Looking back on it, I can definitely see the similarities in terms of what it takes to envision, manage, and build complex structures, whether that's accomplished on the enormous scale of a city or
on the microscopic level of a semiconductor chip with billions of transistors.
Not exact matches
For instance, he predicts that the «forehead» — the black bar that intrudes into the top
of the screen
on the iPhone X, where all the cameras and sensors go — is an evolutionary detour
on the way to a phone that is all screen, with cameras built right in at the
microscopic level.
I do think that being an atheist in light
of the complexity
of creation (both
on an infinite universe - sized
level and
on a
microscopic atomic
level) requires some amount
of faith in something — even if it is faith in the ability
of random pieces
of matter to assemble themselves into something complicated.
Furthermore,
on the
microscopic level the very concept
of localizable particle as well as the continuity
of trajectory loses its meaning.
CC: It depends
on whether you are trying to get space by implementing this scheme at a
microscopic physical
level, which was what I was trying to do, or implement this
on Whitehead's earlier scheme at the
level of perceptions.
In the stage that Ford (1:251) has called his «first metaphysical synthesis», Whitehead held that «value» («the intrinsic reality
of an event») could exist
on a multiplicity
of levels, not just a
microscopic one (SMW 93).
On the
microscopic level, when the novelty originating in the mental pole
of an actual occasion is largely absent, the power
of efficient causation escapes modification by conceptual ideals.
But it's only because it's
on the
microscopic level that this structure can overcome the problem
of maintenance: the molecules that control the wheel and axle reach it by diffusing through the cell's cytoplasm.
A tenth
of a millimeter is relatively small, in contrast, although it's still big
on a
microscopic level.
AFM achieves this
level of detail by using a
microscopic stylus — similar to a needle
on a record player — that barely makes contact with the surface
of the material being studied.
If you really want to develop a
microscopic understanding
of atoms,
on the most basic
level, you need to understand how electrons deal with each other.»
«Science shows us the many ways that life is interconnected, especially
on the
microscopic level, where we see how many organisms depend
on close contact with or internalization
of other species for food, defense, or reproduction,» said lead author John Burns, a postdoctoral researcher in the Museum's Division
of Invertebrate Zoology.
Microscopic specks
of soot, dirt, acid, and other pollutants are constantly being released into the atmosphere in metropolitan areas (cars, factories, construction sites, etc.), and when these particles come into contact with your skin, they penetrate deep into the layers
of the epidermis, causing inflammation, dehydration, and reactions
on the cellular
level.
On a
microscopic level, healthy enamel is made
of large crystals that are packed tightly together.
No matter how thoroughly you cook your food, there are a lot
of processes
on the
microscopic level going
on inside it from the very moment you finish the meal and store the leftovers, including the conversion
of healthy nutrients into toxins and the growth
of potentially harmful bacteria.
The data reported were based
on one patient and, despite 67 years
of subsequent studies that failed to establish scientific support for this theory, we are still faced with reluctance to treat men with testosterone supplementation for fear
of giving them prostate cancer or fueling prostate cancer already present at a subclinical or
microscopic level.
When we think
of probiotics, we usually imagine the benefits taking place
on the
microscopic level — healthy bacteria recolonizing and re-balancing the flora in our digestive system.
On a smaller
level, UV light and the salt in seawater cause
microscopic particles
of plastic to emit toxic chemicals such as PCBs and DDT.
Except, «Annihilation» exists outside the realm
of previous human experience, allowing Garland to toy with still other (im) possibilities — including the atavistic fear
of how our bodies work
on a
microscopic level — by turning the characters» very DNA against them, while doing even stranger things to their minds.
Pretty quickly, the film turns into a horror show, with the airborne,
microscopic spores from a plant
on the planet serving as the way those killer aliens end up in their human hosts (Scott offers a microscope -
level shot
of the infection entering a crewmember's body through his ear canal, which is simultaneously frightening and deviously amusing).
Working
on a variety
of animals from finches to ostriches, mice to beavers, ferrets to cougars and challenging surgeries from a
microscopic to a macro
level is something I have always enjoyed.
Instead
of chalk, you can use diatomaceous earth which is also sharp
on a
microscopic level - just make sure you use food grade.
Most
of the changes that occur in pancreatitis and diseases associated with it occur
on the
microscopic level.
In the game, players control an army
of tiny aliens who are invading the earth one person at a time
on a
microscopic level.
Similarly working alongside scientific processes, Jordan Tate's large - scale, inkjet
on fabric prints New Work # 195 and New Work # 194 (both 2014) manipulate scale to an exponential
level, harnessing
microscopic vision to capture mark making
on a molecular
level, expanding the field
of vision.
Phytoplankton, which live close enough to the water's surface to perform photosynthesis — critical to maintaining oxygen in Earth's atmosphere — form the base
of the marine food web.4 Although phytoplankton are
microscopic, they can be seen from satellites when they grow in a concentrated area (bloom)
on the ocean's surface.5 Zooplankton, which feed
on phytoplankton, and bacterioplankton, which recycle nutrients in the water, make up the next
levels of the web.4
I leave it to theoreticians and specialists in molecular and laser physics to fight it out amongst themselves
on the question
of what sort
of energy transfers may or may not occcur
on the
microscopic level between absorbent and non-absorbent gas species in the atmosphere.
Scientists looked at radiocarbon
levels in the shells
of microscopic animals which lived both near the surface and
on / near the bottom
of the Southern Ocean, and found large quantities
of carbon locked away in «old deep water» around Antarctica.
There is a
microscopic level of support for the idea that China has banned time travel, though actually that seems to be a ban
on TV shows with time travel.