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单词 infinitesimal
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Hubble’s observations suggested that there was a time, called the big bang, when the universe was infinitesimally small and infinitely dense. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
They studied the infinitesimal effects of spit on snow and history. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
Newton was embarrassed by the infinitesimals in his equations, and he swept them under the rug. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
L’Hôpital bought himself the best teacher that money could buy: Johann Bernoulli, a Swiss mathematician and one of the early masters of Leibniz’s calculus of infinitesimals. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
In the infinitesimal glow of the stars, the trees and flowers were strewing their cool odors. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
In a sense these infinitesimals were infinitely small, smaller than any positive number you could name, yet still somehow greater than zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
Thomas had been smoothing the tiny rough spots from the worn, ancient carvings and reshaping the infinitesimally small edges and curves. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
We creep infinitesimally northward through the dirty chaos of a world in the process of making itself. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z
He put his briefcase down at his feet, between them, and Mia relaxed an infinitesimal amount. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Yossarian shook his head and explained that deja vu was just a momentary infinitesimal lag in the operation of two coactive sensory nerve centers that commonly functioned simultaneously. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
There was an infinitesimal pause, just one tiny breath. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
As if, inside Werner’s head, an infinitesimal orchestra has stirred to life. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
One was the so- called wave-particle duality of nature at the infinitesimal scale: experiments sometimes showed light and electrons behaving like particles, and other times as waves. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Squashed along its length, the line becomes a point, an infinitesimal nothing with no length, no width, and no height. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
“That’s an infinitesimal sum. I’m sure we shall have spent two or three times that on Bunny by the end of next week.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
Of the infinitesimal sperm and the cleavage of the ripened egg. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
The infinitesimal time period o drops right out of the equation, oy/ox becomes y/x, and o need never be thought of again. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
Nobody could explain how those infinitesimals disappeared when squared; they just accepted the fact because making them vanish at the right time gave the correct answer. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
The universe, he once thought, may well be made up of infinitesimal pieces of string, in thirty-two different colors. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
Then, an infinitesimal veering of the canoe, and the line of his body would break, the soaring arms collapse, up shoot an uncontrollable leg, and Phineas would tumble into the water, roaring with rage. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
His shoulders are hunched up around his ears so his strawberry hair disappears into his collar, and the infinitesimal tilt of his head tells me he’s been listening to everything we’ve said. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z
Newton disliked infinitesimals, the little os in his fluxion equations that sometimes acted like zeros and sometimes like nonzero numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
A proton is an infinitesimal part of an atom, which is itself of course an insubstantial thing. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
It spins infinitesimally, and it never, ever stops. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
The dirty tricks of making squared infinitesimals disappear and then dividing by zero to get a derivative were no longer necessary. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
It was infinitesimal, barely visible, but there all the same. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
This number is infinitesimal—zero, for all practical purposes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
However, like Cavalieri, all of them came up against the infinitesimal. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
Where Newton wrote ox, Leibniz wrote dx—an infinitesimally tiny little piece of x. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
I see several women I recognize, exchange with them the infinitesimal nods with which we show each other we are known, at least to someone, we still exist. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
On the other hand, Leibniz reveled in the infinitesimal. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
Newton’s method of differentiation was based on a notational trick: he let the fluxions change, but he only let them change infinitesimally. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
When she was awake, she put in the time lying quietly and trying to focus her berry brown eyes on her infinitesimal fist. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
This zero-dimensional object, the vanishing point, is an infinitesimal dot on the canvas that represents a spot infinitely far away from the viewer. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
These infinitesimals survived unchanged throughout Leibniz’s calculations; indeed the derivative of y with respect to x was not the infinitesimal-free ratio of fluxions y/x, but the ratio of infinitesimals dy/dx. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
She woke up from time to time in the night and whispered “Mary” and touched the doll’s infinitesimal slipper with a light finger. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
The fact that all the functioning parts are of infinitesimal size adds to the miracle. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
Because that is what it means to be alive on this infinitesimally spinning planet. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
An infinitesimal fraction of a second prior to the bomb’s detonation, two particles collide with such fierce velocity that they form a micro singularity—a black hole too small to see with the naked eye. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
Calling infinitesimals “ghosts of departed quantities,” Berkeley showed how making these infinitesimals disappear with impunity can lead to a contradiction. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
Mathematicians ignored the logical and philosophical troubles with adding infinite zeros—especially since indivisibles or infinitesimals, as they came to be called, finally solved a long-standing puzzle: the problem of the tangent. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
And that infinitesimal change ripples outward—ever smaller but everlasting. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z
His shrinking was so infinitesimal, so slow and so sly, that no one other than himself had noticed it. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Looking up the slope of the southern face of Kostor, on which we had been infinitesimally crawling all day, I saw a queer rock-formation a quarter mile or so above the road, a castle-like outcropping. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z
The dazzling results mixed George Crumb’s knack for unearthly timbres, Alvin Lucier’s infinitesimally fine gradations of tone and the fierce creative audacity of Jimi Hendrix. Music Review | So Percussion: So Percussion at Zankel Hall: Textures From Contraptions 2010-03-26T22:21:00Z
Pop-culture tough guys can be fast talkers now, and the rapid firing of Deadpool’s verbal synapses matches his infinitesimally fast calculations and adjustments in the heat of battle. The “Deadpool” Phenomenon and the American Male 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z
For 55 fuzzy minutes, the band, a trio from Tokyo, tears through the imaginary walls that divide metal’s infinitesimal subgenres, jumping between thrash, shoegaze and hard rock until you begin to forget which is which. Pop & Rock Listings for Aug. 5-11 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z
“The odds of getting on a series long enough to be remembered are infinitesimal,” said Ms. Wallace, 67. 2010-01-09T04:30:00Z
Which, by the way, 20 years later, I'm told, only got infinitesimally more manageable. Five actors on faking confidence, the Batsuit and tea breaks 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z
The gag was as intricate as an infinitesimal set of Russian nesting dolls. Review: In 'Keanu,' Key and Peele Let a Cat Steal the Show 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z
If a gravitational wave passes through, however, the detector and the ground beneath it will expand and contract infinitesimally in one direction, and the two perpendicular legs will no longer be the same size. Everything you need to knew about the groundbreaking gravitational waves discovery 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z
Every revelation registers in the gifted Amalric's gaze: infinitesimal physical mutations, emotional detonations. 'The Blue Room' a tantalizing mystery of lovers on trial 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z
“The chances of topping this one are infinitesimal,” New York magazine wrote at the time. ‘Toy Story’ lives on, but should it have? 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z
If the lead drops out, you can just infinitesimally recalibrate their personality, slot them back in with a brand new face and it’s business as usual. Loss leader: can a TV show continue without its main character? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z
He knew the chances were infinitesimal, but no matter how hard he tried to ignore it, the threat — the thought — was omnipresent. 'The Man Who Couldn't Stop' a rich, reasonable look at OCD 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z
The palace theme, however, was essentially a pretext for the master of va-va-voom to carry on his infinitesimal variations on the popular embellished gowns he produces season upon season. ‘Calm’ Kardashian joins Emma Watson at Valentino 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z
Sometimes, when something made her furious beyond all comprehension, she very infinitesimally flared her nostrils. Golden Globes: every TV win was well deserved – apart from Olivia Colman's 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z
I don’t remember how many days we shot this but I’m confident that it was an infinitesimal amount compared to how much time it took him to edit. Fran Lebowitz and Martin Scorsese Seek a Missing New York in ‘Pretend It’s a City’ 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z
They communicate across infinitesimal gaps known as synaptic clefts. A Deep Dive Into the Brain, Hand-Drawn by the Father of Neuroscience 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z
Taking as a given the essential passivity and agony of passion, he contemplates with awe the infinitesimal distance between martyrdom and madness, between self-destruction and self-sacrifice. The Goofball Criminals of Paul Schrader’s “Dog Eat Dog” 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z
It's a simple concept - inanimate objects moved infinitesimally and photographed a frame at a time to create an illusion of motion. 'Frankenweenie' joins reanimation of stop-motion 2012-10-04T14:46:17Z
That their job is superfluous — and the likelihood of outside attack infinitesimal — doesn’t mean that these men aren’t in danger. Arts & Leisure: ‘Denial,’ ‘Bofors Gun’ and the London Revival of Rage 2012-06-17T00:00:31Z
She writes, “Little truths beguiling / And infinitesimal roughnesses diverting one idea / Or the next into matter, glottal stops, fine white.” In ‘A Sand Book,’ Ariana Reines Finds Ecstasy in Chaos 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z
On perusing the first two novels of Miss Cartland's trilogy I was astonished to find the number of identical or infinitesimally altered names and titles ... Barbara Cartland stole plots, rival author alleged in furious letters 2011-08-04T15:59:00Z
Her prose is so assured that even when long sentences are jostled by abrupt transitions, the effect appears dramatic and deliberate, like a dancer staring directly at the audience for an infinitesimal pause. Women Seeking Intimacy Through Food, Mathematics and Rhythm 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z
Only Elliott Carter, the grand paterfamilias of American modernism, managed to squeeze through the infinitesimally small needle’s eye of Boulezian approval. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z
Incidents are analyzed thoroughly, more precautionary measures are taken, and the most infinitesimal mistakes, of the mechanical and human sort, are assessed. 'It's a terribly fine line': the stunt performers risking their lives for Hollywood 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z
Dry firing target practice results in the seven seemingly abstract paintings here; a laser and computer program translate the infinitesimal movements of a shooter’s hand into jumpy Twomblyesque scribbles. Her Art Comes Without Trigger Warnings 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z
In the nightmare they grow me from a pinprick, an infinitesimal scrap of bacterium, study me through microscopes while wearing radiation suits and masks.” Books Of the Times: ‘The Panopticon,’ a Debut Novel by Jenni Fagan 2013-07-15T21:25:07Z
They also realize their odds of victory are infinitesimal, in that they’re outnumbered a thousand to one. 'Game of Thrones' recap: Tyrion's life at stake in trial by combat 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z
It was also a neat way to demonstrate that we are all congregations of infinitesimal parts. Perspective | Chuck Close’s reputation as an artist is hard to separate from the impediments he faced — and overcame 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z
Her infinitesimal attention to nuanced colours and textures in the Debussy was even more special – though admittedly his piano writing works, however difficult it may be to realise. Magdalena Ko?en?/Mitsuko Uchida ? review 2012-05-20T18:31:07Z
The journal's articles confirm the suspicion that "only an infinitesimal portion of the millions was being used to assist people who were already trafficked and to enable them to rebuild their lives", Dottridge said. Of millions spent to fight trafficking, victims get little 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z
