Sentences with phrase «objects in a gravitational field»

Could their relations be reversed such that the order of coming to be was from greater to less entropy, from more evolved and developed to less evolved and developed, or from downward falling to upward falling objects in a gravitational field?

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Briefly, Whitehead initially (in works published circa 1919 - 1924) objected to Einstein's formulation of the theory of relativity on the grounds that for Einstein the geometry of the world was variable, its metric being a function of gravitational and electromagnetic field variables.

By studying gravitational waves, they can now explore extreme conditions in which the energy in an object's gravitational field accounts for most or all of its mass — the realm of strong gravity so far explored by theorists alone.

He also adds: «The tidal effect on an asteroid, which rapidly rotates under the gravitational field of a planet, can fragment these objects or release large rocks from its surface, which could then become such dangerous projectiles at a local scale as the one fell in Cheliábinsk (Russia) on February 15th 2013.»

Using mathematical models of the subtle forces that knock them loose — the tug of passing stars, interstellar gas clouds, and especially the gravitational fields of the galaxy itself — Harold Levison of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, has estimated how many other objects populate the Oort cloud.

Bondi points out that because any freely falling object is weightless, simple acceleration is not a useful «observable» in defining a gravitational field.

It is important to realize that a black hole's gravitational field is the same as that of any other object in space of the same mass.

Occasionally, when the stars are aligned just right, this warping of the fabric of the universe results in a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, wherein the strong gravitational field of a foreground object acts as a lens that «bends» light from an object in the background and allows scientists to catch a glimpse of what might otherwise have remained invisible.

We know that more massive objects have greater gravitational fields, therefore the more massive the object and the more rapid the acceleration, the greater the ripples in space - time.