• The hoop conjecture, proposed by Kip Thorne in 1972, states that an imploding object forms a black hole when, and only when, a circular hoop with a specific...
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    proposed his hoop conjecture, which describes an imploding star turning into a black hole when the critical circumference of the designed hoop can be placed...
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  • compressed into a sufficiently compact region of space (as specified in the hoop conjecture, the relevant length scale is the Schwarzschild radius), no light from...
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  • effect), Kip S. Thorne (relativistic multipoles, relativistic stars, hoop conjecture, membrane paradigm, gravitational-wave detectors, textbook, wormholes)...
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  • Birkhoff's theorem (relativity) Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems Hoop conjecture Fourès-Bruhat, Y. (1952). "Théorème d'existence pour certains systèmes...
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  • defined quasi-local mass to give a more precise formulation of the hoop conjecture, prove the so-called Penrose inequality for black holes (relating the...
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    closed unit disk. Mandelbrot had originally conjectured that the Mandelbrot set is disconnected. This conjecture was based on computer pictures generated...
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  • Homologous temperature Homotopy analysis method Hongjie Dai Hooke's law Hoop Conjecture Hopkinson's law Horace-Bénédict de Saussure Horace Hearne Institute...
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    about an army base refers to "the legends and stories of drop bears and hoop snakes that supposedly originated there". Other early appearances in print...
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  • practices, like irrumatio, lack simple English equivalents". There is some conjecture among linguists, as yet unresolved, that irrŭmātio may be connected with...
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    titled "Observational Tests and Theoretical Problems Relating to the Conjecture That the Strength of the Electromagnetic Interaction May Be Variable"...
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  • on the basis of the strength of tests (notably straw-in-the-wind tests, hoop tests, smoking gun tests, double decisive tests). As a consequence, what...
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    swimmers. Scientific knowledge about sharks before 1916 was based on conjecture and speculation. The attacks forced ichthyologists to reassess common...
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    the laws [of time]. The imagery of the twining serpent is connected to the hoop or wheel through the ouroboros, a ring formed by a snake holding the tip...
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  • the Kura River in the Southern Caucasus. Peter Golden considers this a conjecture which, while possible, does not seem to be in keeping with most other...
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    and wealth. The Spanish verdugado, from which "farthingale" derives, was a hoop skirt originally stiffened with esparto grass; later designs in the temperate...
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    from vibrating air (aerophones). The lamellae vibrate within a frame or hoop 121.1 Clack idiophones or Cricri - The lamella is carved in the surface of...
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    that the latter word existed and means the same as G-string supports my conjecture that the shorter term derived from the longer. B. Foley, Undressed for...
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    has even less documentation than its migration west, making it largely conjectured. The word xiàngqí (象棋) was used in China to refer to a game from 569...
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    Madison Square Garden in New York City. Piper, Michael Collins, and Ken Hoop. "A Mockery of Justice—The Great Sedition Trial of 1944." The Barnes Review...
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    on the board due to movement rules. Chess historian H. J. R. Murray conjectured that the ashtāpada was also used for some old race-type dice game, perhaps...
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    reporter John Hooper. Seracini finally published his results in 2006. In the Smithsonian Channel TV program, Da Vinci Detective, Seracini conjectures that, upon...
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  • cherry-and-white hoops, instead featuring a largely red shirt with white sleeves. The hoops returned in the 2001–02 season, with thin white hoops. In the 2005–06...
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    knucklebones, hopscotch, Duck, duck, goose and lagori, while marbles, top, hoop rolling and gully cricket are also popular among boys. Rubber bands, or ranger...
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    document to the North Carolina delegation made up of Richard Caswell, William Hooper, and Joseph Hewes meeting at the Continental Congress. There, the delegates...
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  • Shakespeare, and others. Of its authorship nothing certain is known. It is conjecture to associate it either with the name of Helinandus or with that of Petrus...
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    interconnected relationship is the physiological explanation for the conjectured G-spot and experience of vaginal orgasms, taking into account the stimulation...
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    graviton has nonzero mass Unparticle physics – Speculative theory that conjectures a form of matter that cannot be explained in terms of particles Experiments...
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    the longevity [of the currency union] now". The Wall Street Journal conjectured as well that Germany could return to the Deutsche Mark, or create another...
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    "low-born". Her descendant and biographer Charles Beauclerk calls this conjecture, based solely on what is known of her later life. Madam Gwyn is sometimes...
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