"I do think it's part of a growing wave of understanding biological motion.
"I and my companions have been selected to understand and trigger the gestalt wave of understanding that will be the hyperspacial zeitgeist," Dennis wrote in his journal.
Albert and Loewer presented a dispositional version of this line of argument in their presentation of the bare theory (a version of pure wave mechanics) as a way of understanding Everett's formulation of quantum mechanics (Albert and Loewer, 1988, and Albert, 1992; see also the bare theory chapter of Barrett 1999).
It was riding a wave of new understanding about the importance of public preventive health, in particular for children whose lives could be unnecessarily blighted by poor health care.
Instead, according to historian H. Wayne Morgan, Americans reacted with "a wave of sympathetic understanding," sending in nickels and dollars to cover the debt.
Where the sale of more 'generic' products such as books, DVDs and travel can be seen as something of a first wave of ecommerce, understanding how consumers want to buy high-touch, cosmetic products online such as expensive jewellery, fitted garments and for us, eyewear, could represent something of a second wave of e-commerce.
"The last time I saw him he was going into a Marley family gig in Kingston, and he was just borne along on a wave of youth, all admiring him and understanding what he'd come to represent".
It's not a matter of keeping the distances fixed and measuring a tiny change due to a passing wave; it's a matter of understanding exactly how the distances will behave over time, accounting for them, and then looking for the periodic departures from those measurements to a high-enough precision.
This discovery initiated a wave of research and development efforts aimed at understanding and optimizing syngas fermentation for ethanol production [ 4].
