Tenderising chopped-up cooking components

Usage examples of ingredients.

She had been scheduled to bring all the ingredients for the banquet - veal roasts, frozen jumbo shrimp, fresh strawberries and bananas for the molded salad, and bunches of broccoli - to our house on Friday morning.

In the debris they have searched for new fundamental ingredients to add to the growing list of particles.

If you understand everything about the ingredients, the reductionist argues, you understand everything.

First, you should envision a quantum field as composed of particulate ingredients, such as photons for the electromagnetic field.

But history surely has taught us that every time our understanding of the universe deepens, we find yet smaller microscopic ingredients constituting a finer level of matter.

Why do the 19 parameters that describe these ingredients quantitatively have the values that they do?

A crucial observation, central to the second superstring revolution initiated by Witten and others in 1995, is that string theory actually includes ingredients with a variety of different dimensions: two-dimensional Frisbee-like constituents, three-dimensional blob-like constituents, and even more exotic possibilities to boot.

If we were to discover that there is only one logically sound theory incorporating the basic ingredients of relativity and quantum mechanics, many feel that we would have reached the deepest understanding of why the universe has the properties it does.

As argued by Witten, this assumption has made the fundamental ingredients look and behave like one-dimensional strings even though they actually have a hidden, second spatial dimension.

And second, having made the bold leap in the 1970s and early 1980s from zero-dimensional point particles to one-dimensional strings, and having now seen that string theory actually involves two-dimensional membranes, might it be that there are even higher-dimensional ingredients in the theory as well?

Although the details are a little complicated, this number, roughly speaking, counts the possible rearrangements of the ingredients in a given physical system that leave its overall appearance intact.

Strominger and Vafa showed how some of the newfound ingredients in string theory could similarly be molded together to yield particular black holes.

From this perspective, any and all occurrences, from the formation of the sun to the crucifixion of Christ, to the motion of your eyes across this word, strictly follow from the precise positions and velocities of the particulate ingredients of the universe a moment after the big bang.

Newton declared space and time to be eternal and immutable ingredients in the makeup of the cosmos, pristine structures lying beyond the bounds of question and explanation.

Confused, she picked up the food and began unwrapping the ingredients for the soup.