Sentence examples for continuous matter from inspiring English sources

This was essentially the point of view taken by Aristotle when he associated his elemental qualities with continuous matter.

Continuous matter is postulated to be homogeneous and divisible without limit, each part exhibiting identical properties regardless of size.

But Aristotle's concept of continuous matter generally prevailed and influenced thought until experimental findings in the 16th century forced a return to the atomic theory.

Electronic and optical properties of structures below 100 nm are determined by quantum mechanics and such structures can no longer be described as classical continuous matter.

On the level of a multicellular organism, the cells form a continuous matter in which single cells are considered to cohere rather than adhere to one another and, at least on this level, any division of cell aggregates is treated as being a fiat body part.

The pulsed output coupling can be run at such a rate that the extracted atomic wave packets strongly overlap, forming a highly directional, quasi-continuous matter wave.

Matter is not truly continuous; if matter is subdivided into sufficiently small pieces, then indivisible components, or atoms, will appear.

Over a long career, Alice Munro's work has deepened and widened, so that coming new to one of her stories, you find all the others in your mind, mapping in some vestigial way a Canadian geography that feels continuous, no matter how much the stories shift in time and place.

Personal active sampler exposures included continuous particulate matter < 2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM2.5), 24-hr PM2.5 elemental and organic carbon (EC, OC), and 24-hr nitrogen dioxide.

The infinitesimal calculus that took form in the 16th and 17th centuries, which had as its primary subject matter continuous variation, may be seen as a kind of synthesis of the continuous and the discrete, with infinitesimals bridging the gap between the two.

The biosphere is a system characterized by the continuous cycling of matter and an accompanying flow of solar energy in which certain large molecules and cells are self-reproducing.