Pearson's theory required a fourth dimension for the aether to flow from and into.

The fourth book is devoted to the theory of movement.

Here the first equality follows from the first part of Einstein's theory, the third equality follows from the definition of Boltzmann's constant as, and the fourth equality follows from Stokes ' formula for the mobility.

The republican theory also suggests that the Long Parliament would have been successful in these necessary reforms except through the forceful intervention of Oliver Cromwell ( and others ) in removing the loyalists party, the unlawful execution of King Charles II, later dissolving the Rump Parliament ; and finally the forceful dissolution of the reconvened Rump Parliament by Monck when less than a fourth of the required members were present.

In the theory of relativity, physical quantities are expressed in terms of four-vectors that include time as a fourth coordinate along with the three space coordinates.

The fourth axiom has a very important use in the structure of the theory, that of linking together the neighbourhoods of different points of X.

The first three of these characterizations can be proven equivalent in Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory without the axiom of choice, but the equivalence of the third and fourth cannot be proved without additional choice principles.

In number theory, Waring's problem, proposed in 1770 by Edward Waring, asks whether for every natural number k there exists an associated positive integer s such that every natural number is the sum of at most s k < sup > th </ sup > powers of natural numbers ( for example, every number is the sum of at most 4 squares, or 9 cubes, or 19 fourth powers, etc .).

A fourth theory is that the word derives from 撈麵 ( lāomiàn, " lo mein "), which in Cantonese 撈 means to " stir ", and the name refers to the method of preparation by stirring the noodles with a sauce.

While Harris proposed this theory, she attributes the original idea to Eleanor E. Maccoby and John A. Martin both of whom are doctors at Standford University and wrote the chapter on family socialization found in the fourth edition of the Handbook of Child Psychology.

Early on, Gull's friend James Hinton discusses his son Howard's theory of the " fourth dimension ", which proposes that time is a spatial dimension.

Jan van Mill has described as a ' three headed monster ' — the three heads being a smiling and friendly head ( the behaviour under the assumption of the continuum hypothesis ), the ugly head of independence which constantly tries to confuse you ( determining what behaviour is possible in different models of set theory ), and the third head is the smallest of all ( what you can prove about it in ZFC ).< ref > It has relatively recently been observed that this characterisation isn't quite right-there is in fact a fourth head of, in which forcing axioms and Ramsey type axioms give properties of almost diametrically opposed to those under the continuum hypothesis, giving very few maps from indeed.

In this interpretation, the Hopis traditionally saw the goddess Spider Woman as their creator, " Grandmother of the sun and as the great Medicine Power who sang the people into this fourth world we live in now .” The theory holds that under centuries of pressure by white culture, Spider Woman has only recently been replaced by a male Creator and “ the Hopi goddess Spider Woman has become the masculine Maseo or Tawa …”

Her theory proposed that the missing fourth part of Bacon's unfinished magnum opus, the Instauratio Magna had in fact survived in the form of the plays attributed to Shakespeare.

According to another theory, the name is a corruption of two words which mean the Friars ’ Hill ; those who favour this idea allege that St. Ninian, by planting a religious house near the head of what is now the Friars ’ Vennel, at the close of the fourth century, became the virtual founder of the Burgh ; however Ninian, so far as is known, did not originate any monastic establishments anywhere and was simply a missionary.

One theory for this is the " 4th trimester theory " which notes that most animals are born with significant mobility, but humans are relatively helpless at birth, and suggests that there may have once been a fourth trimester, but that children began to be born earlier, evolutionarily, to accommodate the development of larger heads and brains and allow them to pass through the birth canal and this leaves them with partially undeveloped digestive systems.

The first two comprise entirely his Syntagma philosophicum ; the third contains his critical writings on Epicurus, Aristotle, Descartes, Robert Fludd and Herbert of Cherbury, with some occasional pieces on certain problems of physics ; the fourth, his Institutio astronomica, and his Commentarii de rebus celestibus ; the fifth, his commentary on the tenth book of Diogenes Laërtius, the biographies of Epicurus, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Tycho Brahe, Nicolaus Copernicus, Georg von Peuerbach, and Regiomontanus, with some tracts on the value of ancient money, on the Roman calendar, and on the theory of music, with an appended large and prolix piece entitled Notitia ecclesiae Diniensis ; the sixth volume contains his correspondence.