That’s right, infinitesimally altered versions of the films audiences literally just went to see. So extra: how the director's cut became Hollywood's best ruse to milk fans dry 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z
This show also knows that a lot of new songs have flowed under the earbuds since 2001, and the list of those now included occupies three columns of infinitesimal type in the program. Review: Hit Songs to Sin By in a Smashing ‘Moulin Rouge!’ 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z
From here, the theme shifts to air pollution, which endangers spiders and humans alike, especially the infinitesimal, breathable grains of carbon called particulate matter. Tomás Saraceno: Following the Airborne Lives of Spiders 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z
Even the most mystically evanescent of his string sculptures suggests blade-like sharpness, a slice through the material stuff of the world, as if to lay out an infinitesimally thin cross section under the celestial microscope. Fred Sandback, creating lines and defying boundaries at the Glenstone 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z
Even an infinitesimal risk of exposure to either of you is unacceptable. My City Friends Want to Wait Out the Virus in My Suburban Home 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z
All rather understandable anger — and an infinitesimal fraction of the hate that Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, showed the word, even on his tamest of days. Bye, Fred Phelps! Thanks for everything! 2014-03-21T14:35:00Z
You may also be reminded of the infinitesimal chromatic gradations on a ring of paint-sample cards. Art Review: James Turrell Plays With Color at the Guggenheim 2013-06-20T23:01:56Z
That number represents an infinitesimally small percentage of all the beachgoers who swim with sharks. How to Survive in the ‘Shark Attack Capital of the World’ 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z
The movie’s few infinitesimal touches of what might be called character—such as Rey substituting compassion for violence when she heals a deadly serpent—tick off a few ready-made socio-boxes. The Robotic Familiarity of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z
In an increasingly polarized world, the things we all agree on have dwindled down to an infinitesimal few. Dolly Parton, American icon: Why everything's coming up Dolly now 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z
In comparison to commercial enterprises like Comic Con, Providence had no Hollywood presence and only an infinitesimal amount of cosplay. A Festival That Conjures the Strange Magic of H.P. Lovecraft 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z
And the follow-up to this sequence underlines, in an infinitesimal touch, the presumption of racial difference that underlies the action. “Magic Mike XXL” Grabs Our Convoluted Fantasies of Pleasure 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z
“The chance of me and you sitting down, writing on the same subject and writing the same 10 words down is infinitesimal,” he said. Jill Bialosky, Poet and Editor, Faces Plagiarism Accusations 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z
It’s a terrible, terrible thing, but the odds of that happening in our lifetime are infinitesimal. ‘We may have a wild roller-coaster ride’ after the election, says Ohio State law professor Edward Foley 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z
The tastelessness of his jumbled thrill ride lacks precisely the purity, the simplicity, the stillness in motion and the infinitesimal perfection of Petit’s walk. “The Walk” Falls Short of Artistry 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z
He developed that line of inquiry into the story of an ordinary fellow who gets smaller and smaller, nearly infinitesimal. Richard Matheson (1926–2013): The Wizard of What-If? 2013-06-28T20:55:11Z
Even a cap on his teeth poignantly appears to be “infinitesimally whiter, and curiously more sincere, than the rest of his smile.” Books of The Times: ?Watergate,? a Novel by Thomas Mallon 2012-02-15T20:34:23Z
Kiefer is engaged by the idea that the materials in his work are living things whose changes may be obvious or infinitesimally, geologically slow. Cannes film festival review ? Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow 2010-05-16T17:14:00Z
Like an engineer obsessively building a machine that could blast free of the restraints of time, space and mortality, Coltrane assembled a distinctive technique from miniscule parts and infinitesimal details. 50 great moments in jazz: John Coltrane's giant step for improvisation 2010-08-09T15:49:00Z
Of course, for many who enjoy the raw dough — for me, it's supremely preferable to an actual cooked cookie — there's often a a flippant, "Oh well, an infinitesimal amount of raw egg can't hurt!" Is eating raw cookie dough really that bad for you? Nutrition experts weigh in 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z
We might imagine ourselves to be taking on—by an unnamable, possibly Christ-like process of substitution—some infinitesimal portion of worldwide dismay. Why Do We Change Our Avatars After Tragedy? 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z
I realized that little moments of self-care, no matter how infinitesimal, were going to be key to staying sane and healthy. Dinosaur nuggets and juice boxes: In defense of making lunch fun again 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z
At nearly an hour long, the piece allows you to home in on infinitesimal detail at the same time as grasping an overview of its complex trajectory. Prom 36: Ensemble Modern/Reich ? review 2011-08-11T16:56:11Z
Here is a story as loving as it is lovable: You get the feeling this author even relishes the widgets and infinitesimal details of shipbuilding. Motherlode Blog: The New Reader’s Back-to-School Booklist 2013-08-21T13:56:02Z
The infinitesimally mild satire of the hotel’s blandly and dogmatically romantic pop culture is matched by the movie’s ultimate benediction of—surprise, surprise—the redemptive power of true love. The Petty Laments of Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Lobster” 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z
But what’s crucial, what gives me some infinitesimal measure of hope, is that this book I wrote and slaved over every day and obsessed over for years will still be out there. Goodnight, sweet print 2013-05-12T19:00:00Z
The time it took the musician to turn the recordings into a 40-minute piece is, relatively, infinitesimal. Review | William Basinski’s tranquil tunes stirred listeners — and got a standing ovation — at U Street Music Hall 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z
As he faces off with Kirk, he does a lot of impassive and charismatic gazing, indicative of infinitesimally amused unconcern. Star Trek Into Darkness – review 2013-05-09T14:35:00Z
Sure, it might be more hygienic to remove your shoes at the door, but only infinitesimally so. Should you take your shoes off inside the house? 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z
We stay with him through the death of his dog, and — movingly — even attend his mother’s deathbed, where she undergoes “the infinitesimal transition from being to nothingness.” ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-03T22:40:08Z
By the end of her two-week performance, each canvas will bear such a record for a different stock: A representation of an abstraction that symbolizes an infinitesimal piece of the universal financial flux. Here’s How an Artist Plays the Stock Market 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z
In these pieces, plucked from the last 20 years, Holt takes on infinity and the infinitesimal, the illusion of time, the birth of eugenics, the so-called new atheism, smartphones and distraction. Essays That Make Sense of the Infinite and the Infinitesimal 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z
He made everything matter in its own way — wide and resounding chords, single notes, infinitesimal accompaniment to other solos in the septet arrangements. Abdullah Ibrahim at the Schomburg Center 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z
He studies the infinitesimal fluctuations of light from space in hopes of locating alien planets capable of supporting life. Review | Fresh off a Pulitzer win for ‘The Overstory,’ Richard Powers delivers another environmental ode 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z
“They say sharks. But your chance of getting bitten by a shark is infinitesimally small.” How to Talk to Your Kids About Beach Safety 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z
It sounds like biography writing as Zeno’s paradox — getting infinitesimally closer to the end without ever reaching it. In ‘Working,’ Robert A. Caro Gives Us a Brief Look at the Process of Writing His Epic Books 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z
From the sea bed of this vast sickness rises the infinitesimal voice of self-awareness – the distant echo of some long-forgotten conscience, captured on camera at the moment of its birth. The Act of Killing – review 2013-06-29T23:05:24Z
But it’s also to take in the infinitesimal variations from one pizza to the next, from one night to the next, as Sang Woo Joo finds his groove. Perfecting Neapolitan Pizza in Los Angeles, With Help From Tokyo 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z
Even at infinitesimal levels in the blood, lead has been linked to ADHD. Living near an airport could be toxic 2013-09-08T17:00:00Z
There are, as usual, a multitude of dimly lighted rooms, furnished in such infinitesimal detail that you feel you could spend a day taking inventory of just one of them. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable’ in London 2013-07-23T21:05:32Z
And that’s not the astonishing number. grossed an infinitesimal $24,094 in its entire run—of one week, in 10 theaters. DVD Roundup: Harry Potter's Riches, Nic Cage's Rags 2011-11-09T04:58:32Z
In “Fulcrum” a fly lands at the end of a wooden balance beam, its infinitesimal weight causing the board to dip to the floor. 2010-01-15T05:16:00Z
In the first plexiglass paintings on the show’s last ramp, he incises both sides with infinitesimal curling lines and tints them with contrasting colors to create a third. ‘Moholy-Nagy: Future Present,’ Vision and Precision in a Fluid Braid 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z
He was also talented at micrographia, the art of writing passages that were, like him, infinitesimally small. Ricky Jay's obsession with Matthias Buchinger, an unbelievable 17th century showman 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z
On a different, more conventional show, Ilana would have stayed in her dead-end job forever, but her turbulent employment situation this season has provided both humor and signs of real, if infinitesimal, character growth. Review: Hillary Clinton's 'Broad City' Appearance Was a Win 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z
But I do wonder how, on an infinitesimal scale, listening closely might free us from the logic of hasty, individualistic action. Ambient Music Isn’t a Backdrop. It’s an Invitation to Suspend Time. 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z
He uses ever-tinier needles to create wrinkles and pores, applies paints that capture the essence of a human epidermis, and pokes infinitesimal hairs onto his creation. How scientists bring ancient faces back to life 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z
But you should not worry unduly, the effect will be infinitesimal. Could the UK's tides help wean us off fossil fuels? 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z
Ever since Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovered the world of bacteria through a microscope in the late seventeenth century, humans have tried to look deeper into the world of the infinitesimally small. Superlensing without a super lens: Physicists boost microscopes beyond limits 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z
But how long is an attosecond, and what can these infinitesimally short pulses tell researchers about the nature of matter? What is an attosecond? A physical chemist explains the tiny time scale that earned a Nobel prize 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z
Most stars are so far away from Earth that their apparent brightness is only an infinitesimal fraction of their actual glory. How Seeing the Milky Way Helped Us Discover the Whole Universe 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z
Two hours before a large earthquake, the ground seems to move—infinitesimally and without causing any shaking—a new study shows. Subtle Movements That Precede Earthquakes Raise Questions about Predicting Disaster 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z
But if a gravity wave is pulsing through the Earth, making one of the tubes repeatedly infinitesimally longer and the other infinitesimally shorter, the beam will not recombine as expected. New black hole could help WA scientists unlock mysteries of the universe 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z
Even though the astronomical events that produce gravitational waves involve some of the most massive objects in the universe, the stretching and contracting of space is infinitesimally small. Gravitational wave detector LIGO is back online after 3 years of upgrades 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z
That infinities, infinitesimals, imaginary numbers or other unusual number spaces can be difficult to describe may not seem too surprising. These Are the Most Bizarre Numbers in the Universe 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z
The infinitesimal expansion and contraction occurs at a frequency of about 10 to 100 hertz and creates a measurable offset between one beam and its perpendicular twin. Gravitational-Wave Search Resumes after Three Years and Lots of Headaches 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z
But the chances of finding the Nazi treasure were infinitesimal, experts agreed; it could well have been dug up decades ago. A Dutch Quest for Buried Nazi Treasure Comes Up Empty 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z
The number of elite athletes who come from that group, who pose a “problem,” is infinitesimally smaller. Opinion | Biden didn’t do transgender athletes any favors 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z
There are fraudsters, but those cases are infinitesimal when compared with legitimate claims; VA constantly reevaluates claimants for accuracy and often catches these infractions. Opinion | This is the true cost of America’s wars 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z
His life was infinitesimally short and packed with far more than its share of suffering. The Incredible Challenge of Counting Every Global Birth and Death 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z
These interactions, he says, are important in understanding other big problems in physics besides the proton radius, such as the mystery of how neutrinos acquire their infinitesimal mass. How Big Is a Proton? Neutrinos Weigh In 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z
