Sentences with phrase «new general theory»

Before publishing his laser paper, Einstein tweaked the equations of his brand - new general theory of relativity in order to better explain the universe (details in Part 1).

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He highlights a tendency for the general public to fall victim to new theories that justify unprecedented asset prices.

In theory, Trump firing Rosenstein would allow him to put in place a new deputy attorney general more amenable to Trump's position — and more likely to either curtail Mueller's investigatory powers or end the investigation altogether.

In theory, Trump could appoint a new deputy attorney general who could fire Mueller, but it would not be that simple.

A fertile few have managed to find a way to take on board some of the new theories without jettisoning the deep structure of their position, but the general sense is one of weariness and deep loss.

Cf. Ludwig von Bertalanffy, General Systems Theory (New York: Braziller, 1968); Ervin Laszlo, The Systems View of the World (New York; Braziller, 1972).

2 For an excellent survey of the history and basic concepts of systems thought, see Joël de Rosnay, The Macroscope: A New World Scientific System (New York: Harper and Row, 1979) or Bertalanffy, «General System Theory — A Critical Review,» in Systems Behaviour, edited by John Beishon and Geoff Peters (New York: Harper and Row, 1972).

I expand Lakatos's work into a general theory of rationality in Explanation from Physics to Theology: An Essay in Rationality and Religion (New Haven: Yale Univ..

For example, the Bible says that time was created by God when He created the universe.19 Stephen Hawking, George Ellis, and Roger Penrose extended the equations for general relativity to include space and time, demonstrating that time began at the formation of the universe.20 Of course, the biggest coup of the Bible was to declare that the universe had a beginning21 through an expanding universe model.22 The New Testament even declares that the visible creation was made from what was not visible and that dimensions of length, width and height were created by God.23 In addition, the Bible refuted steady - state theory (saying that the creation of matter and energy has ended) 24 long before science made that determination.

1 Bertalanffy's basic works include: General System Theory (New York: George Braziller, 1978) and Robots, Men, and Minds (New York: George Braziller, 1967).

Ecological views based on systems theory may be found in von Bertalanffy, Ludwig, General Systems Theory (New York: Braziller, theory may be found in von Bertalanffy, Ludwig, General Systems Theory (New York: Braziller, Theory (New York: Braziller, 1968).

The development of cognition in general is conceived in Piaget's genetic theory as a reconstruction of earlier forms of cognitive organization with new means and on a new level; the best known example of this development is the transformation and reconstruction of sensori - motor activity schemata into symbolic - conceptual thinking operations.

«The forms of a living being are not but rather come to be,» says Ludwig von Bertalanffy (BW 120), and his «organismic» biology and later general system - theory for overcoming the opposition between mechanism and vitalism has given central insights of Whitehead a new formulation on the basis of science, 8 Something similar holds for all the directions of research which Jean Piaget has brought to the [264] concept of genetic structuralism.9 The genetic epistemology founded by Piaget has proved through empirical research on the problem of knowledge the fruitfulness both of genetic analysis and of Whitehead's principle of process.

In this talk I shall, however, describe in general terms how the quantum theory, understood somewhat more imaginatively than is usually done, can point to a new order in physics, which I call the enfolded order, or the implicate order.

1 Justus Buchler, Toward a General Theory of Human Judgment (New York, Columbia University Press, 1951); 2nd revised edition, New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1979.

12 Toward a General Theory of Human Judgment (1951)[TGT]; Nature and Judgment (1955)[NJ]; The Concept of Method (New York, Columbia University Press, 1961; hereafter, M; The Main of Light: On the Concept of Poetry (1974).

A man can not control beforehand the possibilities upon which he must act; he can not in the moment of decision fall back upon principles, upon a general ethical theory which can relieve him of responsibility for the decision; rather, every moment of decision is essentially new.

When a «deeper» closed theory is found (as, in the case of gravitation, general relativity), the older theory is not simply discredited, but its predictions are upheld within certain parameter ranges specified by the newer theory, which adds correct predictions of its own outside those ranges.

Physicists scrutinize the equivalence principle because any violation could point to new forces of nature that might resolve a long - standing impasse between general relativity and quantum theory.

