A hypothetical Star Trek: The Next Generation episode where Commander Riker says, "Computer, tell me how handsome my beard is" and it obediently shows him mugshots of his face before he logs into Forza Motorsport 5, is sort of what they are aiming for.
Believers in Planet X/Nibiru have often confused it with Nemesis, a hypothetical star first proposed by physicist Richard A. Muller.
To solve the mystery, astronomer Charles Alcock of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia postulated more than a decade ago that the flaring stars were not ordinary neutron stars; Instead, they were hypothetical "strange stars," which are so tightly squeezed that the individual neutrons break apart into their components, called quarks.
WASHINGTON ― In a closely watched trademark case the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor posed a hypothetical question starring none other than the man who's about to be president.
In the pop music pantheon, guitar gods are a dime a dozen, ditto great sax-men, drummers, or trumpet players, but if you're looking for someone to sit in on the vibraphone in your ideal, hypothetical all-star band, there's really no other choice than jazz legend Lionel Hampton.
There are also hypothetical particles, greatly favoured by Star Trek, known as tachyons.
This zone is at a distance from every star where a hypothetical Earth twin would have an average surface temperature between the freezing and boiling point of water.
The bad news is that you're just a hop, skip, and a jump away from living the life of last night's debate star: Wolf Blitzer's "hypothetical sick 30-year-old" who will die without health insurance.
For simplicity and to make the simulations generic, they modeled the two particles as hypothetical objects known as boson stars, which are similar to models that describe stars as spheres of fluid.
And with the interior of stars and the hypothetical early universe, the entire range of models must be brought to bear if one is to understand how the chemical elements were built up or to determine what sort of motions are possible in the unimaginably dense, condensed state of neutron stars.
Newer research, however, casts some doubts on this idea, given that the close orbits of those hypothetical planets around their parent stars would subject them to strong tidal forces that could render them unhabitable by triggering a greenhouse effect.