Until we see which schools have vacancies this spring, the odds of his departure are essentially infinitesimal. Pac-12 men’s basketball hot seats: Odds that UW’s Mike Hopkins, others are gone after season 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z
According to general relativity, a black hole Such peculiar beasts are thought to emerge when massive stars collapse to an infinitesimal point, leaving just their gravitational fields behind. Dark energy from supermassive black holes? Physicists spar over radical idea 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z
“There’s such a small number of people who want to do this and an infinitesimally smaller number of people we actually want doing this.” ‘Deadly brew’: Amid soaring crime, Memphis cops lowered bar 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z
But on super tiny scales—think of distances smaller than a proton’s infinitesimal span—the cumulative details of all those random movements may actually matter. ‘Unbelievable’ Spinning Particles Probe Nature’s Most Mysterious Force 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z
When used, it has "reduced the numbers of counterfeit tickets out there to almost infinitesimally small numbers". Live music: How buying concert tickets could be made better 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z
No notion in physics may be more mind bending than a black hole, an infinitesimal pit in spacetime whose gravity is so strong that nothing can escape. It just got harder to question the existence of black holes 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z
He now works for an organization dedicated to documenting the ancient tombs in the Valley of the Kings in infinitesimal detail using sophisticated 3-D scanners. Climate Change and Human Activity Erode Egypt’s Treasured Antiquities 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z
In the infinitesimal space between zero chance and the tiniest of chances, a lot of dreams can gather. Opinion | $1.6 billion Powerball pot. Who wins and who pays? It’s murky. 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z
While there have been anecdotal reports of noncitizens registering and casting ballots, “the incidence of such occurrences is infinitesimal,” Hayduk said. Can noncitizens vote in US elections? 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z
The percentage of the economy that was spent just on pure financial activities was infinitesimal compared to now. Abigail Disney’s dream: Living wages for workers 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z
A black hole is the ghostly gravitational field left behind when a massive star burns out and collapses under its own gravity to an infinitesimal point. It just got harder to question the existence of black holes 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z
The number of individuals charged — roughly one and one-half per state per year — is infinitesimal in a country where more than 159.7 million votes were cast in the 2020 general election alone. In Voter Fraud, Penalties Often Depend on Who’s Voting 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z
When we carry this process to its logical conclusion, we are left with an infinitesimally small interval. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z
Both the ligand and the metal are treated as infinitesimally small point charges. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z
Strictly speaking, this is true only if the laboratory is infinitesimally small. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z
The partial recount ultimately changed the outcome by fewer than 60 votes — an infinitesimal fraction of the overall vote that included ballots from more than 922,000 Kansans. Kansas recount confirms landslide win for abortion rights, but highlights risk to democracy 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z
Even with the half-dozen incidents on Long Island this summer, the chances of being bitten by a shark are still infinitesimal. Experts blame spate of shark attacks on combination of successful conservation efforts, bad luck 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z
Field lines are essentially a map of infinitesimal force vectors. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z
In such cases, the heat gained or lost by the surroundings as a result of some process represents a very small, nearly infinitesimal, fraction of its total thermal energy. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z
Eventually, we would find that all the matter we can see today was once concentrated in an infinitesimally small volume. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z
And the chances that they got a Soto-esque player in return is infinitesimal. Nationals make ‘prudent baseball move’ by trading Soto for prospect haul 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z
In 1957, he hit on his most far-reaching invention: the electron capture detector, a portable device that looked a bit like a hose nozzle and could detect infinitesimal evidence of man-made chemicals such as pesticides. James Lovelock, creator of Gaia theory of ‘living’ Earth, dies at 103 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z
One is that infinitesimally small subdivision is possible. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z
From the graph of we observe the output can get infinitesimally close to as approaches 7 from the left and as approaches 7 from the right. Precalculus 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z
In this theory, infinitesimal strings, which have length but not height or width, are the building blocks used to construct all the forms of matter and energy in the universe. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z
Anything good is respected but a bowler's margin for error is infinitesimal. Go Jonny, go - Bairstow's love affair with Bazball 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z
“The danger to people is infinitesimal,” he said. N.Y. Beaches Step Up Shark Patrols, Adding Drones, Trackers and Tourniquets 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z
Rather, they extend indefinitely in ever-smaller time intervals to some infinitesimal point. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z
That infinitesimal break could mean the difference between surviving another barrage or dying and having to start a fight all the way from the beginning. The Steam Deck’s best button is its software 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z
Theorists had previously calculated that scattering from an infinitesimally small pointlike object such as a black hole should only produce a very feeble scattering. Gravitational wave radar could probe deep space for tiny stellar objects 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z
Measuring such changes, discerning almost infinitesimally small, disparities in weight, required a precision that might not long before her have been regarded as impossible to achieve. Marilyn Fogel, ‘isotope queen’ of science, dies at 69 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z
By last week, Kritsky had received only 85 reports of stragglers, an infinitesimal speck when compared with the billions of bugs that swarmed us last year, right on schedule. Perspective | Better late than never: Straggler cicadas are emerging from the earth 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z
And you need those two things to work together to explain what a black hole is, because a black hole is strong gravity plus an infinitesimally small object. Q&A: She discovered the black hole at the center of our galaxy. This week, she finally saw it 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z
A couple might find, for instance, that among 10 embryos, most carry a mix of normal and abnormal cells, or have abnormal cells with an infinitesimally low probability of implanting in the uterus. Overturn of Roe could make IVF more complicated, costly 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z
And, like a spacecraft that’s been infinitesimally poked off course, that lopsidedness kept escalating as I hurtled through the vacuum of adolescence. The Matador and Me: Coming to Terms with My Famously Ugly Lookalike 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z
The idea that a photon can act as either an infinitesimal particle or a spread-out wave is just crazy. Mapping the Brain to Understand the Mind 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z
An attorney for the airmen argued during a 2019 hearing that the odds of transmitting HIV in combat are infinitesimal and should not limit their deployment or lead to their discharge. Judge rules US military can’t discharge HIV-positive troops 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z
In the original Big Bang, there’s a core, an infinitesimal singularity that brought the whole universe bursting into creation. Southern California has given the world so much. And fast food too 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z
To record the insects’ infinitesimal flight patterns, experimenters placed the creatures in a transparent chamber and filmed them with two high-speed cameras at nearly 4,000 frames per second during a battery of tests. Tiny Flier ‘Swims’ through the Air at Superspeed 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z
He accomplished this one infinitesimal detail at a time, constructing his beloved database of NFL contracts and parlaying that into a network of contacts that made him a pioneer among NFL “insiders.” Perspective | John Clayton, fueled by passion for football and people, was more than stats and scoops 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z
But Apple has frequently targeted entities that have nothing to do with tech or that are infinitesimal in size. Apps and Oranges: Behind Apple’s ‘Bullying’ on Trademarks 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z
He added that “my chances of dying in a nuclear war still feel infinitesimally small, even if greater than yesterday.” Beyond Ukraine, the Target Is What Putin Calls America’s ‘Empire of Lies’ 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z
Moreover, the drug supply has become exponentially more dangerous since then, Rivera said, as heroin is now cut with fentanyl, which can prove fatal even in infinitesimal doses. Amid a surge in deaths, a safe place to get high — and to avoid an overdose 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z
Some extraordinarily good rivals had preceded them, each seeming to edge the previous with the margins infinitesimal. In pairs, the best kind of drama ends in gold for China’s Sui Wenjing and Han Cong 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z
The group sought those infinitesimal acquisitions by testing shapes on computer models to arrive at an ideal one to reduce drag on sleds. The Goal Is to Go Fast. Just Not Too Fast. 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z
There’s little at stake here other than an infinitesimally easier path to the final, but they don’t do “friendly” in this rivalry. Winter Olympics 2022 day four: USA v Canada in women’s ice hockey; men’s super-G – live! 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z
In the wake of Tuesday’s loss, which moved the Seahawks’ playoff chances from extremely remote to infinitesimal, defensive end Carlos Dunlap was asked to reflect on the season. With Seahawks out of playoff hunt, ‘Tell the Truth Monday’ must be extended to 2021 season 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z
Yet, despite the familiar headlines after school shootings in the United States, the risk to any individual student remains infinitesimal, and a vast majority of violence affecting children and adolescents occurs in homes or neighborhoods. After Michigan Killings, Students Praised Shooter Drills. But Do They Really Work? 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z
So what now for the Seahawks, who at 3-7 have pretty infinitesimal playoff hopes and now a long road trip to the Washington Football Team Monday? Four Downs with Bob Condotta and Adam Jude: Answering questions after the Seahawks’ dismal loss to the Cardinals 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z
The fact that I was able to see this tiny, infinitesimal snub for what it was and move on with my day equaled success in my book. L.A. Affairs: I wanted the ground to open up and swallow me whole 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z
Even in Montgomery County Public Schools’ mostly unvaccinated student population, surveillance testing has revealed infinitesimally low positivity with just 18 positive cases from 28,290 tests administered as of Oct. Opinion | Montgomery County’s vaccination rate is high enough for the county to fully reopen 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z
Yet this was an infinitesimal number in comparison with the overall federal caseload. Opinion | Don’t worry, judges aren’t all unethical. But some aren’t very smart. 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z
The chance of getting a winning ticket is infinitesimal, and from there, they must wait in a line for a consular interview. US diversity lottery winners wait on visas as time runs out 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z
Of course, the odds of getting hepatitis from the guy attending to his five o'clock shadow next to you at JFK are infinitesimal. Shaving, nail clipping and beyond — What are the limits of public hygiene? 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z
“The data to support its benefit was infinitesimally small,” said Nelson of Rutgers, who was on that panel. FDA approves GHB, a ‘date rape’ drug, for rare sleeping disorder 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z
While brutal for Bonfire’s early holders, infinitesimal prices are part of the appeal for many hype coin fans. Going for Broke in Cryptoland 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z
But Moran said the “infinitesimally small” amount of blood found in the living room is likely to be found in anyone’s house. Father accused of killing son in 2012 convicted of murder 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z
“There’s a very, very infinitesimally small chance it’s going to get it wrong.” The FBI searched cave for Civil War gold, fearing Pa. officials would seize it, new court documents show 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z
He knows the odds of catching one of the fish he raised is infinitesimal, but still … Perspective | A fish story: When the pandemic closed this Maryland school, he saved the trout 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z
Benitez spilled a great deal of ink arguing that mass shootings involving assault weapons are “infinitesimally rare.” Federal Judge Claims the COVID Vaccine Kills More People Than Mass Shootings Do 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z
