Sentences with word «macroscopic»

Gravity, however, operates predominantly on macroscopic scales.

Finally, the results shed some light on the way our classical macroscopic world emerges from the strange world of tiny quantum objects.

At the largest, or macroscopic level of reality the same pattern obtains.

In macroscopic objects such as a current of water, the fact of observing the current does not affect the flow of the water and, in accordance with the laws of classical thermodynamics, this flow would take place from the upper to the lower part of the system.

We should not be too surprised: after all, our common sense is derived from the world of macroscopic objects, and transposing this to the atomic world is not at all obvious.

Scientists have to overcome the thermodynamic barrier in order to achieve entanglement at macroscopic scales by cooling temperatures to near absolute zero -LRB--454 degrees Fahrenheit) and applying huge magnetic fields.

When you're able to possess a micro - and macroscopic view of your financial track record, you're essentially taking a pulse of your business» health.

It takes a huge amount of data to describe a star, the precursor of a black hole — from macroscopic properties such as its size and temperature down to the microscopic properties of its constituent particles.

The core facility is a two - photon in vivo imaging platform developed at the Nonlinear bioimaging laboratory, a technique that allows for non-invasive structural and functional measurements in small animal models at different scales: from macroscopic imaging of the brain morphology to highly resolved microscopy of neuron populations, single neurons, and even subcellular structures.

We had loads of fun diving with Martin, he's got a great eye for macroscopic organisms and it was totally wicked!!

At the point where a phase transition occurs, the system is quite unstable: small localized fluctuations easily propagate into macroscopic effects.

Thus the motions of macroscopic bodies appear on the background of the network of practically instantaneous interactions.

It's easy to imagine all sorts of ways in which indeterminacy on the quantum level can be amplified so as to issue in macroscopic changes in the world

Decoherence is thought to be a major obstacle in using macroscopic quantum states for quantum computing applications.

As the system is supposed to be non-reproducible, only statistics of macroscopic state variables are comparable, of course, but with enough runs that can be made to converge to an arbitrary degree, provided the model is «correct».

When driving a car, the clutch mechanically carries the torque produced by the engine to the chassis of the vehicle — a coupling that has long been tested and optimized in such macroscopic machines, giving us highly efficient engines.

But to make macroscopic materials, the Martí team needed to pack many more nanotubes into the solution than in previous experiments.

The Viking lander carries three separate experiments on the metabolism of hypothetical Martian microorganisms, one experiment on the organic chemistry of the Martian surface material and a camera system that might just conceivably detect macroscopic organisms if they exist.

The original expansion of the universe may have been so rapid and explosive that even tiny wormholes might have stretched and blown up to macroscopic size.

During the past 50 years, biology has developed from a soft science that described macroscopic phenomena into a reductionistic discipline that aims to explain life in terms of chemistry and physics.

They are synthesized in macroscopic quantities by slow decompression of benzene frozen at high pressures and brought to ambient conditions.

What I like for visualization purposes is to think of greenhouse agents (gases or other) as acting like macroscopic particles — for ease of reference, let's say Ping - pong balls — suspended in the air.

Pathological processing and evaluation were conducted using previously published methods.14, 15 Brain volume and macroscopic features were recorded during initial processing.

He does this with his idea of two basic ways in which enduring objects can be organized into macroscopic societies.

Of course, unlike macroscopic machines, the nanomachine was not assembled with a welding torch or wrench.

So either closed timelike curves can not exist, or big, macroscopic things can not travel on truly closed paths through space - time — unless everything we think we know about entropy and the arrow of time is wrong.

«Understanding the physiology behind multimodal imaging is very challenging due to discrepancies between macroscopic and microscopic images and between images of extracted or transplanted tissues versus images of a live subject,» said Liu.

Surveying key experimental findings from the past three decades, the authors explore links between the microscopic quantum and macroscopic classical worlds.

One has to look to the other macroscopic force which is conspicuously absent from the GHG assertions (can't call the «equations» because such don't exist), gravity, to explain the 3 %, in the case of Earth, and 125 %, in the case of Venus, greater surface than orbital temperatures (take those figures to the 4th power for equivalent energy densities) seen in all planetary atmospheres, and indeed all gravitational wells.

«Usually, we think of quantum mechanics as a theory of small things, but in this system quantum mechanics is appearing on macroscopic length scales.

However, his approach and more or less the whole field was subject to a fairly devastating critique here: Classification and discussion of macroscopic entropy production principles arXiv: cond - mat / 0604482v3 [cond - mat.

The model appears to explain motor oil's macroscopic behavior well, says physicist Jacqueline Krim of North Carolina State University in Raleigh — and it's consistent with Krim's own experiments on how thin films affect friction on metal surfaces.

Mathematical ideas and tools are often used to describe aspects of large macroscopic systems.

Except under exceptional circumstances, like in southwest USA where several trees are living for thousands of years (Swetnam 1993; Lloyd & Graumlich 1997), most long - term fire histories rely on other direct fire evidence like macroscopic charcoal on and in mineral soils (Filion 1984; Payette & Gagnon 1985; Filion et al. 1991; Desponts & Payette 1993; Lavoie & Payette 1996; Carcaillet 2001; Asselin & Payette 2005b; Talon et al. 2005).

Her extraordinary and highly influential career spans paintings, performances, room - size presentations, outdoor sculptural installations, literary works, films, fashion, design, and interventions within existing architectural structures, which allude at once to microscopic and macroscopic universes.

Interpretation of the charcoal record in forest soils: forest fires and their production and deposition of macroscopic charcoal

The result was flakes spinning at 60 million rotations per minute, faster than any other macroscopic object (Physical Review B, vol 82, p 115441).

That postulation turned out to be correct: the Belgian doctors are the first to provide a full anatomical description of the ligament after a broad cadaver study using macroscopic dissection techniques.

But when one introduces macroscopic forms as well as the conventional forces of quantum mechanics one still has a sort of heterogeneity, though it isn't between mind and matter.