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  2. Relative dating - Wikipedia

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    Craters are very useful in relative dating; as a general rule, the younger a planetary surface is, the fewer craters it has. If long-term cratering rates are known to enough precision, crude absolute dates can be applied based on craters alone; however, cratering rates outside the Earth-Moon system are poorly known. [8]

  3. Category of groups - Wikipedia

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    The zero objects in Grp are the trivial groups (consisting of just an identity element). Every morphism f : G → H in Grp has a category-theoretic kernel (given by the ordinary kernel of algebra ker f = { x in G | f ( x ) = e }), and also a category-theoretic cokernel (given by the factor group of H by the normal closure of f ( G ) in H ).

  4. General relativity - Wikipedia

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    Slow motion computer simulation of the black hole binary system GW150914 as seen by a nearby observer, during 0.33 s of its final inspiral, merge, and ringdown.The star field behind the black holes is being heavily distorted and appears to rotate and move, due to extreme gravitational lensing, as spacetime itself is distorted and dragged around by the rotating black holes.

  5. Theory of relativity - Wikipedia

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    Time dilation: Moving clocks are measured to tick more slowly than an observer's "stationary" clock. Length contraction: Objects are measured to be shortened in the direction that they are moving with respect to the observer. Maximum speed is finite: No physical object, message or field line can travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum.

  6. Introduction to general relativity - Wikipedia

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    Objects are falling to the floor because the room is resting on the surface of the Earth and the objects are being pulled down by gravity. Objects are falling to the floor because the room is aboard a rocket in space, which is accelerating at 9.81 m/s 2, the standard gravity on Earth, and is far from any source of gravity. The objects are being ...

  7. Motion - Wikipedia

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    The fastest-moving plates are the oceanic plates, with the Cocos Plate advancing at a rate of 75 millimetres (3.0 in) per year [17] and the Pacific Plate moving 52–69 millimetres (2.0–2.7 in) per year. At the other extreme, the slowest-moving plate is the Eurasian Plate, progressing at a typical rate of about 21 millimetres (0.83 in) per year.

  8. Category (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    The class of all groups with group homomorphisms as morphisms and function composition as the composition operation forms a large category, Grp. Like Ord, Grp is a concrete category. The category Ab, consisting of all abelian groups and their group homomorphisms, is a full subcategory of Grp, and the prototype of an abelian category.

  9. Theory of categories - Wikipedia

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    Philosophy began to move away from the metaphysics of categorisation towards the linguistic problem of trying to differentiate between, and define, the words being used. Ludwig Wittgenstein ’s conclusion was that there were no clear definitions which we can give to words and categories but only a "halo" or "corona" [ 53 ] of related meanings ...