Sentences with phrase «in a thought experiment»

In this chapter the author invites the reader to join in a thought experiment about what some theological school known to them is and ought to be.

So today I would like to indulge in a thought experiment: what if we spoke of our classrooms like we would of community, company, tribe, or team?

That is just one step in a thought experiment.

Maya Jeffereis invites participants to engage in a thought experiment about ethics, morality, identity politics, and nation - building.

But what significance is there in the thought experiment of holding precipitation fixed at its maximum 19th century value, given that other parts of that century were evidently no wetter than today?

From what I've read you are saying that we must be careful to always acknowledge we aren't involved merely in thought experiments with no consequences, and also that we must be careful we don't inadvertently steer ourselves into criticism for criticism's sake.

Falk noted extra convolutions in the frontal lobes, which are believed to be involved in thought experiments.

If there were no trading costs — possible in a thought experiment but not in the real world — an excellent strategy over the last few decades would have been buying shares at the last possible moment during regular trading hours and selling them methodically at the opening bell every day, Professor Gulen of Purdue said.

you will need to provide more information for it to be at least one that others can draw some sort of logical conclusion from, either through specifics or some sort of generality which would account for the missing information in your thought experiment.

But the symmetry Mr. Van Biema suggests in his thought experiment is profoundly misleading.

The complication of permanent existence (and stability) of the whole body becomes a difficult condition in this thought experiment and it is from this that we must place limitations on its possible nature.

Some of the greatest breakthroughs have happened in thought experiments — and they're still the only way to play with black holes, says physicist Sean Carroll

Eventually, as the black hole evaporated perhaps a trillion trillion trillion trillion years later (astronauts in thought experiments have remarkable longevity), the astronaut outside the black hole would see the Hawking radiation associated with the infalling particle.

As luck would have it, there's a wonderfully geeky store in this thought experiment called the Ultimate Computer Store, which sells a great many designs of computers.

Discussing the physical relevance of Schrödinger's wave function (28 July, p 28), Matthew Pusey and his colleagues argue that the two atoms in their thought experiment are truly independent of each other.

We let our imaginations tackle that question in this thought experiment.

So here's a possible chain of events in our thought experiment that's perfectly consistent with the laws of thermodynamics but is inconsistent with the notion that a calorie is a calorie is a calorie: first, the sugar causes A to be insulin resistant; second, the insulin resistance serves to cause a compensatory elevation of serum insulin levels; third, the elevated insulin causes A to store calories in his fat tissue every day and grow fatter.

Relativity is fun because in its thought experiments, it combines philosophy and what seems like magic.

The value in this thought experiment is to clarify whether, at root, you are writing mainly to objectify your thoughts, in order to give them some tangible form in the world outside of you — or whether, at root, you are trying mainly to communicate your thoughts to others: to explain yourself; to persuade people about something; to entertain, inspire, or in some way change them.

So while constants are constants, the temperature of the planet in the thought experiment is not constant.

Participants are playfully confronted with their own values as they engage in a thought experiment about ethics, identification, and representation, as they decide who will survive to rebuild society.

Thank you but I'm glad he hasn't, he has more knowledge than me and I wouldn't like to try and pick teamsheets, I am happy to do it in thought experiments but I think the pressure would cause my brain to freeze

In this thought experiment, the president would presumably sign it, so we don't have to worry about overriding a veto.

In another thought experiment, Einstein used the equivalence principle to show that gravity also warps time.

In his thought experiment, two particles fly away from each other and wind up at opposite ends of the galaxy.

In this thought experiment, there is a cat in a box, but one doesn't know if the cat is dead or alive until the box is opened.

This principle helped Walt Disney bring his fantasies to life and also enabled Albert Einstein to engage in thought experiments that led to revolutionary ideas about space and time.

'' In our thought experiment both columns are initially vertically isothermal (see p. 1042).