Sentences with phrase «very center of earth»

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When people learned that the Earth was not the center of the universe and thus man was not necessarily the focus of existence it was very uncomfortable and it was a difficult concept to adjust to.

I think it was summed up in Men in Black very nicely: «1500 years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was the center of the universe.

It means that the earth on which we live is not the center of the physical universe, but a comparatively small planet revolving round a very average - sized star, which in turn is but one of a hundred thousand million others forming the galaxy we call the Milky Way, and that part of the universe that our existing telescopes have so far penetrated contains about a hundred million star systems or nebulae, similar to our galaxy.

The center of the Earth is very hot, and the flow of heat from the planet's center towards the surface is thought to drive most of the dynamics of the Earth, ranging from volcanoes to plate tectonics.

«Though very rarefied by Earth standards, these interstellar clouds are the sites of complex chemical reactions that occur over hundreds - of - thousands or millions of years,» said Jan M. Hollis of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. «Over time, more and more complex molecules can be formed in these clouds.

Due to the high viscosity of the Earth, the flow of mantle rocks which controls the rebound process is very slow — at a rate of about 1 cm / year near the center of rebound today.

I am very honest and down to Earth Christian man, I have 3 kids and 2 grand children they are the center of my life.

In the center of all this brouhaha, that sounds like it was lifted from a Dynasty episode, is Balem (a gloriously over the top Eddie Redmayne), Kalique (a delightfully camp Tuppence Middleton), and Titus (a very pretty Douglas Booth) three siblings feuding over the inheritance over the earth after the family matriarch mysteriously dies.

Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy says «This is a country that is trying very hard to figure out how to do something no nation on Earth has done before, which is to have national standards without a national ministry of education, and the competing pressures are just enormous.»

Interference pattern more likely comes from «bounce» the midpoint between the surface of the planet, and the very center of the planet, leaving a hole in the middle, that is balanced in size, against the pushes and pulls of the universe, against the mass that stay's within the earths «bubble of influence», basically, the megnetopause, the moon, the atmosphere, the water, and the cloud of charged particles that would exist above and below us, if they didn't intermingle, and / or, get blown away by the solar wind.

«Models are very consistent in forecasting a significant difference between climate trends at the surface and in the troposphere, the layer of atmosphere between the surface and the stratosphere,» said Dr. John Christy, director of UAH's Earth System Science Center.

Unlike Earth, which orbits about the Sun itself, Pluto orbits about the barycenter (center of gravity) of the solar system (albeit very eccentrically — the barycenter is at one focus of Pluto's elliptical orbit).

In this very eclectic context, it seemed necessary to gather again under a specific name all long - term services and research activities associated to our World Data Center, in order to specifically address our users who are primarily interested in the secular evolution of solar activity and Sun - Earth relations.

«The authors find themselves ironically somewhat caught up in the very psychological feedback loop that they are writing about,» said Michael Mann, a climate scientist and director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, in an email.

A team of scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States reported that the earth's land area experiencing very dry conditions expanded from well below 20 percent from the 1950s to the 1970s to closer to 25 percent in recent years.

Observationally we find that the Total Solar Irradiance we measure at Earth depends on the distance between the Earth and the Center of the Sun [as the Earth - Moon - Sun barycenter is very close to the center of the Sun] and not on the distance between the Earth and the solar system barycCenter of the Sun [as the Earth - Moon - Sun barycenter is very close to the center of the Sun] and not on the distance between the Earth and the solar system baryccenter of the Sun] and not on the distance between the Earth and the solar system barycenter.

* The real spectra is not very close to any blackbody spectra (slightly different shape) * The measurement devices do not agree * The radiation temperature of the center of the solar disk is higher than the apparent temperature near the edge * The temperature of the outer corona is more than 1,000 hotter than the «surface» * The Sun does not have a surface * The distance between the Earth and Sun varies (the orbit is an ellipse), and different references handle this differently

The controversy centers on a paragraph in Chapter 10 of the 2007 report which states: «Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world, and if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate.