At the time of the writing, the name Nemesis was given to a hypothetical companion to Earth's Sun that could provide a mechanism for periodic disturbances of comets in the Oort cloud, which would then fall inwards causing mass extinctions.

After writing down A, B and Z in his notebook, Achilles asks the Tortoise to accept the hypothetical:

Examinations usually entail interpreting the facts of a hypothetical case, determining how legal theories apply to the case, and then writing an essay.

The impetus for the novel, as Fielding claims in the preface, is the establishment of a genre of writing " which I do not remember to have been hitherto attempted in our language ", defined as the " comic epic-poem in prose ": a work of prose fiction, epic in length and variety of incident and character, in the hypothetical spirit of Homer ’ s lost ( and possibly apocryphal ) comic poem Margites.

Mawer underlines that, at the time Nägeli was writing to the friar from Moravia, Nägeli " must have been preparing his great work entitled A mechanico-physiological theory of organic evolution ( published in 1884, the year of Mendel's death ) in which he proposes the concept of the ' idioplasm ' as the hypothetical transmitter of inherited characters ".

Training is gruellingfirst on Earth, in Missouri, and later on Charon ( not Pluto's moon, which had not yet been discovered at the time of the novel's writing, but a hypothetical planet beyond Pluto's orbit ), which results in a number of casualtiesmainly due to accidents in hostile environments but also due to the use of live weapons in training.

It is unlikely that it is possible to reconstruct a historical Tower of Babel linguistic community in which all humans spoke a common language ( although we can say with confidence that large stone edifices built by large organized communities of people, which date to the Neolithic era at the earliest, weren't built by any culture on Earth until at least many tens of thousands of years after there was a hypothetical common language of all humans, or even of all Eurasians ), or to gain very specific insight about what the language the original proto-Eurasians or the earliest modern humans spoke, although the lack of instances of writing more than about 5, 500 years ago, despite the extensive recovery of earlier artifacts and art from prehistory, makes it unlikely that earlier humans had anything approaching a complete written language.

* Q source, also known as Q document, a hypothetical early Gospel writing ( Bible )

Of the three children, the eldest child Rachel's attempt to gain admittance to her mother's clan ( and to perhaps do something by herself for once in her life ) appeared on McNeil's website for collection in 2008 as Finder volume 9 ; youngest child Marcie's quest to find a certain lost book if only by writing it is the subject of volume # 4 ; while the story of middle-child Lynne has yet to be written but may complete a hypothetical " three sisters " hardcover McNeil has speculated about releasing.

* hypothetical Pre-Christian Slavic writing

Flinders therefore claimed that the hypothetical pyramid inch of the pyramidologists had no basis in truth and published his results in " The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh " ( 1883 ), writing: " there is no authentic example, that will bear examination, of the use or existence of any such measure as a ‘ Pyramid inch ,’ or of a cubit of 25. 025 British inches.

But the really controversial aspect of customer-cost imputation arises because of the cost analyst's frequent practice of including, not just those costs that can be definitely earmarked as incurred for the benefit of specific customers but also a substantial fraction of the annual maintenance and capital costs of the secondary ( low-voltage ) distribution system -- a fraction equal to the estimated annual costs of a hypothetical system of minimum capacity.

If time, space, and energy are secondary features derived from a substrate below the Planck scale, then Einstein's hypothetical algebraic system might resolve the EPR paradox ( although Bell's theorem would still be valid ).

Edward Fredkin in the Fredkin Finite Nature Hypothesis has suggested an informational basis for Einstein's hypothetical algebraic system.

Central to the Pure Theory of Law is the notion of a ' basic norm ( Grundnorm )'— a hypothetical norm, presupposed by the jurist, from which in a hierarchy all ' lower ' norms in a legal system, beginning with constitutional law, are understood to derive their authority or ' bindingness '.

The memex ( a portmanteau of " memory " and " index ") is the name of the hypothetical proto-hypertext system that Vannevar Bush described in his 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article " As We May Think " ( AWMT ).

reducing rocket performance requirements by constructing a hypothetical non-rocket spacelaunch system for part of the velocity to orbit ( or all of it but with

The earlier Megarian dialecticians – Diodorus Cronus and Philo – had done work in this field, and the pupils of Aristotle – Theophrastus and Eudemus – had investigated hypothetical syllogisms, but it was Chrysippus who developed these principles into a coherent system of propositional logic.

Time loop logic, coined by the roboticist and futurist Hans Moravec, is the name of a hypothetical system of computation that exploits the Novikov self-consistency principle to compute answers much faster than possible with the standard model of computational complexity using Turing machines.

In one hypothetical future system called a SuperGrid, the cost of cooling would be eliminated by coupling the transmission line with a liquid hydrogen pipeline.

A computer simulation ( or " sim ") is an attempt to model a real-life or hypothetical situation on a computer so that it can be studied to see how the system works.

One advantage of the friction within the trucker's hitch, compared to a hypothetical pulley-based system, is that it allows the hitch to be held taut with less force while the working end is secured.

