He can conceive of any particular material object as annihilated, and of the place which it occupied as standing empty; but he cannot go on and conceive of the annihilation of this bit of empty space.
Within matter it takes part in the motion of matter and in empty space it has everywhere a velocity; so that the ether has a definitely assigned velocity throughout the whole of space.
As in empty space, so too in the interior of material bodies, the ether, and not matter viewed atomistically, was exclusively the seat of electromagnetic fields.
The phenomenon of the propagation of light in empty space assigns a tract, namely, the appropriate path of light, to each interval of local time, and conversely.
My intention here is by no means to combat the notion of empty space; for it may exist where our perceptions cannot exist, inasmuch as they cannot reach thereto, and where, therefore, no empirical perception of coexistence takes place.
Illustration] One of the most interesting subjects discussed in these dialogues is the famous notion of Nature's horror of a vacuum or empty space, which the old school of philosophy considered as impossible to be obtained.
And besides, if the stars move by themselves, they either move in an empty space, or in a fluid medium like the air.
There is no such thing as empty space; that part of space which is not occupied with ponderable atoms is filled with ether.
Modern physics, for the most part, still firmly adheres to the older theory of vibration, to the idea of an actio in distans and the eternal vibration of dead atoms in empty space; it rejects the pyknotic theory.
For days the Boise had torn through the illimitable reaches of empty space, and now the long vigil of the keen-eared listeners was to be ended.
Then in that tube of vacuum was waged a spectacular duel of ultra-weapons--weapons impotent in air, but deadly in empty space.
Since there is no empty space, each motion spreads to a whole circle of bodies: A forces B out of its place, B drives out C, and so on, until Z takes up the position which A has left.
Hence it follows, first, that a proof for an empty space or empty time can never be drawn from experience, and secondly, that all change is also continuous.
Job was conversing with his friends on the inclination of its axis, and its equilibrium in space: "He spreadeth out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
For you'll remember Judd said that Ku Sui 'comes out of darkness, out of empty space.
The sky consisting of empty space, we have no need to seek commands from on high.
It found it easier and more convenient to follow its original bent, to shut its eyes on man as he is, to fall back on its stores of current notions, to derive from these an idea of man in general, and build in empty space.
On coming in contact with realities there is no temptation to soar away into the imaginary world; the fact of one being at work on solid ground of itself makes one dislike aerial excursions in empty space.
Now Melissus agreed with Parmenides that there is no such thing as empty space; and he pointed out, that if Being is globe-shaped, it must be bounded on the outside by empty space.
Being is "the full," that is, full space with no mixture of empty space in it.
This is self-contradictory, and for Parmenides, therefore, empty space is simply not-being.
Physics) Defn: In a vacuum; in empty space; as, experiments in vacuo.
That to which the term a priori should be applied is not the apprehension of empty space, which is individual, but the apprehension of the nature of space in general, which is universal.
Unfortunately, however, Kant frequently speaks of this form of perception as if it were the same thing as the actual perception of empty space.
There hangs the only world in existence; it hangs in empty space.
There they stand--two huge, lone bodies, in empty space.
We see it as a ball hung upon nothing in empty space.
Science is proud of its discovery that what men once thought to be empty space is more intensely active than the coarser forms of matter can be.
In order to flow out, then, the water would have to leave an empty space or vacuum behind it, and the air pressure would not allow this.
When you pull up the plunger, you leave an empty space; you shove the air out of the pump or syringe ahead of the plunger.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "empty space" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
