Sentences with phrase «shifts as the planets»

Practice it at least once a week and watch how the practice shifts as the planets move.

Not exact matches

For an ellipse, an apparent distortion of the putatively more natural and ideal circle, implies that inertial mass, as it lies in opposition to force, must be attributed to the planets, and that more generally the motions of the planets require dynamic, as opposed to merely geometric or kinematic, analysis3 Here indeed may lie the kernel of a Kuhnian paradigm shift.

There was competition of the olympic sort as my mind shifted from work, to email, conference calls, newscasts, the landscaping project underway, my son's spelling test, mapping out summer camps, my sister's birthday, making it to the gym on time, dentist appointments, cleaning the house since apparently we seem to be one of the only people left on the planet who scrubs our own toilets these days, to Easter, and oh, my mother in law is coming in a week (yay!).

Even Pelé, who has spent most of his post-football life carefully cultivating an image as the least controversial human being on the planet, has shifted his position.

In fact the magnetic dipole is shifted from the center of the planet towards the south rotational pole by as much as one third of the planetary radius.

But recently that global focus has shifted, as biologists recognize that LA itself is among the planet's most diverse ecosystems.

A star tugged by an orbiting planet will wobble slightly, which can be detected as a regular shift in the star's color corresponding to the time the planet requires to complete an orbit.

Taking into account the factors mentioned above, as well as tidal effects from other planets, the team concluded that Venus's axis could have shifted to a variety of positions throughout the planet's evolution.

By harnessing energy from the sun — «this handy fusion reactor in the sky,» he called it last night — getting enough renewable energy on the power grid and smoothing out energy generation and use between peak and off - peak hours, the nation and planet can shift away from fossil fuels» dominance as a power source, he told the crowd.

Assuming Proxima b is tidally locked, Webb could then detect changes in the planet's thermal glow as its cold, nightside and warm, sunlit dayside shift in and out of view across one complete orbit, rather like watching phases of the moon as it circles Earth.

Such instruments don't actually watch stars jiggle in the sky; instead they precisely measure the color of the star's light, which becomes bluer or redder as a planet tugs its star closer to or farther from Earth, similar to the Doppler shift that changes the pitch of an ambulance's siren as it approaches and speeds past.

There still seems something unpleasant about shifting our view of these animals towards a source of food rather than as companions on the same planet.

«Both the physical ocean and the life within it are shifting much more rapidly than our models predicted for the Arctic,» Alter notes, adding that temperatures there are rising twice as fast as everywhere else on the planet.

On the rare occasion mass shifts and causes a planet to relocate on its axis, scientists refer to the phenomenon as «true polar wander.»

As the planet continues to warm, rainfall patterns around the globe will shift — and some parts of the United States will see their flood risks rise.

Burns says those trends can be explained by the shifting view of the rings as seen from our planet: Six years ago, when Chariklo was in a different part of its orbit, the rings would have been seen edgewise from Earth, an invisible sliver that reflected little or no light in our direction.

This implies that the circumference of the planet has increased as a result of a shift of mass from high altitudes to lower ones.

And radial velocity searches, which look for Doppler shifts in a star's light as it wobbles under the influence of an orbiting companion, are more attuned to massive planets that induce greater gravitational wobbles in their host stars.

In recent years, planet hunters have been able to measure extremely precise velocities as they hunt for the tiny shifts a small planet, like the one orbiting Proxima, induces in its star, tugging it towards and away from us.

Jupiter and Neptune may have collected their Trojans about 3.8 billion years ago, at a time when the orbits of these planets were shifting and their gravity was flinging vast numbers of comet - like objects around the solar system (see The solar system, but not as we know it).

For instance, the team used a numerical model to see how phytoplankton as a whole will migrate significantly, with most populations shifting toward the poles as the planet warms.

Granite is formed when ancient rocks, made of basalt, are driven down into the planet by shifting continents, a process known as plate tectonics.

It could constantly shift, he proposes in the new paper published in Nature Geoscience, as mantle movements redistributed mass in the planet and changed the location of the poles.

To understand sea - level change means understanding not only the transfer of land ice into the ocean, but also, for example, how the gravitational field of the Earth changes as inconceivably large water volumes shift around the planet.

A study published in the June 10 issue of the journal Nature clearly demonstrates changes in species ranges as butterflies shift north to track a changing climate as the planet warms up.

As Neptune raced outward and the other planets shifted, they flung asteroids and comets into an icy, rocky blizzard.

The tick marks serve as stable reference points when making precision measurements such as those of the small shifts in starlight caused by planets pulling gravitationally on their parent stars.

Using the Doppler Effect, which shifts the star's light spectrum depending on its velocity, the scientists can work out some properties of these planets, such as their masses and periods of orbit.

