Sentences with phrase «understood by a physics»

I shall be discussing primarily the contemporary attempts to reduce life and mind to «matter» as it is understood by a physics and chemistry that may themselves be out of date.

The title of Witham's book nicely suggests that the Gifford lecturers who sought to find a place for God in a world understood by physics assumed that the task was to «measure God,»

Not exact matches

For a deeper understanding of evolution, physics and the universe, I recommend «A Universe from Nothing» by Lawrence Krauss as well as «The Blind Watchmaker» by Richard Dawkins.

Actually something tells me that God is not bound by the laws of physics as we understand them.

I don't assume automatically that there must be a supernatural explanation for anything, only the things that can't be explained by the laws of physics as we currently understand them.

Science does not understand what consciousness really is in empirical terms, and that reality humbled Quantum Physics scientists by their own admission that it is above and beyond such discipline.

He sees Whitehead as a scientific realist striving after some sort of correspondence between the world as understood by modern physics and the world of direct experience (PW 214/236) Whitehead represents the opposite of Bertrand Russell in his phenomenalist period.

If a YEC can not understand how their beliefs are contradicted by evidence from really any field of science, from physics to geology to biology, then I have doubts about their abilities to be talented engineers.

Physics has already learned that it can not understand its subatomic particles by categories drawn from the visual world.

Even if we don't remember — or never learned — what Einstein meant by general or specific relativity, we need to understand that theoretical physics has drastically changed our understanding of reality.

In his 1959 essay entitled «My Present View of the World,» he argued that the fundamental entities are discrete but overlapping «events,» that the fundamental entities of mathematical physics are «constructions composed of events,» and that entities like conscious minds and «selves» are best understood as collections of events «connected with each other by memory - chains backward and forwards.

We seek only to make plausibly consistent our understanding of the world as mediated so effectively by physics and certain general metaphysical notions, including fundamental aspects.

In that revolutionary address he unified geometry and physics into a single set of axioms by symbolic logic.2 While the memoir does not comment theologically, it does propose a theory of intersection points, or interpoints, which in its mathematical abstraction suggests a lucid and stimulating model for projecting Whitehead's understanding of God's relation to space.

Our current understanding of physics seems to imply that we only see a small «slice» of our own universe, and by looking into other «slices» of our universe (QM) it seems likely that our universe is itself a «slice» of a larger construct..

Force, a term much used in physics, is not sheer coercion but the mysterious attraction exercised by one entity, understood as an energy event, upon another.

«We hope that by applying our understanding of complex networks to one of the fundamental questions in physics we might be able to help explain how discrete quantum spaces emerge.

By the time I graduated in 1986, it seemed likely that the old - timers who understood only markets would not survive because they could not do physics.

All the particles and forces in the standard model, the dominant schema of modern physics, are represented by Lie groups, and their study has become an essential tool for understanding — and attempting to unify — the laws of nature.

A great deal of current research in theoretical physics is motivated by a yearning to understand why gravity is so feeble.

Physics on the Fringe by Margaret Wertheim Tales of «outsider physicists» challenging our understanding of the universe.

As Wetzel explained: «By improving how we modeled the physics of stars, this new simulation offered a clear theoretical demonstration that we can, indeed, understand the dwarf galaxies we've observed around the Milky Way.

A successful detection would give astrophysicists a better understanding of the astrophysics at the hearts of galaxy mergers, Mingarelli says, and provide a new avenue to study fundamental physics not accessible by any other means.

Sometimes I could understand recipes and improve them by using simple chemistry or physics concepts.

Human nature has not changed: the desire to know still moves us, even if Aristotle's understanding of physics has been swept away by gravitation, field theory, relativity and quantum mechanics.

By comparing these complex signatures with powerful computer codes developed at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Dr. Chen and her colleagues are able to understand with unprecedented detail, the underlying physics inPhysics Laboratory, Dr. Chen and her colleagues are able to understand with unprecedented detail, the underlying physics inphysics involved.

This deficit challenges current understanding of physics and of the process by which the sun shines

«Our model shows a way to understand why these three types of cosmic messenger particles have a surprisingly similar amount of power input into the universe, despite the fact that they are observed by space - based and ground - based detectors over ten orders of magnitude in individual particle energy,» said Kohta Murase, assistant professor of physics and astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State.

«We believe that we now understand pretty much how domain walls can be moved by current, and that the basic underlying physics for racetrack works,» he says.

It was introduced in the 1960s by British theoretical physicist Peter Higgs of the University of Edinburgh to help plug a huge gap in the understanding of quantum physics.

