Sentence examples for a distinguished frame of reference from inspiring English sources

Newton therefore held that physics required the conception of absolute space, a distinguished frame of reference relative to which bodies could be said to be truly moving or truly at rest.

This implies that there is in principle a distinguished frame of reference in which the velocities of bodies correspond to their true velocities, i.e. to the amounts of moving force that they truly possess, and it implies that in any frame that is in motion relative to this one, bodies will not have their true velocities.

In Modernism there is a perspective, a frame of reference; in postmodernism there is no frame, no stability: tradition is a collection of trivia.

Einstein was willing to generalize the equivalence principle, and to conclude that the classical idea of a distinguished class of frames of reference has no physical basis.

A guide helps by offering an entry point, helping to construct a frame of reference.

Descriptors are an obvious way to provide a frame of reference.

The model has three important characteristics: a general Islamic frame of reference; a multi-party democracy; and significant economic growth.

We no longer have a universal frame of reference.

"They have a larger frame of reference," he said.

I didn't have a good frame of reference".

But the recipients have a different frame of reference.