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Other elementary particles—those that researchers don’t believe can be divided any further—include six flavors of leptons and the Higgs, known as a scalar boson.
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These modifications of general relativity also introduce a scalar field.
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The comparison provided both the distance to the CMB and the scalar dimensions of its features, allowing the Planck team to clock the primordial universe’s expansion rate at just 67.3 kilometers per second per megaparsec.
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One set of theories is known as Tensor-vector-scalar gravity (TeVeS), which adds an extra field to gravity.
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Origin and Etymology of scalar
Latin scalaris, from scalae stairs, ladder — more at scale
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First Known Use: circa 1656
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearDefinition of scalar
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: a real number rather than a vector
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: a quantity (such as mass or time) that has a magnitude describable by a real number and no direction
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Then there is TeVeS (tensor-vector-scalar), MOND’s relativistic cousin.
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First Known Use of scalar
1846
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