In addition, the presence of water has been confirmed even in the most unlikely of places, like the permanently shadowed crates at the south poles of Mercury and the Earth's Moon, as well as on dwarf planets like Ceres, providing a paradigm shift in our views about the prevalence of this all - important molecule in our planetary backyard.

This second-most prolific planet - hunting technique looks for the slight shift in the wavelength of the light as the star wobbles due to the gravitational pull of the planet.

«I think it starts with a shift in mindset from «You should protect the planet because some adult told you so» to starting to think of your environment as a playground.

The committee used material from Diet for a Small Planet, along with research on vegetarian diets, to argue that a shift to plant - based protein could reduce intake of calories, cholesterol and saturated fat, as well as reduce blood pressure, risk of cancer, use of natural resources, and food costs.16 This message gave official sanction to the romantic notion that a plant - based diet could not only prevent chronic disease, but feed the hungry and save the pPlanet, along with research on vegetarian diets, to argue that a shift to plant - based protein could reduce intake of calories, cholesterol and saturated fat, as well as reduce blood pressure, risk of cancer, use of natural resources, and food costs.16 This message gave official sanction to the romantic notion that a plant - based diet could not only prevent chronic disease, but feed the hungry and save the planetplanet.

Once he escapes, he finds no rest on the planet Xandar; he is tracked by a pair of bounty hunters who happen to be an anthropomorphic space raccoon named Rocket (voiced with aplomb by Bradley Cooper) and a giant tree - being named Groot (Vin Diesel, in full The Iron Giant mode) as well as Gamora (Zoe Saldana), an assassin with constantly shifting allegiances.

Once the Earth's crust commences its destructive shift, Jackson races back to California to rescue his family (including Amanda Peet) as the continents crumble, burst, and submerge during the planet's ferocious final act.

Fortunately, 2012 leaves all that phooey to a crazy pirate radio guy but instead invents its own crackpot reason for the Earth's destruction in the form of mutated neutrinos from the Sun that act as microwaves on the planet's core, which in turn heat it causing the Earth's crust to shift wildly and the magnetic poles to move.

A BMW 750iL ($ 67,000) fitted with a 300 - horsepower V - 12 engine, four - speed automatic transmission with electronic shift controls and electronic throttle, is about as close to a spaceship as one can get without leaving planet Earth.

The action kicks off on the planet Jakku, as First Order troopers square off against Rey and the Resistance before quickly shifting gears to the ice planet Hoth, complete with AT - AT walkers and tauntauns.

Whether you embrace Ausubel's technology imperative or seek ways to shift human values and norms to fit infinite aspirations on a finite planet (or both, as I do), a thorough look in the mirror appears worthwhile.

The op - ed favorably cited by Mike Mann says this explcitly, «That means we need to clearly say there is no scientific debate about climate change — and instead shift the conversation to next steps... Those of us who write opinion need to press for public - policy action, steps that move us as a planet forward.

Amid the constant alarmist bickering over the role of CO2 in our planet's continued shifting of climate whether caused or accelerated by human activity and similar hair splitting, the true threats to our status - quo go un-heralded as the siren of alarm numbs our sensibilities.

But, as Nick Wiltgen of the Weather Channel warned today, the jet stream will be shifting again, allowing Arctic air once again to pour south in our part of the planet.

If the choice is to fight for a pure Everglades and lose, or to work with nature as it changes and adapts to what we humans have done to planet Earth, respecting its dynamism and resilience as it shifts to new states, I vote for the latter.

The idea that human actions can dominate the climatic influence of things as grand as shifts in a planet's orbit is hard to grasp, but quite a few climate specialist say it's pretty clear this is the case.

Just as important to keep in mind is how each lens is limited on its own: «The truth is that real change — at the level required for shifting how we exist sustainably on our planet — involves all of these, in specific combinations.»

In recent weeks I'd been in touch with two scientists involved with a parallel effort *, John Abraham of St. Thomas University, and Scott Mandia of Suffolk County Community College *, as they pondered various responses to the rightward shift in politics and the intensifying challenges to the vast body of science pointing to a human - heated planet.

Big transitions in the planet's geological history get a «golden spike,» a bronze marker placed on a particular exposed rock layer that serves as a reference for a substantial global shift in conditions.

The warming of the planet is so rapid that it is more correctly categorized as a «climate shift» (abrupt climate change).

How is it possible that the abrupt climate shift unfolding on our planet is not creating nearly as much heat in wealthy nations as compared to poor countries?

The Oort minimium steps out of line as the line up goes out of sync, the planets do nt quite come back exactly the same each 179 yrs and it seems from the Wolf until now is a window of line ups that might take 1000's of years to return, during the medieval warm period J+S were poorly aligned as the phase gradually shifted.

The idea is that grasses account for the vast majority of leaf area on the planet, and are responsible for the evolution of C4 photosynthesis — any plants that didn't shift, went extinct as the competition for CO2 exploded.