Sentences with phrase «like objects in space»

He (or she, as you wish) goes sailing down your hill, jouncing over moguls you've made because at the end of the week you're vibrating a bit too much, and — if he's unlucky — he'll flip over and part company with his ride, each of them tumbling slowly down for ever and ever like objects in space.

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I feel like meeting someone in meatspace that I've developed a relationship with online would be a lot like having a dream where your mind has placed a really familiar object in a place that it's not supposed to be... like your car on a boat, or your mom in a space suite.

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERIn a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERin caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERin their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

Visual motor skills (or what non-child development nerds call hand - eye coordination) for this age include stacking and putting objects in a very defined space, like a ring on a dowel.

Failing to spot some 70 percent of the matter in the visible universe may seem like a glaring oversight, but astronomers were aware that telescopes simply could not capture all the objects that must be lurking in space.

Superstrings are one - dimensional objects (like lines, hence «strings») vibrating like rubber bands in multidimensional space.

In his framework, the three dimensions of space and time are woven together to create a four - dimensional fabric, which acts as the source of gravity because it bends and warps around massive objects, like stars.

Using similar techniques originally inspired by string theory, Strominger's group has computed the spectrum of gravitational waves emitted when compact objects like stars fall into giant black holes — predictions that could be verified by the future Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, planned to launch in two decades (or maybe sooner).

Doing so would make it possible to detect gravitational waves, faint ripples in space - time that, according to Einstein, emanate from interactions between massive objects like neutron stars and supermassive black holes.

With the help of the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a German - led group of astronomers have observed the intriguing characteristics of an unusual type of object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter: two asteroids orbiting each other and exhibiting comet - like features, including a bright coma and a long tail.

Current thinking is that these tiny diamonds can form in three ways: enormous pressure shockwaves from high - energy collisions between the meteorite «parent body» and other space objects; deposition by chemical vapor; or, finally, the «normal» static pressure inside the parent body, like most diamonds on Earth.

«It looks like important physical objects, such as curved space - times... emerge naturally from entanglement in tensor network states via holography,» writes physicist Román Orús of Johannes Gutenberg University in Germany.

Another, much smaller effect is gravitomagnetism, or frame - dragging, in which the spin of a massive object tugs space - time in the direction of its rotation, like a spoon twisted in honey (see «A twist in space - time»).

The volume is the amount of space an object fills in three - dimensional space (which tells approximately how much a container, like a juice box, can hold), and the surface area is the total amount of area on the outer surface of the object (which tells approximately how much material was used to create the shape).

As for the very early universe, instruments like Hubble and the Spitzer Space Telescope allow astronomers to find similar objects at varying distances and at different points in their life span.

These proposed devices, like their predecessors, aim to cancel gravity by wrapping an object in superconducting coils to generate a magnetic field so strong that it warps space.

The final stages of life for a star like our Sun result in the star blowing its outer layers out into the surrounding space, forming objects known as planetary nebulae in a wide range of beautiful and striking shapes.

Similarly - aged stars moving through space together in a group — described by astronomers as an association — are of great interest to researchers, because they are considered a prime target to hunt for brown dwarfs and free - floating planet - like objects.

It looks to us like there are photons and these other particles, but they might really be manifestations, projections, from a higher - dimensional space, of objects that are more conveniently described in our world by saying, «There is a photon,» or «There is a gluon.»

Since we commanded the Hubble Space Telescope to track Pluto during the imaging, objects not moving with Pluto (like stars and asteroids) appear as streaks in the images, rather than a point - like source moving with Pluto.

Einstein realised that in response to the presence of matter and energy, space (and time) develops warps that guide the motion of objects, like the Earth, passing through it.

And recent discoveries even suggest that we may occasionally be visited by asteroid - like objects coming in from interstellar space.

The group in which he works is involved in the instrumental development for the LISA PathFinder mission (ESA), a technology precursor mission for a future space - based gravitational - wave observatory, LISA, which will detect the gravitational radiation from low frequency sources like massive black hole mergers, inspiraling stellar compact objects into massive black holes, and galactic binaries.

The little moonlet, which according to The Verge is about 20 miles wide and resembles «a little space rock with what looks like two googly eyes,» resides in what is known as the Encke Gap, a 200 - mile - wide space between Saturn's rings that is caused by the diminutive object itself.

As you decorate your space with furniture, invest in objects made from natural materials like wood, clay, or marble.

Owning objects like these and keeping them in your sacred space is a way for you to feel safer and more relaxed at home.

In addition to adding personality, you can also incorporate reflective objects like mirrors to help bounce light around the space or to create the illusion of slightly more square footage.

Docking at space stations and your ship is like entering a small instance and is uninspiring seeing the same graphics with the same objects in different places.

