There is a thematic unity to these essays on Newton's thought: they are concerned with the central categories of Newton's metaphysics of nature (matter, causation, force, space, time) and the ways in which Newton's work relates to cultural themes such as providence and creation.
Almost overnight, armies of physicists rose up from their cubicles and stormed the blackboards in search of the ultimate theory, inflamed by visions of extra dimensions, parallel universes, new forces, space-times that could rip and tear and wrap around themselves.
In his studies of the physical aspects of force, space, and time he proposed theories counter to those suggested by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Kant addressed the Leibnizian topics of the nature of substance, the human soul and its powers, space, time, and forces, mechanism and teleology, and divine creation in passages scattered throughout his major and minor writings.
Historically, a set of core concepts—space, time, mass, force, momentum, torque, and angular momentum were introduced in classical mechanics in order to solve the most famous physics problem, the motion of the planets.
AFM-based techniques in cell and molecular biology leverage the high resolution of AFM in space, time, and force to study properties such as cell adhesion mechanics [2], polymer network dynamics [3], and protein folding [4].
While AFMs have the advantage of high resolution in space, time, and force, and cells can spread between a microfabricated cantilever and a surface [16], [23], AFM systems are currently limited to a single stiffness per experiment given by the native cantilever stiffness.
Space, time, mass, movement, force — these things could be known in a way that such metaphysical imponderables as "divine purpose" and "final causes" could not.
NASA has a spacecraft called Gravity Probe B that is examining a subtlety known as the Lense-Thirring effect that produces a small force as space-time is twisted by a spinning mass, such as a rotating planet.
It is an elementary axiom that there are four building blocks of chess strategy: time, force, space and mobility.
