The path the comet is taking through the sky suggests that it has come all the way from the Oort Cloud, a hypothetical sphere of rocks, boulders and other detritus that extends up to a light-year from the sun and which marks the outermost edge of the solar system.In this section Life in the old fossil yet Junking the idea of junk Stirling silver?
When the radius of the hypothetical sphere is small enough that it can pass through the bottleneck, a new region (connected component) becomes accessible, whereas spheres with radii larger than the bottleneck are separated into distinct connected components.
It is, as suggested in (Bushdid et al., 2014), an estimate derived from a hypothetical sphere-packing approach to filling the stimulus space, but it is the largest possible value for the correct answer, not the smallest.
The Oort cloud is a hypothetical, thinly populated sphere of icy bodies, thousands of AU away, that marks the edge of the solar system and the end of the sun's gravitational influence.
It requires an empirical determination of the difference between the fractal dimension of the measured suspension and that of a hypothetical suspension of spheres with the same particle size distribution.
A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star and hence captures most or all of its power output.
To study the interactions among the bipolar electrodes, a single-electrode cell model is proposed in which bipolar sphere is enclosed in a hypothetical cylindrical cell, the axis of which is oriented along the direction of the electric field.
Unless we can somehow resonate with an animal's experience, meaning feel it, at least at a tentative hypothetical level, it falls outside our moral sphere -- and outside God's priorities.
Three different shapes of hypothetical rock fragments were used in the study: a sphere, an ellipsoid with two different positions, and a pyramid, all represented by their 2D cross-sections (i.e., a circle, an ellipse, and a triangle, respectively).
Zero represents maximal isotropic diffusion as in a perfect sphere; one represents maximal anisotropic diffusion as in the hypothetical case of a long cylinder of minimal diameter (Fig. 5).
Aristotle needed a hypothetical essence with just the right properties to form the luminous heavenly spheres.
