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  • +1/2 to −1/2 (or vice versa) during such an exchange (in units of reduced ... Because fermions can attract and repel each other due to an interaction ...
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  • have positive mass/energy. They have an attractive gravitational interaction ... that the universe appears to be expanding at an accelerating rate. In the standard ...
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  • :This article is intended as a generally accessible introduction to ... General relativity (GR) is a theory of gravitation that was developed ...
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  • his early formulation of the theory of relativity and for formulating the ... Poincaré was born on April 29, 1854, into an influential family in ...
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  • principle of verificationism, coupled with an antimetaphysical stance, to ... === Confirmation holism and ontological relativity === The central ...
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  • energy is transmitted not in the form of an unbroken (infinitely subdivisible ... of Hermann Müller, a mathematician who took an interest in the youth and taught ...
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  • He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically the equation ... to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled mechanics ...
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  • was launched in 1978, GPS has become an indispensable aid to navigation ... Orbiting at an altitude of approximately 20,200 kilometers (12,600 ...
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  • (January 8, 1942 – March 14, 2018) was an English theoretical physicist ... 7, 2013. Retrieved May 15, 2018. He also had an adopted brother, Edward Frank ...
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  • In a general sense, skepticism or scepticism (Greek: skeptomai, to ... throughout the ages. It can refer both to an attitude in ordinary life and ...
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  • a class of objects or events. A concept is an abstract idea or a mental symbol ... shoes, four Greek shirts, the Bible, Introduction to Psychology, documents ...
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  • he also wrote many other works directed at general readers and thereby became ... proponent of nuclear disarmament and an outspoken critic of the American ...
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  • core temperatures required to fuse carbon, an inert mass of carbon and oxygen ... days, to realize at once that there was an extreme inconsistency between ...
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  • Most courses and textbooks in business ethics begin with general considerations ... distribution of the costs and the rewards of an economic system? What different ...
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