Sentences with phrase «is the mysterious force»

Whereas Newtonian gravity was a mysterious force that somehow emanated from mass and acted instantaneously over long distances, in Einstein's view a massive object simply curves the space - time fabric around it.

In a way, Einstein's rules, which were contained in thetheory of general relativity he proposed in 1915, are more intuitive.Whereas Newtonian gravity was a mysterious force that somehow emanatedfrom mass and acted instantaneously over long distances, in Einstein «sview a massive object simply curves the space - time fabric around it.

DiChristina: Right, in astrophysics and cosmology, what dark energy is referring to is this mysterious force that is responsible for the expansion of the universe at speeds greater than what have been anticipated, or I should say rates rather than speeds.

Dark energy is a mysterious force that makes up about three - quarters of the universe and drives cosmic expansion.

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The force might also be an entryway into understanding dark matter, mysterious particles making up the bulk of the mass of the universe that have yet to be observed.

No mention is made of a Supreme Being in his own religious philosophy, only of a mysterious life - force or universal will - to - live which appears as a creative - destructive force in the world around us and as a will - to - self - realization - and - love within us.

The answers can run the spectrum — from a personal interventionist God to a mysterious spirit, a creative force, or to the source of all that is.

Below the conscious stream there is a great mysterious area, now called the subconscious, where, at differing levels, there move emotional forces set in operation by past experiences.

What Satan knows is not only the inexplicable and irrational; it is also knowledge itself, together with whatever mysterious forces enable us to make art.

Pullman gives Dust a quasi-religious meaning, saying it is «a mysterious force» and «a visual analog» of the good.

One of the most mysterious and powerful of all forces is the understanding which comes in interpersonal communication.

«Everyday life ceases to appear as something manipulated by vast, mysterious forces beyond human control or understanding and becomes a world that is manipulable, predictable, and intelligible... When you can get by happily enough without God, even if you do believe in him, why bother with him at all?»

The forces of nature on which our existence wholly depends are made less mysterious and more pliable by our perceiving them as personal beings like ourselves.

The Bible clearly distinguishes these from the idol, which is the visualization of these powers and mysterious forces.

Jesus» life is so powerful that it hasn't ended but carries on in a mysterious spiritual force to us all.

It is a battle with those mysterious superhuman and / or subhuman forces that we have already met in our discussion of the whole armor of God in Ephesians 6.

We are aware that all material beings are composite, composed of atoms, that these particles are discrete within the continuity they integrate, that in themselves even they are miniature solar systems, and that these orbits are wide open spaces in relation to the miniature elementswhich are bound within them: bound and determined by the fixed laws that define the still mysterious phenomena of centrifugal and centripetal force.

He went on to conclude in 1931 that «Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.»

Under primitive conditions man was so at the mercy of wind and storm, heat and cold, drought and rain, mysterious diseases and unpredictable disasters, that the first, natural explanation of his good or evil fortune was sought in the will of superhuman forces.

The alternative to this fictitious ordering of life is made concrete in The Public Burning through the character of the Phantom, that «mysterious fearsome force,» to quote Uncle Sam, «which from time immemorious has menaced the peace and security of mankind and buggered the hopes of the holy» (p. 335).

The primitive conceptions of clean and unclean lie at the bottom of these rules; there are certain things and certain events in natural human life (like birth and death) which bring man under the influence of mysterious dæmonic forces; there are actions and situations in life which are full of these dangerous powers or are threatened by them.

Sexuality is not intended by God as a mysterious and alien force of nature, but as a power to be integrated into one's personhood and used responsibly in the service of love.

Force, a term much used in physics, is not sheer coercion but the mysterious attraction exercised by one entity, understood as an energy event, upon another.

Considering that our main defender Laurent Koscielny has been forced to miss France's two World Cup qualifying matches this international break due to injury, and that Calum Chambers has been sidelined for weeks with a mysterious hip injury.

Considering that Blue State was consulting with Obama at the time, I suspect that citizen - created online video was far from a «mysterious force» to his campaign staff.

It tells us gravity is not some mysterious force; it's just an expression of the curvature of space.

Measuring this can help constrain models of dark energy, the mysterious force that seems to be driving the universe's present - day accelerating expansion.

It may even be that «dark energy,» the mysterious force that even now drives the universe to expand at an accelerating rate, is itself a scalar field.

The universe is expanding at ever - increasing speeds, and the prevailing theory is that a mysterious force called dark energy is driving it.

Even weirder than dark matter — the invisible stuff constituting most of the mass of the universe — is dark energy, a mysterious force pushing the universe apart at an ever - faster rate.

These «standard candles» were crucial to discovering dark energy, the mysterious force behind the accelerating expansion of the universe.

DARK energy, the mysterious force thought to be responsible for the fact the universe's expansion is accelerating, might come from a series of exotic fields.

I might add, you know, there are so many things that Martin Gardner did that are so important to me, but I should mention his first, the first book of his that I ever saw, which was Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, which I remember very clearly running into at age 14 in a friend's book [shelf] and that book just, what's the word, the scales fell from my eyes I think is the expression; meaning that I, up until age 14, even though I had grown up in a family, my father was a physicist and I was very exposed to science, I never really thought too much about, I mean, things that, sort of, you might say superstitions or just, sort of, I don't know, mysterious [forces] in the world, you know ESP and paranormal things and predicting the future and such things.

Astronomers are back in the dark about what dark matter might be, after new observations showed the mysterious substance may not be interacting with forces other than gravity after all.

Then last week, a mysterious decline in the level of oxygen inside the biosphere became critical and project managers were forced to start injecting oxygen into the system, breaching the integrity of the «closed» system.

To their surprise, they learned the expansion rate is actually speeding up — some still - mysterious repulsive force, dubbed dark energy, is actively pushing the universe apart.

The plan assigns top priority to investigating dark energy, an all - pervasive, mysterious force that seems to be pushing the universe apart at an ever - increasing pace.

Offering a field of view 100 times larger than that of the iconic Hubble Space Telescope, WFIRST is meant to study dark energy — the mysterious force driving the universe's accelerating expansion — as well as large numbers of planets orbiting other stars, among many other scientific objectives.

Representing more than two - thirds of the universe, dark energy is a mysterious, expansionist force whose very identity is unknown — but which has dominated the cosmos for the past 5 billion years.

The first intriguing findings have been released from the Dark Energy Survey, a project studying the mysterious force that seems to be accelerating the expansion of the universe.

Whatever it was, they do think that it was a mysterious, repulsive force — rather like the dark energy that pervades the universe today and is causing it to expand, but far more powerful.

Dark energy — the mysterious force that is accelerating the expansion of our universe and pulling galaxies apart — has long baffled scientists.

The scientists trained the mighty Keck telescopes at known supernovae and used their findings to determine that the expansion of the Universe was not slowing down, as was expected, but in fact was speeding up — driven by a mysterious repelling force now called Dark Energy.

Estimating both the distance and recession speed of ancient Type - Ia supernovae allow astronomers to calculate the expansion of the universe, back during an era when matter in the universe was still relatively dense and expansion was still slowing under the influence of gravity and before its later hypothesized, subsequent acceleration from a mysterious repulsive force (more from NASA's Observatorium and NERSC's press release).

From the ocean floor, to the mysterious force of dark energy, to the movement of continents, here are three scientists who are venturing into uncharted territory.

The leading theory is that a mysterious force called «dark energy» is pushing everything in the universe apart from everything else, faster and faster.

In an alternate world similar to Earth, the life of a savvy young girl named Lyra is turned upside down, and she finds herself being chased by mysterious forces.

Spirituality isn't just some mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon that only happens in a formal worship service; it's our life force, our energetic footprint in the world and our sense of connection with the big «All There Is.&raquIs.»

As a cardiologist, I'm always open to the possibility that I don't know everything and that other, mysterious forces are at work.

People who are quick to blame mysterious forces for their weight problems, and haven't actually tested the Occam's razor: that the simplest and easiest explanation is usually the correct one.