The odds were infinitesimal that this player would do more for his team than any drafted player, before or since. The Greatest Draft Pick Ever 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z
Now, before we get too epic-historical, the chance of any incumbents actually losing their jobs in a primary is infinitesimal — especially in our state. An earthquake warning for politics? Not yet, but you can feel some tremors. 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z
Those possible four MTF transgender athletes over that span would then represent an infinitesimal number. Editorial Roundup: Wisconsin 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z
This class comprises integers, real numbers, transfinite numbers and infinitesimals—a structure that no one previously imagined was possible in which everything can be added, multiplied, and so on. For Math Fans: Some Puzzles from Game of Life Creator John Conway 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z
It is an incredible thing, painted in infinitesimal brushstrokes that are themselves indices to the invisible, the sacred. Perspective | The spiritual transcends wealth, power and even art in this Mughal masterpiece
But they comprise an infinitesimal fraction of my thoughts. Can Science Illuminate Our Inner Dark Matter? 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z
Quantum mechanics, the theory governing the infinitesimal world, doesn't allow for nothingness. The Cosmological Constant Is Physics’ Most Embarrassing Problem 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z
And in fact, the sentencing judge called the likelihood that there was any personal financial motivation “infinitesimal.” President Trump’s full list of pardons and commutations 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z
Imagine a black hole, the ghostly knot of gravity that forms when, say, a massive star burns out and collapses to an infinitesimal point. After decades of effort, scientists are finally seeing black holes—or are they? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z
It is an incredible thing, painted in infinitesimal brushstrokes that are themselves indices to the invisible, the sacred. Perspective | The spiritual transcends wealth, power and even art in this Mughal masterpiece
In some years the gap is wider than in others, but it is almost always an infinitesimal percentage of total population. Column: California isn't 'hemorrhaging' people, but there are some reasons for concern 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z
That means its risk of default is almost infinitesimal, investors and analysts say. New York Subway’s Pain Could Bring Riches for Bond Investors 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z
“The isolated incidents cited lend support to the proposition that over time voter fraud rates have ‘remained infinitesimally small,’ ” Dow added. Courts view GOP fraud claims skeptically as Democrats score key legal victories over mail voting 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z
Think of it as the tree sweating, helping to keep the tree cool and infinitesimally lowering the air temperature. What Europe's cities are doing to handle heatwaves 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z
President Trump has already publicly tried to raise the potential for fraud through mail-in voting, although the number of such confirmed cases is infinitesimal. The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing networks to reinvent TV election coverage 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z
We must never, ever forget that it existed - and that, among what we hope and pray is an infinitesimally small percentage of people today, racism persists. Editorial Roundup: New England 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z
“Despite this dramatic increase in mail voting over time, fraud rates remain infinitesimally small,” the organization said. Republican lawmakers in Iowa push to limit absentee voting 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z
"There is no evidence that voting by mail results in significant fraud. As with in-person voting, the threat is infinitesimally small." Michigan lieutenant governor: Trump preparing to question legitimacy of results if he loses election 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z
It contained not only the positive and negative real numbers that we all know, but also new infinitely large numbers, infinitesimally small ones, and all sorts of new numbers in between. John Horton Conway (1937–2020) 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z
The Brennan Center for Justice found that the threat of voter fraud is "infinitesimally small." Judge lets Texans cast absentee ballots but AG threatens felony charges for promoting mail voting 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z
"There is no evidence that voting by mail results in significant fraud. As with in-person voting, the threat is infinitesimally small," said a report from New York University's Brennan Center for Justice. Trump says he only gave Colorado 1% of the ventilators it needs after GOP senator asked for them 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z
The artists whose voices personally shook our inner-core were the same philanthropists we trusted to enlighten us on issues larger than our own infinitesimal lives. Celebrities, coronavirus has exposed how irrelevant you have become | Rohit Thawani 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z
Despite our riches, our brains, our egos, we are infinitesimal against forces we scarcely understand. Perspective | Like Vladimir and Estragon, we wait for our Godot. And wait. 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z
The thrust of this revolution – the capacity to create an infinitesimal part of an already minute virus, without handling a virus specimen at all – can seem godlike. 'It’s a razor’s edge we’re walking': inside the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z
When you buy a share of stock, you are buying a claim on an infinitesimal portion of the profits of that company for the rest of time. How to Stop Worrying and Love a Falling Stock Market 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z
The judge said she based the sentence in part to a toxicologist’s analysis that showed his conduct created a “nearly infinitesimal risk of exposure.” Kansas developer gets prison term over asbestos disposal 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z
An attorney for the airmen argued during a hearing in September that the odds of transmitting HIV in combat are infinitesimal and should not limit their deployment or lead to their discharge. Ruling barring discharge of HIV-positive airmen upheld 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z
Whatever reach they managed represents an infinitesimal fraction of the overall content people saw in the same period of time and certainly over the course of an election across all media. Facebook executive: we got Trump elected, and we shouldn’t stop him in 2020 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z
Those that are investigated and prosecuted are infinitesimal. How a Lynnwood rape case inspired a Netflix series adaptation that’s up for four Golden Globes 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z
But even aside from the infinitesimally small chance of winning, lotteries with huge jackpots aren’t as good as they look. Perspective | Five myths about the lottery 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z
Legal and illegal downloading alike was still tethered to the notion of music ownership, even if the collection was now infinitesimally inconspicuous, crammed into a hard drive or that antique object, the iPod. Overload and isolation: the decade that warped popular culture 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z
The particles were infinitesimally small and their chances of collision were negligible. The Histories Hidden in the Periodic Table 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z
They still do not know exactly how their daughter died, or whether there might even be some infinitesimal hope of her survival. A Christmas of grief nearly five years after Arizona woman's death in Islamic State captivity 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z
The Browns are clinging to infinitesimal odds of ending their postseason drought dating to 2002, the fan base is in its annual winter uproar, and first-year coach Freddie Kitchens is fighting for survival. Ravens, Browns in very different places since first meeting 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z
Up to now, EVs account for an infinitesimal but growing share of the overall car market: less than 2% across the U.S., according to the Edison Electric Institute. The electric Mustang is just the start of Ford's drive to hit 50 mpg in 6 years 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z
The Airmen’s lawyer said the odds are infinitesimal and should not limit their deployment or lead to their discharge. Appeals court asked to halt discharge of Airmen with HIV 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z
Three years ago, astrophysicists electrified the world when they detected gravitational waves—infinitesimal ripples in space itself—set off when two massive black holes swirled into each other and merged about 1.3 billion light-years away. Black hole reverberations suggest the cosmic beasts are as ‘bald’ as cue balls 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z
To detect the infinitesimal stretching of space, physicists developed huge L-shaped optical instruments called interferometers, with arms several kilometers long. Scientists may have spotted a black hole and a neutron star colliding 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z
Some baseball players, such as reliever Tony Sipp, focused on the sport early, understanding that a kid’s infinitesimal odds of becoming a professional athlete grew significantly if he winnowed the competition to left-handers who pitched. Why aren’t there any left-handed quarterbacks in the NFL? 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z
He showed in 2012 that, in many cases, the likelihood of the patterns having arisen by chance was “infinitesimally small”. How a Data Detective Exposed Suspicious Medical Trials 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z
He showed in 2012 that, in many cases, the likelihood of the patterns having arisen by chance was “infinitesimally small”1. How a data detective exposed suspicious medical trials 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z
A black hole is the ultraintense gravitational field left behind when a sufficiently massive star collapses under its own weight to an infinitesimal point. Black hole reverberations suggest the cosmic beasts are as ‘bald’ as cue balls 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z
Think of the World Wide Web, the power grid and the universe, of which the Milky Way is an infinitesimal node in a seemingly boundless network of galaxies. How the Mind Emerges from the Brain's Complex Networks   2019-07-01T04:00:00Z
Human beings were suddenly an astonishingly recent phenomenon, a “parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity”, as James Joyce once wrote. The Anthropocene epoch: have we entered a new phase of planetary history? 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z
But would such a far-fetched theory--with its extra dimensions and infinitesimal stringy particles--ever really be accepted? From My Archives: Quark Inventor Murray Gell-Mann Doubts Science Will Discover "Something Else" 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z
And a black hole is the ultraintense gravitational field left behind when a massive star collapses to an infinitesimal point. Theorist calculates the incalculable siren song of merging black holes 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z
For anything but a giant hit, royalties from streaming are infinitesimal — and big tech companies seem to want to keep it that way. Ripped-Off Riffs? Rise in Plagiarism Claims Unnerves Pop Songwriters 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z
The odds of picking a perfect bracket to the end are infinitesimal . What are the odds? Perfect bracket makes doctor a celebrity 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z
In Bateman’s world of tailored suits, brand-name eyeglasses, and meticulously trimmed haircuts, the infinitesimally small differences in design between his business card and Allen’s are crushingly decisive. The Apple Card is Apple’s thinnest and lightest status symbol ever 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z
“An infinitesimal degree of ‘wrong’ can be vast in this context, instantly breaking the spell.” Date dressing: how fashion in the age of MeToo redefined sex appeal 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z
“It’s an infinitesimal amount of money when you look at the total budget for the court system.” Attacking a Pay Wall That Hides Public Court Filings 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z
Retired baseball players, meanwhile, still suffer the aches of pains of anyone who has devoted their life to sports, but the incidence of serious brain injury relative to football is infinitesimal. Why Kyler Murray is set to forfeit a $4.6m MLB bonus and join the NFL 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z
This allows astronomers to measure distance through a quantity known as stellar parallax — infinitesimal shifts in the apparent position of an object in the sky that accompany a change in perspective. Hidden history of the Milky Way revealed by extensive star maps 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z
Visits to government websites are infinitesimal compared to newspaper readership in print and online. Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z
While Warren touted the results for showing a small trace of Native-American heritage, those same results only emboldened Warren’s critics -- for just how infinitesimal that lineage was. The most memorable political gaffes of 2018 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z
The total cost: $1,470 a day, the smallest of infinitesimally small drops in the government’s more than $4 trillion yearly budget. National Christmas Tree will be lit again after donations save it from darkness during shutdown 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z
And she stressed that flavors are used in infinitesimal amounts. No accounting for these tastes: Artificial flavors a mystery 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z
Emmanuelle Amar, the director of Remera, said the chances of the abnormalities being coincidental was “more than infinitesimal” and criticised the lack of action by the authorities as a “health scandal”. Baby arm defects prompt nationwide investigation in France 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z
So Poke decided he’d ride the metro until he ran Rod down, because their city may have been big but their orbits were infinitesimally small. Fiction by Bryan Washington: “Waugh” 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z
