Sentences with phrase «such as accretion»

Forest thinks the machine is on the verge of mimicking astrophysical phenomena such as accretion disks of gas and dust swirling into a black hole.

Not exact matches

There is now a movement among young modern Zoroastrians to go back to the earlier purer form of their faith, not unlike movements that have occurred within Hinduism and Christianity under such names as «Back to the Vedas,» or «Back to Christ,» or «Back to the gospels,» in an attempt to throw off the accretions of the years which are felt to have obscured the original teachings of those fajths.

D. W. Robertson, J., NY: Liberal Arts, 1958) In the struggle between Christianity and paganism Augustine embarked on a twofold task when writing this book: (1) to define Christian doctrine in such as way as to preserve an exclusive gospel while sifting out pagan accretions; and, (2) to effect a rapprochement between revealed truth and those aspects of pagan learning not inherently antagonistic to that truth.

The study found a relationship between the size of the central object and the speed of the flickering produced by the disc, suggesting the physics of the accretion must be very similar around these different astronomical objects despite them being completely different in other ways, such as size, age, temperature and gravity.

Such impacts are a key feature of the core - accretion model, yet nobody expected to find the process continuing around a star as old as Vega.

Such discs, known as quasar accretion disks, are typically about 100 billion kilometers across, and most lay billions of light - years away.

The team then reconstructed the coral's past functions, such as growth and accretion (accumulation of layers of coral), and compared that to surrounding environmental conditions before, during and after the 2,500 - year hiatus in vertical accretion.

Using NASA's super-sensitive Chandra X-ray space telescope, a team of astronomers led by Q. Daniel Wang at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has solved a long - standing mystery about why most super massive black holes (SMBH) at the centers of galaxies have such a low accretion rate — that is, they swallow very little of the cosmic gases available and instead act as if they are on a severe diet.

Certain special assumptions, such as considering that Alpha Centauri A and B may have initially formed with a wider separation and later moved closer to each other (as might be possible if they formed in a dense star cluster) would permit an accretion - friendly environment farther from the star.

We have studied age dependent features in optical and near - infrared spectra of candidate members to the cluster (such as alkali lines and accretion associated indicators).

Annuity underwriting losses reflect the periodic discount accretion of the discounted liabilities established for such contracts as well as adjustments for mortality experience.

So do such titles as Ingeminate, Accretion, Repetition, Accession, or Chain Polymers.

The artist employs strategies such as layering, reflection, accretion, and occlusion in the face of the complex and the misconstrued, inviting us to unpack strata of time and space in alternative ways.

McVeigh isolates pages from sources such as sailing manuals, old encyclopedias and book keeping ledgers and assaults them with drawing or mark - making, prompting dialogues through obliteration and accretion.

Nicholas Kersulis» practice applies systems of organization to cultural artifacts with formal devices such as montage, accretion, and erasure as well as conventions of exhibition display and graphic design.