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* 1926-Sir Arthur Eddington estimates the non-thermal radiation of starlight in the galaxy ".. by the formula E = σT < sup > 4 </ sup > the effective temperature corresponding to this density is 3. 18º absolute .. black body "
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Arthur and Eddington
Arthur Eddington agreed with Aristotle that the universe did not have a beginning in time, viz., that matter is eternal.
In 1924, Arthur Eddington showed that the singularity disappeared after a change of coordinates ( see Eddington – Finkelstein coordinates ), although it took until 1933 for Georges Lemaître to realize that this meant the singularity at the Schwarzschild radius was an unphysical coordinate singularity.
Chandrasekhar's work on the limit aroused controversy, owing to the opposition of the British astrophysicist Arthur Stanley Eddington.
and proliferation of hyphenated entities such as " thing-in-itself " ( Immanuel Kant ), " things-as-interacted-by-us " ( Arthur Fine ), " table-of-commonsense " and " table-of-physics " ( Sir Arthur Eddington ) which are " warning signs " for conceptual idealism according to Musgrave because they allegedly do not exist but only highlight the numerous ways in which people come to know the world.
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, a British astrophysicist of the early 20th century, wrote in his book The Nature of the Physical World ; " The stuff of the world is mind-stuff ";
* Arthur Stanley Eddington
* 1919 – Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested ( later confirmed ) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Crommelin.
The best known example of " numerology " in science involves the coincidental resemblance of certain large numbers that intrigued such eminent men as mathematical physicist Paul Dirac, mathematician Hermann Weyl and astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington.
The theory that proton – proton reactions were the basic principle by which the Sun and other stars burn was advocated by Arthur Stanley Eddington in the 1920s.
Prominent contributors were Gunnar Nordström, Hermann Weyl, Arthur Eddington, Theodor Kaluza, Oskar Klein, and most notably, Albert Einstein and his collaborators.
* Arthur Eddington OM ( Sir ) FRS: cremated
Willem Luyten appears to have been the first to use the term white dwarf when he examined this class of stars in 1922 ; the term was later popularized by Arthur Stanley Eddington.
* The prediction of the deflection of light was first confirmed by Arthur Stanley Eddington from his observations during the Solar eclipse of May 29, 1919 .< ref >.
For example, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington claimed that the cosmological constant version of the vacuum field equation expressed the " epistemological " property that the universe is " self-gauging ", and Erwin Schrödinger's pure-affine theory using a simple variational principle produced the field equation with a cosmological term.
In the early 20th century, Émile Borel and Arthur Eddington used the theorem to illustrate the timescales implicit in the foundations of statistical mechanics.
The physicist Arthur Eddington drew on Borel's image further in The Nature of the Physical World ( 1928 ), writing:
This theory was confirmed in 1919 during a solar eclipse, when Arthur Eddington observed the light from stars passing close to the Sun was slightly bent, so that stars appeared slightly out of position.
Arthur Stanley Eddington first suggested in 1920 that stars obtain their energy by fusing hydrogen to helium, but this idea was not generally accepted because it lacked nuclear mechanisms.
* 1919 – Arthur Eddington leads a solar eclipse expedition which claims to detect gravitational deflection of light by the Sun
* 1919 – Arthur Stanley Eddington uses a solar eclipse to successfully test Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity
* 1906 — Arthur Eddington begins his statistical study of stellar motions
* 1924 — Arthur Eddington develops the main sequence mass-luminosity relationship
Arthur and estimates
He estimates there has been a 70 dB factor loss of productivity or " 99. 99999 percent, of its ability to deliver the goods ", since the 1980s-" When Arthur C. Clarke compared the reality of computing in 2001 to the computer HAL in his book 2001: A Space Odyssey, he pointed out how wonderfully small and powerful computers were but how disappointing computer programming had become ".
Reportedly, when budget estimates reached $ 14 million, the producers attempted to replace Hill with Arthur Hiller ; but abandoned the idea after hundreds of native Polynesians in the cast went on strike, declaring: " We can and will perform only for our friend, Monsieur Hill.
estimates that three thousand free blacks volunteered for militia duty in Louisiana by 1862, but two others historians, Lawrence L. Hewitt and Arthur W. Bergeron, in their Louisianians in the Civil War claim his number is too high, that no more than two thousand participated.
Arthur and radiation
The original concept relied only on radiation from the Sun – for example in Arthur C. Clarke's 1965 story " Sunjammer ".
* 1896 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovers the X-rays while studying electrons in plasma ; scattering X-rays — that were considered as ' waves ' of high-energy electromagnetic radiation -- Arthur Compton will be able to demonstrate in 1922 the ' particle ' aspect of electromagnetic radiation.
