Search Details

Word: highers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...fixed speed through the ether. So if you were traveling in the same direction as the light, you would expect that its speed would appear to be lower, and if you were traveling in the opposite direction to the light, that its speed would appear to be higher. Yet a series of experiments failed to find any evidence for differences in speed due to motion through the ether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Relativity | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...could use off-the-shelf mathematics to develop and solve his equations. M theorists can't: their science resides in an 11-dimensional world that is filled with weird objects called branes. Strings, in this nomenclature, are one-dimensional branes; membranes are two-dimensional branes. But there are also higher-dimensional branes that no one, including Witten, quite knows how to deal with. For these branes can fold and curl into any number of bewildering shapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unfinished Symphony | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...appeal of his intuitive imagination, it helped that Einstein was initially not associated with a brand-name institution of higher learning and that his stature did not depend on official accreditation--both of which Americans at once insist on and do not trust. To the contrary: he was eagerly adopted by ordinary folks, though he spoke the obscure language of mathematics, because he seemed removed from snooty trappings. In fact, he seemed removed from the planet, to be out of things in the way the public often adores: a lovable dreamer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age Of Einstein | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...fall, I stand still... I trudge on, I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The TIME Centennial News Quiz | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

With the Declaration, Jefferson gave the Enlightenment its most eloquent and succinct political expression. He lifted the human race into a higher orbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 18th Century: Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next