Sentences with phrase «set by the physics»

Robert Polidori, the token photographer among the savants, insisted that photography was set by physics.

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You ignore scientific concepts like cause and effect, and you don't realize that a closed system can be defined however the observer wants, so you throw out technological phrases to try to ignore the implications of thermodynamics by saying the laws of physics are not set in stone.

In that revolutionary address he unified geometry and physics into a single set of axioms by symbolic logic.2 While the memoir does not comment theologically, it does propose a theory of intersection points, or interpoints, which in its mathematical abstraction suggests a lucid and stimulating model for projecting Whitehead's understanding of God's relation to space.

Maybe Cam should of paid more attention in physics class and he would know that a object set in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by a object that has earned the right through longevity to get the benfit of the doubt.

Oh do nt forget that to anyone who actually knows something about the laws of physics and metallurgy, that in order to eliminate a large variance in repeatability, you will have to by law, dictate the material, and properties of the components for the firing pins, shell casings and primers for every single firearm made (designers and manufacturers set these material properties and types during design based on use and cost), since this or any other law does not, and it is so easy to beat, any claim to this being smart is f# # $ % $ # stupid.

John Stewart Bell's math set a limit on how similar the behavior of particles could be in a universe explained only by traditional physics.

Often described as the fabric of reality, this four - dimensional amalgamation of space and time was set at the heart of physics by Einstein (see «How to think about... Relativity «-RRB-.

Such a particle or particles would look much like the Higgs predicted by theorists and could do the job of helping to endow other particles with mass, but might differ in important ways that would hint at new physics beyond the current set of predictions.

The relative weakness of gravity, illustrated here by a person's weight in different cosmic settings, is one of the great mysteries of physics.

But Wertheim did not set out to argue a case or to complain — her initial intention was to fill a perceived gap by writing, as a physicist, a popular «history of physics» that took into account social studies of science.

In his study of physics he identified two existing theories of principle: the laws of motion set out by Galileo and Newton and the laws of thermodynamics.

Fourteen months after scoring one of the biggest discoveries ever in physics, experimenters are back in the hunt for gravitational waves — ripples in spacetime set off by some of the cosmos's most violent events.

«Our study took a unified approach to understanding egg shape by asking three questions: how to quantify egg shape and provide a basis for comparison of shapes across species, what are the biophysical mechanisms that determine egg shape, and what are the implications of egg shape in an evolutionary and ecological setting,» said senior author, L. Mahadevan, the Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and of Physics at Harvard.»

The young men taught each other what they knew of physics and regularly visited a library set up by MacArthur, perusing whatever journals had arrived.

This experimental renaissance of multiferroic physics gives a long overdue justification to the earlier pioneering theoretical works and judging by the pace of current research is set to continue well into the 21st Century.

I think you can certainly drop it into the big category of physics articles that illuminate the universe by telling us that it is indeed much more deeply complicated and counter intuitive than most of us would think; that when you start to look at the fringes of what we understand about physics and how the world works, you really get the sense that we are locked in [to] certain set of perceptions that do not necessarily apply; that our kind of common sense, everyday [intuitions] are not a very good guide to understanding how the universe can behave at certain scales or under certain conditions.

The consortium will oversee the development and delivery of the cameras, and take the lead in supporting the UK solar physics community in their use of DKIST by providing a set of processing tools for DKIST data, synthetic observations to validate diagnostic approaches, and support for developing observing proposals.

So she and her team set about investigating those complications and discovered that the magic of metamaterials is driven by more than just one mechanism of physics.

One consequence of this result was a new proof of a theorem about moduli spaces first conjectured in a theoretical physics setting by Edward Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, himself a Fields medalist.

In the American sample, for instance, the chances were good that a 10th grade girl who did well in the standardised mathematics test set would be contemplating a career involving physics by the 12th grade.

In previous FIFA versions the ball violated the laws of physics, accelerating and decelerating at a set rate unaffected by its initial velocity.