* 1922 Arthur Compton studies X-ray photon scattering by electrons demonstrating the ' particle ' aspect of electromagnetic radiation.
His work led directly to the cloud chamber, a device for detecting ionizing radiation for which he and Arthur Compton received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927.
The Sachs – Wolfe effect, named after Rainer Kurt Sachs and Arthur Michael Wolfe, is a property of the cosmic microwave background radiation ( CMB ), in which photons from the CMB are gravitationally redshifted, causing the CMB spectrum to appear uneven.
Eads Hall was the site of Professor Arthur Holly Compton's Nobel Prize winning experiments in electromagnetic radiation.
Arthur and starlight
However, in May 1919, a team led by the British astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington claimed to have confirmed Einstein's prediction of gravitational deflection of starlight by the Sun while photographing a solar eclipse with dual expeditions in Sobral, northern Brazil, and Príncipe, a west African island.
Arthur and galaxy
Arthur Dent has hitch-hiked through the galaxy and is dropped off on a planet in a rainstorm.
Arthur explains to Fenchurch about hitchhiking across the galaxy, after which she insists that she wants to see it as well.
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Arthur Conan Doyle worked with him a few times and stated that, ".. he seemed a most disagreeable old man ... and yet when I married shortly afterwards he sent me a most charming message wishing me good fortune ..."
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A brisk, amusing man, apparently constructed on an ingenious system of spring-joints attuned to the same peppery rhythm as his mind, Smith began his academic career teaching speech to Barnard girls -- a project considerably enlivened by his devotion to a recording about `` a young rat named Arthur, who never could make up his mind ''.
The anti-slavery movement and other contemporary reforms and philanthropies were given leadership and financial undergirding by Arthur Tappan ( 1786-1865 ) and his younger brother, Lewis Tappan ( 1788-1873 ).
Freddy needed a job, having been detached from a rather dangerous career in real estate and skyscraper financing by Gerry, and it was up to Arthur Willis to provide him with one.
The main character of Arthur, an animated television series for children produced by WGBH, shown in more than 180 countries, is an aardvark.
Notably, during this time his physical characteristics also change dramatically, and by the time Arthur Hastings meets Poirot again in Curtain, he looks very different from his previous appearances, having become thin with age and with obviously dyed hair.
The term antimatter was first used by Arthur Schuster in two rather whimsical letters to Nature in 1898, in which he coined the term.
* 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.
The novel Coalescent by Stephen Baxter depicts Aurelianus as a general to Artorius, Briton and basis for the legend of King Arthur.
Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave follows Geoffrey of Monmouth in calling him Aurelius Ambrosius and portrays him as the father of Merlin, the elder brother of Uther ( hence uncle of Arthur ), an initiate of Mithras, and generally admired by everyone except the Saxons.
Later books in the series show that Merlin's attitude toward Arthur is influenced by his belief that Arthur is a reincarnation of Ambrosius, who is seen through Merlin's eyes as a model of good kingship.
By the end of the novel, the elite cavalry wing is led by a dashing young warrior prince named Artos, whom Sutcliff postulates to be the real Arthur.
152-153 .</ ref > The moon and sun are likewise considered to be flat and floating on streams of air, and when the sun sets it does not pass under the earth but is merely obscured by higher parts of the earth as it circles around and becomes more distant ; the motion of the sun and the other celestial bodies around the earth is likened by Anaximenes to the way that a cap may be turned around the head .< ref > Fairbanks, Arthur.
Rainbows are formed when densely compressed air is touched by the rays of the sun .< ref > Fairbanks, Arthur.
The Atlanta Falcons Football Team is owned by business man Arthur Blank, and eight limited partners.
The 1929 English translation by Arthur Wesley Wheen gives the title as All Quiet on the Western Front.
Financial problems reappeared in 1932 and the company was rescued by L. Prideaux Brune who funded the company for the following year before passing the company on to Sir Arthur Sutherland.
However in the United Kingdom, pioneering research into painting materials and conservation, ceramics, and stone conservation was conducted by Arthur Pillans Laurie, academic chemist and Principal of Heriot-Watt University from 1900.
Many experts at the time, including Arthur Galston, the biologist who developed and intensively studied TCDD, opposed herbicidal warfare, due to concerns about the side effects to humans and the environment by indiscriminately spraying the chemical over a wide area.
* Arthur Berry, A Short History of Astronomy ( John Murray, 1898 – republished by Dover, 1961 ), 258-265.
The unsymmetrical form of the meridional pencil — formerly the only one considered — is coma in the narrower sense only ; other errors of coma have been treated by Arthur König and Moritz von Rohr, and later by Allvar Gullstrand.
Caricature of Arthur William à Beckett by Harry Furniss
* The fictitious interplanetary spacecraft Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov from the novel 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke is powered by a fictitious Sakharov drive.
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