Sentence examples for familiar dimensions from inspiring English sources

But, he said, the ultimate aim is to take the idea even further: "It is tempting to think that our own familiar dimensions are also made this way".

"I don't think there's really anyone else like him," the Bucks' reserve point guard, Matthew Dellavedova — who, at six-four, has more familiar dimensions for the position — told me earlier this season.

Extra dimensions The three familiar dimensions of space, along with time, make up the four dimensions of our reality, but there could be many more dimensions that we are unaware of.

To get round this anomaly, some physicists propose that the familiar dimensions are "unfurled", while the other six or seven are rolled up so tightly that they cannot be seen, even with the most powerful instruments available.

He had already shown that gravity was nothing but warps and curves in the familiar dimensions of space (and time); the new idea posited that nature's other forces (for example, the electromagnetic force) amounted to warps and curves in additional, as yet unknown, spatial dimensions.

While many of the Divinity School's graduates go on to careers with familiar dimensions (for instance, as university faculty or church pastors), many are also crafting new vocational forms with their Divinity School educations, and virtually everyone is struggling to keep up with the pace of change.

One familiar dimension is belief versus desire; but this will not be our focus.

Mr. Obama's family story is the same as that of millions of other Americans who have one parent who was born in another country; his race is a familiar dimension of our cultural makeup, and his rise to where he is today, without benefit of wealth or power, is the most fabled part of what being an American is about.

String theory also suggests that in addition to the familiar three dimensions of space and one of time, our universe may have six or seven extra spatial dimensions.

To give the strings enough wiggle room to carry out their virtuoso performance, theorists have had to supplement the familiar three dimensions of space with six more -- curled up so tiny that they would be explorable only with absurdly high-powered particle accelerators the size of an entire galaxy.

Though human brains are not wired to picture a world beyond the familiar three dimensions of space, one can begin to overcome this myopia by pretending to be antlike creatures in a two-dimensional fantasy world like the one in Edwin A. Abbott's story "Flatland".