Sentences with phrase «greater than the mass»

The final quarter of the century, writes Myers, may usher in a «biological debacle greater than all mass extinctions of the geological past put together.»

The total amount of methane made by these microbes is probably greater than the mass of all known reserves of coal, gas, and oil.

The distributions for the most massive galaxies, with stellar masses greater than the mass of 1000 billion suns, are shown in the right - hand panel.

The main updates to the engine revolve around improving combustion and heat management, plus reducing friction, and the Toyota engineers boast that the engine's 40 percent thermal efficiency is greater than any mass - produced car engine on the planet.

The mass of the earth is one trillion, that's 1 followed by 12 zeros, greater than the mass of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

The WHO estimates that in 2016 more than 1.9 billion adults were overweight, with more than 650 million of these being obese — meaning a body - mass index greater than or equal to 30.

If the Christ paradigm offers salvation to the rich via his identification with the oppressed masses in their struggle for justice, this route must really mean a greater enrichment of experience for that rich man than, let us say, the enjoyment of good books and music which the continued leisure of the upper class could have afforded him.

After all it seems to me that Generation Y has, through world travel, through mass education and through sheer amount of leisure time actually faced a greater degree of natural and artistic beauty than any other that has preceded it.

However, the Rosina mass spectrometer aboard Rosetta found that the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen in the comet is far greater than that found on Earth, adding to the growing body of evidence that the water on Earth was delivered not by comets, as previously thought, but by asteroids.

«The immorality of the United States and Great Britain's decision to invade Iraq in 2003, premised on the lie that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, has destabilised and polarised the world to a greater extent than any other conflict in history,» wrote Tutu.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

The theory is that mass exerts a force on other masses and the greater the mass the greater the force, so the earth being much larger mass than you exerts a force that draws you to it and so on.

We can picture him in those Wenceslas Square days of mass demonstrations, addressing the crowds from a balcony as one who indeed believed in something greater than the political events that were unfolding.

Was property more sacred than the health and general welfare of great masses of human beings?

First, to say that this pear has mass might be to say that within the framework of physics and systems of physical measurement and associated units, there is some number m greater than zero, which, to some unspecified tolerance, functions as a parameter in a mechanical analysis of the pear's behavior.

He undertook a systematic sifting of a great mass of Traditions, said to number 600,000, but ended up with selecting something less than 9,000 as authentic.

A truly apostolic Church may indeed address presidents, legislatures, kings and dictators as the prophets and Paul did of old; but like them it will be less inclined to deal with the mighty than with the great mass, with the community as it exists among the humble.

Or perhaps, as some exegetes have argued, Jesus is suggesting a more eschatological success: Simon and his mates will pull the nets for the great apocalyptic catch, they will sit to cull the bad from the good, they will be like the angels or the courtiers of God's kingdom rather than part of the teeming masses to be judged.

It really was a matter here of a great intellectual and moral reformation of the French people, more complete than the German Lutheran Reformation, because it also embraced the great peasant masses in the countryside and had a distinct secular basis and attempted to replace religion with a completely secular ideology represented by the national patriotic bond.23

Only in this connection can we understand how a society that seems, if one considers its articulate and self - conscious classes, so intensely ideological can show such low rates of political and ideological knowledge and involvement when compared with other modern societies.15 The gap between intellectuals and masses, between conscious ideology and popular feeling, is probably greater than in most Western countries.

By a host of cultural indicators, American society was better off in the 1950s than it is today, and the constraint and self - censorship of that age's mass media had a great deal to do with this achievement.

A single bacterial cell that divides every twenty minutes would multiply to a mass four thousand times greater than the earth's in just two days.

Don't buy more than you have room to store — bulk warehouse shopping may be great value, but if you have nowhere to put them, your mass purchases will become a headache.

It's a great plant - based source of iron and has more potassium than a banana (which is especially good for building muscles mass).

