Dr. Bonnor supports the idea that the universe both expands and contracts, that in several billion years the expansion will slow up and reverse itself and that the contraction will set in.

Schrödinger did not wish to promote the idea of dead-and-alive cats as a serious possibility ; quite the reverse, the paradox is a classic reductio ad absurdum.

This idea was eventually expanded into the concept of a multiverse, including such worlds as Earth-Three, which was an " opposite " world where heroes were villains and historical events happened in reverse of how they occurred in real life ( e. g., President John Wilkes Booth being assassinated by an actor named Abraham Lincoln ), and Earth Prime, which was ostensibly the " real world " and used to explain how real-life DC staffers ( such as Julius Schwartz ) could occasionally appear in comics stories, and so forth.

This is the reverse of what is sometimes called classical idealism or, somewhat confusingly, Platonic idealism due to the influence of Plato's Theory of Forms ( εἶδος eidos or ἰδέα idea ) which were not products of our thinking.

The idea is to put most used gears opposite each other: for parking, first and reverse ; for normal driving, second and third.

WEB is a computer programming system created by Donald E. Knuth as the first implementation of what he called " literate programming ": the idea that one could create software as works of literature, by embedding source code inside descriptive text, rather than the reverse ( as is common practice in most programming languages ), in an order that is convenient for exposition to human readers, rather than in the order demanded by the compiler.

The reverse hierarchy promotes the idea that the most important employees are those who deal daily with the organisations ' customers, i. e. those who would normally be at the " bottom " of the hierarchy.

Shortly after emigrating, Cooke suggested to the BBC the idea of doing the London Letter in reverse: a 15-minute talk for British listeners on life in America.

For instance, it took significant effort for the system to be able to turn a text file with some pictures into a Microsoft Word document, both because the text editor had no idea what was in the embedded objects, and because the proprietary Microsoft format was undocumented and required reverse engineering.

Despite this, the principle of health care " free at the point of use " became a central idea of the welfare state, which later governments, critical of the Welfare State, were unable to reverse.

They change tactics several times to no avail until they hit upon the idea of speaking in reverse.

The idea is that the government is subject to human rights, rather than the reverse.

* Clientele consists of humans ( who consider women taking their clothes off for money to be acceptable, but women doing it for nothing immoral ), trolls ( who, because they believe they travel backwards in time, like to watch their women strip in reverse ) but not dwarfs ( who have no concept of such an idea ).

London Letter came to an end when Cooke emigrated to America in 1937, but it was not long before he suggested to the BBC the idea of continuing the idea in reverse.

Inspired by accusations that their songs contained hidden Satanic messages, the guitar tracks for " Cantspeak " are those of " Let It Be Captured " played in reverse, as Christ explained: “ Eerie Von had the idea of playing one of our songs backwards ... we recorded whole guitar solo and drum parts backwards in the songs on this record.

Roosevelt adopted the idea of raising the price of gold to inflate the currency and reverse the debilitating deflation of prices.

" Erehwon " is " nowhere " in reverse, an idea that also occurs in an allegorical novel by Samuel Butler.

The main idea was that if they found out Skeletor was Keldor, they'd be able to find out what had changed him and might find some way to reverse it.

The idea of the reverse, which was designed by the late Edmund Dulac, is: " Truth emerging from her well and holding in her right hand the divine flame of inspiration-Beauty is truth and Truth Beauty ".

Berkmann stated: " My concept for Ministry was purely this: 100 % sound system first, lights second, design third ( in that order ); the reverse of everyone else ’ s idea.

On the reverse, the text also emphasizes the idea that resistance to oppression begins by questioning the constant use of buzzwords.

Rather, the idea is to reverse the effects of dynamic range compression.

" Another influence on Tetsujin's creation was the Vergeltungswaffen, a set of wonder weapons designed for long-range strategic bombing during World War II, and the idea that Nazi Germany possessed an " ace in the hole to reverse waning fortunes ".

The idea that multiple dynamic modifications regulate gene transcription in a systematic and reproducible way is called the histone code.

François Jacob ( born 17 June 1920 ) is a French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through feedback on transcription.

In 1961 Jacob and Monod explored the idea that the control of enzyme expression levels in cells is a result of feedback on the transcription of DNA sequences.

A transcription that gives only a basic idea of the sounds of a language in the broadest terms is called a broad transcription ; in some cases this may be equivalent to a phonemic transcription ( only without any theoretical claims ).

A number of activists fervently support the idea to return the city its original name Yelisavetgrad ( or now Yelysavethrad in Ukrainian transcription ).

`` It was Brenner's idea '', Jess mumbled, dabbing at his nose.

He had no idea which was up and which was down.

Beyond the two basic tasks mentioned above, no attention was paid by statesman or scholar to an idea of state responsibility, either internally or externally.

Despite the clarity of his presentation, his idea was not of Einsteinian calibre.

To get an idea of the embarrassment and chagrin that was heaped upon Wright and Olgivanna, we should bear in mind that the raids were sometimes led by Miriam in person.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

Their policy ran counter to the traditional idea that a good fighter was usually a libertine, and that in sex affairs `` God-given passion '' was a proof of manliness.

Yet, the idea imbedded in each was identical: to surround the unknown with mystery and to isolate that class which had been given special dominion over the secrets of God.

The idea was not even suggested because political expediency prevailed over wisdom.

He had no idea where he was.

He realized that he had no idea where the telephone was.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

While Mr. Blatz was putting up the pegboards and starting the workbench, Mr. Crombie told him of this idea about paneling the whole end of the cellar.

Instructions to relax, i.e., to be `` spontaneous '', and react immediately to whatever impulse they might have, was not sufficiently reassuring until some idea of the possibilities of normal reactions had been given.

By this time Churchill was not so cordial toward moving Poland westward as he had been at Teheran, where he and Eden had both heartily approved the idea.

The dated poems also give us an idea of the degree to which Hardy drew upon past productions for his various volumes, and therefore probably are an indication of the amount of poetry he was writing at the time.

For weeks he had been saying that Hudson's idea of sailing through to Java was absurd.

And it was Lucy Upton who first started the idea of a regular course in Music at Spelman College.

That, incidentally, might give you some idea of what Felix was like.

Well, it hadn't been what it seemed, he'd had no idea the girl was in there.

This was senseless -- he had no idea what to look for.

`` I'll get my references in order '', Needham said, and though he spoke with a smile, Casey somehow got the idea that he was not particularly amused.