Sentences with phrase «uncertainty principle as»

And even in the case of an isolated molecule, there will be some spreading — «lifetime broadening» as the result of the uncertainty principle as it applies to time and energy.

Lifetime broadening — due to the uncertainty principle as it applies to time and energy, the spontaneous decay from a higher energy state to a lower one — Lorentzian spreading.

What I am slowly starting to realise is that even those with an excellent EE grasp of filters don't necessarily fully appreciate the quantitative aspect of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle as it applies to the situation where one is trying to locate events simultaneously in spectrum and time.

The wittiest scene in Joel and Ethan Coen's 2001 film The Man Who Wasn't There is one in which a fast - talking defense attorney, Freddy Riedenschneider (marvelously played by Tony Shalhoub), invokes Heisenberg's uncertainty principle as grounds for a not - guilty verdict in a murder case:

I am particularly enamored of the scene in which he discusses using Heisenberg's uncertainty principle as the basis for a criminal defense.

Ward invokes the Heisenberg uncertainty principle as showing that «unpredictability enters into the structure of things» so that gives a world «which quantum physics would support, in which the future is truly open».

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And, as we all know from Professor Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, we behave differently when we know we're being watched (and / or measured) and this is why we like to say that «what gets measured is what gets done.»

They imagined, as Olson's postconservatives seem to, that they stood above or outside tradition, ignoring the Heisenberg uncertainty principle of hermeneutics: that all research is affected by unproven presuppositions and personal involvement.

Such a notion as emergence, for example, which is closely allied with the principle of indeterminacy and uncertainty and which was later to develop in physics, actually assumed more credence in physics before it took root in biology and psychology; yet it has more significant implications for the data of the organic and social sciences than for physics.

Even the so - called - and much misunderstood - uncertainty principle, and quantum physics as a whole, work according to precise levels of mathematically expressible variability within a defined system.

So, by that, compounded with problems such as Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty, the observer's effect, and the like — the modern day human lacks sufficient qualification to ascertain a good part of their knowledge as being absolute.

Suggesting that receiving States may kick diplomatic missions out of their buildings is probably an even higher price as it introduces uncertainty into the principle of inviolability of diplomatic premises.

With increasing size of the optical arrangement and increasing numbers of photons sent on their way, the number of possible paths and distributions of the photons at the end rises steeply as a result of the uncertainty principle which underlies quantum mechanics — so that there can be no prediction of the exact probability using the computers available to us today.

Although he objected to being singled out, Idriss's decision not to comply was as much a result of his uncertainty as an act of principled defiance.

Paul Ewart, an atomic and optical physicist at Oxford, describes himself as «pessimistic» about finding God hidden within the uncertainty principle, with or without chaos to lend a helping hand.

One of these is the uncertainty principle, which states that in the quantum world it is impossible to simultaneously know two quantities, such as a particle's location and its momentum, with complete accuracy.

Equally striking, if less well known, are the so - called squeezed quantum states: Normally, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle means that one can not measure the values of certain pairs of physical quantities, such as the position and velocity of a quantum particle, with arbitrary precision.

Yet Heisenberg's uncertainty principle dictated that precise values for certain pairs of variables, such as position and momentum, could never be known simultaneously.

7) On 28 August, we revealed that the fuzziness of the quantum world, as enshrined in Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, is actually due to: a) uncertainty about the initial conditions of the universe in the big bang b) uncertainty about the true depth of the world debt crisis c) uncertainty about which among the infinitely many copies of you within the multiverse that you personally are d) uncertainty about what quantum mechanics actually means

A hallmark of the theory is the uncertainty principle, which established that there are features of the microworld — such as the position and speed of a particle — that can not be simultaneously determined.

Maira Kalman (co-creator, designer, The Principles of Uncertainty) is the author and illustrator of 18 children's books including Fireboat, Looking at Lincoln, and What Pete Ate, as well as five books for adults.

We were able to host The Principles of Uncertainty, an evening length performance from John Heginbotham and Maira Kalman, as well as our 8th annual -LCB- Re -RCB- HAPPENING, featuring the...

Barry McGee is an artist who takes uncertainty and unpredictability as his guiding principles.

