that it would not require absolute measurements of scale or distance — so that it would abide by an entirely relative system, again akin to that of Mach.
Precise measurements of their velocities, ages and distances would allow astronomers to trace the stellar fugitives back to their homes, even on the far side.
Nonlocality was indeed endemic to quantum mechanics, Bell had shown: somehow, the outcome of the measurement on particle B depended on the measured outcome on particle A, even if the two particles were separated by huge distances at the time those measurements were made.
Schaefer combined six different measurements of gamma - ray bursts to figure their distance and to probe how the universe has changed between their location and ours.
Although the researchers did not have Bob and Alice generating random signals as truly secure cryptography requires, they did show that the signal timings and measurements could be performed over such great distances.
A group of astronomers in the US has just come up with an accurate measurement for the distance to a second galaxy in the cluster.
This is the first time that the distance of an object so far away has been measured from its spectrum, which makes the measurement extremely reliable.
The new approach could also enable accurate distance measurements through fog, which has proven to be a major obstacle to the development of self - driving cars.
«ChroGPS is based on the sequential application of two steps: first the generation of distances (or degrees of similarity) between epigenetic components on the basis of several possible measurements that we have developed, and after, in the representation of these distances in the form of bi - o tri-dimensional maps to facilitate their interpretation.For example, they are like visual maps from which distance tables can be drawn up in kilometers between cities,» describes Òscar Reina, one of the developers of the software application.
Cullen Blake, a University of Pennsylvania researcher who studies low mass - stars and their planets, says, in visible light, «you definitely have a pretty severe limit to the distance to which you can see these measurements
Most importantly, astronomers have high - precision measurements of the SMC's rotation curve, which shows how its rotational speed changes with distance from its center and indicates how much dark matter is present.
These vortices of upwardly spiraling wind have been studied for decades, but information about them is usually, and understandably, obtained from a distance, precluding fine - scale measurements of rotational speed, shear forces, and internal wind pathways.
Scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have demonstrated the fastest distance measurement so far.
Take the distance from the centre of the Earth to the centre of the moon: 240,000 miles would be an accurate but imprecise measurement; 289,562 miles would be precise but inaccurate; 238,857 miles would be both accurate and precise.
If quantum physics is correct and there is indeed spooky action at a distance, then the results of these measurements would be correlated to a far greater extent than if Einstein was correct.
Perry has tantalising evidence that many other galaxies with large fields exist at even greater distances, but it is impossible to disentangle the measurements without corroboration at visible wavelengths.
With the availability of genome sequences from representative species in whole phyla, rigorous quantitative measurements of genetic distance based on DNA sequence divergence has been used to test existing evolutionary trees and to re-classify organisms in all kingdoms.
It appears to be a main sequence red dwarf star of spectral and luminosity type M4.5 V. Because of its small mass and great distance from the primary (Star A), Upsilon Andromedae B appears to have a negligible effect on the radial velocity measurements used to determine that Star A has at least three large planets (Lowrance et al, 2002).
Professional surveyors (whether property surveyors or galactic surveyors) can then use basic trigonometry to compute the distance to the object if they have the distance between the two measurements and the parallax.
On the whole, recent VLBI parallax measurements have shown that photometric distance estimates, when available, tend to be considerably more accurate than kinematic estimates.
His main fields of research are quantum information and quantum optics where he has authored and co-authored papers on a broad range of topics, including work on noise reduction and microscopic lasers, quantum repeaters for long - distance quantum communication, quantum entanglement and cluster states, and measurement - based quantum computers.
However, owing to the relatively large orbital distances of the currently known NIR stars around Sgr ~ A *, there have been no dynamical measurements of its spin magnitude or orientation.
We report a measurement of the trigonometric parallax pi = 78.8 + / -6.4 mas, which translates into a distance of 12.7 + / -1.0 pc; the pair thus has a projected physical separation of 102 + / -9 AU.
According to two model estimates based on its presumed age and measurements of its temperature, brightness, and distance, the substellar companion was estimated to have between 40 and 60 times Jupiter's mass, with a most likely estimate around 43 Jupiter - masses.
Previously classed as spectral type M4.5 e (with emission lines), the object was observed to be four times brighter than would be expected for a dim red dwarf of that type based on a revised parallax measurement of its distance from the Solar System (Ken Croswell, Science@Now, September 6, 2011).
The new distance measurement also enabled the astronomers to determine that EGS - zs8 - 1 was still forming stars very rapidly, about 80 times faster than our Milky Way galaxy today (which has a star formation rate of one star per year).
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Exterior dimensions are unchanged from 2011, while wheelbase — the distance between the front and rear axles and a key measurement that affects interior volume — has shrunk by 1.2 inches.
Yet both have similar lineage, being developed not far from one another by modern measurements of distance.
But I didn't have the foggiest notion about the game's concept of distance until I saw The Escapist's breakdown of just what «one yard» means in Tristramiam measurement.
Of Black Drop, Starling has said, «The enthusiastic attempts in 1874 and 1882 to use observations of the transit of Venus to refine the measurement of the mean Sun — Earth distance, the so - called «astronomical unit,» are perhaps best known for their failings.
The measurements are some distance from the calving front and may not have resulted in warming under the floating section.
I thought that GISTEMP does not have actual temperature measurements above 64N, they are all calculated from stations a considerable distance away.
James and Fox (1972) show that VOS SST observations have an increasing warm bias with increasing measurement depth, but that this is related to an increasing distance inboard of the temperature measurement location.
When the primary straight lines and curves have been made, points are measured along them using pace counting for distance measurement.
Without that every measurement made over a distance of meters would be significantly affected by the temperature of the air in addition to the temperature of the surface being measured.
* The real spectra is not very close to any blackbody spectra (slightly different shape) * The measurement devices do not agree * The radiation temperature of the center of the solar disk is higher than the apparent temperature near the edge * The temperature of the outer corona is more than 1,000 hotter than the «surface» * The Sun does not have a surface * The distance between the Earth and Sun varies (the orbit is an ellipse), and different references handle this differently
Aside from the thermal camera, the Cat S61 also has a built - in laser distance measurement and an indoor air quality sensor.
Must have the ability to perform simple mathematical operations using units of American money, weight measurement, volume and distance.
I appreciate the arguement you make with having licensees being required to measure a home in person as a means of eliminating the long distance back alley service but, alas, the nature of this type of licensed real estate agent will likely attempt to pass the responsibility onto the seller to provide documentation of square footage or have the seller pay for a measurement service.
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