Sentences with phrase «other objects known»

In principle, measuring astronomical parallax is easy: measure the position of an object in the sky relative to other objects known to be much further away (eg.

Some quasars have been calculated to be about 13 billion light years away, farther than any other object known.

Not exact matches

The reason they chose gold versus other objects is important - gold has certain characteristics that make it a better «store of value» (as it is commonly known) than other objects:

The laws of physic requires that there be forces and objects that interact with each other, such as the four forces now known, of gravity, electro - magnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces (and now there is possibly dark energy) that is interwoven within matter.

In spite of their taboos about their own special holy objects, they still know right from wrong when it comes to harming other people.

There can be no doubt that God makes decisions a propos of the disjunctive multiplicity of eternal objects; the difficulty is to establish in precisely what sense these divine decisions are distinguishable from the choices and calculations made by the Leibnizian deity Whitehead's dilemma seems to be this: on the one hand, the principle of classification is to be challenged by positing the primordiality of a world of eternal objects that knows «no exclusions, expressive in logical terms»; on the other hand, positing pure potentiality as a «boundless and unstructured infinity» (IWM 252) lacking all logical order would seem to be precisely that conceptual move which renders it «inefficacious» or «irrelevant.»

Can we no longer appeal to St. Paul, for whom discipline of the body was courageous refusal to let others and oneself become objects?

Seen in the light of Buber's dialogical philosophy, this is nothing other than the attempt of subject - object, or I - It, knowledge to dismiss the ontological reality of the I - Thou knowing from which it derives its own existence.

This analogy, like all social application of evolutionism, is actually entirely a matter of the past and of static categories of cause and effect — in other words of the I - It, or subject - object, way of knowing.

Other creation myths have their object formed out of created things (i.e. they are made of physical matter known to man) where as God has never been seen which is true to this day.

For him the object of conscious experience — and he knew of no other kind of experience — was primordially the sensuously given world.

So we are no different than any other object in the universe?

Before I knew it, it was being littered with every conceivable object — skateboards, wristwatches, wallets, walkmans, shoes, checkbooks, sunglasses, palm pilots, cell phones, candy, necklaces, and various other things.

«Thanks to him we know any two objects in the universe that have mass exert a gravitational pull on each other» begins an article explaining Newton's Law.

So throughout history: we treat each other with suspicion; we are no longer persons for each other but objects to each other.

William of La Mare and others objected to Aquinas's approach largely because of «a suspicion that his view of the soul as a single, substantial, intellective form limits soul's ability to know, and to suffer, and to contain (so to speak) our individuality.»

Other options... If you don't know how to create a perfect white, try using a pale grey background — this won't cast any colour on the white, and because it creates contrast between the object and background it's easier to cut out afterwards.

Develops object permanence — in other words, she knows that something is still there even if she can't see it.

So, it's really keeping them out of those areas and setting up the areas for your older children that they can play in, with those toys like the Lego's or you know the dolls or the clips and stuff that have little objects and then they have other areas where the older child can play with the younger child for age appropriate toys, so that they can play together by keeping the non - age appropriate toys either in a separate room or in that older child's room so that you can keep them separated and not necessarily have to baby proof that older child's room, because It's gonna be nearly impossible to do.

That means lots of easy - to - handle snacks (like dry cereal, fig bars, or crackers), milk, water, plenty of diapers and wipes, a sweater in cool weather, two changes of clothes (in case of diaper blowouts, carsickness, or other spills), extra clothes for you (you never know when you'll become part of the mess), comfort objects (bear, blankie), and multiple diversions (such as board books, small toys, and finger puppets).

Other signs that a problem may be serious: your tween's grades fall; he becomes secretive; he has new friends that you don't know anything about; money and other objects from home are going misOther signs that a problem may be serious: your tween's grades fall; he becomes secretive; he has new friends that you don't know anything about; money and other objects from home are going misother objects from home are going missing.

My little one loves putting objects in bins, bags, and other containers, so I knew this game would be a hit for her.

