Sentences with phrase «in local gravity»

This decreasing trend in local gravity is sufficient to counteract all other sources of local sea - level rise.

Because the dent would cause a dip in the local gravity, the moon's rotation would shift so the impact site would gradually migrate towards the pole.

Measurements made before and after the quake show subtle changes in the local gravity field, the European Space Agency said last week.

Every 94 minutes or so, twin satellites whip once around Earth at an altitude of 310 miles, taking 30 days to cover the planet's entire surface, then they do it again and again, sensing variations in local gravity.

Not exact matches

If dark energy slows and then flips, eventually pulling in tandem with, rather than against, gravity, the Big Crunch — in which our local universe is crushed down into an infinitely small speck — will be back on the cards, although this seems less likely now.

The team then subtracted surface features — such as mountain ranges and valleys — to better see slight differences in Earth's basic shape caused by local differences in gravity.

«When seen from this perspective,» writes Orús, «one would say that geometry (and gravity) seems to emerge from local patterns of entanglement in quantum many - body states.»

The galaxies were then divided into those that are central to their local environment (the center of gravity) and those that roam around in their host environments (satellites).

By the 1960s rocket scientists realized that smaller, local variations in gravity could have further, unforeseen effects.

The field of gravity that pervades this local space, we imagine, does so in a smooth, predictable manner.

The gravity trap could also be built from local wood «The cost could be recovered in a day,» says Cleary.

The glaciologist was combing through satellite and GPS data to see what small, local effects could be clouding satellite measurements of larger changes in Earth's gravity from ice loss.

As such, gravity is not a force, but a change in the local geometry of space - time.

Computer simulations derived from Hubble's data show that it will take an additional two billion years after the encounter for the interacting galaxies to completely merge under the tug of gravity and reshape into a single elliptical galaxy similar to the kind commonly seen in the local universe.

This twisting and stretching of the local spacetime should cause the gryroscopes in Gravity Probe B to get out of alignment as it orbited the Earth.

In the same way that the force of gravity encourages the flow of lymph towards the heart for purifying during yoga and pilates practices, inversion tables at your local chiropractor offer the same benefits.

Whether you throw down in local multiplayer or take your game online, there's plenty of fun to be had regardless of skill, while veterans can enjoy some new tweaks to the formula such as the Super Horn and gravity - defying shortcuts.

In the first place, almost all science can be considered to be «mathematical modeling» in one sense or another; if you were to attempt to predict how long it takes a baseball dropped from six feet to reach the floor, you would probably use Newton's laws and make your prediction based on the equation t = sqrt (2s / g) where s is the distance fallen and g is the local acceleration of gravitIn the first place, almost all science can be considered to be «mathematical modeling» in one sense or another; if you were to attempt to predict how long it takes a baseball dropped from six feet to reach the floor, you would probably use Newton's laws and make your prediction based on the equation t = sqrt (2s / g) where s is the distance fallen and g is the local acceleration of gravitin one sense or another; if you were to attempt to predict how long it takes a baseball dropped from six feet to reach the floor, you would probably use Newton's laws and make your prediction based on the equation t = sqrt (2s / g) where s is the distance fallen and g is the local acceleration of gravity.

To assess these implications, we translate global into local SLR projections using a model of spatial variation in sea - level contributions caused by isostatic deformation and changes in gravity as the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets lose mass (36 ⇓ — 38), represented as two global 0.5 ° matrices of scalar adjustment factors to the ice sheets» respective median global contributions to SLR and (squared) to their variances.

But if you heat all the air in any layer of a closed column, you cause all of the air to expand and gravity becomes relevant, not to the local temperature description of the gas but to the fact that the gas behaves partly like gas in a cylinder, doing work to lift or lower all of the gas above it as it thermally expands or contracts.

In this statement, he articulates the scale and gravity of climate disruption, and brings the problem from the general and the global to the particular and the local.

The ocean surface is not level, but «lumpy» for various reasons; local gravity, density (temperature, salinity), air pressure, currents, wind, outflow from rivers, rotation of the Earth, tides, changes in Moon's orbit, ocean cycles such as the Pacific Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation, and a few others I can't remember just now.

Other barriers to take - up of relationship counselling include lack of information about available services, denial of the gravity of problems and difficulties accessing services due to waiting lists and limited appointment times or lack of availability in the local area.