Sentences with phrase «explained by atoms»

Ultimately, the whole natural world can in principle be explained by atoms moving in relation to one another according to the laws of motion.

Not exact matches

Scientific reductionism, however, wants to reduce biology to physics and chemistry, to explain the properties of «life», by thorough specification of the particulars (atoms and molecules) that are integrated into cells and organisms.
He goes on to comment: «if we wish to explain the observed world in terms of Matter without reference to Mind, then it must be explained by things material, ultimate and simple all at the same time — by indivisible, notional «atoms» and a chance «swerve» that sets them in random motion.
A corollary of this view, on the part of some scientists, is that the phenomenon of mentality in human beings can be explained by the complex interaction of molecules and atoms in the brain, as epiphenomenon of matter.
Science (discovered by man science, that is) can only explain some of the existing phenomenon in mathematical terms and come up with recipes for existing materials but CAN NOT CREACTE A SINGLE ATOM!
«The gas which forms the major part of the insterstellar medium,» explains Jorge García Rojas, a researcher at the IAC who is the first author on the paper «can be observed because its atoms are ionized by the photons emitted by the hot stars embedded inside it (which can either very massive stars, or white dwarfs, which are also very hot).
Gorilla Glass's residual stress can be explained by observing how the motion of individual atoms affects the entire system of the material
Those atoms» origin in the ozone layer might also help explain a longstanding mystery about some grains of lunar soil brought back by Apollo astronauts.
«This gives us the option of creating new atoms dressed by the field of the laser, with new electron energy levels,» explains Jean - Pierre Wolf.
Professor Angelos Michaelides, from the Thomas Young Centre and London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL, lead researcher of the study, explained: «Atoms and molecules usually move across materials by hopping from one point on their surface to the next.
The second confirmed the existence of molecules and atoms by statistically showing how their random collisions explained the jerky Brownian motion of tiny particles in water.
The highly perfect cleavage, which is the most prominent characteristic of mica, is explained by the hexagonal sheet - like arrangement of its atoms.
«The surface of Mars, the surface of Earth, and basically all surfaces in the solar system are being bombarded by cosmic rays,» explains Farley, and when these rays — very high - energy protons — blast into an atom, the atom's nucleus shatters, creating isotopes of other elements.
Statistical mechanics: James Clerk Maxwell, Ludwig Boltzmann, J. Willard Gibbs, late 19th century By explaining heat in terms of the statistical behavior of atoms and molecules, statistical mechanics made sense of thermodynamics and also provided strong evidence for the reality of atoms.
The genie was the «photon», the bullet - like particle that Einstein invented to explain how light was able to knock electrons from metals and which he claimed was spat out and swallowed by atoms.
The experiment could be explained by a mathematical model developed by the researchers over the past few years, which enabled them to produce a computer - generated movie of the motions of the atoms involved in the bond - breaking at the copper surface.
«By reversing the cycle, we could even use the device as a single atom refrigerator and employ it to cool nano systems coupled to it,» explained Johannes Roßnagel, first author of the study.
The relationship also works the other way: by changing energy states of electrons in quantum dots, we can affect the respective magnetic atomsexplains Michał Papaj, a student at the UW Faculty of Physics, awarded the Gold Medal in Chemistry during last year's national competition for the best B.Sc.
«The influence of laser light on the state of the atoms can be compared to the magnetization of solid crystals by an external magnetic field in classical physics,» Dr. Christian Groß, leader of the project, explains.
«This means clumps of atoms surrounded by a bath at some temperature, like the atmosphere or the ocean, should tend over time to arrange themselves to resonate better and better with the sources of mechanical, electromagnetic or chemical work in their environments,» England explained.
Using atoms cooled to just billionths of a degree above absolute zero, a team led by researchers at Princeton University has discovered an intriguing magnetic behavior that could help explain how high - temperature superconductivity works.
There is nothing to explain the different behaviors of the two atoms, no way to predict when they will decay by looking at their history, and — seemingly — no definitive cause that produces these effects.
The book explains the fundamentals of how waves and wavefunctions interact with atoms in solids, and the similarities and differences of using x-rays,... View Details Transmission Electron Microscopy: Diffraction, Imaging, and Spectrometry by C. Barry Carter (Editor), David B. Williams (Editor) This text is a companion volume to Transmission Electron Microscopy: A Textbook for Materials Science by Williams and Carter.
MSI CEO Joseph Hsu showed off the new tablet and explained that with it will be powered by an Intel Atom processor and run Windows 7, though they have created an MSI Wind Touch UI.
MSI CEO Joseph Hsu showed off the new tablet and explained that with it will be powered by an Intel Atom processor and run Windows 7, though... [Read more...]
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