The Standard Model predicts that particles surrounding electrons do affect an electron’s shape, but at such an infinitesimal scale as to be pretty much undetectable using existing technology. Measurement Shows the Electron's Stubborn Roundness 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z
Polygenic scores add together the small—sometimes infinitesimal—contributions of tens to millions of spots on the genome, to create some of the most powerful genetic diagnostics to date. Giant Leap for Gene-Based Testing Estimates Risk of Heart Disease, Breast Cancer and Others 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z
Polygenic risk scores are diagnostic tests that add together the small — sometimes infinitesimal — contributions of tens to millions of spots on the genome. Daily briefing: Astronauts survive Soyuz failure that caused “ballistic reentry” 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z
Polygenic scores add together the small — sometimes infinitesimal — contributions of tens to millions of spots on the genome, to create some of the most powerful genetic diagnostics to date. The approach to predictive medicine that is taking genomics research by storm 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z
But doctors at a research organisation said the likelihood of it being coincidental was “more than infinitesimal” and demanded a full investigation. French doctors fail to solve mystery of babies with missing limbs 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z
They also say that, given the billions of tweets and social media postings during the campaign, Russian content was probably only an infinitesimal share of the total. Analysis | A fresh look back at 2016 finds America with an identity crisis 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z
However, the chances of being bitten by a spider are "infinitesimally small", according to Prof Hart. How to spider-proof your home 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z
These are bold, thought-provoking pieces that tackle everything from the physical principle of least action to the mathematics of the infinitely great and infinitesimally small. Summer reads: Darwin’s dilemma on sexual selection, ecology versus empire, and the dark side of the greater good 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z
“The amount of money you would save by going from Champagne to orange juice in business class is infinitesimally small,” Mr. Clark says. Chateau Margaux for Seat 2A: Emirates Rewrites Rules for Airlines 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z
The leading contender for a theory of everything held that all of nature’s particles and forces, including gravity, stem from infinitesimal, stringy particles wriggling in nine or more dimensions. How Physics Lost Its Way 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z
Perhaps this is what happens nowadays when teams are flung together at relatively short notice, bereft of the infinitesimal levels of detail to which Champions League contenders’ strategies are compared. Ten things we learned from the final round of World Cup group games 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z
“They realize the margin of error has become infinitesimally small,” says Mr. Story. The Lesson from Intel: Times Are Changing, Even at the Top 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, started work Friday on a project to boost the number of infinitesimal collisions, known as “luminosity,” in its Large Hadron Collider by installing high-tech magnets. CERN starts major upgrade to reap more data at atom smasher 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z
Operating almost imperceptibly, on an infinitesimally tiny scale, the pump that Dr. Skou discovered makes possible a rebalancing of the quantities of charged ions that face each other across a cell membrane. Jens Christian Skou, who received Nobel Prize for chemistry, dies at 99 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z
Within a sliver of a second, it underwent an exponential growth spurt called inflation, which stretched infinitesimal quantum fluctuations in the particle soup into gargantuan ripples. Galaxy simulations are at last matching reality—and producing surprising insights into cosmic evolution 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z
It measures the changes in your eye very accurately, to infinitesimal small degrees.” IndyCar adds eye-tracking system to concussion test protocol 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z
According to the theory, inflation stretched infinitesimal quantum fluctuations in those first moments to extragalactic size. Stephen Hawking's (almost) last paper: putting an end to the beginning of the universe 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z
And yet all of us had come from something incredibly small, our infinitesimal DNA coiled and waiting for us to live up to our potential. Perspective | In spring, a middle-aged man’s fancy turns to blossoms and batteries 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z
An area of research to watch, Mr. Hunkapiller says, is the idea of using blood tests to detect cancer early by spotting infinitesimal amounts of DNA released when tumor cells die. Cracking the Code of Life—at Light Speed 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z
Universities earn billions of dollars from college sports, an infinitesimal portion of which goes back to the athletes, most of them minorities. N.C.A.A. Panel Proposes Reforms, Including End to ‘One and Done’ 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z
The odds her own daughter would have it were infinitesimal. Infinitesimal Odds: A Scientist Finds Her Child’s Rare Illness Stems From the Gene She Studies 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z
And even in the warned countries, there’s an infinitesimal chance that falling debris will strike someone. China’s defunct space station due to fall from the sky next week 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z
A black hole is the gravitational field that remains when a star collapses under its own gravity to an infinitesimal point. Hawking’s final quest: saving quantum theory from black holes 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z
Scientifically, Hawking’s name will forever be tied to black holes, the ultraintense gravitational fields left behind when massive stars collapse under their own gravity into infinitesimal points. Stephen Hawking, who shined a light on black holes, dies at age 76 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z
He added, “The reaction should not be overdone. This is an infinitesimal step forwards.” E.C.B. Shifts Guidance, as Europe Moves Toward Normalcy 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z
A heavy star explodes when its massive core collapses to an infinitesimal point: a black hole. Gravitational waves help reveal the weight limit for neutron stars, the densest objects in the cosmos 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z
Atoms are infinitesimally small, measuring only a miniscule fraction of an inch in diameter. How a Student Took a Photo of a Single Atom 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z
In the scheme of things it is a victory of infinitesimal importance. Cleveland Indians Will Abandon Chief Wahoo Logo Next Year 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z
Although the pulses are extraordinarily powerful, they are also infinitesimally brief, lasting less than a trillionth of a second. Physicists are planning to build lasers so powerful they could rip apart empty space 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z
Whenever you look at your Facebook newsfeed, you are granted access to some infinitesimally small section of that database, seeing only the information that is relevant to you. Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z
One way to think about a sphere is as a stack of infinitesimally thin circles sitting on top of each other. A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Bicylinder 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z
The paper also quoted a rabbi who monitors the Mormons as saying the controversial ceremonies were an “infinitesimal” exception to a generally well-observed practice. The Mormon faith builds bridges while staying true to its idiosyncratic self 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z
The odds of that being the case are infinitesimally small. Opinion | Flying Saucers and Other Fairy Tales 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z
What they paid workers was a small percentage of what executives got, but it was not an infinitesimal fraction. Republican tax plan would erase a last vestige of a different business era 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z
Richard Gray is also here as the group’s agent, in a role so infinitesimal, he’s presumably performing in another gig at the same time. ‘Holiday Inn’ is blandly pleasant fare at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z
The babies then do their best Alien impression, hunkering down and siphoning off infinitesimal amounts of nutrients from their host in the form of sugars and other fluids. How Mussels Fool Fish Into Carrying Their Parasitic Babies 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z
The Giants’ coach, Ray Perkins, told Reed and the other quarterbacks that the difference between winning and losing in the N.F.L. was infinitesimal. One Game to Remember. Just One. 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z
I like to think that, tucked almost invisibly into a crack in the floor or the depths of upholstery, that infinitesimal stone is still at the Grand Illusion, quietly winking in the dark. Seattle’s historic moviehouses 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z
And the scale of this particular item is infinitesimally small. Donald Trump Jr. Communicated With WikiLeaks During Campaign 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z
Planned Parenthood facilities are an infinitesimal fraction of that total, but the principle at stake, Mr. Pittenger said, is the use of taxpayers’ money. Abortion clinics built with federal tax law aid 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z
Because black holes are the gravitational fields left behind when very massive stars collapse to infinitesimal points, they contain no matter that might radiate light when an isolated pair of them merges. Merging neutron stars generate gravitational waves and a celestial light show 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z
“The resources needed for the research are infinitesimal,” Caldeira says, compared with the costs of a Harvey, an Irma, or a Maria. Can We Engineer a Way to Stop a Hurricane? 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z
The thrills come thick and fast, not least when a hypothetical probe nearing a singularity is “squished and stretched into an infinitesimally thin line”. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z
Any passing gravitational wave should stretch and compress the two arms in different ways, causing infinitesimal changes in the time it takes the laser beams to traverse them. Body clocks, gravitational waves and studying protein structure 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z
The annual prize rewards researchers for major advances in studying the infinitesimal bits of material that are the building blocks of life. Nobel Prize honors technique for seeing molecules’ details 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry rewards researchers for major advances in studying the infinitesimal bits of material that are the building blocks of life. Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded For Electron Microscopy 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z
Any passing gravity wave should stretch and compress the two arms in different ways, causing infinitesimal changes in the time it takes the laser beams to traverse them. The Nobel physics prize goes to the spotters of gravity waves 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z
Two years ago, physicists detected for the first time the infinitesimal ripples in space itself set off when two black holes whirled into each other. Ripples in space: U.S. trio wins physics Nobel for discovery of gravitational waves 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z
He told the Independent the impact on wages was “very small” and low-skilled workers was “infinitesimally small”. MPs debate EU withdrawal bill as Barnier says UK's Brexit plans for Ireland unacceptable - Politics live 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z
“Game Changer” argues that the physical differences between competitors “may become so infinitesimal that athletic performance may cease to determine the outcomes”, and thus that technological advances are gradually eroding sport’s authenticity. Technology and the quest for sporting records 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z
A start would be to find solutions describing a fluid that starts with viscosity and gradually becomes infinitesimally thin. Mysteries of turbulence unravelled 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z
For the rest of us, it will be a reminder of the vastness of the universe and our relatively infinitesimal place in it. Mississippi editorial roundup 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z
What is wagashi but a way of making beauty out of the onrush of days, marking each infinitesimal shift in season, each irretrievable inch around the sun? Sweets as Poignant as Poetry 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z
Those attacks, which took place 50 years ago this summer, set off an immediate quest at Glacier to understand how a tragedy of such infinitesimal odds could have happened. The true story of two fatal grizzly bear attacks that changed our relationship with wildlife 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z
Actual occurrences of this are so rare — less than one in a million voters — and infinitesimally small compared to the margins that determine who wins and loses. Trump has a who’s who of vote suppressors working to keep the GOP in majority in 2018 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z
Maths has much older roots: it existed for millennia before Isaac Newton invented infinitesimal calculus as a way to lay the foundations of physics. All shook up over topology 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z
Yet Koeman is shrewd enough to have calculated his gamble to an infinitesimal degree; should it come off, then the ardour that cautiously reignited two summers ago will reach a temperature nobody had thought possible. Wayne Rooney and Everton are well placed for a fruitful and warm reunion | Nick Ames 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z
No amount of salesmanship, misdirection or promotional razzle-dazzle can alter the obvious: McGregor’s chances under the unified rules of boxing that will govern the 26 August meeting are so infinitesimal they’re hardly worth discussing. The Mayweather-McGregor farce is the event our idiocracy deserves 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z
