Sentences with phrase «than theory predicts»

For example, the links between parenting and schemas are far more complex than our theory predicts.

So it's interesting that these data don't support current theories — the increase in intensity is greater than the theory predicts.

For example, the energy released by the supernova is more than the theory predicts.

The new size limit could resolve one of astronomy's oldest mysteries: why some elements are more abundant than theory predicts.

For many years measurements of the number of neutrinos produced in the Sun were much lower than theories predicted, a problem which was recently resolved through a better understanding of the effects of neutrino oscillation.

Not exact matches

Economic theory that predicts harmful market failures due to the information asymmetries that are present when ordinary investors rely on advisers who are far more expert than them, but highly conflicted

[5][6] The theory could potentially explain why a mysterious repulsive form of energy known as the «cosmological constant», and which is accelerating the expansion of the universe, is several orders of magnitude smaller than predicted by the standard Big Bang model.»

From simple things like the so - called «earth heartbeat» predicted by multiple theories — some better than others, but most ridiculed as a bunch of hippies — to activity which is perfectly analogous to neuro - networks along cosmic filaments, and many others.

A research programme is even more resistant to change than a theory, but may eventually be abandoned in favour of a new programme which has greater promise of explaining known data, resolving anomalies, and predicting novel phenomena.

I've read material on one site (the site has 5K + pages, of which I read less than 100) that uses Velikosky as part of the starting point for a theory of the origin of the universe, and subsequently humans, that is congruent with Genesis, but also both explains and predicts things not found in that account.

This roiling froth of «virtual» particles adds energy to empty space itself, though so far the theory predicts far more energy than we actually see.

People were once thought to have ancient psyches ill - suited to modern existence, but they have adapted much more quickly than early theories had predicted

The 3000 or so known unstable nuclides have half - lives from fractions of a second to more than the age of the universe — and theory predicts thousands more

One of the most intriguing oddities to surface in 2012 was that the new particle appeared to decay into pairs of photon more often than our current best theory, the standard model, predicts the Higgs should.

The model's results are consistent with Close's initial theory, but predict a higher frequency for the emission than researchers have detected experimentally.

Current theory predicts that such an object could exist in more than one location and could remain in that split state almost indefinitely.

Lauer thinks this large - scale motion is caused by the gravitational pull of mass clustered on a scale that is even larger than the scale of his survey — which would make it larger than predicted by most theories of galaxy formation.

One of string theory's peculiar features is that when applied to fewer than nine spatial dimensions, the mathematics goes wild, predicting violent fluctuations that rip apart the very fabric of the universe.

Ironically, the theory predicts that a thicker liquid should splash more than a thinner one.

Theories of stellar evolution predict that stars weighing less than about 25 times the mass of the sun end up as neutron stars, while heftier stars are destined to become black holes.

«If they are real, these changes are 100 times larger than predicted by current theories of stellar evolution,» says Villanova astronomer Edward Guinan.

The finding runs counter to current dark matter theories, in part because the temperature measured was warmer than popular theories predict.

In those theories, the gravity from ordinary matter remains strong at greater distances than predicted by Newton and Einstein, which prevents galaxies from flying apart.

First predicted by Einstein more than a century ago as a consequence of his theory of general relativity, gravitational waves were long thought to be beyond observational reach — if not entirely nonexistent.

According to theory, the ripples predicted in the texture model should show slightly greater contrast than those of the inflationary model; in technical language, the texture - induced ripples are non-Gaussian.

Theories of how atoms collapse in such tight quarters predict that neutron stars can't grow much heavier than twice the mass of the sun, or they'll be forced to collapse into a black hole.

The measured mass of electrons in solids is always larger than the value predicted by theory.

But fewer neutrinos have been detected than standard theories predict.

Unfortunately, the electroweak theory does not predict the mass of the Higgs boson, although consistency arguments require that it have a mass of less than 1 TeV.

With standard quantum theory, scientists struggle to predict the exact behavior of anything much more complex than a hydrogen atom.

To complicate matters, the theory of special relativity, which preceded general relativity by a decade, predicts a similar effect for clocks in motion — a stationary clock will tick faster than a moving clock.

In the 1990s, observations of exploding stars showed that more distant explosions were dimmer than existing theories predicted.

Within a day, five papers were posted at arXiv.org mourning hundreds of expanding universe theories that predicted gravitational waves should travel faster than light — an impossibility without changes to Einstein's laws of gravity.

General relativity scored a knockout blow when Einstein predicted the motion of Mercury with greater accuracy than Newton's theory of gravity could.

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that clocks at different gravitational potentials will tick at different rates — a clock at higher elevation will tick faster than will a clock closer to Earth's center.

J. Haubold of the UN Outer Space Office in Vienna and A. Mathai of McGill University in Montreal argue that these variations, which have been observed over the past 20 years at the Homestake Gold Mine in South Dakota, are as significant as the observation that the Sun is producing fewer neutrinos than standard theories predict.

Indeed, much more rapidly than ecological theory predicts.»

One reason for caution is that for Kuiper objects to have emerged in situ would require them to have formed more quickly than traditional theory predicts.

Theory predicts that you'd have to go out hundreds of millions of light - years, where matter is spread randomly rather than finely structured, before the overall expansion should outgun localized motions.

The vibrations are called phonons, and the electron - phonon coupling the researchers measured was 10 times stronger than theory had predicted — making it strong enough to potentially play a role in unconventional superconductivity, which allows materials to conduct electricity with no loss at unexpectedly high temperatures.

Extra dimensions of space, for instance, which are predicted in many forms of string theory (a variant called M theory requires 10 spatial dimensions rather than the familiar three), could be accessible at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), said Barnard College physicist Janna Levin.

«Failed - Jupiter planets, like OGLE -2005-BLG-169Lb, are predicted to be more common than Jupiters, especially around stars less massive than the sun, according to the preferred theory of planet formation.

This minimum mass is somewhat lower than theories had predicted but still consistent with the latest models of brown dwarf evolution.

The results showed that the steep gradient reduced the strength of the electron turbulence much more than earlier theories had predicted.

One long - standing astrophysical puzzle is that of so - called «missing» dwarf galaxies: the number of small dwarf galaxies that we observe is far fewer than that predicted by theory.

While theory and observations agree for galaxies with circular velocities above ~ 100 km / s, theory predicts far more dwarfs below this velocity than we observe.

A young star more than 2,000 light - years away in the constellation Cepheus may be belching out spheres of gas, ejecting them repeatedly — phenomena not predicted by current theories of how young stars shed matter.

On the other hand fossil OH 62 proves that «habilis ``, far from being Homo - like, was small and ape - like - these cases were the very opposite of what evolution theory predicted and expected.103 Even though the brain size of WT 15000 was smaller than most modern humans, it was still larger than quite a few people living today.

If we further assume that — for reasons we will outline next — older adults may also be more motivated than younger adults to take advantage of technological advances that might facilitate achieving their romantic objectives, Socioemotional Selectivity Theory provides a theoretical justification for predicting that, compared to younger adults, older adults should be more motivated to invest in online dating activity.

Stage theory conceptualizes leadership succession as a process with distinct phases and demands, rather than a singular event.212 Patterns in the process have been identified, and the ways in which each phase of the succession process shapes and influences the outcome of subsequent phases have been described.213 Most stage models predict that it takes at least five to seven years to build relationships of trust that can serve as a foundation for movement to later stages of the succession process — «consolidation and refinement,» in Gabarro «s (1987) terms.