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Physical body

Index Physical body

In physics, a physical body or physical object (or simply a body or object) is an identifiable collection of matter, which may be constrained by an identifiable boundary, and may move as a unit by translation or rotation, in 3-dimensional space. [1]

133 relations: Abstract and concrete, Afterlife, Agrophysics, Alain Badiou, Albert of Saxony (philosopher), Ananda Marga, Anti-realism, Apparent place, Apsis, Ashʿari, Astral body, Astral projection, Astronomical object, Attribute (role-playing games), Black body, Blunt instrument, Body, Bouncing ball, Chrysippus, Classical mechanics, Conceptual model, Conceptual system, ConsensusPathDB, Contact area, Contamination, Corpuscle, Corpuscular theory of light, Cosmology in medieval Islam, Direct manipulation interface, Divine simplicity, Documentality, Drought refuge, Energy, Energy–momentum relation, Esoteric Buddhism (book), Everything, Exertion, Flight, Force, Free fall, Galileo Galilei, Gas kinetics, General relativity, Goal, Gravitational energy, Heaven and Hell (Swedenborg), Helena Blavatsky, Heliocentrism, Incorporeality, Index of metaphysics articles, ..., Index of philosophy articles (I–Q), Index of physics articles (P), Inedia, Inertia, Inertial frame of reference, Initiation (Theosophy), Intangible good, Integral yoga, Integrational theory of language, Intrinsic and extrinsic properties, Intrinsic and extrinsic properties (philosophy), Invariant mass, Kartvelian languages, Kinematic pair, Kinetic theory of gases, Landsforrådt, Laz grammar, Life, List of inventions and discoveries by women, List of philosophical concepts, Luca Valerio, Map, Mark 1, Mass, Mechanics, Mental world, Mereology, Mingrelian grammar, Monique Mayère, Motion (physics), Nest of Worlds, Newton's law of universal gravitation, Nguyen Phuong Linh, Noun, Object, Object (philosophy), Objectified, Ontology, Optical phenomena, Orbit, Outline of metaphysics, Particle, Philosophy of physics, Philosophy of space and time, Physical, Physical art, Physical body, Physical strength, Planck's law, Plane (esotericism), Politeness theory, Primary (astronomy), Promerycochoerus, Property (philosophy), Psychotherapy, Real evidence, Reality, Reincarnation, Rigid body, Sanat Kumara, Scientific temper, Septenary (Theosophy), Sign, Signorini problem, Silver (color), Sky, Snake oil, Social presence theory, Somatocentrism, Space, Stereoscopic motion, The Roots of Reference, The Thing-Ummy Bob, Theognostus of Alexandria, Toothpaste tube theory, Trajectory, Type–token distinction, Up from Dragons, Variational inequality, Vortex-induced vibration, Wash the Sins Not Only the Face, Work of art, 3D modeling. Expand index (83 more) »

Abstract and concrete

Abstract and concrete are classifications that denote whether a term describes an object with a physical referent or one with no physical referents.

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Afterlife

Afterlife (also referred to as life after death or the hereafter) is the belief that an essential part of an individual's identity or the stream of consciousness continues to manifest after the death of the physical body.

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Agrophysics

Agrophysics is a branch of science bordering on agronomy and physics, whose objects of study are the agroecosystem - the biological objects, biotope and biocoenosis affected by human activity, studied and described using the methods of physical sciences.

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Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou (born 17 January 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-François Lyotard.

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Albert of Saxony (philosopher)

Albert of Saxony (Latin: Albertus de Saxonia; c. 1320 – 8 July 1390) was a German philosopher known for his contributions to logic and physics.

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Ananda Marga

Ánanda Márga (আনন্দ মার্গ প্রচারক সংঘ, आनंद मार्ग "The Path of Bliss", also spelled Anand Marg and Ananda Marg) or officially Ánanda Márga Pracáraka Saḿgha (organisation for the propagation of the path of bliss) is a socio-spiritual organisation and movement founded in Jamalpur, Bihar, India in 1955 by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar.

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Anti-realism

In analytic philosophy, anti-realism is an epistemological position first articulated by British philosopher Michael Dummett.

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Apparent place

The apparent place of an object is its position in space as seen by an observer.

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Apsis

An apsis (ἁψίς; plural apsides, Greek: ἁψῖδες) is an extreme point in the orbit of an object.