As we say above, and in various posts on the precautionary principle, the two «sides» you have identified represent just two different ways of responding to doubt and uncertainty.

As a result, the 2000 guidance followed a more principles - based approach and introduced a concept that would become a major theme in the coming weeks: how to deal with uncertainty.

Concerning the uncertainty of assessments made by IPCC, already in The Environment Conference Rio de Janeiro 1992 there was agreed a principle according to which» lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost - effective measures to prevent environmental degradation».

So it becomes necessary to downplay the high level of «uncertainty» in order to justify the need for «urgent action», cloaking it all as the «precautionary principle».

If this is true, the strong precautionary principle is a hard sell as the preferred option for decision making under deep uncertainty.

Under the precautionary principle agreed in the climate change convention, nations promised not to use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for not taking cost - effective action.

Adapting core principles of risk assessment to climate: To date, the approach of climate change assessments has primarily been rooted in communicating relative scientific certainty and uncertainty around anticipated changes in the physical climate system, along with some basic biophysical impacts that would seem to be generally implied by those climate changes: based, for example, on general understanding of associations such as those between impacts and weather extremes.

Given that many (not all) highly regarded climatologists regard the «catastrophic» case as the most likely case and that much of the research literature, including the IPCC report devotes substantial space to quantifying the uncertainties, I tend to conclude that the current state of knowledge regards the risk of catastrophic climate change as significant and that the precautionary principle applies.

In recent years, the political environmental movement has been successful in presenting the precautionary principle as a «scientific» response to uncertainty, while greatly exaggerating the scientific plausibility of imaginary apocalyptic scenarios to elicit a response in their favor from a terrified public.

For me, personally, as a general principle it is important to try to quantify uncertainty when discussing scientific conclusions.

As is, the huge uncertainty about aerosols means that in principle net human impact on climate could have always netted out to something close to zero with most of the temperature change due to natural trends.

We have too many people who want to re-define or even by - pass this process completely, citing the precautionary principle as a justification for a sense of urgency to act now despite all the uncertainty that still exists.

Therefore they have decided to support the application of the precautionary principle by stating the uncertainties as less than any objective systematic analysis can support and using subjective judgments as a more reliable basis for quantitative conclusions than they really are.

Turning to the guidelines themselves, they address in general terms the basic principles underlying the EU's negotiating position such as acting with one voice, mitigating uncertainty for citizens and businesses, adhering to the principle of sincere cooperation and ensuring the integrity of the internal market.

Canadian courts have continued to expand the principles of fundamental justice since B.C. Motor Vehicles Reference, adding new (and yet somehow fundamental) principles, some of which have invited a great deal of uncertainty and judicial discretion, such as the principle that laws should not be «over-broad.»

As such, they may give rise to considerable uncertainty post exit day as the courts have to determine whether the distinctions between directly effective provisions of EU law, direct principal EU legislation and direct minor EU legislation have implications when these provisions conflict with each other, or with other principles of UK delegated or primary legislation post exit daAs such, they may give rise to considerable uncertainty post exit day as the courts have to determine whether the distinctions between directly effective provisions of EU law, direct principal EU legislation and direct minor EU legislation have implications when these provisions conflict with each other, or with other principles of UK delegated or primary legislation post exit daas the courts have to determine whether the distinctions between directly effective provisions of EU law, direct principal EU legislation and direct minor EU legislation have implications when these provisions conflict with each other, or with other principles of UK delegated or primary legislation post exit day.

Although there remains (perhaps inevitably) considerable uncertainty as to the application of the principles in any particular case, there is no doubt that there is a growing willingness to grant PCOs to claimants with limited means challenging decisions of public bodies.

It eliminates all predictability as to where companies may be sued, and such uncertainty also strains defendants» budgets, burdens interstate commerce by exerting upward pressure on consumer prices, and erodes core principles of federalism as courts in certain states interfere with the regulatory affairs of other states.

Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP has agreed in principle to become the anchor tenant in a Loop tower proposed by Hines, a Houston development firm, as downtown office building construction is seemingly unfazed by uncertainty over the economy and the war against Iraq.