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The term 'microworld' literally means a tiny world in which a student can explore and discover facts that are true about that precise world.
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Try as I might I cannot relocate it within its microworld and the more I handle its catkin inner sanctum the more it crumbles under my weight.
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Based on a concept developed for NASA, this microworld is made from handblown glass, plus a bit of earth, air, and seawater. $60 to $150, depending on size
Avital Binshtock: Gifts That Keep on Living Avital Binshtock 2011
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Based on a concept developed for NASA, this microworld is made from handblown glass, plus a bit of earth, air, and seawater. $60 to $150, depending on size
Avital Binshtock: Gifts That Keep on Living Avital Binshtock 2011
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Accepting space and time as forms of animal sense perception (that is, as biological), rather than as external physical objects, offers a new way of understanding everything from the microworld (for instance, the reason for strange results in the two-slit experiment) to the forces, constants, and laws that shape the universe.
Discover - The Biocentric Universe Theory: Life Creates Time, Space, and the Cosmos Itself William Harryman 2009
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He wanted to stop her in midjump, stop everything for half a second, atomic clocks, body clocks, the microworld in which physicists search for time—and then run it backwards, unjump the girl, rewind the life, give us all a chance to do it over.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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This parallels the lack of understanding of what can be achieved with a programming language microworld such as logo - and the decline of the use of logo in schools in the past 15 years.
OLPC implementation in Australia: some blocking points Bill Kerr 2008
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He wanted to stop her in midjump, stop everything for half a second, atomic clocks, body clocks, the microworld in which physicists search for time—and then run it backwards, unjump the girl, rewind the life, give us all a chance to do it over.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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"The greatest scientific frontier in this century is the microworld," declares engineer Yotaro Hatamura of Tokyo University.
Welcome To Lilliput 2008
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He wanted to stop her in midjump, stop everything for half a second, atomic clocks, body clocks, the microworld in which physicists search for time—and then run it backwards, unjump the girl, rewind the life, give us all a chance to do it over.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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