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Ashʿari

Ashʿarism or Ashʿari theology (الأشعرية al-ʾAšʿarīyya or الأشاعرة al-ʾAšāʿira) is the foremost theological school of Sunni Islam which established an orthodox dogmatic guideline based on clerical authority, founded by Abu al-Hasan al-Ashʿari (d. AD 936 / AH 324).

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Astral body

Astral body is a subtle body posited by many philosophers, intermediate between the intelligent soul and the mental body, composed of a subtle material.

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Astral projection

Astral projection (or astral travel) is a term used in esotericism to describe a willful out-of-body experience (OBE) that assumes the existence of a soul or consciousness called an "astral body" that is separate from the physical body and capable of travelling outside it throughout the universe.

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Astronomical object

An astronomical object or celestial object is a naturally occurring physical entity, association, or structure that exists in the observable universe.

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Attribute (role-playing games)

An attribute is a piece of data (a "statistic") that describes to what extent a fictional character in a role-playing game possesses a specific natural, in-born characteristic common to all characters in the game.

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Black body

A black body is an idealized physical body that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation, regardless of frequency or angle of incidence.

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Blunt instrument

A blunt instrument is any solid object used as a weapon, which damages its target by applying direct mechanical force, and has no penetrating point or edge, or is wielded so that the point or edge is not the part of the weapon that inflicts the injury.

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Body

Body or BODY may refer to.

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Bouncing ball

The physics of a bouncing ball concerns the physical behaviour of bouncing balls, particularly its motion before, during, and after impact against the surface of another body.

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Chrysippus

Chrysippus of Soli (Χρύσιππος ὁ Σολεύς, Chrysippos ho Soleus) was a Greek Stoic philosopher.

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Classical mechanics

Classical mechanics describes the motion of macroscopic objects, from projectiles to parts of machinery, and astronomical objects, such as spacecraft, planets, stars and galaxies.

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Conceptual model

A conceptual model is a representation of a system, made of the composition of concepts which are used to help people know, understand, or simulate a subject the model represents.

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Conceptual system

A conceptual system is a system that is composed of non-physical objects, i.e. ideas or concepts.

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ConsensusPathDB

The ConsensusPathDB is a molecular functional interaction database, integrating information on protein interactions, genetic interactions signaling, metabolism, gene regulation, and drug-target interactions in humans.

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Contact area

When two objects touch, a certain portion of their surface areas will be in contact with each other.

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Contamination

Contamination is the presence of an unwanted constituent, contaminant or impurity in a material, physical body, natural environment, workplace, etc.

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Corpuscle

Corpuscle, meaning a "small body", is often used as a synonym for particle.

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Corpuscular theory of light

In optics, the corpuscular theory of light, arguably set forward by Descartes (1637) states that light is made up of small discrete particles called "corpuscles" (little particles) which travel in a straight line with a finite velocity and possess impetus.

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Cosmology in medieval Islam

Islamic cosmology is the cosmology of Islamic societies.

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Direct manipulation interface

In computer science, direct manipulation is a human–computer interaction style which involves continuous representation of objects of interest and rapid, reversible, and incremental actions and feedback.

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Divine simplicity

In theology, the doctrine of divine simplicity says that God is without parts.

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Documentality

Documentality is the theory of documents that underlies the ontology of social reality put forward by the Italian philosopher Maurizio Ferraris (see Ferraris 2007, 2008, 2009a and 2009b).

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Drought refuge

A drought refuge is a site that provides permanent fresh water or moist conditions for plants and animals, acting as a refuge habitat when surrounding areas are affected by drought and allowing ecosystems and core species populations to survive until the drought breaks.

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Energy

In physics, energy is the quantitative property that must be transferred to an object in order to perform work on, or to heat, the object.

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Energy–momentum relation

In physics, the energy–momentum relation, or relativistic dispersion relation, is the relativistic equation relating any object's rest (intrinsic) mass, total energy, and momentum: holds for a system, such as a particle or macroscopic body, having intrinsic rest mass, total energy, and a momentum of magnitude, where the constant is the speed of light, assuming the special relativity case of flat spacetime.

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Esoteric Buddhism (book)

Esoteric Buddhism is a book originally published in 1883 in London; it was compiled by a member of the Theosophical Society, A. P. Sinnett.

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Everything

Everything (or every thing), is all that exists; the opposite of nothing, or its complement.

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Exertion

Exertion is the physical or perceived use of energyNewton's Third Law, Elert, Glenn.

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Flight

Flight is the process by which an object moves through an atmosphere (or beyond it, as in the case of spaceflight) without contact with the surface.

