Sentence examples for states of rest from inspiring English sources

It is clear, then, that for the changing thing the contraries will be states of rest.

This postulate implies, for example, that table tennis played on a train moving with constant velocity is just like table tennis played with the train at rest, the states of rest and motion being physically indistinguishable.

The result is that, when in a cosmic arrangement, atoms build up complex and relatively stable patterns of motion, which at the macroscopic level appear to us as states of rest or relatively gentle motion.

In a state of rest, these particles have mass and are the constituents of atoms and atomic nuclei.

Within a separately conceived space and time, from the possible states of motion one could not find an absolute state of rest.

The surface of their work is often jumpy, even hyperactive, but in "Fargo" they associated goodness with, of all things, a state of rest.

He brushed the treetops and brought her down, the basket bumping along the grass — "Hold on!" — before coming to an agitated state of rest.

For example, contact between the hairs on the feet and the ground inhibits movement and may lead to a state of rest in some insects.

Her encircling of him in her arms, his head against her chest, does communicate a powerful and poignant state of rest and peace.

In the end, Potok is drawn back to Prague, "the Pearl," where he seems to achieve a temporary state of rest.

Weight and gravitational pull have the same effect on music, I think, as they do on any physical object accelerating from a state of rest.