Reality, ordinary

Reality Check In ordinary chemical reactions, the energy change is of the order of 50 kj/g or less. In this nuclear reaction, the energy change is much, much greater... 

Note that since there are two independent variables of both length and time, the defining equation is written in terms of the partial differentials, 3C/dt and 3C/dZ, whereas at steady state only one independent variable, length, is involved and the ordinary derivative function is used. In reality the above diffusion equation results from a combination of an unsteady-state mass balance, based on a small differential element of solid length dZ, combined with Pick s Law of diffusion. 

Industry stakeholders—including some physicians and researchers—and others with conflicts of interest have slowed both the research and the recognition of MCS. Human nature is on their side, because the reality of MCS can be difficult to accept even when you live with it. Most people trust that products on the market have been tested for human safety. Before the onset of MCS the thought never occurs to you that the ordinary products in your home or workplace could be affecting your health. Even after the connection is made we sometimes still deny the reality of those more sensitive than ourselves, until we reach that level. Don Paladin, one of the... 

In order to present clear concepts it is necessary that idealized definitions be adopted but it is reeognized that the realities of polymer science must be faced. Deviations from ideality arise with polymers at both molecular and bulk levels in ways that have no parallel with the ordinary small molecules of organic or inorganic chemistry. Although such deviations are not explicitly taken into account in the definitions below, the terms recommended can usefully be applied to the predominant structural features of real polymer molecules, if necessary with self-explanatory, if imprecise, qualifications such as essentially. , almost completely. , or highly. . Although such expressions lack the rigour beloved by the purist, every experienced polymer scientist knows that communication in this discipline is impossible without them. 

I have concluded from my studies and experiences that invisible dimensions are layered upon our world, and that many paranormal experiences occur when there are openings between worlds. The doorways often open at unexpected times. You take a trip, visit a haunted place, or have a strange dream—and suddenly reality shifts. You get a glimpse behind the curtain that separates the ordinary from the extraordinary. 

The artistic writ then proclaimed to the gaped-mouth mob is also functionally very much like that high-minded spiritual mission that had been espoused by most modernist Occultists since Eliphas Levi. Whether the particular spokesman is an Artist or an Occultist, they all proclaim that the real Universe lies beyond ordinary perception, and that only the clairvoyant modern painter can penetrate deceptive surface appearances in order to perceive the superior reality of an invisible, occult vitalism that lurks beneath. In the way that the perennial Gnostic Wisdom was stated by the Futurists in 1910,... 

I experimented with DMT on several occasions, and found that it provided access to a truly extraordinary mindspace, characterized by the preposterous but nevertheless wholly convincing sensation that the DMTverse was far closer to reality as it really is than ordinary, everyday experience. I was left with the curious impression that everyday experience might more aptly be characterized as the hallucination here, and that the warped impression of reality I experienced under the influence of DMT was in fact more genuine. ... 

I completed this book on my return to the United States, while walking through the rustic streets of my home town, taking notes, resting, and enjoying the country air. These are my personal musings on our quest to understand reality and to transcend our ordinary lives. 

When I wake up at night with ideas, I jot the ideas on a pad so that I can recall them in the morning. Proust also woke with his head flooded with memories and ideas. He sometimes awoke unaware of where he was or even who he was. He seemed to transcend space and time as he remembered events of his youth or conjured poetic visions of his great-aunt s house in Combray or his trips to Paris, Doncieres, and Venice. As you will see through anecdotes scattered throughout this book, his realities are often not ordinary realities to which you and I have ready access. 

In Eq. (15), 8(rik) is the Dirac delta function which, when integrated with the wave function, gives the value of the wave function at rik = 0. The two terms in Eq. (15) are in reality two limiting forms of the same interaction. The first term is the ordinary dipole-dipole interaction for two dipoles that are not too close to each other. It is the proper form of M S1 to be applied to p, d, and / electrons which are not found near the nucleus. For s electrons, which have a finite probability of being at the nucleus, the first term is clearly inappropriate, since it gives zero contribution at large values of rik and does not hold for small values of rik. From Dirac s relativistic theory of the electron, it is found (4) that the second term in Eq. (15) is the correct form for Si when the electron is close to the nucleus. Thus the contribution toJT S] from s electrons is proportional to the wave function squared at the site of the nucleus and the second term in Eq. (15) is often called the contact term in the hyperfine interaction. 

Wrong The chief engineer failed to realize that the vacuum pressure indicator was not equipped with a barometric pressure compensator. An ordinary vacuum pressure indicator or pressure gauge reads the pressure difference between the vacuum system and atmospheric pressure. When ambient temperatures drop, the barometer rises or ambient pressure goes up. An ordinary vacuum pressure gauge or indicator would then read an improved vacuum. But in reality, the vacuum has not changed. 

Both in operation and in terms of study, this route is complicated by our predominant cultural bias of not really paying much attention to our bodies. Our bodies are too seldom thought of as sources of information. Researchers in humanistic and transpersonal psychology are just beginning to find out that the body has a wisdom of its own—a brain of its own, as it were—that can provide us with information about ourselves and external reality and process that information. Carlos Castaneda, for example, has told me that in Don Juan s system, a sorcerer considers his body a major source of information about the world around him the sensations in his body will tell him a great deal about events that otherwise would not be perceived through ordinary sensory channels. 

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