dimensionless

• “The alternative on which much of our theories are based is that the conceptual absolute is best defined as a dimensionless point.”

  The Arrow of Time in Scientific American

• “It is the dimensionless world of the subconscious mind or, as Priestley called it, the Unconscious.”

  Ballardian » Landscapes From a Dream: How the Art of David Pelham Captured the Essence of J G Ballard’s Early Fiction

• “The more dimensionless the character, the less you'll need to use that laugh track like a cripple who needs to use his crutches to beg for spare change... the spare change of laughter, that is.”

  The Huffington Post: Joe Cristalli: How to Successfully Write Broad Comedy

• “And the dimensionless point inherent in every human being whatever their professed beliefs, is the point of access for courage, wisdom, selfless service, and love.”

  The Huffington Post: Kabir Helminski: Christopher Hitchens is "Not Great"

• “That off-putting lack of foothold, coupled with dimensionless characters, seriously hindered my enjoyment of this story (though I did like the Twilight Zone-ish ending).”

  REVIEW: 2008 Nebula Award Short Fiction Nominees [UPDATED]

• “He creates a dimensionless point of matter and a dimensionless point of light imposed upon it.”

  October 17th, 2009

• “Like most of us, however, I was too distracted or polite to point out that the Precambrian, as the Smithsonian admitted in a letter to Stufflebeam, denotes not a specific era but a "dimensionless unit of time, which embraces all the time between the origin of Earth and the beginning of the Cambrian Period of geologic time.”

  The Washington Post: Thursday Breakfast Bender

• “And I think people would start looking to see, well, maybe other dimensionless ratios like the ratio of the mass of the electron to the mass of the proton are changing.”

  NPR: Does The Universe Have a 'Dark Flow?'

• “So it is a dimensionless number that you get when you combine the square of the charge of the electron and divide it by Plank's Constant that's the constant that describes quantum mechanics, and the speed of light.”

  NPR: Does The Universe Have a 'Dark Flow?'

• “If the traditional novel takes the shape of a quest, a linearly horizontal progression through narrative time, Wotix explodes that linearity in a bewildering near-dimensionless knot or tangle of non-progression.”

  Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 9: Winter’s Heart (2000)

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