From Lorentz stems the conception of the electron; his view that his minute, electrically charged particle plays a rôle during electromagnetic phenomena in ponderable matter made it possible to apply the molecular theory to the theory of electricity, and to explain the behaviour of light waves passing through moving, transparent bodies. ❋ Unknown (1967)
In the older theory of undulation, which considered the ether as an elastic medium, there was already talk of tiny particles contained in ponderable substances which could be set in motion by light vibrations. ❋ Unknown (1967)
We will return to the propagation of light in ponderable matter. ❋ Unknown (1967)
At the same time, a start was made on a general theory which ascribed all electromagnetic processes taking place in ponderable substances to electrons. ❋ Unknown (1967)
One could never get a clear picture of the interior forces governing the ether, nor of the forces acting between the ether and the "ponderable" matter. ❋ Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 (1950)
But just at the close of the century the confidence in the status of the imponderables was rudely shaken in the minds of philosophers by the revival of the old idea of Fra Paolo and Bacon and Boyle, that heat, at any rate, is not a material fluid, but merely a mode of motion or vibration among the particles of "ponderable" matter. ❋ Unknown (1904)
Without exception, the authoritative physicists of our time accept this plenum as a verity, and reason about it with something of the same confidence they manifest in speaking of "ponderable" matter or of, energy. ❋ Unknown (1904)
The few leaders then saw clearly enough that if one form of energy is in reality merely an undulation or vibration among the particles of "ponderable" matter or of ether, all other manifestations of energy must be of the same nature. ❋ Unknown (1904)
From the time he took up his headquarters on the hill at Cassel, he became “a desk man”; it was no longer his function to execute orders; thenceforth he had the far more trying duty of issuing orders ” a truly awful responsibility and one which demands much solitude, much soul-searching as well as map-pondering and other weighing of the ponderable which is so easily off-set by the imponderable, the unguessable. ❋ Laughlin, Clara E (1918)
There is a ponderable and somewhat strange quotation of Jesus in the Christian Gospel of St. Matthew. ❋ Bishop James Magness (2011)
As a rule, they were stuffed with fear -- and with a fear so strange and alien that it had no ponderable quality. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Malaita the real, Malaita the concrete and ponderable, vanished and vanished for ever, as Meringe had vanished, as Skipper had vanished, into the nothingness. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Yet Clinton's perception of the dialectic by which, in a negotiation between unequal powers, the stronger must not be seen either to back off austerely or to jump forward too quickly, shows the acuteness that made his political insight a ponderable force to the end. ❋ Bromwich, David (2009)
As if he had died in some way years ago and was ever after some other being who had no history, who had no ponderable life to come. '' ❋ Unknown (2008)
Keep in mind that its really a wine for drinking, not for pondering, even if crus are the most ponderable. ❋ Tyler Colman (2008)
But we are living in an extraordinary time, when to perform your public duty asks a ponderable strength of heart. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Larijani himself had told the Iranian media that Putin had a “special plan” and the Supreme Leader observed that the plan was “ponderable”. ❋ Unknown (2007)
To be sure, mass-energy equivalence has figured prominently in physicists 'conception of matter in no small part because it does open up the door to a description of what we ordinarily regard as ponderable matter in terms of fields, since the energy of the field at one level can manifest itself as mass one level up. ❋ Flores, Francisco (2007)