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Force

In physics, a force is any interaction that, when unopposed, will change the motion of an object.

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Free fall

In Newtonian physics, free fall is any motion of a body where gravity is the only force acting upon it.

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Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564Drake (1978, p. 1). The date of Galileo's birth is given according to the Julian calendar, which was then in force throughout Christendom. In 1582 it was replaced in Italy and several other Catholic countries with the Gregorian calendar. Unless otherwise indicated, dates in this article are given according to the Gregorian calendar. – 8 January 1642) was an Italian polymath.

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Gas kinetics

Gas kinetics is a science in the branch of fluid dynamics, concerned with the study of motion of gases and its effects on physical systems.

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General relativity

General relativity (GR, also known as the general theory of relativity or GTR) is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915 and the current description of gravitation in modern physics.

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Goal

A goal is an idea of the future or desired result that a person or a group of people envisions, plans and commits to achieve.

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Gravitational energy

Gravitational energy is the potential energy a body with mass has in relation to another massive object due to gravity.

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Heaven and Hell (Swedenborg)

Heaven and Hell is the common English title of a book written by Emanuel Swedenborg in Latin, published in 1758.

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Helena Blavatsky

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (Еле́на Петро́вна Блава́тская, Yelena Petrovna Blavatskaya; 8 May 1891) was a Russian occultist, philosopher, and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875.

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Heliocentrism

Heliocentrism is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the Solar System.

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Incorporeality

Incorporeal or uncarnate means without a physical body, presence or form.

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Index of metaphysics articles

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that investigates principles of reality transcending those of any particular science.

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Index of philosophy articles (I–Q)

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Index of physics articles (P)

The index of physics articles is split into multiple pages due to its size.

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Inedia

Inedia (Latin for "fasting") or breatharianism is the belief that it is possible for a person to live without consuming food.

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Inertia

Inertia is the resistance of any physical object to any change in its position and state of motion.

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Inertial frame of reference

An inertial frame of reference in classical physics and special relativity is a frame of reference in which a body with zero net force acting upon it is not accelerating; that is, such a body is at rest or it is moving at a constant speed in a straight line.

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Initiation (Theosophy)

Initiation is a concept in Theosophy that there are nine levels of spiritual development that beings who live on Earth can progress upward through.

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Intangible good

An intangible good is a good that does not have a physical nature, as opposed to a physical good (an object).

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Integral yoga

Integral yoga, also called supramental yoga, is the yoga-based philosophy and practice of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother (Mirra Alfassa).

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Integrational theory of language

The Integrational theory of language is the general theory of language that has been developed within the general linguistic approach of integrational linguistics.

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Intrinsic and extrinsic properties

An intrinsic property is a property of a system or of a material itself or within.

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Intrinsic and extrinsic properties (philosophy)

An intrinsic property is a property that an object or a thing has of itself, independently of other things, including its context.

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Invariant mass

The invariant mass, rest mass, intrinsic mass, proper mass, or in the case of bound systems simply mass, is the portion of the total mass of an object or system of objects that is independent of the overall motion of the system.

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Kartvelian languages

The Kartvelian languages (ქართველური ენები, Kartveluri enebi, also known as Iberian and formerly South CaucasianBoeder (2002), p. 3) are a language family indigenous to the Caucasus and spoken primarily in Georgia, with large groups of native speakers in Russia, Iran, the United States, the European Union, Israel, and northeastern parts of Turkey.

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Kinematic pair

A kinematic pair is a connection between two bodies that imposes constraints on their relative movement.

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Kinetic theory of gases

The kinetic theory describes a gas as a large number of submicroscopic particles (atoms or molecules), all of which are in constant rapid motion that has randomness arising from their many collisions with each other and with the walls of the container.

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Landsforrådt

Landsforrådt as an adverb in the Norwegian language: "Landsforrådt" is a relatively new term in the Norwegian language.

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Laz grammar

Laz is a Kartvelian language.

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Life

Life is a characteristic that distinguishes physical entities that do have biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased, or because they never had such functions and are classified as inanimate.

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List of inventions and discoveries by women

This page aims to list the inventions and discoveries of which women were the protagonists.

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List of philosophical concepts

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Luca Valerio

Luca Valerio (1553–1618) was an Italian mathematician.

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Map

A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes.

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Mark 1

Mark 1 is the first chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.

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Mass

Mass is both a property of a physical body and a measure of its resistance to acceleration (a change in its state of motion) when a net force is applied.