These entangled photons can theoretically be used to set up a secure communication line between two people, with privacy guaranteed by the laws of physics.

Through the Physics Education Unit, the Department of Physics has numerous connections to secondary schools and has set up a special laboratory for use by secondary school students and teachers.

A set of references was developed by the IOMP Science Committee covering the medical physics aspect of radiation therapy, medical imaging, nuclear medicine, and radiation safety.

Joel and Ethan Coen (Burn After Reading, No Country for Old Men) set their Kafkaesque morality tale in 1967 in Minnesota, where a Jewish physics professor, Larry Gopnik (Stuhlbarg, The Grey Zone), a lifelong mensch on the verge of seeing his secure life finally gain permanent ground by obtaining tenure at his school sees his life begin to unravel when his wife (Lennick) and mother of his two children announces that she's leaving him for someone else.

Move past that basic set of elements, though, and you start to see the quirkiness that is quintessentially SEGA: old - school combat where you initiate enemy encounters with random punks on the street JRPG - style; mini games that involve cooking noodles to the correct hardness and following the rules of the road with passengers in your taxi; and best of all, a ton of missions that just come out of left field, like helping a student cram for his exams by answering questions about physics and grammar.

Set in the Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park, Minn., in 1967, the dark comedy follows the trials and tribulations of Gopnik (played by newcomer Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor and all - around decent fellow whose life falls apart in the course of a few weeks before and after his son's bar mitzvah.

Written by Adrian Oldknow (CCITE) for the Bloodhound Project, This comprehensive guide helps you set up your micro: bit for physics practicals recording temperature, light intensity and more.

By purchasing the complete set you save 16 % over separate purchases of the Biology, Chemistry and Physics bundles.

The Copenhagen interpretation of twentieth - century physics says that observation (by observer) of set superposition of elementary particle result in realization of superposition which is observed.

You can try to save money by using one set of tires year - round; you can ignore the fact that your new car arrived on summer rubber in a four - seasons region; you can settle for the decent performance of all - season tires; but in a panic - stop situation, the laws of physics don't care about any of that.

«Regression to the mean is the most powerful law in financial physics: Periods of above - average performance are inevitably followed by below - average returns, and bad times inevitably set the stage for surprisingly good performance.»

Also, by default, your control scheme is set to «assisted» with regards to the physics — this means the game will try and auto right you as you jump and land.

Once again, literally everything can be set by the person creating the session such as; The class, what level of physics to use, how long the race is, if a qualifier is in place, if the game will use custom tracks or only the game's ones, whether you want the track selection and weather to be random or a vote per round, AI difficulty, collisions and if it's a private match or public.

Time Attack online leaderboards focus on fastest times from each player with rankings covering all 19 tracks across both classes with each leaderboard containing each player's rank; name (PSN ID); the bike and physics setting used during the player's fastest time; and the best time set by each player, while players can compare their positioning on the leaderboards with players that occupy the top positions, globally, from your friends list and to immediately find and display your position within any given leaderboard.

From playing the PC version at a recent preview event held atMilestone's studio in Milan, the Italian developer appears to have made significant strides, building on the foundation set by MXGP 3 with a slew of graphical and physics improvements while adding innovative new features.

Developed by Reagent Games, the new studio from Dave Jones (Lemmings, Grand Theft Auto), this open - world city - based action romp is set to feature the most authentically destructible environments ever seen in a game, thanks to a cutting edge cloud - based physics engine.

In addition to the freedom suggested by the structures of his sculptures, the complexity of them, which defies both physics and human apprehension, sets new hypothesis in the history of abstract sculptures, placing doubt in the centre of his artistic quest.

Uncertainty in model response is investigated using a perturbed physics ensemble in which model parameters are set to alternative values considered plausible by experts in the relevant parameterization schemes.»

The problem of the paper is that it attempts to close the set of equations without the introduction of the physics described by these equations.

ESC can't operate outside the laws of physics, and it can't make up for big user errors, such as challenging fate by setting out with worn tires or going over the speed limit in dangerous conditions.