Question: Mach argued that, in effect, the water experiment in an otherwise empty universe would remain flat. But if another object were introduced into this universe, perhaps a distant star, there would now be something relative to which the bucket could be seen as rotating. The water inside the bucket could possibly have a slight curve. To account for the curve that we observe, an increase in the number of objects in the universe also increases the curvature in the water. Mach argued that the momentum of an object, whether angular or linear, exists as a result of the sum of the effects of other objects in the universe (Mach's Principle).
Try to answer this question if possible: What principle argues that the momentum of an object is independent of other objects in the universe?
Answer: unanswerable
Question: The Sanskrit grammatical tradition, Vyakarana, one of the six Vedangas, began in the late Vedic period and culminated in the Astadhyayi of Panini, which consists of 3990 sutras (ca. fifth century BCE). About a century after Panini (around 400 BCE), Katyayana composed Vartikas on the Panini sutras. Patanjali, who lived three centuries after Panini, wrote the Mahabhasya, the "Great Commentary" on the Astadhyayi and Vartikas. Because of these three ancient Vyakaranins (grammarians), this grammar is called Trimuni Vyakarana. To understand the meaning of the sutras, Jayaditya and Vamana wrote a commentary, the Kasika, in 600 CE. Paninian grammar is based on 14 Shiva sutras (aphorisms), where the whole matrika (alphabet) is abbreviated. This abbreviation is called the Pratyahara.
Try to answer this question if possible: What is Pratyahara a partial abbreviation of?
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Question: A number of decoy towns were constructed in Somerset in World War II to protect Bristol and other towns, at night. They were designed to mimic the geometry of "blacked out" streets, railway lines, and Bristol Temple Meads railway station, to encourage bombers away from these targets. One, on the radio beam flight path to Bristol, was constructed on Beacon Batch. It was laid out by Shepperton Studios, based on aerial photographs of the city's railway marshalling yards. The decoys were fitted with dim red lights, simulating activities like the stoking of steam locomotives. Burning bales of straw soaked in creosote were used to simulate the effects of incendiary bombs dropped by the first wave of Pathfinder night bombers; meanwhile, incendiary bombs dropped on the correct location were quickly smothered, wherever possible. Drums of oil were also ignited to simulate the effect of a blazing city or town, with the aim of fooling subsequent waves of bombers into dropping their bombs on the wrong location. The Chew Magna decoy town was hit by half-a-dozen bombs on 2 December 1940, and over a thousand incendiaries on 3 January 1941. The following night the Uphill decoy town, protecting Weston-super-Mare's airfield, was bombed; a herd of dairy cows was hit, killing some and severely injuring others.
Try to answer this question if possible: Where did the Pathfinder night bombers usually take off from to bomb Somerset?
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Question: Bowers confronted a similar problem in his edition of Maggie. Crane originally printed the novel privately in 1893. To secure commercial publication in 1896, Crane agreed to remove profanity, but he also made stylistic revisions. Bowers's approach was to preserve the stylistic and literary changes of 1896, but to revert to the 1893 readings where he believed that Crane was fulfilling the publisher's intention rather than his own. There were, however, intermediate cases that could reasonably have been attributed to either intention, and some of Bowers's choices came under fire both as to his judgment, and as to the wisdom of conflating readings from the two different versions of Maggie.
Try to answer this question if possible: When was Maggie first published?
Answer:
1893