Sentences with phrase «grand theories of»

I love to tinker in the lab of my home office with grand theories of the human body and how to live a better life.

This freely moving particle, predicted by many grand theories of the universe, is thought to carry a single quantum of magnetic «charge», rather as an electron carries a single unit of electric charge.

Physicists will never come to grips with the grand theories of the universe, Penrose holds, until they see past the blinding distractions of today's half - baked theories to the deepest layer of the reality in which we live.

Like Einstein, Hawking then believed that a grand theory of the universe would allow humankind to see into the «mind of God.»

Even a Grand Theory of Everything will not be the last word in science and the need for representing the faith in synthesis with the knowledge of the day will always be with us.

This is not to say that the grand theory of Marxism has no appeal.

[1][This means that competition selects outcomes according to their consequences, and falls under the grander theory of «sociobiology».

In Edelman's grand theory of the mind, consciousness is a biological phenomenon and the brain develops through a process similar to natural selection.

They've used that observation in a newly published paper that lays out a Grand Theory of what makes people tick at the office.

In a sprawling, slickly designed website, Landis presents a multi-part article (he calls it «a living document») discussing his grand theory of Carly Rae Jepsen's thematic concerns.

I have a complete, internally - coherent, predictive and thus - far unfalsified grand theory of all credal groups» behaviours in the climate debate.

The issue in Bowles was not the kind that could be decided through any grand theory of statutory interpretation.

This is not quite a grand theory of interpretation and the judicial role.

(1998) 58 Cambridge L.J. 303, and former Justice Michael Kirby of the Australian High Court's ambitious essays, «Towards a Grand Theory of Interpretation: The Case of Statutes and Contracts» (2003) 24 Statute Law Review 95 and «Statutory Interpretation: The Meaning of Meaning», (2011) 35 Melbourne University Law Review 113.

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This dream, called the Grand Unified Theory, would give us a simpler, more elegant understanding of the universe, showing that all the interactions we see are different manifestations of one unified force.

It's easy to imagine — even absent any conspiracy theory and minus any accusations of racism — why a grand jury, and the prosecutor that guides it, might be reluctant to indict a cop.

In a recent article, Mr. Larimer talks about a Grand Unified Political Theory, and the fair distribution of the earth's as if the Earth was his to distribute.

The US Dollar is the «grand unifying theory asset» for nearly any and all «profile» global macro or thematic equities trades in the marketplace right now, as it represents investors being long this «new» version of «economic growth.»

While this fact is perhaps too often taken for granted, Davies makes no attempt to hide his certainty that all ballyhooed attempts to find a Grand Unified Theory of Everything are to some extent self - defeating precisely because of the quite inexplicable, indeed mysterious, effectiveness of mathematics in explaining events in the physical world.

In these days of rival grand theories» superstrings, the inflationary model, et al.» competing on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal for the status of last word on the ultimate, Davies» book might appear to be just another technician's confident assertion that science will soon have all the answers.

Grand unified theories — which combine the strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces into a single mathematical structure — posit symmetries that involve rotations in abstract spaces of five or more complex dimensions.

The Presbyterian report starts and ends blaming everything on the feminist bugbear of patriarchy - that most useful theory of a grand universal conspiracy of all men against all women.

Scientists today are still following his intuition as they seek the grand unifying principle that will unify quantum theory with the theory of relativity to give one overarching explanation of the nature of the universe.

Places like the Grand Canyon also receive a much simpler explanation than the theory (which is rapidly losing favor) that the Grand Canyon was formed over millions of years by a small trickle of water.

But, in simple terms, his theory of spontaneous creation implies an overall more grand design — in that the life instructions could not have been created by life itself, but came from somewhere.

In any event, those who during most of the twentieth century were weaving statistics and theories into a grand and confidently told story of the secularization of the world are now having to cope with a quite different story that seems to be writing itself.

Does science have the grand unified theory of everything yet?

