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- adjective Not
physical
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Examples
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I believe both sides are actually correct when they argue whether the hydrino is real or "unphysical".
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They are what scientists like to call "unphysical".
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Peter Mitchell who proposed an elaborate but basically "unphysical" mechanism for this transmembrane proton transport received a Nobel Prize.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Friedemann Freund - The Future of Forecasting Earthquakes SETI Institute 2011
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Peter Mitchell who proposed an elaborate but basically "unphysical" mechanism for this transmembrane proton transport received a Nobel Prize.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Friedemann Freund - The Future of Forecasting Earthquakes SETI Institute 2011
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Maybe unphysical curve fits are allowed in econometrics.
A Puzzler, where did Loehle go too far? EliRabett 2010
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The argument of Ref. 1, which considers only part of the process is unphysical and wrong.
Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
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For instance, to someone who is unphysical, it might seem that I am "obsessed" with exercise and health.
Root or Heart? Steven Barnes 2009
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They then take an average of the temperature for this hypothetical and unphysical planet; ironically calling it the physical average temperature, Tphys.
Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
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I am convinced the hydrino IS unphysical but only in the same sense that the "Twin Paradox" from Physics 101 is unphysical.
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Further, by ignoring heat capacity and non-radiative heat flows they claim that radiative balance requires that the surface cool by 100 K or more at night, an obvious absurdity induced by an unphysical assumption.
Archive 2009-04-01 EliRabett 2009
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