He says «mama» and «dada» and understands «no» as well as other words for common objects and people.

In a letter the following month, Destiny executives Bruce Kenan and David Aitken objected to the requirement, saying no similar demand was made by other industrial development agencies for hotel projects in the marketplace.

They developed a technique known as «best - matching,» in which the motion of an object (for instance, the moon) is tracked solely by its changing distance from other objects (like the sun and the Earth), rather than its changing location against a grid.

That measurement instantly determines the state of the other object, no matter how far away.

It was left to others to work through the details of these curious compact objects, the surfaces of which became known as Schwarzschild singularities.

Then, effectively by accident, Batygin and Brown noticed that if they ran their simulations with a massive planet in an anti-aligned orbit — an orbit in which the planet's closest approach to the sun, or perihelion, is 180 degrees across from the perihelion of all the other objects and known planets — the distant Kuiper Belt objects in the simulation assumed the alignment that is actually observed.

It says one can never know both the position and momentum of a quantum object — measuring one invariably changes the other.

About a thousand Fermi sources remain unassociated with known objects at any other wavelength.

Accordingly, the vast, cloud - like objects that glow with this light from hydrogen (and other) atoms are known as emission nebulae.

In the quantum world, two or more objects can be entangled so that measuring one affects the outcome of measuring the others, no matter how far apart the objects are.

Currently known as 2014 MU69, the object might, in fact, be two rocks orbiting each other — and those rocks may themselves host a small moon.

Scientists have long known that babies like looking at faces more than other objects.

In the early 2000s, when looking for other objects in a nearby galaxy, he and his colleagues captured an image filled with the echoing light of three known supernovas.

As soon as we realized what happened, we knew it would be very easy to find the other objects the same way.

Because it seemed relatively bright despite this distance, astronomers calculated that it must be emitting more infrared energy than any other known object.

A new study by MIT neuroscientists reveals how the brain achieves this type of focused attention on faces or other objects: A part of the prefrontal cortex known as the inferior frontal junction (IFJ) controls visual processing areas that are tuned to recognize a specific category of objects, the researchers report in the April 10 online edition of Science.

He finds that most cosmic rays come from well - known objects that produce other forms of radiation, too — black holes emit X-rays, for instance, and supernovas glow with visible light.

«We already know that premature newborns are capable of memorizing the shapes of small objects (prisms and cylinders), and of distinguishing them from each other starting from week 28 of amenorrhea.

The group could have a leader doing the «talking;» the dolphins may have identified each other using echolocation (the clicks the dolphins send out that echo back from nearby objects), and the whistle was more of a ritual; or the groups may have been together previously and already known each other.

People have known at least since biblical times that there's a way to divide such an object between two people so that neither person envies the other: one person cuts the cake into two slices that she values equally, and the other person gets to choose her favorite slice.

Still, the burst puts scientists closer to the first generation than ever before: It is about 150 million years older than any other known astrophysical object, says astronomer Nial Tanvir of the University of Leicester in England, the lead author of one of the new Nature papers.

So imagine a world in which man - made objects know where they are and can communicate that information to other self - locating, communicating objects too.

Using microlensing — an astronomical phenomenon and the only known method capable of discovering planets at truly great distances from the Earth among other detection techniques — OU researchers were able to detect objects in extragalactic galaxies that range from the mass of the Moon to the mass of Jupiter.

The software treats a room as a container for furniture objects of known size, and which may have key relationships with 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.

Although we already knew crows could use tools, adapting this behaviour to other contexts involving novel objects and purposes shows behavioural flexibility, says Jacobs.

«We think the cognitive map in the hippocampus is not just for knowing where the self is located,» says Fujisawa, «but also for plotting the locations of other people, animals, or objects, and to comprehend the spatial environment surrounding the self.»

Dr Andrew Wilson explained: «Whilst other animals have been known to throw objects on occasion, none can match the speed, accuracy and distances that a trained human can achieve.