The newly discovered state could let physicists cut through those complexities and find basic laws of nature.
Yuri Milner, who made his fortune from investments in Facebook, Twitter, Zynga and Groupon, has launched a clutch of awards to recognise advances in the obscure field of fundamental physics, which aims to understand the basic laws of nature.
A union of the two would defy basic laws of nature, PC World suggests: Microsoft and Apple are about as different as two major players in the same business can be.
Some technical analysts, having seen a promise of pictorial order, go further, arguing that there are even more basic rules governing these shapes, rules that grow out of what they consider basic laws of nature and geometry; some get even more fantastical, invoking the principles of astrology.
This is not so unreasonable on independent grounds, since the basic laws of nature are expressed in equational form.
On one side are those who maintain that it is consistent with my being able to do otherwise that the past (including my character and present beliefs and desires) and the basic laws of nature logically entail that I do what I actually do.
As far as we can tell, the basic laws of nature have not changed since the beginning of time.
They will clearly not be located at the very center of the web like principles of mathematics or laws of physics; in the face of recalcitrant empirical data (e.g., data from RCTs) we will revise our views about treatment efficacy much more readily than we will reconsider what we take to be basic laws of nature.
Living systems are exceptions to the basic laws of nature that say every object in the world is happy and thermodynamically stable only when it possesses minimum possible energy content.
Macy's forgot a basic law of human nature: Shoppers love a deal.