Weight - loss diet that includes consumption of medium - chain triacylglycerol oil leads to a greater rate of weight and fat mass loss than does olive oil: Consumption of medium chain triglycerides as part of a weight - loss plan improves weight loss compared with olive oil and can thus be successfully included in a weight - loss diet.

There is nothing worse than having a great product and not making it available to the masses.

Imagine a land mass greater than China.

Because producing food «intensively» (on a mass scale, in a location that enjoys advantages of climate and other environmental factors, with the addition of specialized technology, etc.) may, at least in some dimensions, be more environmentally - friendly than areas with less intensified production (because greater intensity often means more efficient).

The great mass of democrats may be better able to sustain a drumbeat on critical issues than the DNC's communications staff, which is subject to burnout, political pressures, and personal motivations.

There may indeed be a greater scepticism about mass immigration than we are used to hearing from senior Labour figures, but it is tied to a broader recognition of how fast and dramatic changes can destabilise and unsettle communities.

The rise of oxygen may have wiped out a greater proportion of life than in any other mass extinction.

Accumulating evidence suggests that rates of low bone mass are greater in HIV - infected males than in females.

The unfolding event led to the temporary shutdown of several other related sites and has led an FBI official to say that the disruption of the Internet is the greatest active risk to the U.S. other than weapons of mass destruction.

Lake Michigan's quagga mass in one recent year was estimated to be about seven times greater than the schools of prey fish that sustain the lake's salmon and trout.

Fat cells cultured from the body mass index of a morbidly obese patient cause multiple myeloma cells to anchor to a much greater extent than normal cells and produce a significantly larger number of blood vessels to sustain the cancer cells.

Together, the LHC detectors have now reduced the allowed range further: Tonelli said that according to CMS data its mass can not be greater than 127 GeV.

«These waves are caused by massive collisions between objects with a mass far greater than our sun.

The sum total or added knowledge in the sixty years following Cook's voyages had led to a general belief that around the South Pole was a scattered archipelago and not a continental mass, a state of geographical information that was not materially changed until the discovery by Charles Wilkes that after all there is a great Antarctic land, even if it is smaller than the land of legend.

For years, many scientists leaned toward a large mass, greater than that of Saturn's moon Mimas, because of the opaque, dense appearance of Saturn's primary ring, the B ring.

The latest results from the ATLAS detector at the LHC suggest that when we look at its decay into two photons, we find that the new boson's mass is about 3 gigaelectronvolts greater than when calculated from its decay into particles called Z bosons.

But when Hugues Sana of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and colleagues looked at 71 stars with masses greater than 15 times that of our sun, they found that more than 70 per cent revolve with a companion in a binary system (Science, doi.org/h4k).

Although the exact masses remain unknown, researchers estimate neutrinos to be two million times lighter than the next heavier particle, the electron, and this large mass difference is one of the great puzzles of neutrino physics.

If sterile neutrinos had masses trillions of times greater than their normal left - handed cousins, they would have decayed into these lighter neutrinos within the first second after the big bang.

As these neutrinos pass through the planet, they interact with atoms, creating muons — positive or negative particles with a mass much greater than an electron's.

«For most patients with diabetes and a BMI (body mass index) greater than 35, bariatric surgery increases life expectancy,» says Daniel Schauer, MD, assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at UC.

He points out that the ring structure, which Lipson says is designed for both low mass and malleability, harnesses the optical force on a greater scale than the smaller vibrating beam did.

The flux detected at 0.8 μm is also consistent with that of a planet with mass no greater than a few times that of Jupiter.

The intact uncultured and culturable bacterial component of Ob co-twins» fecal microbiota conveyed significantly greater increases in body mass and adiposity than those of Ln communities.

HD 93129Aa is an O - type star that is approximately two and a half million times brighter than the Sun, and has a mass 80 times greater.

More than half of TKR patients have a body mass index (BMI) within the obesity range (greater than 30 kg / m ²), which has been linked to a higher risk for related comorbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, osteoarthritis; and in some studies, to higher medical costs and longer hospital stays.