acceleration
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"The instability of all Friedmann spacetimes to accelerated expansion suggests a simpler, more natural explanation for the acceleration of the universe than dark energy," he said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
Scientists have also observed its ice flowing increasingly quickly, but traditional computer models have struggled to reproduce the acceleration detected by satellites.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
Since shares have outperformed recently, investors will be looking for an acceleration in revenue growth within the company’s core business, as well as from the portion of its business serving the federal government.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
Sowmdeb Sen of Silvant Capital Management highlights companies poised to benefit from the acceleration of AI spending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
These may have traced a curved path for a short distance, but those that reached the detector had probably done so after only a single acceleration.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Across the past six seasons, STATSports - a sports technology company Kane has invested in - found his distance covered, high-speed running and accelerations were up 8%, 22% and 42% respectively.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Similar surveys pointed to accelerations in India and Japan, though private sector growth lost momentum in Australia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
On a Thursday morning in June for example, the car had been driven 7.33 miles in 18 minutes; there had been two rapid accelerations and two incidents of hard braking.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
In Physics of Fluids, from AIP Publishing, researchers from the University of Utah report snowflake accelerations in atmospheric turbulence.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 19, 2023
We are comfortable with accelerations of 1 g; we have grown up with 1 g.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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