Sentences with phrase «on a macroscopic scale»

If the region of the dominant occasion is of microscopic size, as suggested by Whitehead's account, its projection of straight lines on a macroscopic scale is remarkable.

The individual forces are the weakest binding forces that exist in nature, but they add up to reach magnitudes that we can perceive very clearly on the macroscopic scale — as in the example of the gecko.

Under such supercooled conditions, a large fraction of the atoms collapse into the lowest quantum state, at which point quantum effects become apparent on a macroscopic scale.

Gravity, however, operates predominantly on macroscopic scales.

It describes particles, atoms and molecules but gives way to ordinary classical physics on the macroscopic scales of pears, people and planets.

The researchers have managed to make the catalysis work at a molecular level, but have yet to demonstrate its effectiveness on a macroscopic scale.

«On a macroscopic scale this is equivalent to observing the world through a set of louvers... that allow light to enter from one direction only,» Pendry says.