Sentences with phrase «shape of space»

The porch's screens, which blocked sunlight from entering the home, reiterated the boxy shape of the space below, creating an unappealing stacked effect.

Instead of a force pulling two objects together, gravity, according to relativity, results from the shape of space and time.

So I could in some sense paint the shape of space - time by dropping things around the Earth and watching them fall.

What we perceive as gravity is just a geometric effect, a consequence of the way massive objects distort the shape of space - time.

The big ambition with these experiments is to record the shape of space - time ringing, and to reconstruct the motion of the mallets and the shape of the mallets.

And that ringing of the shape of space - time travels through the universe at the speed of light, basically unimpeded until it washes over the Earth.

In recent years mathematicians have completed the classification of 3 - D spaces that are «compact,» meaning that they are finite and with no edges [see «The Shapes of Space,» by Graham P. Collins; Scientific American, July 2004].

Then, with an ease that David could only envy, she manipulated and transformed the dense thickets of symbols until they condensed into a single, elegant equation that described the shape of space around a vibrating string.»

The researchers replicated real - life environments in the laboratory and found that the shape of the spaces and the flow of fluids through them affected bacterial growth and the formation of slimy surface layers called biofilms.

But as with the ant, this freedom of movement does not tell us the shape of the space we inhabit.

Black holes are usually described using Einstein's equations of general relativity, which dictate how gravity molds the shape of space - time.

In this case, called nematic order, every space on the checkerboard is white, but the shapes of the spaces are distorted from a square to a rectangle; as you turn round and round on one space, your neighboring space is nearer or farther depending on the direction you are facing.

18 That changed dramatically in the 1960s, when astronomers began to discover extreme objects — neutron stars and black holes — that put severe dents in the shape of space - time.

«In this case two times the mass of the Sun were converted into deformations in the shape of space.

Though entangled particles appear to defy space and time, the shape of space they occupy affects the nature of the entanglement pattern.

These items easily fit into life no matter the size or shape of the space that you call home.

In Mario Party 8, the shape of the space differs depending on the board, including the tutorial map.

After the event is done, the spaces revert back into DK Spaces (also, the shape of the space was different with each board, including the tutorial, along with the background being purple on some boards).

The shapes of the Spaces have also changed throughout the series, ranging from circular shape to hexagonal.

Violette is currently included in the The Shapes of Space exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Bastard Creature exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

Tony Smith: The Shape of Space, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, January 17 — April 5, 1987.

He currently lives and works in New York and has been included in numerous exhibitions in the US, Europe, and Japan - including most recently The Shapes of Space at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and Making a Home at the Japan Society, also in New York.

Crossing lines glow, in oil and enamel, even as they fade into what one group show has called «The Shapes of Space.»

Naturally Marianne Boesky has a more elegant take on the shapes of space, and The Hole a disrespectful one, as «Not a Painting.»

Such summer group shows as «Ardor and Irony,» «a point in space is the place for an argument,» and «The Shapes of Space» can handle anything.

They have even exhibited together in what the Guggenheim called «The Shapes of Space.»

Recent group exhibitions include Comic Abstraction: Image - Breaking, Image - Making, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2007); The Shapes Of Space, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2007); Tropicalia, Barbican Art Centre, London; touring to Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal and Bronx Museum, New York, NY (2006); Always a Little Further, 51st Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (2005) and Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2003).

All of these changes amplify and shift the features of the space, opening up new possibilities for imagining the shape of space within the urban fabric of Vancouver.

The material took on the shape of the space around it, serving as a document of the performative act of the work being made.

When I returned to the bright, flashing lights of «The Shapes of Space,» a group show on the ramp, the combination practically drove me right out of the museum.

The Guggenheim included her video in «The Shape of Spaces,» but she had squeezed the space out of its shape.

«In Defense of Ardor» ran at Bellwether through June 30, 2007, «a point in space is a place for an argument» at David Zwirner through August 10, and «The Shapes of Space» at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum through September 5.

A lazy summer group at the Guggenheim calls itself «The Shapes of Space,» adapting its name from a silvery curtain of lenses by Alyson Shotz.

«The Shapes of Space» has more to do with marketing than art, too, this time of a museum and its permanent collection.

Levin explains that since there is no sound in space, the sounds we are actually hearing are gravitational waves, which is the ringing of the shape of space itself.

That is one who makes objects in the round, and is concerned with the shaping of space and the tactility of materials.

Curated by Kevin Lotery, Ted Mann, Nancy Spector, and Nat Trotman, «The Shapes of Space» promises to amplify these issues as the show is progressively unveiled in four stages, from ground floor to top level.