Sentences with phrase «other around an object»

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Whanger's analysis of high - resolution photographs of the shroud has revealed what appear to be other objects, such as burial instruments around the body.

The knower must be related to the object, not the other way around.

First, he distinguishes from classical empiricism a revisionary description of experience according to which sense perception is neither the only nor even the primary mode of experience, but is rather derived from a still more elemental awareness both of ourselves and of the world around us» (PP 78).6 On Ogden's analysis, both the classical and this first type of revisionary empiricism «assume that the sole realities present in our experience, and therefore the only objects of our certain knowledge, are ourselves and the other creatures that constitute the world» (PP 79) 7 With these «two more conventional types of empiricism» he contrasts a «comprehensive» type of revisionary empiricism distinguished from them by its consideration of the possibility (and then also by its claim) that the internal awareness it asserts together with the former revisionary type is «the awareness not merely of ourselves, and of our fellow creatures, but also of the infinite whole in which we are all included as somehow one» (PP 87, 80, 85).

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

Manipulation treats the other not as an equally free subject but as an [254] object precisely to be manipulated, like moving toy soldiers around on a table.

X-rays can even «see» through metalized packaging, and work around other obstacles such as metal retaining clips without degrading the ability to find unwanted foreign objects.

Let's institute a special rule: The baskets are impervious to high wind and there is a force field around the court so we don't have foreign objects (other than the ball and, uh, Spartans) flying around.

Some families label objects around the house, such as the shelves that house BLOCKS, DOLLS, and other TOYS.

Unfortunately, as you've noticed, other children tend to object to being bossed around.

And around 9 months, a newly developed pincer grasp makes it easier for babies to pick up smaller objects, like blocks and other small age - appropriate toys.

For the record, I was one of those parents who initially objected to serving breakfast in the classroom but, for reasons I hope to lay out in another post, I've come around to the other side of the argument.

They'll begin to pass toys back and forth from one hand to the other and move toys around to explore the movement and objects from different sides.

Have them experiment with drawing long lines, tracing around objects (or each other), dipping the chalk in water or painting in a puddle.

Pick several toys or other objects and hide them around your yard or the immediate surrounding area in a park.

A big milestone that most children hit around 19 months is the ability to hold a container, such as a bucket, in one hand and put small objects, such as wooden blocks, into it with the other, and then dump the contents out.

These early days are about getting the arms and legs flailing about and the newborn noticing that they are attached and when they are moved they may touch other objects around them.

Loose change, batteries, rubber bands, or other little objects left around the house are choking hazards to your baby.

Toys designed to imitate food and other everyday objects can help babies become familiar and comfortable with the world around them, and plush picnic baskets filled with imitation food and picnic supplies are great toys to start with.

This has left many mothers looking for ways to carry breast pumps in style, discreetly, without toting around multiple bags to hold the equipment, purse items, electronics and other necessary objects.

The study found a relationship between the size of the central object and the speed of the flickering produced by the disc, suggesting the physics of the accretion must be very similar around these different astronomical objects despite them being completely different in other ways, such as size, age, temperature and gravity.

Haumea is an interesting object: it rotates around the Sun in an elliptic orbit which takes it 284 years to complete (it presently lies fifty times further from the Sun than the Earth), and it takes 3.9 hours to rotate around its axis, much less than any other body measuring more than a hundred kilometers long in the entire Solar System.

It is the first time a ring has been discovered around a trans - neptunian object, and it shows that the presence of rings could be much more common than was previously thought, in our Solar System as well as in other planetary systems.

The small red circles denote other objects that emit X-rays, like neutron stars or white dwarfs, that are found scattered around more of the galaxy.

Several large impact scars on the moon appear to be around 3.9 billion years old, suggesting that the Earth and other objects of the inner solar system were heavily pounded at that time.

Because different routes around the massive object are longer than others, light from different images of the same Type Ia event will arrive at different times.

But until astronomers began finding planets around other stars, no one calculated how swallowing nearby objects would affect a star, says theoretical astrophysicist Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

But others add their own sounds like clicking, shushing or snapping noises to detect objects around them.

The worlds are aptly named «circumbinary planets» («circum» meaning around, and «binary» referring to two objects), and in this type of binary system, the two stars orbit each other while the planet orbits the two stars (pictured above).

They are focused on applications for autonomous vehicles, some of which already have similar laser - based systems for detecting objects around the car, but other uses could include seeing through foliage from aerial vehicles or giving rescue teams the ability to find people blocked from view by walls and rubble.

We will see the dynamical behavior of the warped space and time around these two objects as one destroys the other.

Now, a team of engineers has done them one better: With finger - worn devices, users can «feel» virtual objects around them while still maintaining the ability to grasp other — actual — objects.

Runyon and his co-authors argue for a definition of «planet» that focuses on the intrinsic qualities of the body itself, rather than external factors such as its orbit or other objects around it.

The telescopes also were key parts of an international program to look for planets around other stars by means of gravitational microlensing, in which the gravity of a small object passing in front of a star briefly amplifies the star's light.

Next, they would reach out to astronomers around the world who could target the object with other radio telescopes.

In its complexity it outshined all other objects for a thousand years following its creation sometime around the second century B.C..

As these gargantuan masses moved, their gravitational influence sent other objects careening around, in some cases getting jettisoned entirely.

Galileo was the first person to discover that Jupiter was not alone, but that it was actually accompanied by other celestial objects that revolved around it.

Three spots around the sphere's equator mark where two of the particles would collide, and a line drawn over the ball, which must avoid those spots, maps how near the objects get to each other.

Cities Around Other Stars The reality is that astronomers barely know the basics about Kuiper belt objects, much less whether they harbor life.

Space around Earth is littered with numerous human - made objects that could potentially collide with operating spacecraft and each other (creating more debris).

Commercial fishermen have known for some time that tuna, along with many other species of fish, congregate around objects drifting on the ocean surface.

The intermediate stage, taking pebbles and joining them together into objects the size of asteroids, is less clear, but with more than 3,500 planets already found around other stars, the whole process must be ubiquitous.

As for Marois, «there are actually two other objects that we're tracking» around another star, he says.

The researchers caution that it will take multiple sightings — in other astronomical objects, the LHC or in some of the direct - detection experiments now being conducted around the world — to validate their dark matter interpretation.

General relativity predicts that two massive objects in a tight orbit around each other will spiral in, slowly at first and then faster until they merge, distorting space - time in perturbations that ripple in all directions.

They've already identified four other explosions they think are in the same category, and they write that better understanding of what's occurring in this class of objects could change what we know about how black holes affect the world around them.

Hubble now enters a phase of full science observations ranging from studying the population of Kuiper Belt objects at the fringe of our solar system to surveying the birth of planets around other stars.

Now observing the mass of a black hole (at least indirectly) is easy: you measure how fast things orbit around it, just the same as any other massive astronomical object.

It's so consistent that Type Ia supernovae are also called standard candles: Once astronomers find one in a region of space, they can use it as a baseline with which to compare other objects around it.

On the other hand, the mass and short lifetime (dissipating with a 1,000 years) of these small particles indicate that the disk detected was created by a large and relatively recent collision that may have involved objects as big as the planet Pluto (up to 2,000 kilometers or around 1,200 miles in diameter).