Sentences with phrase «on the time scale»

The bible clearly demarks generations, along with the number of years people lived, to a good enough degree that a pretty clear timeline of creation is readily derivable), The biblical account of events is clearly off on time scales.

We are still evolving, It just happens on a time scale that is millions of years long.

Yes we have thousands of transition fossils, and evolution is continuing today, it is simply on a time scale that you can't observe.

God did not create on your time scale, nor according to your logic.

Now we know that, on the time scale of the earth, we emerged on this planet very late indeed.

But, just like CBB coaches that aren't elite until they are, CFB coaches are too, and it takes longer on a time scale to even knock on the door.

What is happening now is that the rate of technological innovation which induces changes in the jobs market is happening on time scales that are shorter than the time scale on which the job market can adjust itself on.

Yesterday, Senate Deputy Majority Leader Tom Libous said the conference will have legislation that calls for an independent redistricting commission, but on their time scale — something the former mayor also called baloney.

In the absence of HCl, ClONO2 also reacts irreversibly with ice with a collision efficiency of ∼ 0.02 at 200 K; the product hypochlorous acid (HOCI) is released to the gas phase on a time scale of minutes.

The reaction rate between atmospheric hydrogen chloride (HCl) and chlorine nitrate (ClONO2) is greatly enhanced in the presence of ice particles; HCl dissolves readily into ice, and the collisional reaction probability for ClONO2 on the surface of ice with HCl in the mole fraction range from ∼ 0.003 to 0.010 is in the range from ∼ 0.05 to 0.1 for temperatures near 200 K. Chlorine (Cl2) is released into the gas phase on a time scale of at most a few milliseconds, whereas nitric acid (HNO3), the other product, remains in the condensed phase.

Plunkett said the technology allows researchers to determine details about the star formation process, such as how often material is accreted or ejected, on time scales of a few hundred years.

Such an MFC could perform a simple medical diagnostic on a time scale (minutes) orders of magnitude faster than would be taken with conventional equipment.

«This is the first evidence ever offered for sea - level rise on a time scale ranging from decades to one century, and our colleagues expected ironclad evidence to back that claim.»

«It's happening more or less on the time scale [the government] said, which is a lot faster than the private sector expected,» Harrington said.

«The nebula itself isn't growing on this time scale,» says Bond, lead author of a report on the light echoes in the 27 March issue of Nature.

The prevailing view among astronomers is that the orbit of Halley's comet can not be calculated exactly because the orbit would be chaotic on a time scale of only seventy years.

Because the neutron decays on a time scale similar to the period for BBN, accurate simulations of the BBN era require thorough knowledge of the neutron lifetime, the average time required for a neutron to decay, but this value is still not precisely known.

A central aspect of the study was to investigate the atomic system on time scales that are relevant for the establishment of ergodicity.

The changes to and propagation of light waves in an electrical field take place on a time scale of a few hundred attoseconds — in other words, within one billionth of a billionth of a second.

Many types of fish undertake migrations on a regular basis, on time scales ranging from daily to annual, and with distances ranging from a few meters to thousands of kilometers.

Excited electrons in semiconducting silicon are tracked on a time scale faster than the lattice vibrations.

Out in space, astrophysicists are looking hard to see if large black holes are shrinking on a time scale that might be detected by modern telescopes.

Until recently, it was not possible to measure the exact distribution of the wave troughs and peaks at the focus of a laser beam on this time scale.

He believes that no one has thought of combining the two theories before because it's not an intuitive idea to look at how the effects of changing patterns of ocean circulation, which occur on time scales of thousands of years, would effect global silicate weathering, which in turn controls global climate on time scales of 100s of thousands of years.

To understand these effects and exploit them for novel, e.g., acoustooptical, devices, one needs to image the delicate interplay of nuclear and electronic motions on a time scale much shorter than 1 ps.

Nevertheless, the vibrational motions act back on the electrons, modulate their spatial distribution and change the electric and optical properties of the crystal on a time scale which is shorter than 1 ps (10 - 12 s).

Levy flights make tiny steps most of the time but sometimes take gigantic jumps, such that on any time scale, most of the distance has been traveled in just one hop.

«It is, in my opinion, the best recorder, particularly on time scales of years to tens of thousands of years.

You have to keep current, because practices and priorities change — on time scales much shorter than 40 years, especially with the donor sources that are in the private sector.

Their luminosity varies on time scales of a few months to as short as a few days.

It merely highlights the fallacy of looking for one single «driver» that explains climate variations on all time scales.

If current coal reserves are burned on a time scale short compared to time scales for carbon storage, then CO2 concentrations will go over 400 ppm rather easily.

This can be done on time scales ranging from the 11 - yr solar cycle to the Phanerozoic as a whole.

For example, 2005 is near solar minimum in the 11 year cycle, and radiance now is about 1 - 2 W / m ^ 2 less than a few years ago, which means Pluto and Mars are getting LESS solar radiance on the time scale of the atmosphere and polar cap changes, EVEN IF the radiance averaged over the whole cycle was higher.

The alignment of obliquity and eccentricity due to precession is a much stronger effect than for the Earth, leading to «great» summers and winters on time scales of tens of thousands of years (the precessional period is 170,000 years).

Decision - and policy - makers and stakeholders are increasingly asking for reliable predictions of extremes on time scales from days to seasons to centuries.

In particular, she uses mathematical approaches to interpret observed variations in δ18O and δ13C on times scales of thousands to millions of years.

This lends support to the view that EMICS can be used to gain understanding of processes and interactions within the climate system that evolve on time scales beyond those generally accessible to current AOGCMs.

On a time scale of days to weeks domains converge to circular shapes and approach uniform texture.

A few climate models have been tested for (and shown) capability in initial value predictions, on time scales from weather forecasting (a few days) to seasonal forecasting (annual).

Comparing the heat contribution of CO2, with the heat in the entire climate system on any time scale, is like comparing an elephant with an ant.

Climate models are being subjected to more comprehensive tests, including, for example, evaluations of forecasts on time scales from days to a year.

Simple biogeochemical flux modeling suggests that, if the Archean Earth was kept warm by a methane greenhouse, then the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis could have triggered a Snowball Earth event on a time scale as short as about a million years (Kopp et al., 2005).

Claiming that the forced climate response must be larger than the weather noise for climate prediction on all time scales is just silly.

And it's also load - balanced in the sense that with brain imaging you can see the oxygenated blood being shunted between different parts of the brain on a time scale of a second or two as activity shifts — these are the «hot» spots.

Such clean energy schemes and improved agricultural and forestry practices are likely to be more economic than direct air capture of CO2, but they must be carefully designed to minimize undesirable impacts and the amount of CO2 that can be extracted on the time scale of decades will be limited, thus emphasizing the need to limit the magnitude of the cleanup task.

Terrestrial permafrost emissions of CH4 and CO2 likely can occur on a time scale of a few decades to several centuries if global warming continues [215].

«A Moon-less Earth with the same mass, rotation rate, and orbit as today would have the direction of its spin axis vary chaotically between 0 and 90 degrees on time scales as short as 10 million years,» says Darren Williams, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Penn State University and NAI member.

We have to use biomarkers to assess health, because the things we really care about — like how long we will live — can not be determined on the time scales we need to make decisions in.

On the time scale of those graphs, high - yield spreads never go negative.