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reference and paradox
Another recent theory ( see EPR paradox above ) resulting from the analysis of an EPR communication set up, has the simple device based on removing the effective retarded time terms in the Lorentz transform to yield a preferred absolute reference frame.
Starting with Hart, a great deal of effort has gone into developing scientific theories about, and possible models of, extraterrestrial life, and the Fermi paradox has become a theoretical reference point in much of this work.
< Dictionary. com http :// dictionary. reference. com / browse / predestination >.</ ref > Explanations of predestination often seek to address the so-called " paradox of free will ," whereby God's omniscience seems incompatible with human free will.
Hempel rejected this as a solution to the paradox, insisting that the proposition ' c is a raven and is black ' must be considered " by itself and without reference to any other information ", and pointing out that it "... was emphasized in section 5. 2 ( b ) of my article in Mind ... that the very appearance of paradoxicality in cases like that of the white shoe results in part from a failure to observe this maxim.
McCreery has suggested that this paradox may be explained by reference to the fact that sleep can supervene as a reaction to extreme stress or hyper-arousal.
The detailed relativistic analysis of both the Trouton-Noble paradox and the Right-angle lever paradox requires care to correctly reconcile, for example, the effects seen by observers in different frames of reference, but ultimately all such theoretical descriptions are shown to give the same result.
The earliest reference given is to Barthélemy de Laffemas, who in 1598 in Les Trésors et richesses pour mettre l ' Estat en Splendeur ( The Treasures and riches to put the State in Splendor ) " denounced the objectors to the use of French silks on the ground that all purchasers of French luxury goods created a livelihood for the poor, whereas the miser caused them to die in distress ," an early form of the paradox of thrift.
In general, self-referential humor often uses hypocrisy, oxymoron, or paradox to create a contradictory or otherwise absurd situation that is humorous to the audience ( See reference ).
Another paradox associated with relativity is Supplee's paradox which seems to describe two reference frames that are irreconcilable.
The concept is sometimes referred to as the Solow computer paradox in reference to Robert Solow's 1987 quip, " You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.
The term " C-value enigma " represents an update of the more common but outdated term " C-value paradox " ( Thomas 1971 ), being ultimately derived from the term " C-value " ( Swift 1950 ) in reference to haploid nuclear DNA contents.
This paradox is partially resolved in Relativity theory by defining a ' frame of reference ' to encompass the measuring instruments used by an observer.

reference and arrow
Her smallest tattoo was on her left ear and consisted of an arrow pointing to her left over the symbol of an eye, a reference to her nickname.
However, every time he shot an arrow at Hector, Apollo, the protector of the Trojans, would foil the shot-an ironic reference to the fact that Apollo would guide Paris ' arrow into Achilles ' heel.
Sagittal means " like an arrow ", a reference to the position of the spine that naturally divides the body into right and left equal halves, the exact meaning of the term " midsagittal ", or to the shape of the sagittal suture, which defines the sagittal plane and is shaped like an arrow.
This novel contains the first known reference in any language to the now-popular legend of the hejnał trumpeter shot by a Tartar arrow.
With reference to the force diagram above, the vertical component of the normal force ( green arrow ) must equal the weight of the parcel ( red arrow ), which is, and the horizontal component of the normal force must equal the centripetal force ( blue arrow ) that keeps the parcel in circular motion, which is.
* The Clumsies all of the models were positioned as involved in a different kind of accident or misfortune, Tell has an apple core on his head and an arrow through his ears, a reference to William Tell.
The pen was originally named the Golden Arrow, a reference to the new arrow clip which would go on to become a Parker trademark, appearing in some form on almost all of Parker ’ s subsequent pens.

reference and flight
FAA's Instrument Flying Handbook defines IFR as: " Rules and regulations established by the FAA to govern flight under conditions in which flight by outside visual reference is not safe.
IFR flight depends upon flying by reference to instruments in the flight deck, and navigation is accomplished by reference to electronic signals.
Procedures and training are significantly more complex as a pilot must demonstrate competency in conducting an entire cross-country flight in IMC conditions, while controlling the aircraft solely by reference to instruments.
If the weather is below VMC, pilots are required to use instrument flight rules, and operation of the aircraft will primarily be through referencing the instruments rather than visual reference.
In the second, the reference is to the civilian flight toward Louisiana.
In Star Trek: First Contact, it is stated that but for Zefram Cochrane's historic warp flight, a passing Vulcan ship would have deemed Earth unready for contact and ignored the planet, and in the Enterprise episode " Fight or Flight " T ' Pol makes reference to a Vulcan policy of non-interference.
Peterson, working on his instrument rating at the time, was still taking flight instrumentation tests and was not yet certified for flight into weather that would have required operation of the aircraft solely by reference to his instruments rather than by means of his own vision.
The flight instruments are of particular use in conditions of poor visibility, such as in clouds, when such information is not available from visual reference outside the aircraft.
The equipment deck at the base of the craft held the battery, transponder, flight programmer, inertial reference unit ( IRU ), Canopus star tracker, command decoder, multiplex encoder, traveling wave tube amplifier ( TWTA ), and the photographic system.
The Latin term for falcon, falco, is related to falx, the Latin word meaning sickle, in reference to the silhouette of the falcon's long, pointed wings in flight.
In 1993, S4C introduced a new series of idents designed by Lambie-Nairn, which depicted inanimate objects ( such as a red kite, gas pipes, and a sousaphone ) as having characteristics of dragons ( such as flight or breathing fire ), as a reference to the red dragon on the flag of Wales.
In later years McMasters has backed away from this origin, suggesting that there could be multiple sources, and that the earliest he has found was a reference in the 1934 French book ; they had applied the equations of air resistance to insects and found that their flight was impossible, but that " One shouldn't be surprised that the results of the calculations don't square with reality ".
A whimsical name – presumably from Scotland or nearby England – was " white wisky John " in reference to its wavy and somewhat unelegant flight, during which its large areas of light plumage are conspicuous.
* The 1958 novel " Runway Zero-Eight " by Arthur Hailey and John Castle includes a British character, a passenger on the flight, who goes by the nickname "' Otpot ", which he explains is a reference to " Lancashire ' Otpot ".
Grissom, hoping to avoid duplication of the experience with his Mercury flight Liberty Bell 7 in which the capsule sank after splashdown, named the Gemini 3 spacecraft Molly Brown, in a playful reference to the Broadway musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown.
The design of today's FDR is governed by the internationally recognized standards and recommended practices relating to flight recorders which are contained in ICAO Annex 6 which makes reference to industry crashworthiness and fire protection specifications such as those to be found in the European Organisation for Civil Aviation Equipment documents EUROCAE ED55, ED56 fiken A and ED112 ( Minimum Operational Performance Specification for Crash Protected Airborne Recorder Systems ).
From the actual flight paths of each trip, the theory predicted that the flying clocks, compared with reference clocks at the U. S. Naval Observatory, should have lost 40 ± 23 nanoseconds during the eastward trip and should have gained 275 ± 21 nanoseconds during the westward trip.
During instrument flight, the airspeed indicator is used in addition to the Artificial horizon as an instrument of reference for pitch control during climbs, descents and turns.
The name appears to mean a sojourner there ( גר שם ger sham ), which the text argues was a reference to Moses ' flight from Egypt ; biblical scholars regard the name as being essentially the same as Gershon, and it is Gershom rather than Gershon who is sometimes listed by the Book of Chronicles, as a founder of one of the principal Levite factions.
Some reference to flight instruments is usually necessary to determine exact airspeed, altitude, heading, bank angle and rate of climb / descent.

reference and Alfred
French demographer, anthropologist and historian Alfred Sauvy, in an article published in the French magazine L ' Observateur, August 14, 1952, coined the term Third World, referring to countries that were unaligned with either the Communist Soviet bloc or the Capitalist NATO bloc during the Cold War His usage was a reference to the Third Estate, the commoners of France who, before and during the French Revolution, opposed priests and nobles, who composed the First Estate and Second Estate, respectively.
In a pre-release version of the original MAD, as a reference to MAD's namesake, MAD magazine, when a program contained too many compile time errors the compiler would print a full-page picture of Alfred E. Neuman using ASCII art.
This may refer to the statutes of the Charter of Winchester ( 1251 ), though it is sometimes considered to be a reference to the more equitable days of King Alfred the Great, when Winchester was the capital of England.
William Shakespeare's 1600 play Much Ado About Nothing contains an early modern reference to the legendary king, and Alfred Noyes ' poem Forty Singing Seamen is based on the Prester John legend ; and in 1910 British novelist and politician John Buchan used the legend in his sixth book, Prester John, to supplement a plot about a Zulu uprising in South Africa.
In the introduction Sagan presents his thesis — that " the mind ... a consequence of its anatomy and physiology and nothing more "— in reference to the works of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
There is a fictional recursion in " The Sultan of Swat " in which-while waiting for the Boeing 314 Pan Am Clipper-Jake is reading a book with a dustcover titled " Murder on the Footbridge "; which is apparently a key plot reference from the 1941 Alfred Hitchcock movie Suspicion.
* Third World ( coined by demograph Alfred Sauvy in 1952 in reference to the French Third Estate and Sieyès ' famous saying )
The title was a reference to Alfred Korzybski's aphorism.
This story did not appear until Alfred Neubauer's biography was published in 1958, and no reference to it has been found in contemporary sources.
Norman Holland has used Jungian criticism to explore the female characters in Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo using Graves's Triple Goddess motif as a reference.
His column there was called Panjere-i roo be hayaat ( A Window to the Life, a reference to Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window ), and later expanded to a weekly page on digital culture, Internet and computer games.
The plot is an extended reference to an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, itself adapted from Roald Dahl's " Man from the South ".
Despite the lack of documentary evidence, and the lack of contemporary reference, other authors have repeated Bush's assertion that Alfred and Mabel married, including John van der Kiste and Bee Jordaan in Dearest Affie, and the assertion is repeated as fact in the official family history ( Das Haus von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha ).
One of the more notable non-accidental deaths occurs when the player simply attempts to shower ; the murderer stabs Laura in a reference to the Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho.
She is also mentioned flippantly when Bruce reminds Alfred of him letting her into the Batcave in the first film ( a reference to the scene's widely negative fan reaction ).
An Anglo Saxon reference to Sanderstead can be found in the will of Alfred, an ealdorman, which is dated 871.
In The End ( chapter 6 ) she uses the term " Dreyfus " in reference to Alfred Dreyfus when accused of a crime.
He is also mentioned in ninth-century liturgy used at Durham Cathedral The will of Alfred the Great is said to refer to the saint, in a reference to the church of Fordington, Dorset.
The title is a reference to Alfred Tennyson's sonnet The Kraken, which describes the Scandinavian sea monster.
Milner's Kindergarten is an informal reference to a group of Britons who served in the South African Civil Service under High Commissioner Alfred, Lord Milner, between the Second Boer War and the founding of the Union of South Africa.
The poem " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock " by T. S. Eliot contains the lines: ' To say: " I am Lazarus, come from the dead ,/ Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all ", in reference to Dives ' request to have Beggar Lazarus return from the dead to tell his brothers of his fate.
The station's nickname is likely a reference to Alfred Curtiss Ruby, a prominent Portland-area banker / businessman in the early 20th century who owned significant amounts of property near the train station.
The scene of Homer nearly getting hit by a car during his second escape from the hospital is a reference to a scene in the 1959 Alfred Hitchcock film North by Northwest, in which Cary Grant's character is almost hit by an oncoming truck.
Reinhold Ebertin's main reference text on Cosmobiology entitled The Combination of Stellar Influences, sometimes referred to as the ' CSI ' or the ' COSI ', was inspired by Alfred Witte's Rulebook of Planetary Pictures

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