For example, Einstein's theory of general relativity has static solutions in which space containing a gravitational field is ( locally ) described by three-dimensional elliptic geometry, but the theory does not posit the existence of a fourth spatial dimension, or even suggest any way in which the existence of a higher-dimensional space could be detected.

Between 1886 and 1892 he published a series of papers on the foundations of the kinetic theory of gases, the fourth of which contained what was, according to Lord Kelvin, the first proof ever given of the Waterston-Maxwell theorem ( equipartition theorem ) of the average equal partition of energy in a mixture of two gases.

The fourth book – perhaps the most ingenious of the whole – is devoted to the theory of the senses, sight, hearing, taste, smell, of sleep and of dreams, ending with a disquisition upon love and sex.

As its foundation for support, the letter refers to the " criteria of just war theory as developed by Christian theologians in the late fourth and early fifth centuries A. D ." The letter was written by Richard D. Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.

The first three examples below are taken from density functional theory ( 20th century ), the fourth from statistical mechanics ( 19th century ).

A fourth view is the transformation of emotion, as in Housman's fine phrase on the arts: they `` transform and beautify our inner nature ''.

That is, we must find Saxons in East Anglia, Kent, Sussex and Hampshire in the last half of the fourth century.

Milton's name being fourth is neither too high nor too low to be assigned to the arbitrary action of vice-chancellor, proctor, master, or other mighty hand.

If you were required to file a declaration of estimated tax for the calendar year 1961, it is not necessary to pay the fourth installment otherwise due on January 15, 1962, if you file your income tax return Form 1040, and pay your tax in full for the calendar year 1961 by January 31, 1962.

This work is progressing on schedule and we expect to make initial shipments in the fourth quarter of this year.

There is a break in continuity just before the fourth variation in the `` Forellen '' movement, and I suspect that this is due to imperfect splicing between sides of the original Aj.

The radiation loss from the anode surface was computed according to Af where Af is the mean of the fourth powers of the temperatures Af and Af calculated analogously to equation ( 1 ).

To practice new procedures under guided supervision and with constant feedback is the fourth step.

In the third column is given the optimal policy for stage R, and in the fourth, the resulting state of the stream when this policy is used.

The type of presentation of results used in the deterministic process may be used here, except that now the fourth column is redundant.

A `` mental image '' subconsciously impressing us from beneath its language symbols in wakeful thought, or consciously in light sleep, is actually not an image at all but is comprised of realities, viewed not in the concurrent sensory stream, but within the depths of the fourth dimension.

If the fourth dimension is a physical concept and not purely metaphysical, through what medium does it extend??

The technique of reality confusion -- the use of paradox and riddles to shake the mind's grip on reality -- originated with fourth and third century B.C. Chinese Quietism: the koan is not basically a new device.

A weekly showcase for contemporary music, from the austere archaism of Stravinsky to the bleeps and bloops of electronic music, is celebrating its fourth anniversary this month.

There is one volume of Aristotle's concerning logic not found in the Organon, namely the fourth book of Metaphysics.

The first three of these prizes are awarded for eminence in physical science, in chemistry and in medical science or physiology ; the fourth is for literary work " in an ideal direction " and the fifth prize is to be given to the person or society that renders the greatest service to the cause of international fraternity, in the suppression or reduction of standing armies, or in the establishment or furtherance of peace congresses.

Although it is the third element in the transuranic series, it was discovered fourth, after the heavier curium.

April is the fourth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, and one of four months with a length of 30 days.

* Earliest day on which National Heroes ' Day can fall, while August 28 is the latest ; celebrated on the fourth Monday in August.

The full version of the song from Melbourne Punch, the fourth verse of which is pasted onto the urn

This is the fourth verse of a song-lyric published in Melbourne Punch on 1 February 1883: