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Now, distance and changes in our universe — distance equates to time, as well as changes on the sky.
Every foot of distance you look away, or every foot of distance an object is away, you're looking back about a billionth of a second in time, and this idea or this notion of looking back in time has revolutionized our ideas about the universe, not once but multiple times.
And they showed this by measuring the brightness of supernovae, and how the brightness of the supernovae got fainter with distance.
But before they did that, we asked them to estimate the distance to the finish line.
We thought that the physical states of their body might change how they perceived the distance.
Well, waist-to-hip ratio predicted perceptions of distance.
People who were out of shape and unfit actually saw the distance to the finish line as significantly greater than people who were in better shape.
But again, before we had them walk to the finish line, we had them estimate the distance.
And again, like the previous study, we found that waist-to-hip ratio predicted perceptions of distance.
Unfit individuals saw the distance as farther, saw the finish line as farther away, than people who were in better shape.
On the other hand, people who were highly motivated to exercise saw the distance as short.
That led us to wonder, is there a strategy that we could use and teach people that would help change their perceptions of the distance, help them make exercise look easier?
We thought that people who used this strategy would see the distance as farther.
When we had them estimate the distance, was this strategy successful for changing their perceptual experience?
And this creates a psychological distance between the human patients who are being treated there and animal patients who are living in oceans and farms and jungles.
Particularly appropriate in a building that can contain perfectly a sphere dimensions of the diameter being the same as the distance from the center of the floor to the center of the Oculus.
But there was something really exciting, because I could see at a distance the TV channels covering it, and they had these big vans and the teams and the cameras, and I was basically doing the same thing and all I had was a backpack.
From then on, Hercules was ordered to present his trophies at a safe distance.
A few men can throw a ball really far, a few men, not far at all, but most, a kind of average distance.
Almost everyone who hasn't heard this before is surprised when they hear that if you take a 0.1 millimeter thick sheet of paper, the size we normally use, and, if it were big enough, fold it 50 times, its thickness would extend almost the distance from the Earth to the sun.
It's actually singing to each other over a great distance.
And so if we take the sound of the forest and we actually turn down the gibbons, the insects, and the rest, in the background, the entire time, in recordings you heard, was the sound of a chainsaw at great distance.
What you can see from here, perhaps, is that they are pretty well obscured up in the tree canopy at a distance.
That's important, because although they are able to hear chainsaw noises up to a kilometer in the distance, allowing them to cover about three square kilometers, if someone were to take them, it would make the area unprotected.
From a distance, Mark Stroman was always the spark of parties, always making girls feel pretty.
Kepler's data reveals planets' sizes as well as their distance from their parent star.
That's one of the cameras on the lander, and it just looks under the solar arrays, and you see the planet Mars and the solar array in the distance.
Now, when we got out of hibernation in January 2014, we started arriving at a distance of two million kilometers from the comet in May.
First, a triangle of 100 kilometers on a side at 100 kilometers' distance, and we repeated the whole thing at 50 kilometers.
And we can ask all those questions because there has been a revolution in our understanding of what a habitable planet is, and today, a habitable planet is a planet that has a zone where water can stay stable, but to me this is a horizontal definition of habitability, because it involves a distance to a star, but there is another dimension to habitability, and this is a vertical dimension.
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