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And I'm from theoretical physics, so I'm used to people making very sophisticated mathematical models to precisely describe physical phenomena, so when I saw that this is the model for depression, I though to myself, "Oh my God, we have a lot of work to do." (Laughter) But this is a kind of general problem in neuroscience.
What happened back a few years ago was a group of theoretical physicists at MIT actually came up with this concept of transferring power over distance.
And that's terrifying, because the theoretical models that always work out in the answer key in the back of a teacher's edition, that's great, but it's scary to talk about sources of error when the theoretical does not match up with the practical.
In the early '70s, Roger Payne and an ocean acoustician published a theoretical paper pointing out that it was possible that sound could transmit over these large areas, but very few biologists believed it.
There's currently no theoretical limit on the lifespan of one single cell.
Students are trained in school using highly theoretical projects, rarely interacting with real people or actual communities.
Now this sounds a little theoretical, but it's not so theoretical.
And then we can fill this newly identified gap in knowledge using both experimental and theoretical approaches.
But starting with a theoretical formulation of a problem can unleash numerous opportunities for testing hypotheses and simulating scenarios and therapeutic interventions, all in a completely safe way.
A young kid might actually enjoy it and learn from it, but a better way to make a kid appreciate theoretical physics are books like "A short history of time" or "The Tao of Physics".
This could have been a true theoretical battle over good and evil, but Hartley, it appears used the stand technique of psyching out the viewer.
Fassbinder was a master to sell highly abstracts contents to his public by embedding theoretical knowledge into practical, appetizing forms.
It makes good arguments--the gap between Jesus' theoretical life and the writing of the Gospels, filled only by the writings of Paul, who doesn't indicate a historical Jesus--and then utterly fails to convincingly argue them.
My experience with quantum physics goes pretty much to my honors physics course, an interest in quantum mechanics that has led me to read up on the subject in a number of books on the theoretical aspects of the field as well as any article I can find in Discover and the like.
It's hard to say who talked him away from the style he exhibits here, but it's everyone's loss that he went into his heavily theoretical dogma direction instead.
I understand the intentions of the producers, they wanted to show to the viewers, that there was a few kids that have been charged with murder and put to death penalty... but that is only theoretical truth, deathpenaltyinfo.org on this page you can see all the people punished with death sentence, for the crime they've committed, when they were under aged... as you can see all the defendants were 17, not 14, when they committed the crime...
He is too far away, on some planet of his own, and all his characters are merely theoretical, and so far from real that the result is a really horrible joke.
Risks of breakdown are increased because our theoretical understanding of how financial markets operate is fundamentally flawed.
Such theoretical objections must be set against the fact Europe already exists - indeed, decisions are made everyday on the European level which determine our lives.
Much theoretical and empirical research demonstrates that opening trade can spur a country’s GDP growth.
From 1990 to 2010, around 70% of Russia’s leading mathematicians and half of its theoretical physicists left the country for good.
Such deep theoretical conflicts have real-world consequences, as they impede constructive debate and cooperative action in crisis situations.
Such extreme policies are still only theoretical, and implementing them would most likely spur heightened congressional scrutiny.
But, while this neat theoretical construct clarifies the problem, figuring out where a country lies on its debt-relief Laffer curve is no easy matter.
For both theoretical and practical reasons, this is a challenge that will not be met easily or quickly.
There is simply no theoretical or empirical basis for this, especially in countries like the US, where most investment (at the margin) is financed by debt and interest is tax deductible.
Hence, theoretical schemes were extended beyond reason.
Indeed, the economist Robert Mundell, whose work on optimal monetary zones is credited with laying the theoretical groundwork for the euro, insists that China should maintain its fixed exchange rate as a necessary part of its current phase of economic development.
Many member states will worry about leaping straight to the contentious issue of ultimate membership for Ukraine, but the EU already recognizes Ukraine’s theoretical right to join once it has met the Copenhagen criteria; and it cannot be beyond EU leaders’ verbal dexterity to play up the prospect.
Professors at the top universities distinguish themselves today not by being right about the real world, but by devising imaginative theoretical twists or developing novel evidence.
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