Sentences with phrase «special directions»

In all, the researchers identify five potential patterns or «modes» in the CMB that would signal some sort of special direction in space.

Now, one team of cosmologists has used the oldest radiation there is, the afterglow of the big bang, or the cosmic microwave background (CMB), to show that the universe is «isotropic,» or the same no matter which way you look: There is no spin axis or any other special direction in space.

Now, Daniela Saadeh and Andrew Pontzen, cosmologists at University College London, and colleagues have ruled out special directions with the most stringent test yet.

Echoing Faust's mournful lament, Whitehead asserts that «A merely well - informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth» (AE).1 Rather, since «Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling,» it follows that «What we should aim at producing is men who possess both culture and expert knowledge in some special direction.

When I adopted my preemie boys who had special needs, one of the special directions given to me was to limit how much movement I exposed them to at once.

Theoretically, it's possible that space could be the same from point to point, but still have special directions — much as a diamond crystal has uniform density, but specific directions in which its atoms line up in rows.

The cosmos has no special direction that might be used to define a universal «up,» according to a new study.

Because it flies in the face of the standard belief that there are no special directions in the universe, this anomaly was mischievously dubbed the «axis of evil» by its discoverers, Kate Land and João Magueijo of Imperial College London, in 2005.

Special directions are given on the assembly of scaffolds in order to make sure the equipment is secure and ready for use and employers are responsible for confirming the compliance of relevant regulations.

(3) Subject to the regulations and to any special direction of the Solicitor General or the Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police Force, every guard shall obey all directions of the person appointing him or her, any inspector of the Ontario Provincial Police Force, the chief of police of the municipality in which is located the public work that he or she is protecting, and the person who is in charge of the protecting of the public work.