reference frame
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In the electron's reference frame, the laser intensity appeared to be about 50% of the Schwinger limit, triggering nonlinear QED phenomena.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024
However, the notion of continental groupings as a meaningful reference frame for understanding human biological variation persisted.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 22, 2022
For decades, radio astronomers have tracked minute changes in Earth’s surface rotation—the length of a day—against a cosmic reference frame: the fixed position of distant cosmic beacons called quasars.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 30, 2022
To describe the position of a person in an airplane, for example, we use the airplane, not the Earth, as the reference frame.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
In our reference frame, the vessel had put on an incredible velocity, and covered the nine-hundred-odd light-years around Rigel in six months.
From Out Around Rigel by Wilson, Robert H.
