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Experiment in sentence

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And there were two treatments in this experiment.
Carlos Alomar, great rock guitarist, working with Eno on David Bowie's "Lodger" album, and at one point he turns to Brian and says, "Brian, this experiment is stupid."
In the 1920's, the German mathematician David Hilbert devised a famous thought experiment to show us just how hard it is to wrap our minds around the concept of infinity.
But every experiment we've ever done, and we've tried very hard, says that everyone measures light to have a fixed speed.
In this experiment, not realizing the study had begun, participants were asked to briefly hold the coffee, either hot or iced.
If you prepare the system of two cats in boxes in this entangled state, then move the boxes to opposite ends of the universe, the outcome of the experiment will still always be the same.
In a now famous experiment, she asked H.M. to trace a third star in the narrow space between the outlines of two concentric ones while he could only see his paper and pencil through a mirror.
But if you repeat this experiment many times, keeping track of all the individual detections, you'll see them trace out a pattern that's characteristic of wave behavior: a set of stripes - regions with many electrons separated by regions where there are none at all.
The Lovelace Test is, by design, more of a thought experiment than an objective scientific test.
An experiment showed that the amount of nurturing a mother rat provides its newborn baby plays a part in determining how that baby responds to stress later in life.
That's the question philosopher Robert Nozick posed through a thought experiment he called the Experience Machine.
The experiment asks us to consider a world in which scientists have developed a machine that would simulate real life while guaranteeing experiences of only pleasure and never pain.
The experiment was actually designed to refute a philosophical notion called hedonism.
That's what Nozick believed he was demonstrating through his Experience Machine thought experiment.
Nozick's experiment may not provide all the answers, but it forces us to consider whether real life, though imperfect, holds some intrinsic value beyond the pleasure of plugging in.
"I thought you might say that, so I did one other experiment.
We had not done a single real experiment.
So a while ago, I tried an experiment.
However, only one airport, located on the equator, has granted permission for the experiment, making it the starting point, the finish line, and the only spot where the planes can land, takeoff, or refuel on the ground.
Philosopher Frank Jackson proposed this thought experiment, called Mary's room, in 1982.
The Mary's room thought experiment describes what philosophers call the knowledge argument, that there are non-physical properties and knowledge which can only be discovered through conscious experience.
Not all philosophers agree that the Mary's room experiment is useful.
Years after he proposed it, Jackson actually reversed his own stance on his thought experiment.
When they were tested at the end of the two week experiment, the intermediate and experienced players in both groups had improved by nearly the same amount.
I've got a 30-second experiment that will push you past your comfort zone.
What if we changed one small thing about the design of that experiment?
For instance, a scientist studying a new virus would consider, "How can I use the tools and techniques at hand to create an experiment that tells me how this virus infects the body's cells?
To get their hands on music, to shape it themselves, change it, to experiment with it, to make their own music.
So, NASA, at some point, did an experiment where they took images of Mars that they were mapping, and they said, instead of having three or four fully trained Ph.D.s doing this all the time, let's break it up into small components, put it up on the Web, and see if people, using a very simple interface, will actually spend five minutes here, 10 minutes there, clicking.
My team essentially collapsed 30 years of this type of research into one exciting experiment, conducted over just three months.
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