Sentence examples for hypothetical devices from inspiring English sources

Perhaps our expectations towards such a test are too high however, as they often tend to be towards other hypothetical devices as well, such as the Rawlsian veil of ignorance or hypothetical social contracts.

In his momentous paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" (submitted on 28 May 1936 and delivered 12 November), Turing reformulated Kurt Gödel's 1931 results on the limits of proof and computation, replacing Gödel's universal arithmetic-based formal language with the formal and simple hypothetical devices that became known as Turing machines.

And then in 1936, Alan Turing developed his Turing machine, a hypothetical device that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules.

This hypothetical device can be used for grasping hold of pieces of cargo, small spaceships and even asteroids without actually touching them.

Doomsday machine, hypothetical device that would automatically trigger the nuclear destruction of an aggressor country or the extinction of all life on Earth in the event of a nuclear attack on the country maintaining the device.

The project was named after a hypothetical device mentioned in an article from 1945 and combines the words memory and index.

It was a perfect match, because tailoring the hypothetical device for an environmental pathogen would simply be a matter of using a genetic sequence from the pathogen.

The technique could one day serve to shuttle information around a quantum computer--a hypothetical device that would drastically speed up calculations by exploiting the ability of quantum systems to be in many states at the same time.

The hypothetical device would work as a magnetic cloak by creating a space that is protected from an external magnetic field while at the same time causing no telltale distortion of the field.

That occurred in China in 2003, but the word's first known usage came 20 years before, when an author named Rob Stepney, writing in the pages of the now defunct UK magazine New Society, described a hypothetical device being explored at the time: "an inhaler or 'non-combustible' cigarette, looking much like the real thing, but… delivering a metered dose of nicotine vapour.

As a final remark, unless the same concept of interstitial charge compensation, which has been postulated for the lithium fluoroferrate is also valid for the sodium analogue (see Ref [92]), the charge reaction of Na3FeF6 to Na2FeF6 cannot be the initial step, so a hypothetical device would require a discharge step in order to start its operative life.