Even within such a group the odds for any one individual would be infinitesimally small—below 0.01 percent, in most cases. Why Data Science Argues Against a Muslim Ban 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z
And the majority of this land is covered in fescue, framing the fairways, tees and greens like infinitesimal islands in the Pacific to create an optic illusion. Is the U.S. Open fescue as bad as Kevin Na says? Absolutely...and not really - Golf Digest 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z
Yet the odds of being bitten are infinitesimal. 3 shark attack survivors tell of their struggle 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z
The odds of winning a lottery are infinitesimal. Liz Weston: ‘Smart’ money moves that aren’t so smart 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z
If he's repairing the infinitesimal flaw I found even now. Life, hacked : Nature : Nature Research 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z
“Once you get into something like 17.8 tons, your market is infinitesimally small,” Mr. Twelker said in a telephone interview from his home in Port Townsend, Wash. Meteorite Finder Fights China’s (Mostly Terrestrial) Property Law 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z
Listed separately, under the heading “No or infinitesimal”, are the exceptions. My life with Oliver Sacks: ‘He was the most unusual person I had ever known’ 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z
Run through the probabilities, check the chances of being in the wrong place at the wrong time and remember they are infinitesimal. The media response to the Westminster attack reflects a divided country | Polly Toynbee 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z
There was so much beauty to be found in the infinitesimal push and pull between life and death those slides depicted that I would fantasize about having them framed and put up in my house. What Our Cells Teach Us About a ‘Natural’ Death 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z
They resonate not because of their likelihood – the number of travellers who fall victim to violent crimes is infinitesimal beside the wave of overseas visitors every year – but because they tap into a primal fear. Alone in the outback: attacks on backpackers play on deep-seated fears 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z
That's not two US cents, but two cents of a Mexican peso - a price reduction so infinitesimally small that many considered it a mockery. Mexico anger ahead of Tillerson visit - BBC News 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z
That’s an infinitesimal proportion of the millions of containers sailing between the two countries every year. Amazon takes aim at how goods are shipped, starting at the manufacturer 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z
Oh, and by way the ivory from natural wastage or natural causes is infinitesimal and does tend to set a rather bad example. Ivory is not beautiful, it’s barbaric | Nicky Campbell 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z
For the average American, he added, “Your odds of being victimized by a terrorist attack are infinitesimal.” A sweeping order unlikely to reduce terrorist threat 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z
For the average American, he added, “your odds of being victimized by a terrorist attack are infinitesimal.” A Sweeping Order Unlikely to Reduce Terrorist Threat 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z
DeHaan is especially adept at showing how attuned Roman is to the infinitesimal shifts in Lucy’s mood. 'Two Lovers and a Bear' is a cinematically thrilling drama with hits and misses 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z
It fulfilled a prediction made 100 years ago by Albert Einstein and capped a 40-year quest to spot the infinitesimal ripples. Top stories: The Breakthrough of the Year, a heartbreaking ghost octopus story, and how pregnancy reshapes women’s brains 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z
The economy is nearly at full employment, with prospects especially strong for college graduates, for whom the unemployment rate is an infinitesimal 2.3 percent. It’s time for a reality check on college debt 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z
In 2014, Mr. Pan’s team made two infinitesimally small bits of information disappear and then reappear elsewhere—a primitive version of Star Trek-style teleportation that marked the world’s most advanced effort to date. After 1,000 Year Slumber, China Vows to Invent Again 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z
In the grand scheme of Amazon’s business, analysts consider the retail stores to be an infinitesimal portion of the more than $135 billion in sales expected from the company this year. Amazon Moves to Cut Checkout Line, Promoting a Grab-and-Go Experience 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z
The most extreme example is the big bang creation: Even an infinitesimal change to its explosive expansion value would preclude life. Humanity is cosmically special. Here’s how we know. 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z
Law hypothesized that the disease was caused by one of two things: fungi spores or a “pathogenic element” present in “infinitesimal granules of organic matter.” Why the long face? Because in 1872, nearly every horse in Washington got very ill. 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z
When play resumed, the bare truth of infinitesimal margins inherent to these Game 7s was never more evident. Chicago Cubs end most storied title drought in American sporting folklore | Bryan Armen Graham 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z
It would be 24 years before the U.S. unemployment rate would again reach the low levels of late 1973, and the infinitesimal unemployment rates in France, Germany and Japan would never be reached again. Why the Economy Doesn’t Roar Anymore 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z
A stream of social media users denounced it as both flippant and fearmongering, noting the infinitesimal odds of being killed in a terrorist attack by a refugee. Donald Trump Jr.’s Skittles Tweet Fits a Pattern 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z
Using lasers, magnets and vacuum chambers, she trapped and probed tiny bits of matter in realms only infinitesimal fractions of a degree above absolute zero, where all motion is understood to cease. Deborah Jin, government physicist who won MacArthur ‘genius’ grant, dies at 47 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z
It’s a process almost imperceptible to those caught up in it, consisting as it does of thousands of infinitesimal acts of cowardice, failures of nerve, tiny and massless as neutrinos. Jonathan Safran Foer's Family Drama 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z
But the idea of infinitesimals also happens to be the foundation of modern calculus, which accelerated scientific advances and helped usher in the modern world. Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky, Zika: Your Morning Briefing 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z
To capture the molecules in so infinitesimal a moment, Dr. Zewail took advantage of advances in lasers that could fire ultrashort pulses, using them as strobe lights. Ahmed H. Zewail, Nobel-Prize-Winning Chemist, Dies at 70 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z
LIGO, Weiss’s brainchild, proved beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of black holes, the intense gravitational fields left by stars that collapse to infinitesimal points. Meet the college dropout who invented the gravitational wave detector 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z
Pulses produced on such a scale by laser made it possible for Dr. Zewail to speak of chemical reactions and transformations occurring over areas of atomic dimensions and within almost infinitesimally small moments of time. Ahmed Zewail, Nobel laureate who sparked a ‘revolution in chemistry,’ dies at 70 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z
Staff smuggling is an infinitesimally small source of prison contraband, and we are constantly working to eradicate it. The Federal Bureau of Prisons’ fight against contraband 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z
Within a year of their decision, Galileo — who used infinitesimals to support some of his notions — was charged with heresy, tried by the Inquisition and sentenced to life under house arrest. Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky, Zika: Your Morning Briefing 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z
Fabricating a narrative to gain votes, leftist Democrats cite a handful of blacks killed by law enforcement without saying how infinitesimally small a percentage they were. Editorials from around New York 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z
Governing the infinitesimal movement of the golf ball is a slippery slope. What Really Happened: Dustin Johnson, the USGA and the U.S. Open Fiasco - Golf Digest 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z
It’s a rational response to the huge rewards that even an infinitesimal improvement in performance can bring—and a reflection of the curious links between mind and body. For the Golden State Warriors, Brain-Zapping Could Provide an Edge 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z
After Tuesday night, Bernie Sanders’s infinitesimal chance of winning the Democratic nomination rests on one possibility: that Democratic superdelegates will overturn the will of the voters. What Bernie Sanders needs to do now 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z
“We are really just one tiny, infinitesimal part of that puzzle, but I think it was a no-brainer for us.” Drummer Defends Stanford Student Convicted in Rape Case. Her Band Pays a Price. 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z
The number of liberal Sanders supporters watching the news this week, eager to hear more from Trump about Vince Foster conspiracy theories, is probably infinitesimally small.  Trump's unique ability to help Clinton unite Democrats 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z
In fact, our reaction to small, even infinitesimal, signs of “breakthroughs” has remained the same all his life, despite what could be considered our stunning lack of success. A doctor said my son had ‘no hope.’ At 30, he doesn’t let autism hold him back. 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z
Efforts such as these might be the south’s last stand against a recurring pattern of legalised discrimination with infinitesimal consequences. America’s south embraces bigotry of the past, but a new coalition is fighting back 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z
When it reproduces, flu makes infinitesimal copying errors, so viruses dropped by different ducks, or the same duck at different times, show tiny variations. The Looming Threat of Avian Flu 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z
The chances of two people doing so are infinitesimal. This is the #1 Way To Have a Happier, Longer Life 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z
The infinitesimal chance quickly became a segment on the show in between the games that night. Negandhi, Lawson and Lobo have excellent chemistry on set 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z
In the real world, the chances of Annapolis Democrats coordinating such a step with Richmond Republicans are infinitesimal. On the wrong side in Maryland 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z
The precision, as with Moore, is comic, fastidious: a mountain lion combines “undulation / and the gait of a worm”; a pile of dust reveals “the iridescence / in soil, / the mica and / infinitesimal / crystal.” The Poetry of Ordinary Terror 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z
Music is perhaps the most persistent metaphor in science, from Pythagoras’ “harmony of the spheres” to the prevalent modern theory that all the world is composed of infinitesimal vibrating strings. 3 Must-Read Books for Geeks 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z
The gravitational waves, in theory, should contract or expand space by an almost infinitesimal amount. A brief history of gravity, gravitational waves and LIGO 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z
If the vibration of a gravitational wave warps the path of one of the lasers, making the two beams almost infinitesimally misaligned, the laser will hit the photodetector and alert the scientists. Cosmic breakthrough: Physicists detect gravitational waves from violent black-hole merger 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z
After 1.3 billion years, across trillions of miles of space, the waves are infinitesimally small — 1/1000th the size of a proton, a subatomic particle. Gravitational waves: Ripples in space-time detected for first time 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z
It’s an impressive story, told by the infinitesimally small shifts in distance between mirrors on Earth. Found! Gravitational Waves, or a Wrinkle in Spacetime 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z
As they outline in Physical Review Letters, the likelihood that the signal was a fluke is infinitesimal. Gravitational waves have been detected for the first time 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z
These hypothetical defects in the curvature of space-time, which may or may not be related to string theory, would be infinitesimally thin but would stretch across cosmic distances. Gravitational waves: 6 cosmic questions they can tackle 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z
It was a staggering and record-setting prize that stoked ambitions, however infinitesimal the odds, of being vaulted to a stratosphere of wealth occupied by moguls and superstars. New Yorkers Join the Crush for Tickets as Powerball Jackpot Nears $1 Billion 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z
But scientists expand our thinking to the unimaginably large and the infinitesimally small. Science Is Stepping Up the Pace of Innovation 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z
Ginsberg was careful to note that the chances “remain small” that the convention will be called to order without a clear nominee, but he argued that they “are no longer infinitesimal.” The G.O.P. Field Is Less Chaotic Than You Think 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z
But with short-term interest rates near zero for most of the year, your earnings were infinitesimal. How you made money -- or didn't -- in 2015 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z
The center's particle accelerator smashes together atoms and monitors the results to help understand the universe on the most infinitesimal scale. 'Millennium physicist' Fabiola Gianotti takes over as director-general at CERN laboratory 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z
