Sentences with phrase «objects had properties»

In the old days everybody thought objects had properties, like the way a coin can show heads or tails.

NASA has confirmed that new data from this trio of high - energy telescopes, and archival data from Chandra, Swift and the European Space Agency's XMM - Newton observatory, all show that the object has the properties of a magnetar, making it only the 30th known.

Not exact matches

From utilitarian processes to the final appearance of designed objects ranging from jewelry to spare machine parts, get ready for a patent land grab of 3 - D intellectual property.

Anthropologists have long explored how inanimate objects and nonhuman entities - like «data» - can take on fantastic, fetishistic, or even magical properties.

If a taxpayer has reported only 5000 euros income, but has property worth millions of euros, the property should be taken, the payer and his family should be obliged to pay back taxes, and a few criminal convictions should serve as an object lesson to help enforce compliance with the tax code.

Asserting that all innocence has been lost, Zizek claims that an object is no longer considered art «simply [on] its direct material properties, but [by] the place it occupies, the (sacred) Place of the Void of the Thing.»

The forming of categories achieves a stability of a natural kind that is unlike the artificial properties of intellectual analysis that have to carry the full weight of logical stability for objects that are otherwise unrepeatable.

Some of them were of the bones of the hand, others of coins and keys photographed through the opaque walls of a leather pocket - book, all clearly demonstrating that he had found some strange new rays which had the amazing property of penetrating as opaque an object as the human body and revealing on a photographic plate the skeleton of a living person.

The Protestant bishop of Karachi, for example, has been stopped twice in the past year by Christians who object to his plan to develop commercial space around the outer wall of St. Andrews, the second - largest Protestant church property in Karachi.

We do indeed need to avoid that «naive realism» which claims per impossibile that the Sacred Host acts and reacts in the way Jesus» body did when walking in Palestine, that they both have exactly the same set of physical (that «material» realm which is the object of sensation) properties in the same regard.

We learn to speak of objects or societies with these familiar properties as having mass long before we ever appreciate mass as a physical parameter.

And concerning inanimate objects we ought to hold that, although each one has by nature been endowed with its own property, yet it does not exercise its own power except in so far as it is directed by God's ever - present hand.

Kim says, for example, that «there can be, and presumably are, objects and events that have only physical properties» (SM 340).

The objects of his study range from a class of molecules that have the basic self - duplicating property of living things, through cells which suggest purely physical systems, through animals which give increasing evidence of having minds, to human beings in whom streams of consciousness seem to involve continual choices of action, at the opposite pole from control by impersonal laws of nature.

Transition is change in a permanent object from having one property to having another.

Whatever the material properties it presents, which remain that which we ordinarily experience as bread and wine, this object now has the same objective identity as the humanity of Christ - his Body, Blood and Soul, which are inseparable from his Divine Person.

they are genuine properties and causal powers, which supervene on, or are determined by the microstructural makeup of the objects that have them.

The sphere might be large or small, made of lead or of balsa wood, and these characteristics would influence some of its properties (whether it cast a large shadow or a small one, for instance), but insofar as gravitational interaction with an external object is concerned, only the total mass and the position of the center is important.

Efforts to have the property annexed into Mokena failed in December after village trustees objected to various aspects of the project, including the lack of an overall plan.

We've talked about properties of materials before when we've investigated how waterproof materials are or how strong they are, we've even organised different objects by the material they're made from by looking at the properties of those materials.

This acid has a chemical make - up that allows materials incorporating it to act as an anti-inflammatory object for humans, thereby giving Baltic amber anti-inflammatory properties.

Sensory simplicity: Every object in the world has sensory properties - weight, color, texture, sound when banged or tapped or rubbed or squeezed.

The state governments, Madison argues, are closer to the people and can focus on the welfare of the people, regulating ordinary affairs such as the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, as well as the internal order of each state, and should have numerous undefined powers to do so, while the national government, being bigger and possessing national resources, can bring victory in war, protect the people's liberty, and maintain peace between the states, and should have clear, few, defined powers to do so, mostly focusing on external objects such as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce and national taxation.

Those who object to the route passing by their properties will have until July 29th to make their case to the government.

The main reason this is not necessarily a valid counter-argument is that a vast majority of the taxes that libertarians object to are NOT taxes on a held property which someone may have shared - owned before.

