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121Length contraction — Length contraction, according to Hendrik Lorentz, is the physical phenomenon of a decrease in length detected by an observer in objects that travel at any non zero velocity relative to that observer. This contraction (more formally called Lorentz …
122Pierre-Simon Laplace — Laplace redirects here. For the city in Louisiana, see LaPlace, Louisiana. For the joint NASA ESA space mission, see Europa Jupiter System Mission. Pierre Simon, marquis de Laplace Pierre Simon Laplace (1749–1827). Posthumous portrait …
123List of optical topics — Probably some Wikipedia articles on topics in optics are not yet listed on this page. If you cannot find the topic you are interested in on this page, the article may nonetheless exist; you can try to find it using the Search box, or look in and… …
124Eliminative materialism — (also called eliminativism) is a materialist position in the philosophy of mind. Its primary claim is that people s common sense understanding of the mind (or folk psychology) is false and that certain classes of mental states that most people… …
125List of physics topics F-L — NOTOC A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z> F * Famous physicists; see list of physicistsFa* Faraday cage * Faraday constant * Faraday s law of electrolysis * Faraday s law of induction * Faraday, Michael * Fahrenheit * Fahrenheit …
126Astral body — The Astral Sleep by Jeroen van Valkenburg The astral body is a subtle body posited by many religious philosophers, intermediate between the intelligent soul and the physical body, composed of a subtle material.[1] The concept ultimately derives… …
127James Challis — FRS (12 December 1803 ndash; 3 December 1882) was an English clergyman, physicist and astronomer. Plumian Professor and director of the Cambridge Observatory, he investigated a wide range of physical phenomena though made few lasting… …
128Earnshaw's theorem — states that a collection of point charges cannot be maintained in a stable stationary equilibrium configuration solely by the electrostatic interaction of the charges. This was first proven by Samuel Earnshaw in 1842. It is usually referenced to… …
