Sentences with phrase «classical physics says»

Classical physics says that fusion can only happen with light elements and that elements heavier than iron can't fuse and come from supernovae.

Classical physics says the pendulum can change direction only at the two end points, and generations of grandfather clocks have agreed.

Classical physics says that once a particle is marooned on an island of stability, it can never leave.

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As Bergson said, years before it collapsed, classical physics simply could not be literally true.

Although the proposal is couched in ground states and excitations, the language of quantum physics, the researchers say it is perfectly appropriate to think of the outcome in the more classical hot - and - cold terms of thermodynamics.

Taylor says it will be interesting to see how the quantum - mechanical behavior of tiny heat engines differs from the «classical» physics that governs familiar engines.

«There are probably some people who think... if you can teach classical mechanics to physics students, you should be able to teach motion at a lower level,» Schwarz says.

If, after multiple measurements with this experimental setup, scientists found that the measurements of the particles were correlated more than predicted by the laws of classical physics, Kaiser says, then the universe as we see it must be based instead on quantum mechanics.

In quantum tunneling, which scientists have known about for some 80 years, a particle passes through a barrier that classical mechanical physics says it shouldn't be able to.

Niels Bohr who took the opposite side of that argument said, «No, no, the quantum theory is fine; your problem is that you're trying to make sense of the world in some sort of classical terms, and you can't do that by looking through the lens of quantum physics.»

But many human experiences, Hameroff says, from dreams to subconscious emotions to fuzzy memory, seem closer to the Alice in Wonderland rules governing the quantum world than to the cut - and - dried reality that classical physics suggests.

Engineers, he says, «are used to classical physics.

«They [quantum dots] are more than five thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair, which enables them to straddle the worlds of quantum and classical physics and gives them useful optical properties,» said project lead Ted Sargent, a professor in The Edward S. Rogers Sr..

If I may use an analogy from your expertise, it's as if, in an engineering issue governed by classical physics — say the construction of a bridge between Vancouver and Victoria — you claimed, during a lecture on eng» g principles, that it could be readily and cheaply done because of some principle that you've recently discovered, through your own investigations, which happens to be contrary to one of Newton's law's.