Explanation in sentence

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So maybe physics can fill this blank, and indeed, since about the late 1960s or around 1970, physicists have purported to give a purely scientific explanation of how a universe like ours could have popped into existence out of sheer nothingness, a quantum fluctuation out of the void.

So if it has some special feature, like being really elegant or really full or really simple, like nothingness, that would require an explanation.

But if it's just one of these random, generic realities, there's no further explanation for it.

So let me be very clear: The main explanation for this is not r bigger than g.

When presented with the explanation, most people change their minds and accept the correct answer, despite being very confident in their first responses.

But Zen Buddhists practicing throughout China from the 9th to 13th century asked a different question – why do we need an explanation?

Here's an example of a design that I've done recently for a novel by Haruki Murakami, who I've done design work for for over 20 years now, and this is a novel about a young man who has four dear friends who all of a sudden, after their freshman year of college, completely cut him off with no explanation, and he is devastated.

And the child was just zipping right through it, showing them all sorts of things until they asked him how to do something which he couldn't explain and so he flipped through the manual, found the explanation and typed the command and got it to do what they asked.

Others have sought a more scientific explanation, but I think it's fair to say that they still consider the molecules of life to be special.

We don't know if it's the correct explanation, but wow, wouldn't it be exciting if quantum mechanics helps birds navigate?

Furthermore, there's an experimental way to tell this theory, apart from the inflationary explanation that I told you before.

So many artists, so many different explanations, but my explanation for performance is very simple.

And, as a bonus, understanding that light acts like a wave leads naturally to an explanation of what color is and why that pencil looks yellow.

Even though Dr. Mitchell was the first to observe patients in a state of sleep paralysis, it's so common that nearly every culture throughout time has had some kind of paranormal explanation for it.

But unlike the Higgs field, this number has no known explanation.

People have wondered about this strange effect since ancient times, and surprisingly, we still don't have a great explanation, but that's not for lack of trying.

Some of the greatest minds in history - Aristotle, Ptolemy, Da Vinci, Decartes - have all wrestled with this problem and failed to generate an adequate explanation.

But this explanation doesn't cut it.

One explanation is the Ebbinghaus Illusion, where two identical objects look different because of the relative size of the objects they're surrounded by.

Scientists aren't sure, but they think there's an evolutionary explanation.

But the most common explanation for why your stretched-out joints sound like bubbles popping is that, well, there are bubbles in there.

While that explanation was straightforward, solving puzzles like this often involves false starts and dead ends.

Their explanation for this involves the uniquely mammalian activity of nursing.

The knowledge argument contradicts the theory of physicalism, which says that everything, including mental states, has a physical explanation.

He decided that even Mary's experience of seeing red still does correspond to a measurable physical event in the brain, not unknowable qualia beyond physical explanation.

But if we're already invoking aliens in this explanation, then who is to say they didn't efficiently clean up all this mess for recycling purposes?

Personally, as a scientist, my money is on the natural explanation.

Now, a vivid explanation like that delivers a satisfying aha moment as it snaps into place in our minds.

Now that's an explanation about how the universe could have more dimensions than the ones that we see.

And if the answer that we get from our calculations agrees with the values of those numbers that have been determined through detailed and precise experimentation, this in many ways would be the first fundamental explanation for why the structure of the universe is the way it is.

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