A meteorite fall in the grander scheme of things is an infinitesimal event. What Meteorites Mean for Science, Culture, and Kitsch 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z
The theory replaces elementary particles with infinitesimally thin strings to reconcile the apparently incompatible theories that describe gravity and the quantum world. Feuding physicists turn to philosophy for help 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z
In fact, it may be infinitesimal. The last conventions that weren’t settled on the first ballot were in 1948, for the Republicans, and in 1952, for the Democrats. The G.O.P. Field Is Less Chaotic Than You Think 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z
Asiatic lions are distinct from sub-Saharan African lions, but the genetic difference is infinitesimal, “smaller than the genetic distance between human racial groups,” according to the international union. Yes, there are lions in India. Here’s why the U.S. is protecting both them and their African kin 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z
CNN reported the chances of being killed by terrorists are infinitesimal. Should Los Angeles have closed schools when faced with a threat? 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z
He has a passion for what he calls the “microcosmos,” meaning all things infinitesimal. A Microscope to Save the World 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z
It’s clear that technology is changing our view of the world both at a very grand scale – the size of the universe – and at an infinitesimally small scale – the size of genes and neutrinos. 3 science ideas you’ll be hearing more about in 2016 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z
But just as a new parent notices every infinitesimal change in a growing infant — Has she rolled over on that side before? An old dog teaches you more than you’d like to know about mortality 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z
Manufacturers of Android phones, in contrast, operate in a parallel universe in which cut-throat competition and infinitesimal profit margins are the norm. Security is the loser in the holy war between Android and Apple 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z
Any novel, even a fairly long one, represents an infinitesimal fraction of what’s knowable about the world. Jonathan Franzen: ‘Modern life has become extremely distracting’ 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z
Each step raises the possibility of infinitesimally small errors. Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z
Even knowing that the odds of winning big are infinitesimally small, the get-rich-quick dream continues to drive people to spend millions of dollars on lottery tickets every week. How to Find a Job Without Using Job Boards 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z
The New York Times opined that Mars was “The Dead Planet” with the chances for life of any kind to be “infinitesimal.” If we discover extraterrestrial life, what happens next? 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z
While this might be the goal of many businesses, only a relatively infinitesimal number of them manage to garner a truly loyal following. Do You Have A Very Loyal Client Following? If Not, Consider Becoming A Thought Leader 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z
“Business” refers only to the infinitesimal ruling caste of multinational capital. The Republican prison experiment: How the right-wing conquest of the GOP altered political reality 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z
Under these extraordinary circumstances, Colombia’s hopes were infinitesimal. United States beats Colombia, advances to quarterfinals at Women’s World Cup 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z
But physics isn’t played that way: If a number called alpha, which governs the strength of electromagnetism, were infinitesimally larger or smaller, stars could not have formed, leaving a lifeless void. Humankind’s Existentially Lucky Numbers 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z
If you’re not neurotic, then you’re either one of the infinitesimal few, or more severe psychological issues and conundrums besiege you. How Being Neurotic Can Make You Wealthy 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z
He caught a fleeting glimpse of God in the math here, in the infinitesimal duration of a life. “The Republic of Bad Taste” 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z
The modification would be an infinitesimal item in the gigantic mass of U.S. tax regulations, but it would be a significant benefit to the sport. Tax rules on horse track winnings in desperate need of modification 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z
The models are set up so that the odds of this happening are infinitesimal for a single particle, so that quantum effects dominate at the atomic scale. Quantum physics: What is really real? 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z
This will continue round after round until the entire output is produced practically only by using capital and perhaps just an infinitesimal quantity of labor. Joe Stiglitz's Worries About The Robot Economy Are An Impossible Outcome 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z
Yet 150 dead is “only” an infinitesimal fraction of the 3.4 billion passengers who will fly this year aboard 29 million commercial flights. Cooling Our Jets: What Lessons Do We Need To Learn/Not Learn From the Crash of Germanwings 9525? 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z
In particular, most officials and experts now see the risk of a Sept. 11-scale attack as infinitesimal, beyond the reach of al-Qaeda and its scattered affiliates. In campaign against terrorism, U.S. enters period of pessimism and gloom 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z
For example, string theory posits that every fundamental particle is an infinitesimal string rippling through a complex 10-dimensional space. Feature: Drop-testing general relativity, Galileo’s way 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z
Yet such results turn on many factors, an illegal vote with an infinitesimal chance of proving decisive… Editorials from around Ohio 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z
He gets the big picture as well as the most infinitesimal details about each product. Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z
That would deprive the state of some $15 million annually while providing infinitesimal relief to drivers already delighted with a dizzying drop in gas prices. Larry Hogan’s proposed budget for Maryland doesn’t match his rhetoric 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z
“In regards to what we face,” Mr. Faison said, “it’s an infinitesimal problem, maybe 1 percent.” Mosquito Nets for Malaria Spawn New Epidemic: Overfishing 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z
Whatever USC did is infinitesimal compared to what happened at Penn State. Letters: What to do about Kobe Bryant 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z
The possibility of manipulating infinitesimals was one great success of schemes. Alexander Grothendieck (1928-2014) : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z
We chose immoral and alive over moral and dead, despite the infinitesimal probability of any one of us being the victim of terrorism. A CIA program that went too far 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z
Scientists will weigh in with their careful risk assessments, always using those careful words “negligible,” “minimal” and “infinitesimal” that annoy patients so much. Treating Disease, and Spreading It? 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z
They’re about to weigh the merit of teams separated only by one hotly disputed pass-interference call, or by other distinctions infinitesimal or less. Campus Cleanup: LSU topples Ole Miss, sets stage for playoff chaos ahead of first committee meeting
First off, the earth is very gradually slowing down and thus the average day is getting infinitesimally longer. The element that redefined time 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z
The scheme corresponding to this ring consists of only one point and that point is allowed to move the infinitesimal distance ε but no further. Alexander Grothendieck (1928-2014) : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z
Dr. Perl shared the Nobel with Frederick Reines, a physicist from the University of California at Irvine who was credited with leading the discovery of the neutrino, another infinitesimally small component of matter. Martin L. Perl, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, dies at 87
It tests for pot in infinitesimal quantities and suspends repeat offenders for entire seasons. Marijuana Seeps Into Some Colorado Pregame Rituals 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z
If a patient suffers from severe illness, old age, or a terminal disease, the odds of a good outcome from CPR are infinitesimal, while the odds of suffering are overwhelming. Why Dying Is Easier for Doctors 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z
True, even a menu of one billion compounds would encompass just an infinitesimal fraction of the estimated 1060 moderately sized carbon-based molecules that could possibly exist. Organic synthesis: The robo-chemist 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z
If it ever did, good luck detecting it because it would be infinitesimally dilute and indistinguishable from all of the other discharges. Guest: Victoria’s sewage does not pollute Washington shores 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z
Stand by, therefore, for howls of protest from publishers and authors on how streaming produces infinitesimal royalties compared with the old publishing paradigm. Kindle Unlimited: it's the end of losing yourself in a good book 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z
Although the density of intergalactic space is infinitesimal, the volume is so great that it actually contains most of the matter in the universe, and is the reservoir from which galaxies form. An Intergalactic Light That Shines Too Bright 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z
Because the laser emerges in infinitesimally short pulses, the stone itself is protected from overheating, Mr. Dajnowski said. Nearly 3,500 Years Old, an Egyptian Monument Gets a Laser Cleaning 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z
If the axioms were mutually incompatible, it would seem that the entire edifice of maths — which encompasses a broad range of subfields such as infinitesimal calculus or game theory — was on shaky foundations. Enigmatic foundations of maths put to music 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z
I robotically recited the infinitesimally low risk of kidney failure, allergic reactions, and pain, emphasizing that the benefits of CT scan outweighed risks of the dye. The VA 'Works' Because Veterans Are Different From You And Me -- They Don't Complain 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z
The result has been that rates have increased from the infinitesimal to the tiny. Spotify Hits 10 Million Paid Users. Now Can It Make Money? 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z
In the end, the odds of this happening are tiny, or infinitesimal. Sports of The Times: Trading Carmelo Anthony for Kobe Bryant Would Benefit Knicks and Lakers 2014-04-17T23:52:31Z
One exception is a recent reconstruction of infinitesimals — positive “numbers” smaller than every real number — devised by the logician Abraham Robinson and developed further by H. Jerome Keisler, my adviser at the University of Wisconsin. Books: ‘Infinitesimal,’ Looks at an Historic Math Battle 2014-04-07T20:44:24Z
Detecting those spirals required measuring infinitesimally small differences in the temperature of the microwaves. Detection of Waves in Space Buttresses Landmark Theory of Big Bang 2014-03-17T14:46:02Z
A finite volume, he writes, emerges from an “infinite multiplication of light” acting on infinitesimal matter. History: A medieval multiverse 2014-03-12T18:50:34.997Z
“Despite Larry and Magic,” says Stern, “our brand recognition was very low, our international business virtually nonexistent, our sponsorships at probably zero, our licensing business infinitesimal.” He's Got Next: David Stern Passes the NBA to Adam Silver 2014-01-16T11:00:47Z
“Now, we’ve got $6 billion taken from military pensions — an infinitesimally small provision — and it causes people heartburn because it’s specific.” Younger military veterans are angered by budget cuts to their pension benefits 2013-12-30T23:16:00Z
Since the Jesuits succeeded in banning infinitesimals in Italy, the last part of Dr. Alexander’s finely detailed, dramatic story traces their subsequent history north to England. Books: ‘Infinitesimal,’ Looks at an Historic Math Battle 2014-04-07T20:44:24Z
Farmers wasted no time abandoning expensive animal proteins in favor of both B12 and infinitesimal, inexpensive doses of antibiotics. Riots, Rage, and Resistance: A Brief History of How Antibiotics Arrived on the Farm 2013-09-03T15:15:32.113Z
There are many factors influencing kids to use drugs, but the media, gaming or otherwise, is an infinitesimally small part of the problem compared to issues like peer pressure or home life. Why Does It Matter If You Can Smoke Pot In GTA V? 2013-08-23T13:51:00Z
“The risks from GM foods are infinitesimally small,” Goodman told me. Elle Magazine's Bungled GMO Reporting Controversy Deepens 2013-08-14T13:38:00Z
Because 3D printers work by producing infinitesimal layers of hot plastic, there are certain constraints on poses. City Room: The Great Fredini Dreams of a 3D Sideshow in Coney Island 2013-08-04T16:00:02Z
To the Jesuits, tradition, resoluteness and authority seemed bound up with Euclid and Catholicism; chaos, confusion and paradoxes were associated with infinitesimals and the motley array of proliferating Protestant sects. Books: ‘Infinitesimal,’ Looks at an Historic Math Battle 2014-04-07T20:44:24Z
Though the statistical differences were infinitesimal, Brooklyn ranked third, with increases in life expectancy of 6 years for women and nearly 10 years for men. Prosper and Live Long: Health-Minded Manhattan Leads in Increased Life Span 2013-07-18T23:51:23Z
"The overwhelming global conclusion regarding the deployment of GM technologies in the field is that the risks associated with the technologies are infinitesimally small." Government leads new GM crops push 2013-06-19T22:52:15Z
Despite accounting for an infinitesimal fraction of violent deaths globally, terrorism is a favorite brand in United States policy circles. Opinion: The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’ by Julian Assange 2013-06-01T16:20:59Z
What we see through eyes sealed by habit and convention is only an infinitesimal fragment of what actually exists. The doors of perception 2013-05-26T14:14:34Z