The mathematical model developed for the latest work determines how termite mounds affect plant growth by applying various tools from physics and mathematical and numerical analysis to understand a biological phenomenon, said first author Juan Bonachela, a former postdoctoral researcher in the research group of co-author Simon Levin, Princeton's George M. Moffett Professor of Biology.

In the final step in bacterial cell division, constriction of the so - called Z - ring, an annular structure that forms on the plasma membrane near the midpoint of the cell, gives rise to the two daughter cells: A research team led by Erwin Frey, who holds the Chair of Statistical and Biological Physics at LMU, has now used mathematical modelling to understand the mechanism that drives formation of the Z - ring, and in so doing have uncovered a novel class of pattern - forming mechanism in biological systems.

It makes this important research accessible to more than just cardiologists and radiologists - it can be understood by family, friends, non-scientists, patients, school pupils... I have friends who are going to use it in their high school classroom (great for physics teachers).

«So, we can look at whether a child's decision making is guided by principles of physics without requiring them to explicitly understand the physics itself.

Limited by the era's computers and understanding of physics, Wilson's model relied on simplifications — such as the star being a perfect sphere — and incorrect assumptions about the behavior of very dense matter and how neutrinos move from the core's interior to the crucial outer parts where the heating of the shock wave occurs.

Hawking transformed our understanding of black holes by combining the two pillars of 20th century physics, general relativity and quantum mechanics.

«Our study took a unified approach to understanding egg shape by asking three questions: how to quantify egg shape and provide a basis for comparison of shapes across species, what are the biophysical mechanisms that determine egg shape, and what are the implications of egg shape in an evolutionary and ecological setting,» said senior author, L. Mahadevan, the Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and of Physics at Harvard.»

I think you can certainly drop it into the big category of physics articles that illuminate the universe by telling us that it is indeed much more deeply complicated and counter intuitive than most of us would think; that when you start to look at the fringes of what we understand about physics and how the world works, you really get the sense that we are locked in [to] certain set of perceptions that do not necessarily apply; that our kind of common sense, everyday [intuitions] are not a very good guide to understanding how the universe can behave at certain scales or under certain conditions.

Observation of this decay would have profound implications for our understanding of physics, by showing that lepton number conservation is violated, proving that the neutrino and the anti-neutrino are identical, and providing hints as to how the Big Bang produced more matter than it did antimatter.

The basic atmospheric physics that gives rise to tornadoes is well understood by now.

Christian Knigge, Professor in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Southampton, worked with colleagues from around the world to study one of the most important, but least understood processes in astronomy — accretion, where the mass of an object grows by gravitationally collecting material from nearby.

Recently, teams of researchers, including Shahbazian - Yassar at UIC and Perla Balbuena at Texas A&M University, have been inching closer to finding a solution, in part by applying the power of supercomputers to understand the core chemistry and physics at work in dendrite formation and to engineer new materials that can mitigate dendrite growth.

Michael Bernardin is considered the nation's expert in electromagnetic pulse (EMP) physics created by high - altitude nuclear detonations, and he is nationally recognized for his understanding of weapons physics.

By linking imaging methods to rock physics, and by discovering, understanding and modelling relations to other geological data, we will reduce the uncertainty associated with exploration through coveBy linking imaging methods to rock physics, and by discovering, understanding and modelling relations to other geological data, we will reduce the uncertainty associated with exploration through coveby discovering, understanding and modelling relations to other geological data, we will reduce the uncertainty associated with exploration through cover.

Following the recent visit by Dr Catalin Matei from ELI - NP, we have now signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the «Horia Hulubei» National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering in Romania.

Finally, in a collaboration with Frank Jülicher's group at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, we are using these data to develop physical models that will help us understand how local cellular adhesive, elastic and contractile properties are influenced by PCP proteins and other molecules, and how they combine to produce specific packing geometries at a global level.

A new understanding of the physics of conductive materials has been uncovered by scientists observing the unusual movement of electrons in graphene.

Kolemen's system would also help scientists better understand basic plasma physics by compiling and analyzing a large database of plasma discharges.

The answer is yes if we understand that by «realistic,» we mean methods that violate no laws of physics.

Publishing in the journal Cell, remarkable progress in understanding how stem cell biology works has been reported by an interdisciplinary team of leading scientists from biology, physics, and engineering.

Sotiris was nominated for this honor by the Division of Chemical Physics for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of molecular interactions in aqueous systems.