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Mechanics

Mechanics (Greek μηχανική) is that area of science concerned with the behaviour of physical bodies when subjected to forces or displacements, and the subsequent effects of the bodies on their environment.

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Mental world

The mental world is an ontological category in metaphysics, populated by nonmaterial mental objects, without physical extension (though possibly with mental extension as in a visual field, or possibly not, as in an olfactory field) contrasted with the physical world of space and time populated with physical objects, or Plato's world of ideals populated, in part, with mathematical objects.

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Mereology

In philosophy and mathematical logic, mereology (from the Greek μέρος meros (root: μερε- mere-, "part") and the suffix -logy "study, discussion, science") is the study of parts and the wholes they form.

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Mingrelian grammar

Mingrelian is a Kartvelian language that is mainly spoken in the Western Georgian regions Samegrelo and Abkhazia.

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Monique Mayère

Monique Mayère, born in 1944, is a French sculptor and painter.

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Motion (physics)

In physics, motion is a change in position of an object over time.

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Nest of Worlds

Nest of Worlds (Polish: Gniazdo światów) is a 1998 science fiction novel by the Polish author Marek S. Huberath.

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Newton's law of universal gravitation

Newton's law of universal gravitation states that a particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force which is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers.

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Nguyen Phuong Linh

Nguyen Phuong Linh (born 1985) is a Vietnamese born, Hanoi-based conceptual artist.

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Noun

A noun (from Latin nōmen, literally meaning "name") is a word that functions as the name of some specific thing or set of things, such as living creatures, objects, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, or ideas.

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Object

Object may refer to.

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Object (philosophy)

An object is a technical term in modern philosophy often used in contrast to the term subject.

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Objectified

Objectified is a feature-length documentary film examining the role of everyday non-living objects, and the people who design them, in our daily lives.

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Ontology

Ontology (introduced in 1606) is the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence, or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations.

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Optical phenomena

Optical phenomena are any observable events that result from the interaction of light and matter.

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Orbit

In physics, an orbit is the gravitationally curved trajectory of an object, such as the trajectory of a planet around a star or a natural satellite around a planet.

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Outline of metaphysics

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to metaphysics: Metaphysics – traditional branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world that encompasses it,Geisler, Norman L. "Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics" page 446.

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Particle

In the physical sciences, a particle (or corpuscule in older texts) is a small localized object to which can be ascribed several physical or chemical properties such as volume, density or mass.

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Philosophy of physics

In philosophy, philosophy of physics deals with conceptual and interpretational issues in modern physics, and often overlaps with research done by certain kinds of theoretical physicists.

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Philosophy of space and time

Philosophy of space and time is the branch of philosophy concerned with the issues surrounding the ontology, epistemology, and character of space and time.

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Physical

Physical may refer to.

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Physical art

Physical art, as contrasted with conceptual art, refers to art that concretely exists in physical reality, in space and time.

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Physical body

In physics, a physical body or physical object (or simply a body or object) is an identifiable collection of matter, which may be constrained by an identifiable boundary, and may move as a unit by translation or rotation, in 3-dimensional space.

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Physical strength

Physical strength is the measure of an animal's exertion of force on physical objects.

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Planck's law

Planck's law describes the spectral density of electromagnetic radiation emitted by a black body in thermal equilibrium at a given temperature T. The law is named after Max Planck, who proposed it in 1900.

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Plane (esotericism)

In esoteric cosmology, a plane is conceived as a subtle state, level, or region of reality, each plane corresponding to some type, kind, or category of being.

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Politeness theory

Politeness theory accounts for the redressing of affronts to a person's 'face' by face-threatening acts.

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Primary (astronomy)

A primary (also called a gravitational primary, primary body, or central body) is the main physical body of a gravitationally bound, multi-object system.

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Promerycochoerus

Promerycochoerus ("Before Merycochoerus" or "Before Ruminating Hog") is an extinct genus of hippopotamus-like oreodont artiodactyl that lived in Central North America during the Early Miocene.

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Property (philosophy)

In philosophy, mathematics, and logic, a property is a characteristic of an object; a red object is said to have the property of redness.

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Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior and overcome problems in desired ways.

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Real evidence

Physical evidence (also called real evidence or material evidence) is any material object that plays some role in the matter that gave rise to the litigation, introduced as evidence in a judicial proceeding (such as a trial) to prove a fact in issue based on the object's physical characteristics.