On the movie side, Birdman, St. Vincent, Into the Woods, Pride and The Grand Budapest Hotel were all nominated in the best comedy category, with Boyhood, The Imitation Game, Selma, The Theory of Everything and Foxcatcher all snagging nominations for best drama.

In metaphysics the Grand Unified Theory has been achieved many times over (from Hebraic monotheism to Aristotle's prime mover), but the issue is: «what are the features and characteristics of the thing that is in the strictest sense?»

Picking his way expertly through three centuries of scientific history, from Newton on gravity (the force that causes apples to fall and planets to stay in orbit is the same), through electricity and magnetism (aspects of a single reality), to the present search for a Grand Unified Theory, he argued that the coherence of the physical universe progressively uncovered by science points to a «unity principle» at its heart.

This is what the grand design was all about not the distraction of M theory.

In a sense, Christ provides the grand unifying theory long sought by physicists, since creation unfolds within the Word's dynamic and personal assumption of human nature, «the microcosmos».

Not an easy read, but one that will school you mightily about Christian political thought, and about Ralph's grand Strauss - rivaling theory of modernity.

He explains how the orthodox view amongst theoretical physicists is that there is, «out there,» a perfect, unified law — it is the very goal of the sort of «grand unified theory» that many physicists are aiming at.

None of the grand theories that single out particular themes and expand them into the whole truth is adequate.

In any event, one of the unavoidable side effects of literature and the arts generally is that they cater to the human need to believe that cognitive dissonance is only a temporary thing, so that they anticipate and support those grand unification theories that have compelled political reformers no less than scientists.

These grand theories are themselves no proof of great intelligence in the people who formulate them.

All grand unification theories are modeled by the metaphor, literature's prime means of clarification and the epistemological foundation of Whitehead's «concrete outlook of humanity.»

In one episode, an exasperated Sheldon listens to his girlfriend, Amy Farrah Fowler's, critique of the attempt in theoretical physics to establish a «grand unified theory.»

Our technocratic uses of reason seem far more plausible to most educated people today than Marxism's grand theories.

The grand, unified theory of this history lesson: There is so much baseball left.

Though he last worked in Lincoln as a GA in 2002, he still knows the grand unified theory of Nebraska, including a disdain for Bill Callahan's West Coast offense and all the stuff about just needing to do it the way it was done under Tom Osborne.

Though she claims to have never played competitive basketball — or any sports beyond body building — when it comes to business endeavors and grand visions, Teresa Banks certainly subscribes to the theory of, «Go big, or go home.»

Though raising a child always has been a pursuit akin to walking a high wire stretched across the Grand Canyon in a deep fog while balancing two bags of groceries, women through much of this century have been blessed with scores of publications dispensing advice and wisdom and theory on raising children.

But my theory of where the mommy wars and the judgement stems from is the Grand Canyon of doubt and insecurity you get when you have children.

And in his final, grandest search for a theory that unified all of physics, he simply never moved far enough beyond the math and science he had learned during his student years.

In their paper, «Higgs Seesaw Mechanism as a Source for Dark Energy,» Krauss and Dent explore how a possible small coupling between the Higgs particle, and possible new particles likely to be associated with what is conventionally called the Grand Unified Scale — a scale perhaps 16 orders of magnitude smaller than the size of a proton, at which the three known non-gravitational forces in nature might converge into a single theory — could result in the existence of another background field in nature in addition to the Higgs field, which would contribute an energy density to empty space of precisely the correct scale to correspond to the observed energy density.

That's because they sound a lot like the grander ambitions of science, particularly of those branches that seek a «theory of everything».

General relativity was the first, and remains the only, theory capable of uniting space, time, mass, energy, motion, and light in a grand vision of the nature and the fate of the cosmos.

The construction of E8, which is fundamental to String Theory and Grand Unified Theory, using the 3D geometry of the icosahedron — a polyhedron with 20 faces — is ground - breaking and completely against the prevailing eight - dimensional view.