The Counter-Earth is a hypothetical body of the Solar system first hypothesized by the presocratic philosopher Philolaus to support his non-geocentric cosmology, in which all objects in the universe revolve around a Central Fire.

Artist's impression of the sight from a ( hypothetical ) moon of planet HD 188753 Ab ( upper left ), which orbits a triple star system.

Warp drive is a hypothetical faster-than-light ( FTL ) propulsion system in the setting of many science fiction works, most notably Star Trek.

This led physicist Richard A. Muller to suggest that these extinctions could be due to a hypothetical companion star to the Sun called Nemesis periodically disrupting the orbits of comets in the Oort cloud, and leading to a large increase in the number of comets reaching the inner solar system where they might hit Earth.

Conversely, it allows researchers to consider whole classes of hypothetical Lagrangians with given invariants, to describe a physical system.

This was a systematic treatise on civil and praetorian law, cited by many later Roman legal writers, which has been described as “ A comprehensive collection of responsa on real and hypothetical cases ; in general, it followed the edictal system ... With Iulianus, the Roman jurisprudence reached its apogee .”

Whole brain emulation or mind uploading ( sometimes called mind transfer ) is the hypothetical process of transferring or copying a conscious mind from a brain to a non-biological substrate by scanning and mapping a biological brain in detail and copying its state into a computer system or another computational device.

The system includes two belts of rocky asteroids: one at about 3 AU and a second at about 20 AU, whose structure may be maintained by a hypothetical second planet, Epsilon Eridani c. Epsilon Eridani harbors an extensive outer debris disk of remnant planetesimals left over from the system's formation.

Avicenna's system of logic was responsible for the introduction of hypothetical syllogism, temporal modal logic and inductive logic.

To produce an image as bright as the one on a traditional B & W television, the electron guns in this hypothetical shadow mask system would have to be five times more powerful.

* Charles Stross, in his novel Accelerando, propels a small payload to a hypothetical brown dwarf star, 3 light-years away, using a Starwisp propulsion system, as well as using starwisps as kinetic-kill missiles against space-based warships.

The received radiation is compared with the radiation from a hypothetical black body which subtends the same solid angle as the visible disk of the planet.

Supporters of this view believe that “ to a hypothetical outside reader, presents Christianity as enlightened, harmless, even beneficent .” Some believe that through this work, Luke intended to show the Roman Empire that the root of Christianity is within Judaism so that the Christians “ may receive the same freedom to practice their faith that the Roman Empire afforded the Jews .” Those who support the view of Luke ’ s work as political apology generally draw evidence from the facts that Christians are found innocent of committing any political crime ( Acts 25: 25 ; 19: 37 ; 19: 40 ) and that Roman officials ’ views towards Christians are generally positive.

Phosphatidylserine is normally found on the cytosolic surface of the plasma membrane, but is redistributed during apoptosis to the extracellular surface by a hypothetical protein known as scramblase.

Burns coined the term Sasquatch, which is from the Halkomelem sásq ’ ets (), and used it in his articles to describe a hypothetical single type of creature reflected in these various stories.

This rule is so strictly enforced that, even where the conflict of interest or conflict of duty is purely hypothetical, the directors can be forced to disgorge all personal gains arising from it.

In the hypothetical situation that a given coastline has this property of self-similarity, then no matter how greatly any one small section of coastline is magnified, a similar pattern of smaller bays and promontories superimposed on larger bays and promontories appears, right down to the grains of sand.

Cosmologists therefore invoke a yet unexplored form of energy called dark energy ( dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space and tends to accelerate the expansion of the universe ) which account for certain cosmological observations mostly related to " accelerating expansion of Universe ".

The hypothetical particle or field thought to be responsible for inflation is called the inflaton.

The curvature of the fretboard is measured by the fretboard radius, which is the radius of a hypothetical circle of which the fretboard's surface constitutes a segment.

A Carnot heat engine is a hypothetical engine that operates on the reversible Carnot cycle.

Due to its somewhat concealed, but very potent nature, this hypothetical idea is described by some experts as " banal imperialism.

When particles in a beam are thrown against a foil made of a certain substance, the cross section is a hypothetical area measure around the target particles of the substance ( usually its atoms ) that represents a surface.

The scattering cross-section, σ < sub > scat </ sub >, is a hypothetical area which describes the likelihood of light ( or other radiation ) being scattered by a particle.

Disjunctive syllogism is closely related and similar to hypothetical syllogism, in that it is also type of syllogism, and also the name of a rule of inference.

Here is a hypothetical example blacklist:

A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure originally described by Freeman Dyson.

Most historians believe that the word " Dagome " is a melding of two names: the Christian " Dago ," for " Dagobert " ( Mieszko's hypothetical baptismal name ), and the Slavic " Me ," for " Mieszko.

Again, this is a simplification, based on a hypothetical Earth which revolves at uniform speed around the Sun.

Formally, oxidation state is the hypothetical charge that an atom would have if all bonds to atoms of different elements were 100 % ionic.

In general, NNT is always computed with respect to two treatments A and B, with A typically a drug and B a placebo ( in our example above, A is a 5-year treatment with the hypothetical drug, and B is no treatment ).