Throw a quantum superposition into the mix and the biologists who ponder these problems are likely to implode.
He retreated to isolation in Norway, for months at a time, in order to ponder these philosophical problems and to work out their solutions.
And while politicians ponder those problems, the Tlingit people are finding that hunting is harder than ever.
Dr. Broecker ponders these problems starting in the morning at his home study in Closter, N.J., after the cats have been fed, the paper has been read and he has chatted a bit with his wife, Grace, with whom he has raised six children.
He spends his evenings, friends say, preparing his defense and pondering the problems of N.S.A., which still preoccupy him.
Unmarried, Dr. Hau lives near the laboratory and spends most of her time either at the laboratory or pondering the problems her next experiment will present.
God was dead, and De Keersmaeker, like many other European choreographers, was still pondering this problem.
While they were pondering the problem, a customer stopped in to leave a watch for repair.
Pondering this problem on a trip with his wife, Dr. Olson was suddenly inspired.
That set Mr. Horvitz, who is the current president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, to pondering the problem.
Still he can't decide, and, while he is pondering the problem, Matilda is carried off by the Inquisition.
