6.ChemistryOne of the elements that compose a substance, especially one that gives some special quality or effect. 7.A basic source. See Usage Note atprincipal. Idioms: in principle With regard to the basics:an idea that is acceptable in principle. ...
Their frequent repetition shouldn't delude us into thinking that we've a clue as to what's actually going on. The breathtaking pace of technological advance notwithstanding, the unexplained phenomena of what-its-likeness in the world ought to tell us there's something horribly wrong at a very ...
Over the last 20 years or so, much work on the philosophy of the geosciences has privileged epistemological questions about confirmation, explanation, and underdetermination. Taking a cue from nineteenth-century geologist Edward Hitchcock’s reflections on his own practice, this chapter argues that phil...
Pathogens secrete effector proteins to subvert host physiology and cause disease. Effectors are engaged in a molecular arms race with the host resulting in conflicting evolutionary constraints to manipulate host cells without triggering immune responses.
The weak equivalence principle states that all objects “fall” with the same acceleration regardless of their mass and composition. As embodied in general relativity, it says that all neutral objects, massive and massless, follow geodesic trajectories of the metric, dependent only on initial conditio...
And we've no evidence any "dynamical collapse" theory is true. I'm sceptical the superposition principle of QM ever breaks down. If Eliezer is right, AGI will shortly fix the problem of suffering: We’re All Gonna Die with Eliezer Yudkowsky albeit not in quite the way most abolitionist...
In this sense, I believe that the newly coined concept of “Wei Ju’s Egg”, as a scientific metaphor, should have the same scientific value as Schrodinger’s Cat. If Schrodinger’s Cat can help us understand the principle of quantum superposition, then “Wei Ju’s Egg” can also help ...
At the root of all BSB, of course, is mathematicism. A mathematical model dictates an absurd story about physical reality which we are then supposed to believe without evidence because math determines the nature of physical reality. If mathematicists with pieces of paper saying they are scientist...
However, it is possible to exploit the particular architecture of helical assemblies, as the symmetry of the structure dictates that subunits (i±5) and (i±6) are located within one axial translation (L) relative to subunit (i), and subunits (i±11) within two axial translations (Fig. ...
Even though the discussion above is informative from a purely theoretical point of view and of relevance to metamaterial structures, it has a limited value for the large number of insulating materials which possess time-reversal symmetry. This is because Kramers’ theorem dictates that the corner ch...