Sentence examples for the present epoch from inspiring English sources

"What's distinctive about the present epoch is that nowadays anti-utopias can be based on entirely factual material," Nevinsky's agent says.

If Hubble's constant at the present epoch is denoted as H0, then the closure density (corresponding to an Einstein de Sitter model) equals 3H02/8πG, where G is the universal gravitational constant in both Newton's and Einstein's theories of gravity.

The Balanomorpha radiated up through the Tertiary, and it is largely on the basis of their remains that Charles Darwin noted that the present epoch could go down in the fossil record as the age of barnacles.

It is perhaps this shared element of human understanding, if not nature, that we must all now look to as a means of giving the next generation something with which they can work to counter the nihilistic theism that characterises the present epoch.

Here, we review more direct, weak interaction based detection techniques for the cosmic neutrino background in the present epoch and in our local neighbourhood.

From the compilation, we adopt the ratio of the stellar mass to the ISM mass at the present epoch of 3.1±1.4.

During the present epochs the obliquity may range from close to zero, at which times Mars has no seasons, to as high as 45°, when seasonal differences are extreme.

Gomphothere, any member of a line of extinct elephants that formed the most numerous group of the order Proboscidea and lived from perhaps as early as the end of the Oligocene Epoch (33.9 million to 23 million years ago) to the late Pleistocene (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) and early Holocene (11,700 years ago to the present) epochs.

In that respect, cosmological simulations are particularly challenging, since they require a fixed simulation time of 13.7 Gyr, namely from the Big Bang until our present epoch.

Photograph by Benedicte Kurzen / NOOR for The New Yorker At the time, Burtynsky was launching his latest collaboration with Baichwal, a film and book about the Anthropocene — a term coined by scientists who believe that the present geological epoch is defined by humanity's planetary impact.

Lyell wrote: However much we may enlarge our ideas of the time which has elapsed since the Niagara first began to drain the waters of the upper lakes, we have seen that this period was one only of a series, all belonging to the present zoological epoch… How much more enormous a duration must we assign to many antecedent revolutions of the earth and its inhabitants!