The House had objected to using an increase in the local taxes, known as the «required local effort,» that came as a result of higher property values.

For example, such an object can be in «superposition»: It can have two mutually exclusive properties at the same time.

Researchers from the US National Institute of Mental Health who have been looking at where memories are stored now say that we keep our knowledge about different properties of objects, such as colour and movement, in different places.

«Thanks to this detection, the team has been able to study for the first time the properties of extremely faint objects formed not long after the big bang,» said lead author Leopoldo Infante, an astronomer at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile).

Some landowners had objected to the legislation, saying it disregarded their property rights.

We might imagine that a zero - volume object is also an impossibility, yet physicists predict that the singularity at the heart of a black hole has just that property.

If they exist, the objects would have some unusual properties: little or no water, because free oxygen would combine with carbon to make carbon monoxide, and perhaps surfaces covered in gooey tar or layers of superhard carbide compounds.

«In particular, it has occupied many of us who study ultra-compact dwarfs, since these seem to share properties with objects on both sides of the divide.»

Positive gravity has enough tantalising properties to keep us going for the moment — for instance, an object, no matter how small, generates gravity; it can't be shielded against; and it isn't lost when two masses collide under its force.

A team of California researchers has developed a robotic gripper that combines the adhesive properties of gecko toes and the adaptability of air - powered soft robots to grasp a much wider variety of objects than the state of the art.

McGreevy admits the quantum systems he and his colleagues studied were very abstract because they had properties that were smeared out continuously in space instead of varying in a stepwise, quantum fashion.Sachdev's has come up with a more realistic model, McGreevy says, by applying a gravitational object, a kind of black hole, to a quantum system with properties that vary stepwise along a lattice, just as in the lattice structure of strange metals.

Scientists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have made an object disappear by using a composite material with nano - size particles that can enhance specific properties on the object's surface.

• Encouraging caregivers to increase their use of words for number, for the spatial properties of objects, and for abstract relations like similarity has the potential for improving children's understanding of number and spatial thinking, and their ability to make sophisticated comparisons.

Commonsense notions at the very heart of our everyday perceptions of reality turn out to be violated: contradictory alternatives can coexist, such as an object following two different paths at the same time; objects do not simultaneously have precise positions and velocities; and the properties of objects and events we observe can be subject to an ineradicable randomness that has nothing to do with the imperfection of our tools or our eyesight.

The final product that emerges has catalytic properties already intrinsic to the object.

Even so, the unusual optical properties of the natural crystal calcite have been used to hide centimetre - size objects under red, green and blue light (Physical Review Letters, vol 106, p 033901).

By quantifying the observable properties of so many young brown dwarf candidates, Faherty and her team — including Carnegie's Jonathan Gagné and Alycia Weinberger — were able to show that these objects have vast diversity of color, spectral features, and more.

Taking pictures of objects» microscopic texture would be easier if their surfaces had the same reflective properties all over.

The result is the world's smallest continuous spirals: «nano - spirals» with unique optical properties that would be almost impossible to counterfeit if they were added to identity cards, currency and other important objects.

In a series of experiments that withstand rigorous and even hostile scrutiny, Alex and Griffin have shown themselves intelligent enough to comprehend and juggle abstract images of the objects that make up their world — skills once thought to be the exclusive property of humans.

Major advances in computational design, physical modeling and rapid manufacturing have enabled the fabrication of objects with customized physical properties — such as tailored sneakers, complex prosthetics, and soft robots — while computer graphics research has seen rapid improvements and efficiencies in creating compelling animations of physics for games, virtual reality and film.

The ability to create objects that change shape in a controlled sequence over time is enabled by printing multiple materials with different dynamic mechanical properties in prescribed patterns throughout the 3 - D object.

Nevertheless the best and usually only reliable way to determine the distances to these objects has been known for thousands of years and is the standard technique used to measure distances here on Earth for construction and determining property boundaries.

Professional surveyors (whether property surveyors or galactic surveyors) can then use basic trigonometry to compute the distance to the object if they have the distance between the two measurements and the parallax.

Astronomers at Sweet Briar College and the Naval Research Laboratory have detected a powerful new bursting radio source whose unique properties suggest the discovery of a new class of astronomical objects.