Sentences with word «infinitesimals»

The most infinitesimal amounts of 1080 are toxic.

Scientifically, Hawking's name will forever be tied to black holes, the ultraintense gravitational fields left behind when massive stars collapse under their own gravity into infinitesimal points.

Now and then, astronomers are discovering planets around other stars by observing infinitesimal changes in the positions of stars that occur due to the gravitational pull of the orbiting planets.

Perhaps above all they called men to share the timeless life of God so that they could regard their present lives as an almost infinitesimal part of an awe - inspiring and magnificent whole.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz German Mathematician and Philosopher, Founder of Infinitesimal Calculus Lutheran

It has been tempered by injury, sharpened by experience and honed by infinitesimal adjustments and infinite pondering.

Could the enormous accelerations surrounding a black hole, for instance, cause gravity there to become weaker, thereby making impossible the formation of a singularity — a point in space - time at which gravitational forces cause matter to have infinite density and infinitesimal volume and cause space - time to become infinitely distorted?

When you couple that requirement to the poll results in # 233, where about half the American respondents don't even EXPRESS the most minimal commitment to ameliorating climate change, WORRYING about it, then there is infinitesimal chance we will even approach anything near 2 C.

The energy transactions are here infinitesimal compared with those in muscles, but again have been shown to be in accord with the conservation of energy.

2009 Visiting Lecturer and Panelist in conjunction with Infinitesimal Eternity: Making Images in the Face of Spectacle, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

Your chances of Traditional Publishing plucking you out of the slush are as infinitesimal as before you started the whole process — or worse, since you've already given readers a chance.

ARLINGTON, VA — The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) received over 115,000 public comments from hemp food and body care consumers and manufacturers opposing their attempt to ban hemp seed and oil products which contain infinitesimal trace residual THC (much like poppy seeds on bagels contain trace opiates).

«Because it doesn't make any difference to me if my life is miserable because I've been put out of business by something that's good for 320 - some million people in some sort of infinitesimal way and it's messed up my life.»

The cells have each absorbed an almost infinitesimal amount of radiation energy.

But then sometimes I think: NOTHING that I do for the remaining decades of my life is going to have even the most infinitesimal impact on reducing the greenhouse effect in my lifetime.

Furthermore, «for the closed universes that might be created through such mechanisms to last for longer than infinitesimal times, something like inflation is necessary.»

Only two years ago, a land - based gravitational wave observatory confirmed Einstein's prediction that gravitational fluctuations from moving matter excite infinitesimal ripples in space — this first detection of gravitational waves earned the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.

In her Hieroglyphics works — drawings which became extended circuits of rhythm and life observations — the counting of a beat is cast into infinitesimal line and curve forms that improbably manage to account for the movement of music, the chasing of light, and the interminable shifts of environmental terrain.

Forget about infinitesimal error rates like one in a trillion; the transistors in Neurogrid will crackle with noise, misfiring at rates as high as 1 in 10.

In broad outline, his approach assumes the noise is at a microscopic but not infinitesimal level, which restores the smoothness needed for the differential equation to have a solution.

Stand by, therefore, for howls of protest from publishers and authors on how streaming produces infinitesimal royalties compared with the old publishing paradigm.

Understanding how the brain changes over time requires a new generation of tools that can work at infinitesimal scales that were once inconceivable.

Unfortunately, the one - sided reporting so commonplace in the media has left consumers to conclude that rather than preventing health impacts, the epoxy liner itself causes problems because it contains infinitesimal amounts of BPA.»

Often using tiny repetitive strokes across wide swaths of canvas, Rohrer's idiosyncratic yet systematic method of mark - making tracks infinitesimal variations of light and incremental shifts in the surface and texture of his paintings.

Because trace infinitesimal THC in hemp seed is non-psychoactive and insignificant, Congress exempted non-viable hemp seed and oil from control under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), just as Congress exempted poppy seeds from the CSA, although they contain trace opiates otherwise subject to control.

Perhaps, as one suggested way out, Cantorian or Dedekindian proofs are applicable to the problem after all, as indeed J. R. Lucas thinks they are applicable to making sense out of the «destiny» of infinitesimal instants in his absolute theory of time (TTS 29 - 34).

There are conditions for actualizable and potential points in continua, at infinitesimal nodes in continua that, when actualized, introduce new continuities and thus new forms, new purposes.

But should the system suffer any perturbation, however infinitesimal, the state of the system will start to change, and that change will continue until one or the other of the two steady states is reached.

Last week, UK monitoring stations detected infinitesimal quantities of iodene - 131 from the accident there, leading to some strange comments from politicians and the media.

With gorgeous prose and indelible characters, Cruel Beautiful World examines the intricate, infinitesimal distance between seduction and love, loyalty and duty, and what happens when you're responsible for things you can't fix.

Whether it is a finance economy that relies on complex projections and infinitesimal shifts, or infrastructures and corporations that blur national and hemispheric borders, today's world functions at levels of complexity that defy straightforward examination.

A more timely use of the expression might describe the absurd sensitivity to infinitesimal risks, leading to a drama that its cause did not warrant.

Thus this has had infinitesimal effect on global trends.

LSD is the most potent hallucinogenic substance known, acting in the brain at seemingly infinitesimal doses.

In the U.K., the Guardian said Amazon's action would soon bring «howls of protest from publishers and authors on how streaming produces infinitesimal royalties.»

The tiny sensors, which consist of infrared light - emitting diodes (LEDs) coupled with a sensitive light detector, measure infinitesimal gradations in light in human tissue, due to changing blood volume in the microvasculature as blood circulates through the body — a process that follows in rhythm with the beating of the heart.

Each non-violent scene staged by Gavron is a charged mini-drama, and Mulligan's evincing of Maud's evolution, from passive to indignant to enraged, through infinitesimal gradations in mood and body language, reiterates that she's our subtlest film actress.

For those fortunate enough to live in a competitive electoral context such as a swing state, the sheer size of the electorate renders the possibility of one voter being the deciding factor statistically infinitesimal.

At key stages of development, a seemingly infinitesimal dose of an estrogenic chemical such as BPA or phthalates may be life - altering.

But at the same time, Mars is nudged outward by trillions of close encounters with planetesimals that give infinitesimal gravitational kicks to the growing Mars without hitting it.