Sentence examples for privileged reference from inspiring English sources

Mach conjectured that any privileged reference system must be generated not by an imperceptible grid but by material reality specifically, by the total mass of the universe (galaxies and fixed stars), an idea that later served as an important starting point for Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity and gravitation.

In particular, the inertial and centrifugal forces that arise in connection with accelerated or curvilinear motions had been interpreted by Newton as effects of such motions with respect to a privileged reference medium imagined as an absolute Cartesian mesh system graphed upon a real space.

A hypothesis is advanced that the PJ beating of the Sun is induced by gravitation of Jupiter, revolving in a privileged reference system "the Sun – the Earth".

Moreover, the Scholium was not the only reason for supposing that there existed a privileged reference frame of 'rest': the working assumption of almost all physicists in the latter half of the 19th century was that, in order to understand the wave theory of light, one had to postulate an aetherial medium filling all space, wave-like disturbances in which constituted electromagnetic radiation.

For Derrida, decentering is "the stated abandonment of all reference to a center, to a subject, to a privileged reference, to an origin".

That is, we could assume that there is indeed a privileged frame of reference, and that the apparent invariance of the velocity of light is explained by the effects on bodies of their motion through the ether (the Lorentz contraction and time dilation).

If there is, in fact, a distinguishable privileged frame of reference in which the laws of mechanics take on a specially simple form, without that frame being determined in any way by relation to the matter distribution, a realist will find it hard to resist the temptation to view motions described in that frame as the 'true' or 'absolute' motions.

First, 19th-century electrodynamics raised again the question of a privileged frame of reference: the conception of light as an electromagnetic wave in the ether implied that the rest-frame of the ether itself should play a distinguished role in electrodynamical phenomena.

To do so, Kant views Newton's three laws as holding primarily in a privileged system of reference, namely the center-of-mass (CM) frame of the system of the world, which the CM-frame of our Solar System approximates to a very good degree.

Note: measurement methods must ensure that products comply with the current standards and expectations of reference subjects' privileged indicators obtained from data collected during daily activity management.

Or Else" and saying things like "Step outside, posh boy," in a reference to the privileged background of the Conservative leader, David Cameron.