An object - based as opposed to a channel - based system, Dolby Atmos enables audio engineers to localize sound elements anywhere within a 3 - D space, and the team behind Swiss Army Man took to it like kids in a candy store.

Like the apes who discovered weaponry in «2001: A Space Odyssey,» Plainview has come upon the object that will dictate America's destiny for the next century and more.»

Much like the camera based games on PS3, 3DS and iOS, Theater has you interacting with objects onscreen as if they were in the physical space you are occupying.

He pivots here to a feminine perspective but only abstractly: This is a film about objectification that mainly sees its characters as objects, to be dressed and undressed, plastered in glitter and gore, and arranged like furniture against vast expanses of negative space.

Safety features like the ParkSense ® Front / Rear Park Assist System can be added to help you navigate tight spaces, detecting objects behind your vehicle while in reverse and providing audible warnings if you get too close to an object.

Arranged in chronological order, the poems focus on objects ranging from concrete, such as the red wheelbarrow and white chickens in William Carlos Williams» well - known Imagist poem, to abstract, like Lord Byron's elegant and pithy ode to the letter e: «The beginning of eternity, the end of time and space / the beginning of every end, and the end of every place.»

For the moment, it seems like Dell is winning in this particular arena, but the rest of the tablet looks pretty decent as well — boasting a screen resolution of 2560 × 1600, RealSense digital photography technology (that is able to create a depth map of an image, giving a rudimentary understanding of object positions located across 3D space instead of only a 2D plane), and an Intel Z3500 quad - core CPU (running between 1.33 GHz to 2.33 GHz depending on the model).

This museum is like walking into your middle school science fair — an inviting space filled with magnets, steam shooters, wheels, floating objects and other contraptions straight out of Doc's wacky lab in the film classic, Back to the Future.

The game also includes two flight modes: Supercruise which is used to travel between distant objects in a star system, and a sub-supercruise flight mode which is used to fly towards nearby objects like a space station or cargo canister.

All of the objects in the environment look blocky and most have lagged edges, and the character animations look like they come from the days of the original Xbox and PlayStation 2 (think black space between neck and body when the head moves in a certain direction).

«I wanted a video game to enjoy scenes like you see in those television programs and movies in which all sorts or objects are flying through space and a fighter craft dodges and weaves through them or a large fleet of starships is approaching to you.»

That's not to say that Sunshine is devoid of the series» indelible mark of surrealism, as the aforementioned platforming gauntlets that serve as the bonus stages — where Mario is robbed of F.L.U.D.D. and has to rely on his own abilities — seem to be housed in a bizarre, often pixelated dimension, with random shapes and objects suspended in space in such a way that they feel like a precursor to the Galaxy titles.

Space Invaders Color (again, 1978) was the first time the game was released in full color, though the trick the developers used to turn each row of enemies a certain color looks an awful lot like the bands of cellophane used earlier, as a given row on the screen always turns the objects inside it the same color.

Many synthesize the sonic and the sculptural, and some — like 2018's STUDIES, which features objects that sit in a space between musical instruments and something else entirely — are interactive.

Exhibition: Erika Vogt, «Stranger Debris Roll Roll Roll,» at the New Museum For her first solo museum presentation, Los Angeles - based installation artist Erika Vogt will fill the lobby gallery with «a dense arrangement of cast plaster and found objects that float in the gallery space like a field of debris.»

Arranging disparate objects like lighters, plastic pipes, fabric, bath mats, and Snuggies in individual works and installations, the exhibition questions ideas of public and private in the pseudo domestic space of a hotel.

While other artists like Richard Tuttle and William T. Wiley were also experimenting with the unstreched canvas during the same period, Gilliam's sculptural approach was revolutionary in that it repositioned the viewer's relationship with the painting to include the object as well as the space around it, blurring the boundary between painting, sculpture, and architecture for the first time.

He strives to imbue his paintings with two directives: Create compositions with meaningful intersections of objects within space and capture the essence of what it's like to be in the moment when no one is watching.

Starling's «Bird in Space» is elevated from the museum floor and wall using three black pillow - like objects inflated with helium.

Using everyday objects, like disposable bags from fast food restaurants or the cardboard inside toilet paper rolls, Yuken Teruya consciously cuts paper, which branch out and form a chain like a tree reaching for the sun and scattering its leaves in space to capture as much sunlight as possible.

The displacement of reality in image and space is one central notion of Pop - Art, turning everyday objects and slogans into art, such as the everyday replicas of Claes Oldenburg, the comic - like mimicries of Roy Lichtenstein, the female ads of Mel Ramos or the eye popping signs of Robert Indiana.

The Joyce W. Pope Gallery provides the perfect space for smaller traveling exhibitions like Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester and the Creative Mind, Edvard Munch: Symbolism in Print, and Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum.