The limits are suggested by an imaginary experiment: contrast the perceptual skill of English professors with that of their colleagues in discriminating among motor cars, political candidates, or female beauty.

An experiment performed in Massachusetts utilized 20 patients with various sensors attached to their arms.

It remains a unique and intriguing experiment in direct democracy, a political system in which the people do not elect representatives to vote on their behalf but vote on legislation and executive bills in their own right.

The crew performed the Apollo light flash experiment, or ALFMED, to investigate " light flashes " that were seen by the astronauts when the spacecraft was dark, regardless of whether or not their eyes were open, on Apollo lunar flights.

A supplementary thought experiment with the same objective of determining the occurrence of absolute rotation also was proposed by Newton: the example of observing two identical spheres in rotation about their center of gravity and tied together by a string.

While STS-51-F's primary payload was the Spacelab-2 laboratory module, the payload which received the most publicity was the Carbonated Beverage Dispenser Evaluation, which was an experiment in which both Coca-Cola and Pepsi tried to make their carbonated drinks available to astronauts.

Both the problems of baryogenesis and cosmic inflation are very closely related to particle physics, and their resolution might come from high energy theory and experiment, rather than through observations of the universe.

The half-lives of elements 41 through 82 are so long however that their radioactive decay has yet to be detected by experiment.

The half-lives of these metastable " theoretical radionuclides " are so long ( at least 100 million times longer than the estimated age of the universe ) that their radioactive decay has yet to be detected by experiment.

The Browns used the device off and on into the regular season, and other teams began to experiment with their own radio helmets.

As a result of their rearing, Kal-El grows up to think of himself as Clark Kent, completely unaware of his alien heritage until he was well into adulthood ( the fact that the Kents found him sometime just after the Cold War meant that the Kents assumed the rocket they found him in was from an Earth-based space program-possibly that of Communist Russia-and that Clark had superhuman abilities because he was either a metahuman or some kind of genetic experiment ).

It is also used to form reasonable hypotheses about complex physical situations that can be tested by experiment or by more developed theories of the phenomena, and to categorize types of physical quantities and units based on their relations to or dependence on other units, or their dimensions if any.

The concept of the Dyson sphere was the result of a thought experiment by physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson, when he theorized that all technological civilizations constantly increased their demand for energy.

In 2012, neuroscientists at UCLA conducted an experiment using a virtual taxi video game connected to seven epilepsy patients with electrodes already implanted in their brains, allowing the researchers to monitor neuronal activity whenever memories were being formed.

It is argued that when psychics are challenged by skeptics and fail to prove their alleged powers, they assign all sorts of reasons for their failure, such as that the skeptic is affecting the experiment with " negative energy " or their cellphone is causing interference.

On 18 November 2011, a second followup experiment by OPERA scientists confirmed their initial results.

The scientists realize that the baby's telepathic cries for help were the cause of the interference that ruined their experiment.

In this experiment, bacteria from the III-S strain were killed by heat, and their remains were added to II-R strain bacteria.

In their experiment, Roney and Trick told participants that they were betting on either two blocks of six coin tosses, or on two blocks of seven coin tosses.

After an upgrade of their facilities in 1993, the team repeated the experiment in 1994 and detected 75 atoms of < sup > 265 </ sup > Hs and 2 atoms of < sup > 264 </ sup > Hs, during the measurement of a partial excitation function for the 1n neutron evaporation channel.

De Camp and Ley have claimed ( in their Lands Beyond ) that Leonhard Euler also proposed a hollow-Earth idea, getting rid of multiple shells and postulating an interior sun across to provide light to advanced inner-Earth civilization but they provide no references ; indeed, Euler did not propose a hollow-Earth, but there is a slightly related thought experiment.

Both Bruno de Finetti and Frank P. Ramsey acknowledge their debts to pragmatic philosophy, particularly ( for Ramsey ) to Charles S. Peirce.

In 1879, Peirce was appointed Lecturer in logic at the new Johns Hopkins University, which was strong in a number of areas that interested him, such as philosophy ( Royce and Dewey did their PhDs at Hopkins ), psychology ( taught by G. Stanley Hall and studied by Joseph Jastrow, who coauthored a landmark empirical study with Peirce ), and mathematics ( taught by J. J. Sylvester, who came to admire Peirce's work on mathematics and logic ).

Charles S. Peirce randomly assigned volunteers to a blinded, repeated-measures design to evaluate their ability to discriminate weights.

The US philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce praised Cantor's set theory, and, following public lectures delivered by Cantor at the first International Congress of Mathematicians, held in Zurich in 1897, Hurwitz and Hadamard also both expressed their admiration.

Scholars who have talked about semiosis in their sub-theories of semiotics include C. S. Peirce, John Deely, and Umberto Eco.

In particular, Peirce explained that unobservable objects had an important role in science, as long as their existence yields in principle empirical consequences that could be tested ( in principle ).

Peirce differed from James and the early John Dewey, in some of their tangential enthusiasms, in being decidedly more rationalistic and realistic, in several senses of those terms, throughout the preponderance of his own philosophical moods.

With his student Joseph Jastrow, Charles S. Peirce randomly assigned volunteers to a blinded, repeated-measures design to evaluate their ability to discriminate weights.

To their work he subsequently added several important concepts due to Charles Sanders Peirce, including subsumption and quantification.

The term was introduced by Charles Sanders Peirce ( 1839 – 1914 ) to describe a process that interprets signs as referring to their objects, as described in his theory of sign relations, or semiotics.

When a character expresses a dream or hopeful assertion about their dead-end existence, Peirce cuts to an " eerily lit " dream landscape, which one critic observed was " almost David Lynch-like in its beauty, dotted with simple elements like water towers, naked trees and low ceilings of clouds.

Here Peirce makes a statement that is decisive for understanding the relationship between his pragmatic definition of truth and any theory of truth that leaves it solely and simply a matter of representations corresponding with their objects.

Penton-Voak, Perrett, and Peirce ( 1999 ) found that subjects rated the pictures with their own face morphed into it as more attractive.

After a few more Union attacks were thwarted, Peirce decided further attacks would have been futile so he ordered the Union forces to retire from the field and returned to their bases.

Peirce traveled the country interviewing soldiers about their experiences and worked with novelist and screenwriter Mark Richard to turn the research into a screenplay.

In association with the film, Peirce created a website called SoundOff and gave soldiers and their families cameras to record and share their stories and opinions.

Model theorists consider Peirce the first of their kind.

And like Jo March, who saw her sisters Meg and Amy involved in `` lovering '' before herself, Henrietta saw her sisters Rachel and Sadie drawn outside their family circle by the attraction of suitors, Rachel by Joe Jastrow, and Sadie by Max Lobl, a young businessman who would write her romantic descriptions of his trips by steamboat down the Mississippi.

In an interview with Christianity Today, Jastrow said " Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living thing in this cosmos and on the earth.

Byron's wife Natalie is trapped in Axis territory with her uncle, celebrated author Aaron Jastrow, and another major strand focuses on their story as Jews caught in Europe.

As more excuses are made for their detainment, Jastrow is tricked into staying behind, and the three are sent to Theresienstadt.