"We're in one of those Internet phases in which ideally no one quite notices we're there".
Kuhn, however, only saw discontinuities – "normal" and "revolutionary" phases in which scientific communities would be thrown into periods of crisis and uncertainty.
"Politics entered one of those febrile nervous phases in which events seem to be moving towards some momentous but unknowable climax almost independent of the wishes of the actors," she wrote in her memoir, "The Downing Street Years".
The recurrence of alternating phases in which, at the darkest hour, catastrophe is averted by divine intervention is similarly an article of Vaiṣṇava Hindu faith.
At 40 to 45 percent zinc, the solidified alloys form mixed alpha and beta phases, in which hot plasticity is followed on cooling by reasonable cold-working properties.
The suspected fraud occurred in three phases in which money was laundered through bank accounts in Singapore, Switzerland, Luxembourg and the US, the government said in the court filing.
Where the standard account saw steady, cumulative "progress", he saw discontinuities – a set of alternating "normal" and "revolutionary" phases in which communities of specialists in particular fields are plunged into periods of turmoil, uncertainty and angst.
Experiments at high pressure have shown that few of the common minerals that occur at the surface will survive at depth within the mantle without changing to new high-density phases in which atoms are packed more closely together.
"I guarantee Clemson is thinking right now, 'Should we take Ryan Carter tomorrow just to lock in Nkemdiche?' " College football is a big-money sport run by coaches, administrators and bowl representatives, and the recruiting process is one of the few phases in which players have leverage.
The value "1" is assigned to indicators in phases in which the activities have taken place.
Wound healing consists of several continuous phases in which various cells and chemical intermediates are involved.
