Sentences with phrase «history than physics»

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More than this, he was sensitive to the fact that the writing of philosophy's history can be at once technically competent and narrow He praised the «philosophical greatness achieved in American philosophy, from Peirce to Santayana, but he complained of the cultural chauvinism in failing to recognize it.5 According to Hartshorne, «One might about as easily reach great heights in philosophy without benefit of the work done in modern America as to reach them in physics without using the work of modern Germans» (Creativity 11).

No two men are more significant in the history of physics, or assume more prominent positions in introductory courses, than Galileo and Newton.

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

Leon Lederman, the well - know physicist in his book on the history of particle physics, The God Particle, (GP 175) expresses the unavoidable finitude as a limit of knowledge expressed by what Max Planck called the «quantum of action,» now known as Planck's Constant: «Heisenberg announced that our simultaneous knowledge of a particle's location and its motion is limited and the combined uncertainty of these two properties must exceed... nothing other than Planck's constant, b...

I mean, look we're reaching out to look [at], to think about the universe in scales that are so far much different than we can now measure, that you have to understand, it's the biggest extrapolation in probably a history of physics.

I wonder what he would make of the economic thinking that has led to the closure of his department, at a time when the demand for physics graduates is greater than it has ever been in all its 498 - year history?

Rather than a portrait of the man himself, Higgs is a history of the standard model of particle physics — the framework that explains the interactions between the panoply of particles and forces...

The pair hypothesized that academic fields that tend to hammer home the point of «genius,» such as physics and math would have fewer women than fields that emphasize dedication and effort, such as art history or education.

Why Does E = mc2 By Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw Master Einstein's famous equation in 266 easy pages: The authors answer their title question without using math more complicated than the Pythagorean theorem, providing a rich history of modern physics along the way.

Garland's screenplay is equally impressive, weaving references to mythology, history, physics, and visual art into casual conversations, in ways that demonstrate that Garland understands what he's talking about while simultaneously going to the trouble to explain more abstract concepts in plain language, to entice rather than alienate casual filmgoers.

Nothing is deeper than the skin, London - based multidisciplinary artist Shirazeh Houshiary's current exhibition at the Lisson Gallery in New York, combines aesthetics and the history of art, physics and poetry as a way to express her recurrent theme of a universe in flux, in disintegration.

The history behind the APS Topical Group on the Physics of Climate is a bit more complicated than one might imagine.

«There were periods in the history of the Earth when CO 2 levels were a million times higher than today, and life continued to evolve quite successfully,» agrees Vladimir Arutyunov of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Chemical Physics.

While I have my own area of technical knowledge, including some basic physics and biology, it does not extend to the core science of AGW, and so I make no direct comment on it, other than to say it has been one of the most intensely studied and debated scientific issues in history and I find it difficult to believe that the vast majority of climate scientists have got it completely wrong.

I recall more than one guest lecture at our physics department's Centre for Global Change Studies displaying a graph of spectral analysis of temperature histories, with data from multiple time scale sources including thermometer records, ice core data, etc..