By 1982 Barbour and Bertotti had come up with a new theory of gravity (pdf) that described the world just as accurately as Einstein's general relativity but without invoking time as a fundamental dimension.

The new theory was called TeVeS, an acronym for tensor, vector, and scalar — mathematical terms that describe how matter and energy interact with space and time in general relativity.

A new theory of gravity, Einstein's general relativity, was needed to compute Mercury's orbit accurately.

A little more than a year ago, Milgrom, a professor of physics at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel, gained new support for his ideas when his longtime collaborator, Jacob Bekenstein, published a new, more powerful version of the theory, one fully consistent with Einstein's general theory of relativity.

The Earth may provide a new way to test Einstein's general theory of relativity, says an astronomer in the US.

In broad strokes, Krasnow and Mehr's new theory fleshes out the field's general consensus about how lullabies may have originated.

This marks the second time that LIGO has detected gravitational waves, providing further confirmation of Einstein's general theory of relativity and securing the future of gravitational wave astronomy as a fundamentally new way to observe the universe.

In his new book, A Universe from Nothing, cosmologist Lawrence M. Krauss attempts to link quantum physics to Einstein's general theory of relativity to explain the origin of a universe from nothing: «In quantum gravity, universes can, and indeed always will, spontaneously appear from nothing.

His new book, The Hidden Reality, does for multiverses what his bestseller The Elegant Universe did for string theory: it provides the general reader with a thorough, engaging survey of the subject that manages to make highly abstract ideas sound implausibly comprehensible.

«Theories of gravity that are different from general relativity often make such predictions, and we have put new restrictions on the parameters that describe these theoriesTheories of gravity that are different from general relativity often make such predictions, and we have put new restrictions on the parameters that describe these theoriestheories.»

Over the last few years, I have come to believe that we are in a new golden age for the general theory of relativity and that we should expect fantastic things to happen.

By the mid-1980s the new superstring theory had emerged as the hottest theoretical breakthrough since quantum mechanics, mainly because it seemed to show a way that quantum mechanics itself could be merged with Einstein's general relativity.

A problem had cropped up in Albert Einstein's new theory of gravity, general relativity, which had been unveiled earlier in the year.

This new, more robust version was called the theory of general relativity.

The obvious next step would be to craft a new theory that combines the successes of quantum field theory and general relativity but avoids the conflicts between them.

Greene talked to DISCOVER about how string theory has evolved, the attempts to find supporting evidence through new experiments, and the challenges of making science exciting to the general public.

A new study has confirmed another prediction of his theory of general relativity.

Besides revealing his life story during his visit to Science News Letter, Mandl also communicated the essence of his new idea, based on Einstein's theory of gravity, otherwise known as the general theory of relativity.

Our new information ended up falsifying some theories and supporting a new picture for how heat flows between dissimilar materials in general.

They measured it just because it was there, with no inkling that it would soon emerge as the sole experimental anchor of a revolutionary new conception of space and time — the general theory of relativity.

Their detection would open a new window on the cosmos and fulfill perhaps the most spectacular prediction of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.

And even though general relativity — Einstein's theory of gravity — has been thoroughly explored many times, some 2015 publications do offer new twists and insights.

LIGO should also provide new, rigorous tests of Einstein's general theory of relativity, and — working with other gravitational wave detectors due to come online in the near future — pinpoint precisely where in the sky the waves are coming from.

Some proposed alternatives say that, instead of invoking a whole new entity, physicists might simply need to tweak Einstein's theory of general relativity on very large scales.

But the new map, which spans very large scales yet is consistent with general relativity, lets the air out of those theories.

In 1948 Gödel turned his attention to Einstein's supreme creation, the general theory of relativity, and succeeded in coaxing a new and flamboyant universe from the alembic of its symbols.

The orbit of S0 - 2 (light blue) located near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole will be used to test Einstein's Theory of General Relativity and generate potentially new gravitational models.

It opens a whole new window onto observing the universe, as well as further confirming Einstein's general theory of relativity.»

Astronomers have the «all - clear» for an exciting test of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, thanks to a new discovery about S0 - 2's star status.

New calculations extend Einstein's general theory of relativity into the universe's first few moments

Although he initially proposed this idea as a new theory of autoimmunity in general, Wilkin soon homed in on type 1 diabetes in particular.