They include the priest Christopher Clavius and his mathematical work on the new Gregorian calendar, and the relentless Jesuit censors and the dead weight they finally succeeded in placing on Italian mathematics by proscribing infinitesimals. Books: ‘Infinitesimal,’ Looks at an Historic Math Battle 2014-04-07T20:44:24Z
Although the odds of winning are infinitesimal, the program is so wildly popular that last year almost 8 million people applied. Green card lottery, a ticket to hope for many, could be eliminated 2013-05-13T00:56:38Z
The reaction to her announcement in the news media and on social media was infinitesimal compared with the nonstop discourse about Collins on Twitter and news outlets. NBA's Jason Collins comes out as gay 2013-04-30T02:43:00Z
Angela Belcher, a revered professor at MIT, uses the shellfish to illustrate on a small scale what she causes to happen on an infinitesimally smaller one when she brings together biology and nanotechnology. Around the World in Six Ideas 2013-04-22T08:45:00Z
I closed my eyes, ostrich-like, and tried to keep my movements as infinitesimal as possible as I crawled forward. The Correspondent 2013-03-19T08:45:00Z
Along the way there are striking geometric insights that buttress the case for infinitesimals. Books: ‘Infinitesimal,’ Looks at an Historic Math Battle 2014-04-07T20:44:24Z
For those who lived beyond the immediately affected areas around Fukushima, the increased risk is likely to be infinitesimal. Health Risks from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Are Minimal, Report Says 2013-03-01T13:35:24Z
The chances of Asteroid 2012 DA14 colliding with Earth were infinitesimally small, according to NASA, despite the fact that it passed closer to the planet than a number of artificial satellites. House committee will discuss asteroid threat 2013-02-15T19:07:00Z
During the infinitesimally brief period before the start of inflation, called the Planck era, the entire known universe was stuffed into a region many orders of magnitude smaller than an atom. Scientists Extend Einstein s Relativity To The Universe s First Moments 2013-01-09T13:15:00.240Z
That’s an infinitesimally small number, particularly when compared with the 63 House Republicans who held seats where Obama had won following the 2010 midterm elections. As ‘fiscal cliff’ looms, Republicans have no political incentive to make deal with Obama 2012-12-30T19:04:00Z
No one talks of infinitesimals any more: The modern notion of limits accomplishes everything they did, but much more rigorously. Books: ‘Infinitesimal,’ Looks at an Historic Math Battle 2014-04-07T20:44:24Z
By contrast, the torus is incompressible inside the three-manifold that you get just by thickening the torus surface slightly so that it is no longer infinitesimally thin. Getting into Shapes: From Hyperbolic Geometry to Cube Complexes 2012-12-26T17:45:00.337Z
The change could not help those who had lead in their bodies, but it sounded an alarm that even infinitesimal quantities of lead could be dangerous. John Rosen, Doctor Who Pushed to Prevent Lead Poisoning, Dies at 77 2012-12-17T04:01:21Z
In Einstein's picture, space-time is perfectly smooth, even when examined at infinitesimal scales. Data teleportation: The quantum space race 2012-12-05T18:50:24.460Z
But many experts rushed to Belichick’s defense too; teams just don’t carry backup extra-point blockers, and the odds of an injury on the play are infinitesimally long. Four Ways to Seem Smart About Football on Thanksgiving 2012-11-22T10:50:22Z
If so, and if these infinitesimals have zero width, how does the line segment come to have a positive length? Books: ‘Infinitesimal,’ Looks at an Historic Math Battle 2014-04-07T20:44:24Z
Even if the risk of flooding had been infinitesimal, he said, the agency's newest, most expensive equipment should have been moved to higher ground. Exclusive: New Jersey railway put trains in Sandy flood zone despite warnings 2012-11-17T23:03:31Z
Kelly was, said Tennant, "really upset," but he did not need to be: this was a reminder that at this level, the margins between success and disaster are infinitesimal. Shane Sutton hits out at 'death trap' roads as pursuit squads fall short 2012-11-16T18:54:12Z
An analysis of more than 2,000 alleged cases of voter fraud over the past 12 years by News21, the Carnegie-Knight investigative reporting project, found the rate of actual wrongdoing “infinitesimal.” 8 questions about the presidential election 2012-11-05T01:34:00Z
“But the odds of that are infinitesimally small.” Political Memo: Hurricane, and Other Worries, Buffet Presidential Race 2012-10-29T00:55:19Z
The mathematicians, Cavalieri, Torricelli, Galileo and others, were at the forefront of the new geometric approaches involving infinitesimals. Books: ‘Infinitesimal,’ Looks at an Historic Math Battle 2014-04-07T20:44:24Z
In other words, the atom experiences a push or a pull, albeit an infinitesimal one, as it moves through the empty cavity. Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics 2012-10-09T20:45:02.517Z
The numbers they are talking about are infinitesimally small. Florida officials face new legal challenge over voter purge 2012-09-27T21:06:12Z
Though infinitesimally small, it says you are part of human progress, pushing the boundaries of humanity. What adventures are actually left to be done? 2012-09-18T08:54:12Z
The genotyping compared the genetic make-up of the offspring with the populations from which the snakes were collected; the results indicated that the chance of a male contribution was “infinitesimally small”. Virgin Births Seen in Wild Vipers 2012-09-12T19:45:09.353Z
He told ITV earlier this week the chance of this happening was "infinitesimally remote" and he "certainly did not want to be prime minister at the moment". Boris is a 'Tory titan' - Cameron 2012-08-10T08:43:09Z
Blessed with admission to Harvard and the time, proximity, and money to attend in person – privileges accorded an infinitesimal slice of the global population – the smart move is to be in the room. The Case For Online Education 2012-07-31T02:09:22Z
This is the hallmark of chaos: infinitesimally small perturbations in the equations’ starting points lead to radically different outcomes. How Physics and Neuroscience Dictate Your "Free" Will 2012-05-16T18:20:46.707Z
Furthermore, “for the closed universes that might be created through such mechanisms to last for longer than infinitesimal times, something like inflation is necessary.” Much Ado about Nothing 2012-04-27T11:15:00.243Z
With tones of feeble intensity the movements must be almost infinitesimal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z
The danger of shipwreck would be so small as to be infinitesimal. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z
Their success, of which so much is said in England and America, is "infinitesimally small." From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z
These infinitesimal crystals unite and form larger, hexagonal shapes, elongated or starry. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z
How striking the lesson for us not to be afraid though the apparent force of truth and goodness in the world be infinitesimally small. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z
Of radiation entering through the aperture an infinitesimal fraction only could possibly emerge by successive reflection even if the sides were of polished metal internally. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z
For we know little of the molecules of a fluid; even when we deal with infinitesimal elements, in the analysis of fluid motion, we are154 considering the fluid in mass. Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work 2012-04-06T02:00:32.097Z
The odds that two or more mutations that cause serious problems with protein-making in the same gene also occur by chance in autism are infinitesimal. Autism: Genetic Studies Show Risk for Older Fathers 2012-04-05T21:36:21Z
No relation between the moon and our weather has been discovered except as she causes our tides and they affect atmospheric pressure in an infinitesimal degree. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z
Our earth is but an aggregation of atoms, and every substance upon which we lay our hands is in like manner formed of infinitesimal particles, so small as to baffle microscopic investigation. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z
Mingled with the fragments of glass and the contents of the shop were shreds of cloth and infinitesimal strips of flesh, while the entire environment of the scene was splashed with blood. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z
But what is meant is elemental rotation, a rotation of the infinitesimal elements as they move. Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work 2012-04-06T02:00:32.097Z
Only an infinitesimal part of this comparatively minor area of Chinese study will suffice to make clear some, at least, of the sharp differences of outlook between China and the West. The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I 2012-04-04T02:00:55.303Z
The old wreckers made ten times the money, with an infinitesimal proportion of the trouble. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z
Their pipes are infinitely larger in the stem than in the bowl; the latter, indeed, holds an infinitesimally small amount of tobacco. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z
She insists that defenders yell “pick” because it is infinitesimally quicker to say than “screen.” Women's Tournament: N.C.A.A. Women?s Final Four : Baylor Coach Mulkey Has Fire and Glow 2012-03-31T16:11:25Z
For take any infinitesimal area containing an element of the line; the circulation round the edge of this area is zero, since there is no rotation about a line perpendicular to the area. Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work 2012-04-06T02:00:32.097Z
Apparently, that entices some people who ordinarily would not throw their money away on an infinitesimal chance to get rich to suddenly throw their money away on an infinitesimal chance to get rich. Chris Singleton says he?ll buy $10,000 worth of Mega Millions tickets 2012-03-29T14:40:30Z
I was like some two-dimensional being who might stand at the singular point of a Riemann's surface, and thus find himself in infinitesimal and inexplicable contact with a plane of existence not his own. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z
Men will go to the waterfalls, to the tides, which are the stores of an infinitesimal part of Nature's immeasurable energy. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z
Instances have been adduced of Egyptian humour, but some are doubtful, and in any case the proportion of fun per acre of picture is infinitesimally small. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z
The rise of temperature was very slight, and the change of state of the liquid, and therefore any possible change in its internal energy, was infinitesimal. Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work 2012-04-06T02:00:32.097Z
Its mass is almost infinitesimal and its attractive power on the earth practically nil. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z
Poisons may be taken in infinitesimal doses for a while, then increasing by degrees until twenty grains of morphia or strychnia may be taken at a single dose without immediate injury. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z
On another occasion I have considered the possibility of some phosphorescent phenomena in bulbs being produced by the incandescence of an infinitesimal layer on the surface of the phosphorescent body. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z
These fringes form a series of equidistant interference bands, and are most distinct when the light comes from a source subtending an infinitesimal angle. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z
Evolution is, by definition, a gradual process, a growth in which there are no gaps, and of which our finest and most minute calculations by infinitesimals can give us only a faint conception. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z
Yet in the minds of many, infinitesimal doses of medicine stand for homoeopathy itself, the real law of cure being completely put into the background. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z
It dwarfed into proportions almost infinitesimal the cluster of white cottages nestling cosily at the base of the great rock which formed its foundation. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z
It’s called gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, or GC/MS for short, and if testing equipment is maintained appropriately, the odds of it producing a false positive result are infinitesimally low. Ryan Braun and the MLB's 'Unbeatable' Drug Test 2012-02-24T20:35:18Z
A few minutes more and he half wriggled half rolled into the open road, dusty, but jubilant, holding a little piece of pipe some five inches long and of infinitesimal bore in his hand. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z
Merely in the one case we regard the increments of increase as infinitesimal, while, in the other case, we regard them as of much greater than infinitesimal value. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z
For a spoken word to be “natural” in this sense it must be onomatopoetic, and what infinitesimal percentage of English words are such? Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z
When a knight was enfeoffed by a monastery in consideration of some infinitesimal payment, there might be several reasons for such a transaction. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z
I know not what mission agencies these old churches may employ elsewhere to labor among the poor, but so far as any immediate influence is concerned, outside of a very small circle, it is infinitesimal. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z
How infinitesimal was her part in this great industrial conflict! Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z
We see an infinitesimal segment of a circle, and we say the rest is "God." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z
Think of these vast deposits caused by the slow falling of infinitesimal atoms of impalpable dust through the silent depths of ancient seas! The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z
But the First of Lady Doctors does not "exhibit" infinitesimal doses. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Feb 3, 1872 2012-02-10T03:00:16.947Z
Pretty much the only indisputable fact in this most complex and contentious of cases was that the banned performance-enhancing drug clenbuterol was found in the Spaniard's urine in infinitesimal quantities at the 2010 Tour. Column: Contador is banned but was justice served? 2012-02-06T19:51:17Z
Then the peasant languidly arose, followed the lad to our window, named an infinitesimal price, and received his coin with the bow of a grandee. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z
The infinitesimal dose of Homœopathy is in no way inimical to the entrance of all the elements constituting a substance into its materia medica. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z
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