Sentences with phrase «known laws of physics»

For example, does the visual system know the laws of physics?

There's some little known law of physics that makes this time go much faster than any other!

I would be exceptionally skeptical of a perpetual motion machine, a time machine or a Star Trek - like warp drive, because they violate known laws of physics.

Schrödinger, the Austrian physicist who contributed substantially to the development of wave mechanics, was anxious to determine whether biological events could be accounted for in terms of known laws of physics and chemistry, or whether a full explanation would require the formulation of physical laws not yet known to exist.

The evidence for gods is next to nonexistent and the existence of same would violate many known laws of physics; any wild large bipedal mammal near the NW US would qualify as «bigfoot», which might be a bit surprising but wouldn't require a reassessment of what we know about the universe.

The example Barr considered was human consciousness, focusing on Roger Penrose's argument that the mind can not be explained by currently known laws of physics.

Space can expand faster than the speed of light; this does not violate any known laws of physics.

Applying temporal cause and effect to an area where the known laws of physics have all broken down.

So of course the real problem of life is not that all the structures and molecules in the cell appear to comply with the known laws of physics and chemistry.

There is no evidence of any grand architect of the universe, but there is observable evidence of it's randomness, and it's general adherence to known laws of physics.

Russell notes that the known laws of physics do not force a quantum experiment to yield a certain result but allow a choice of outcomes.

In 1997 Bernard Kay and Marek Radzikowski of the University of York in England and Robert Wald of the University of Chicago showed that time travel was consistent with all the known laws of physics, except in one place — near the wormhole entrance.

At such extremes the known laws of physics break down.

It also had the ring of plausibility: It proposed a phenomenon permitted by the known laws of physics, no new science required.

«The known laws of physics should lead to roughly the same quantity of matter and antimatter in the universe,» says Wark.

A new study shows how astronomers could detect such a brazen object — which is so dense it would shred the known laws of physics.

Because singularities break the known laws of physics so spectacularly, Roger Penrose and others proposed the «cosmic censorship hypothesis ``, which states that all singularities must be enclosed by an event horizon.

Although string theory is enormously complex, requiring a total of 11 dimensions to work correctly, it is a mathematically convincing way to knit together all the known laws of physics.

This is the place where all known laws of physics, even relativity and quantum mechanics, break down.

The known laws of physics allow for a matter density up to the so - called Planck value of 1097 kilograms per cubic meter — the density at which the strength of gravity becomes so strong that quantum - mechanical fluctuations should break down the fabric of spacetime.

At the center is a core, known as a singularity, that is infinitely small and dense, an affront to all known laws of physics.

Some of our understanding of time is based on logic and the known laws of physics, but some of it is based purely on convenience and reasonable - sounding assumptions.

The known laws of physics can explain the existence of the universe that we observe.

If that were true, the quantum communiqué would have traveled at more than 10,000 times the speed of light, something difficult to reconcile with the known laws of physics.

What Walker's parenthetical bureaucratese appears to be saying is that sometimes DARPA will fund projects that violate the known laws of physics.

Yet today, antimatter is rare in the universe, leading physicists to search for minute violations of the known laws of physics that could explain the asymmetry.

Fundamentally, we start with the known laws of physics and take them wherever they lead us.

This would require neutrinos to behave in ways not predicted by the known laws of physics.

Researchers discovered in the 1970s and 1980s that three of the forces of nature attain equal strengths and unite into a single force at exactly this energy scale, as long as the known laws of physics are rounded out with a few missing parts.

Scientists have long sought ways to avoid the complete breakdown of all the known laws of physics brought on by singularities.

Kinda seems like people who are doing that are defying the known laws of physics.

Not to be outdone, Ms. Shaw appears in a yellow gown and a hat that defies every known law of physics and of taste.

And then there's the big cat fight which seems to completely ignore all the known laws of physics.

We all know the laws of physics, and what goes up must come down.

The cyclist appears to be climbing an impossible arc against every known law of physics.