What is "predictions"

Usage examples of "predictions".

In quantum mechanics we have a purported understanding of Nature on the basis of which, step by step and quantitatively, we make predictions about what will happen if a certain experiment, never before attempted, is carried out.

We can compare the quantitative predictions of quantum theory with the measured wavelengths of spectral lines of the chemical elements, the behaviour of semiconductors and liquid helium, microprocessors, which kinds of molecules form from their constituent atoms, the existence and properties of white dwarf stars, what happens in masers and lasers, and which materials are susceptible to which kinds of magnetism.

So it was necessary to suppose that human beings in general did not know what the predictions of psychohistory were and therefore would not tailor their activities to suit.

IS A GENERAL MYTH AMONG laymen that, somehow, the chief function of a science fiction writer is to make predictions that eventually come true.

Thus, I am frequently asked, does it feel to see all the predictions you have made coming true?

At other times, I am asked with utter confidence, you give us a few of your predictions that have come true?

Compare as many doctrines as you can think of, note what predictions they make of the future, which ones are vague, which ones are precise, and which doctrines - every one of them subject to human fallibility - have error-correcting mechanisms built in.

Taylor and Russell Hulse of Princeton University have used this method to test the predictions of General Relativity in a wholly novel way.

As it turns out, the observations of binary pulsars give a precise verification of the predictions of General Relativity, and for this Taylor and Hulse were co-recipients of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics.

In every one of these instances, as in many others, the predictions of quantum mechanics are strikingly, and to high accuracy, confirmed.

If scientists cannot make such predictions, is it likely that politicians or industrialists can?

First they convince us of their honesty, reliability, the accuracy of their predictions, and their well-meant intentions.

He made some specific predictions about pending plane crashes, then returned to Marilyn and Kennedy.

The accuracy of earlier predictions led me to take this one seriously.