If the moral code were flouted, the proper balance of the universe would be upset, and the disastrous result could be floods, plague, or famine.

If this is true, then the universe today looks just as it did millions of years ago and as it will look millions of years hence, even though the universe is expanding.

* If one refuses to sit down and make a move, one cannot be checkmated ( in relation to Russell's belief about the existence of the universe ).

If an elementary particle truly has no substructure, then it is one of the basic building blocks of the universe from which all other particles are made.

If confirmed, this would imply special relativity is an approximation to a more general theory, but since the relevant comparison would ( by definition ) be outside the observable universe, it is difficult to imagine ( much less construct ) experiments to test this hypothesis.

If this sounds indulgent, it allows simultaneity, absolute space and time and a deterministic universe ( along with decoherence theory ) whilst the status-quo permits time travel / causality paradoxes, subjectivity in the measurement process and multiple universes.

If the entire volume of the observable universe ( taken to be 3 × 10 < sup > 80 </ sup > m < sup > 3 </ sup >) were packed solid with fine dust particles about 1. 5 micrometres in size, then the number of different ways of ordering these particles ( that is, assigning the number 1 to one particle, then the number 2 to another particle, and so on until all particles are numbered ) would be approximately one googolplex.

If the universe is static and populated by an infinite number of stars, any sight line from Earth must end at the ( very bright ) surface of a star, so the night sky should be completely bright.

If the universe is homogeneous at a large scale, then there would be four times as many stars in a second shell between 2, 000, 000, 000 to 2, 000, 000, 001 light years away.

If, on the other hand, the conception taken as the foundation of the system is that the great inclusive unity is the world itself, or the universe, God is swallowed up in that unity, which may be designated nature.

If one adds two whole parts the result is one whole and if one whole is subtracted from another whole the result is another whole-it means there is one whole universe and it is all prevaded by " Him ". Since the universe has come forth from the Divine, all things and beings are sacred and must be treated so in human thought and action.

If God in some sense knows ahead of time what will happen, then events in the universe are effectively predetermined from God's point of view.

If the energy density is positive, the associated negative pressure will drive an accelerated expansion of the universe, as observed.

If the universe is described by an effective local quantum field theory down to the Planck scale, then we would expect a cosmological constant of the order of.

If this type of energy were to exist, it would cause a big rip in the universe due to the growing energy density of dark energy which would cause the expansion of the universe to increase at a faster-than-exponential rate.

If there are as many monkeys as there are particles in the observable universe ( 10 < sup > 80 </ sup >), and each types 1, 000 keystrokes per second for 100 times the life of the universe ( 10 < sup > 20 </ sup > seconds ), the probability of the monkeys replicating even a short book is nearly zero.

If one assumes that all of the universe consists of protons and neutrons, the density of the universe is such that much of the currently observed deuterium would have been burned into helium-4.

If α were > 0. 1, stellar fusion would be impossible and no place in the universe would be warm enough for life as we know it.

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If a pair cannot hit downwards, they will use flat strokes in an attempt to gain the attack.

If rotation is arrested, the energy stored in fashioning the concave surface must be dissipated, for example through friction, before an equilibrium flat surface is restored.

If the open string is in tune, but sharp or flat when frets are pressed, the bridge saddle position can be adjusted with a screwdriver or hex key to remedy the problem.

This can be indicated by verbal statements at the beginning of a composition, for example, " Tune Low C to C flat ", or " If necessary, tune high G to G sharp ".

In a flat d-dimensional space M, at any given time, the configuration of two identical particles can be specified as an element of M × M. If there is no overlap between the particles, so that they do not interact ( at the same time, we are not referring to time delayed interactions here, which are mediated at the speed of light or slower ), then we are dealing with the space

If a distinction is drawn, then it is that Yang – Mills theories occur on a flat space-time, whereas Kaluza – Klein treats the more general case of curved spacetime.

If the key signature indicates G-sharp, a local flat before a G makes it G-flat ( not G natural ), though often this type of rare accidental is expressed as a natural, followed by a flat () to make this clear.

If the water's surface is not flat, then the light will be bent into a new path.

If a flat ribbon or strip is tightly folded into a flattened overhand knot, it assumes a regular pentagonal shape.

If this is so, conventional relativistic effects such as time dilation would not apply in the way they would in the case of a ship moving at a very great velocity through flat spacetime, relative to other objects.

# If a sharp or flat pitch is followed directly by its natural form, a natural is used.

If the channel frequency response is flat and the shaping filter has a finite bandwidth, it is possible to communicate with no ISI at all.

If a bar is flat, its overall pitch structure can be raised by removing material from the ends of the bar.

If the vertical temperature gradient is + 12. 9 ° C per 100 meters ( where the positive sign means temperature gets hotter as one goes higher ), then horizontal light rays will just follow the curvature of the Earth, and the horizon will appear flat.

An intrinsic definition of the Gaussian curvature at a point P is the following: imagine an ant which is tied to P with a short thread of length r. She runs around P while the thread is completely stretched and measures the length C ( r ) of one complete trip around P. If the surface were flat, she would find C ( r ) = 2πr.

If the effectiveness of the decollement becomes reduced the thrust will tend to cut up the section to a higher stratigraphic level, until it reaches another effective decollement where it can continue as bedding parallel flat.

If John is confident that Mary is betting a high hand, then John might flat call with his low hand to fish for overcalls rather than make it more difficult for opponents to call.

If the curvature is exactly zero, then the local geometry is flat ; if it is positive, then the local geometry is spherical, and if it is negative then the local geometry is hyperbolic.

If headphones were designed to have a flat response, then they would sound much too ' bright ' when used to listen to stereo recordings and for this reason, most headphones are designed to have a notch around 5 kHz.

If headphones were designed to be flat, with a choice of equalisations available in headphone amplifiers, then headphone listening could be a more controlled experience, whether in binaural or stereo mode.

If two simultaneous notes are slightly out of tune, the lower-pitched one ( assuming the higher one is properly pitched ) is said to be flat with respect to the other.

Franquin's style rests in opposite corners of the aesthetic spectrum from Hergé: If the pictures of Tintin ’ s creator were characterized by the use of ligne claire, flat colors and a certain staticism, Franquin ’ s graphic approach progressively evolved towards a multi-color aesthetics, chiaroscuro and a vigorous sense of movement.

If the turbines used have high peak efficiencies, but behave poorly at partial load, less annual performance is obtained than with turbines that have a flat efficiency curve.