«Understanding these behaviors is important from a fundamental physics standpoint, and essential for applying these material systems in advanced electronic devices.» (sciencedaily.com)
As an observer and a theorist, respectively, the researchers approached the work from very different perspectives — Brown as someone who looks at the sky and tries to anchor everything in the context of what can be seen, and Batygin as someone who puts himself within the context of dynamics, considering how things might work from a physics standpoint. (sciencedaily.com)
From a physics standpoint, then, the north needle of a compass (or any magnet) points to what is physically — but not in name — the south magnetic pole of the earth, in other words, in the direction of the Arctic. (scientificamerican.com)