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Reality

Reality is all of physical existence, as opposed to that which is merely imaginary.

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Reincarnation

Reincarnation is the philosophical or religious concept that an aspect of a living being starts a new life in a different physical body or form after each biological death.

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Rigid body

In physics, a rigid body is a solid body in which deformation is zero or so small it can be neglected.

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Sanat Kumara

According to the post-1900 publications of Theosophy, Lord Sanat Kumara is an "Advanced Being" at the Ninth level of initiation who is regarded as the 'Lord' or 'Regent' of Earth and of the humanity, and is thought to be the head of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth who dwells in Shamballah (also known as 'The City of Enoch').

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Scientific temper

The Scientific temper is a way of life (defined in this context as an individual and social process of thinking and acting) which uses the scientific method and which may, consequently, include questioning, observing physical reality, testing, hypothesizing, analysing, and communicating (not necessarily in that order).

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Septenary (Theosophy)

The Septenary in Helena Blavatsky's teachings refers to the seven principles of man.

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Sign

A sign is an object, quality, event, or entity whose presence or occurrence indicates the probable presence or occurrence of something else.

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Signorini problem

The Signorini problem is an elastostatics problem in linear elasticity: it consists in finding the elastic equilibrium configuration of an anisotropic non-homogeneous elastic body, resting on a rigid frictionless surface and subject only to its mass forces.

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Silver (color)

Silver or metallic gray is a color tone resembling gray that is a representation of the color of polished silver.

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Sky

The sky (or celestial dome) is everything that lies above the surface of the Earth, including the atmosphere and outer space.

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Snake oil

Snake oil is a traditional Chinese medicament utilizing fat extracted from the Chinese water snake (''Enhydris chinensis.'') It is a rubefacient and/or ointment, and is applied topically to relieve minor physical pain.

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Social presence theory

Social presence theory was developed by John Short, Ederyn Williams, and Bruce Christie, although its main thesis and major points would appear to have been first described twenty years previously in the 1956 Isaac Asimov novel The Naked Sun.

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Somatocentrism

Somatocentrism is a cultural value system in which biological determinism is the basis for social organization.

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Space

Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction.

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Stereoscopic motion

Stereoscopic motion, as introduced by Béla Julesz in his book Foundations of Cyclopean Perception of 1971, is a translational motion of figure boundaries defined by changes in binocular disparity over time in a real-life 3D scene, a 3D film or other stereoscopic scene.

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The Roots of Reference

The Roots of Reference is a 1974 book by philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine, in which the author expands on his earlier concepts about the inscrutability of reference and examines problems with traditional empiricism, arguing for a naturalized epistemology based on holism.

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The Thing-Ummy Bob

"The Thing-Ummy Bob" is a 1942 song which was written by Gordon Thompson and David Heneker which celebrates the production line worker of World War II making components for complex weapons to win the war.

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Theognostus of Alexandria

Theognostus (Θεόγνωστος; c. 210 – c. 270) was a late 3rd century Alexandrian theologian.

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Toothpaste tube theory

There are different theories in different formulations, which each have been popularly called the toothpaste tube theory. These theories usually are based on the observation that when one squeezes one end of the toothpaste tube, toothpaste is inevitably extruded from the other end.

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Trajectory

A trajectory or flight path is the path that a massive object in motion follows through space as a function of time.

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Type–token distinction

The type–token distinction is used in disciplines such as logic, linguistics, metalogic, typography, and computer programming to clarify what words mean.

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Up from Dragons

Up from Dragons: The Evolution of Human Intelligence is a 2002 book on human evolution, the human brain, and the origins of human cognition by John Skoyles and Dorion Sagan.

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Variational inequality

In mathematics, a variational inequality is an inequality involving a functional, which has to be solved for all possible values of a given variable, belonging usually to a convex set.

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Vortex-induced vibration

In fluid dynamics, vortex-induced vibrations (VIV) are motions induced on bodies interacting with an external fluid flow, produced by – or the motion producing – periodical irregularities on this flow.

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Wash the Sins Not Only the Face

Wash the Sins Not Only the Face is the second studio album by British rock band Esben and the Witch released on 21 January 2013.

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Work of art

A work of art, artwork, art piece, piece of art or art object is an aesthetic physical item or artistic creation.

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3D modeling

In 3D computer graphics, 3D modeling (or three-dimensional modeling) is the process of developing a mathematical representation of any surface of an object (either inanimate or living) in three dimensions via specialized software.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_body

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