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Dictionary » I » Impossible ImpossibleImpossible An impossibility. 'Madam, quoth he, this were an impossible!' (Chaucer) Not possible; incapable of being done, of existing, etc.; unattainable in the nature of things, or by means at command; insuperably difficult under the circumstances; absurd or impracticable; not feasible. With men this is impossible; but with god all things are possible. (Matt. Xix. 26) Without faith it is impossible to please him. (Heb. Xi. (Science: mathematics) impossible quantity, an imagnary quantity. See imaginary. Synonym: see impracticable. Origin: f, fr. L. Impossibilis; pref. Im- not _ possibilis possible. See possible.
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Results from our forumsterilization in microwave oven... are probably not sterile. - Microwave can and do superheat water above 100ºC, but this is neither reliable nor safe. Not reliable because it is impossible to predict accurately what temperature will be reached before it starts boiling (usually "explosively") nor how long you can maintain ...
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living foreverNo as you say there is no sense for death evolution wise. However life is also in the hands of entropy, and there is a time where it become impossible to repare the accumulated damages, hence death. The molecule you are speaking with is called telomere and actually represent the ends of the ...
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Re: Natural selection is proven wrong... In this case it is obvious that speciation occurred but there is no one place along the way where they suddenly changed, which then makes it impossible to find one single point along the way that they became a new subspecies (or possibly new species). To further complicate the defining of ...
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Can a turtle and a frog breed?... One could perhaps get something done by genetic engineering, but even making a true hybrid (half the genome from frog and half from turtle) sounds impossible. What you can do, even with today's technology, is a hybrid that has some genes from one species transfered into the other - but this of ...
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Endosymbiosis = Hybridization Speciation?... In this case it has to read something like this or else the section on speciation becomes illogical and leads to ambiguity that makes it impossible to determine placement of organisms that are more of a hybrid than a classical symbiosis: Hybridization Speciation (immediate) Common in ...
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