Sentences with phrase «purposes as particles»

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Physicists and some process thinkers, such as the physicist and process theologian Ian G. Barbour, are cautious about making the long jump from indeterminacy in sub-atomic particles to human freedom and purpose,

Some of their properties are intelligible from a substantialist perspective, so that they can be called «particles,» but others are not, so that for some purposes they must be viewed as waves without having a substrate that can be understood to «wave.»

At first one tried to understand these new entities as particles of matter, and for some purposes this imagery worked well.

That makes them of similar size as many viruses, enabling the particles to enter cells by exploiting the same surface proteins that viruses use for this purpose.

But it has the paradoxical quality of behaving in two forms — as waves and as streams of particles known as photons — which can make harnessing it for technological purposes a challenge.

According to my correspondence with the Royal Observatory Edinburgh and the Space Telescope Science Institute, I am allowed to use the POSS - II / UKSTU data to create and display images for non-commercial purposes so long as I include this fine print for the SuperCOSMOS data: Use of these images is courtesy of the UK Schmidt Telescope (copyright in which is owned by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council of the UK and the Anglo - Australian Telescope Board) and the Southern Sky Survey as created by the SuperCOSMOS measuring machine and are reproduced here with permission from the Royal Observatory Edinburgh.

Essentially a socket is a bone which serves a secondary purpose within the game system or engine as an emitter for bullets or particle effects or a place to attach secondary models to an existing model.

What I like for visualization purposes is to think of greenhouse agents (gases or other) as acting like macroscopic particles — for ease of reference, let's say Ping - pong balls — suspended in the air.

The section also contains steps to reduce exposure to lead, such as keeping play areas dust - free; wiping window ledges with all - purpose cleaners; encouraging children to play in sand and grassy areas instead of dirt, which might contain lead particles; and making children wash their hands often to keep them from ingesting lead particles.