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Recent Examples of unobservable
That sets the ultimate limit of what’s in our observable Universe, and whatever part is unobservable, beyond that, can only be inferred, not directly measured.
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Big Think, 14 June 2024
The formula could be used to infer what was really happening during a collision, even during the unobservable interim moments.
—Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
All are using shifts in gravitational waves – the ripples created in spacetime (yes, really) – to observe previously unobservable things and events in the universe.
—Andre Mouchard, Orange County Register, 19 May 2024
For Davies, the potential to test the effect could open up exciting new doors for both theoretical and applied physics, further validating nigh-unobservable phenomena predicted by theorists while expanding the tool kit experimentalists can use to interrogate nature.
—Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 20 May 2022
The team say that a noise level of just 50ppm would make the technosignature unobservable, regardless of how long the observatory studied Trappist-1e.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2022
By the start of this era, the mysterious substance acting in opposition to gravity called dark energy will have driven everything in the universe apart so much that each individual black dwarf would be surrounded by vast darkness: The supernovae would even be unobservable to each another.
—Adam Mann, Science | AAAS, 11 Aug. 2020
Our capacity for moral reasoning shouldn't depend on what's happening many googols of parsecs away in an unobservable part of the universe.
—Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2011
The hyper-expansion of space would not affect the local laws of physics, and any objects receding faster than light would be fundamentally unobservable and hence irrelevant.
—Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2013
Big Think, 14 June 2024
The formula could be used to infer what was really happening during a collision, even during the unobservable interim moments.
—Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
All are using shifts in gravitational waves – the ripples created in spacetime (yes, really) – to observe previously unobservable things and events in the universe.
—Andre Mouchard, Orange County Register, 19 May 2024
For Davies, the potential to test the effect could open up exciting new doors for both theoretical and applied physics, further validating nigh-unobservable phenomena predicted by theorists while expanding the tool kit experimentalists can use to interrogate nature.
—Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 20 May 2022
The team say that a noise level of just 50ppm would make the technosignature unobservable, regardless of how long the observatory studied Trappist-1e.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2022
By the start of this era, the mysterious substance acting in opposition to gravity called dark energy will have driven everything in the universe apart so much that each individual black dwarf would be surrounded by vast darkness: The supernovae would even be unobservable to each another.
—Adam Mann, Science | AAAS, 11 Aug. 2020
Our capacity for moral reasoning shouldn't depend on what's happening many googols of parsecs away in an unobservable part of the universe.
—Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2011
The hyper-expansion of space would not affect the local laws of physics, and any objects receding faster than light would be fundamentally unobservable and hence irrelevant.
—Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2013
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unobservable
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Some attacks were almost imperceptible at first; others disrupted everyday life and caused division among locals.Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
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To a casual viewer, the manipulation might have been imperceptible.Stuart A. Thompson, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2024
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Even the most rarefied fixtures, the ones the elite were so convinced would be so appealing, have come to seem ephemeral, indistinct.Sam Lee, The Athletic, 12 Dec. 2024
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The resulting black-and-white photograph shows some two dozen deer in a mesmerizing blur — indistinct, eerie white figures under a canopy of trees.Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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Other rooms had no windows, which became masterfully unnoticeable in Kate Figler Interiors’ Venus Drawing Room, swathed in Gracie’s Linda’s Garden mural wall covering with a valance and drapery by Perennials that evokes the feeling of a windowed space.Anne Lee Phillips, Architectural Digest, 28 Oct. 2024
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But these knocks didn’t diminish the jacket’s appeal as an almost magical, unnoticeable shield against nasty weather.Mark Eller, Outside Online, 25 Nov. 2024
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Patterns of play have been largely indiscernible, and there’s little cohesion between the organs of defense, midfield and attack.Ben Church, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
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Mentions of cica, peptides, niacinamide, salicylic acid, and ceramides make many of their ingredient lists nearly indiscernible from each other.Devon Abelman, Allure, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Unobservable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unobservable. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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