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They follow from the fundamental
theory.
SP: Well, that sounds good in theory, but has it worked that way in practice?
One of them is a sociological
theory
called homophily, which basically says people are friends with people like them.
This is a theory, an idea, that has been around for a while, and we never thought we we'd really see it.
Right now there is an aspiring teacher who is working on a 60-page paper based on some age-old education
theory
developed by some dead education professor wondering to herself what this task that she's engaging in has to do with what she wants to do with her life, which is be an educator, change lives, and spark magic.
So why does teacher education only give you
theory
and
theory
and tell you about standards and tell you about all of these things that have nothing to do with the basic skills, that magic that you need to engage an audience, to engage a student?
And when he came out of the sanitarium, he was convinced that he had been put on earth to found transfinite set
theory
because the largest set of infinity would be God Himself.
However, had Matt been there, he would have seen this mock conspiracy
theory
that was un-freaking-canny for me to assemble.
It's my belief that abstract economic
theory
that denies the needs of community or denies the contribution that community makes to economy is shortsighted, cruel and untenable.
There's a hint our moon has helped, and that's interesting because the prevailing
theory
is that the moon came into being when Theia, a body the size of Mars, crashed into a newly formed Earth.
Most chemists are not experts in evolutionary
theory.
When Einstein developed the
theory
of general relativity, one of the consequences of his
theory
was that space-time wasn't just an empty void but that it actually had a fabric.
So if this
theory
were true then it meant that light as it passed the sun should actually be bent around it.
This was a huge confirmation of the
theory.
Now, sometimes this
theory
or this model is referred to as the deductive-nomological model, mainly because academics like to make things complicated.
So just because the prediction comes true doesn't actually logically prove that the
theory
is correct.
The Ptolemaic system enabled astronomers to make accurate predictions of the motions of the planet, in fact more accurate predictions at first than the Copernican
theory
which we now would say is true.
When Darwin went out as a young man on the voyage of the Beagle, he didn't have a hypothesis, he didn't have a
theory.
Many years later back in London, Darwin looked at his data again and began to develop an explanation, and that explanation was the
theory
of natural selection.
I want a scientific
theory
of consciousness that works, and for a long time, I banged my head against the wall looking for a
theory
of consciousness in purely physical terms that would work.
That's the kind of radical idea that we need to explore if you want to have a purely reductionist brain-based
theory
of consciousness.
A really exciting thing is in recent years a neuroscientist, Giulio Tononi, has taken this kind of
theory
and developed it rigorously with a mathematical
theory.
On Tononi's theory, there's still going to be a non-zero degree of consciousness.
Now, I don't know if this
theory
is right, but it's actually perhaps the leading
theory
right now in the science of consciousness, and it's been used to integrate a whole range of scientific data, and it does have a nice property that it is in fact simple enough you can write it on the front of a t-shirt.
If we can answer those questions, then I think we're going to be well on our way to a serious
theory
of consciousness.
And so, by combining these supernova data with other measures of cosmology, we'll progressively rule out the different ideas and theories of dark energy until hopefully at the end of this survey around 2030, we would expect to hopefully see a
theory
for our universe, a fundamental
theory
for the physics of our universe, to gradually emerge.
And so one
theory
is that God was so bored with pondering the puzzle of His own existence that He created the world just to distract himself.
The laws of quantum field theory, the state-of-the-art physics, can show how out of sheer nothingness, no space, no time, no matter, nothing, a little nugget of false vacuum can fluctuate into existence, and then, by the miracle of inflation, blow up into this huge and variegated cosmos we see around us.
The laws of quantum field
theory
for him are like fiat lux, "Let there be light."
Why quantum field
theory
that describes a universe with a certain number of forces and particles and so forth?
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