Sentences with phrase «just as physicists»

Just as physicists thought they had found the smallest building blocks of matter — the tiny quarks and leptons — signs have begun to emerge that there are smaller particles still (page 12).

The case seemed stronger still last year when Kevork Abazajian at the University of California, Irvine, and colleagues found signs that the remnants of annihilated dark matter particles were scattering off dust in the Milky Way, just as physicists predicted they should.

Just as physicists had predicted, the unprecedented view of the cosmic cataclysm — in which two superdense neutron stars spiraled into each other — brought with it a cornucopia of insights, each of which by itself would count as a major scientific advance.

And in 1987, trillions of neutrinos arrived 3 hours before the dying star's light caught up, just as physicists would have expected.

In a stroke of great luck, Padilla and Smith made their discoveries just as physicist Valerie Browning, a new DARPA program manager, was launching an initiative of her own.

Not exact matches

When physicists investigated the subatomic realm, however, they discovered that the principle of least action is just a limiting case of the much more subtle and sophisticated path integral principle, which is the basis of quantum mechanics, as Richard Feynman showed in the 1940s.

A willingness to give serious thought to the evidence, just as astronomers and theoretical physicists.

The article was about an Albert Einstein letter; it would be just as valuable if it contained his thoughts on other physicist's work on quantum physics, or his view on nuclear weapons, etc..

All the better that I felt similarly about another task which I was given (again without asking), in the same year (1925 - 26) to help A. N. Whitehead grade papers, hence listen to him lecture, and read what he wrote as a philosopher, rather than just a logician, mathematician, and physicist.

As a physicist, I must point out that we are only just beginning to understand what the «physical» is.

I want to know if they think physicist Paul Davie is right about the obvious creation of universe governing physical laws, if Einstein was right in a God presence and what they think about quantum mechanics that goes back to von Neumann, where one is led by its logic (as Wigner and Peierls were) to the conclusion that not everything is just matter in motion.

Well, since we've already established your future as a physicist / astronaut / doctor / entrepreneur / rock star (no pressure, I love you, I just want you to be happy), I know you or the teams of people you employ will be all over this someday.

Newly analyzed observations from NASA's STEREO spacecraft show that the sun's outer corona is just as complicated as the highly structured inner corona, solar physicists reported December 12 at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

But just as scientists use radio and gamma - ray telescopes to probe different frequencies of light, physicists are building detectors sensitive to a range of gravity wave frequencies.

In 1960, physicists found that the Earth's gravity shifted the wavelengths of falling photons slightly to the blue end of the spectrum, just as Einstein had predicted (Physical Review Letters, vol 4, p 337).

Just as a doctor must assess each patient individually, so too must a physicist approach the fresh, ever - changing phenomena presented by the quantum world.

Most physicists accept entanglement as just one more counterintuitive reality of quantum physics.

In fact, a particle with some properties opposite to those of physicists» current favorite dark matter candidate — the weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP — would do just as good a job at explaining the stuff, a quartet of theorists says.

Just as light, which is an electromagnetic field, is transmitted by particles called photons, physicists expect that the mass - endowing effect of the Higgs field is ferried by Higgs bosons.

This constant wavering should create just as many anti-B mesons as B mesons, but the physicists discovered a clear bias for the matter variety — 50.5 percent matter to 49.5 percent antimatter.

Of respondents to the Snowmass Young Physicists survey, 60 % said they planned to pursue an academic job, says Jonathan Asaadi, 32, a postdoc at Syracuse University in New York and a Snowmass YPM co-convener — even though just as many expect funding for particle physics to continue to decline in coming years.

The interdisciplinary project team is made up of eco - and human toxicologists, physicists, chemists and biologists, and they have just managed to take their first major step forward in achieving their goal: they have developed a method for testing a variety of environmental samples such as river water, animal tissue, or human urine and blood that can detect nanomaterials at a concentration level of nanogram per liter (ppb — parts per billion).

The idea that the universe was made just for us — known as the anthropic principle — debuted in 1973 when Brandon Carter, then a physicist at Cambridge University, spoke at a conference in Poland honoring Copernicus, the 16th - century astronomer who said that the sun, not Earth, was the hub of the universe.

For example, in a recent Nature Physics paper, physicist Neill Lambert of the Advanced Science Institute in Japan called out new photosynthesis research as remarkable just for suggesting quantum effects can happen in biological systems at room temperature.

«Just as an observation, this is an intriguing result,» says Sarita Thakoor, a physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who works on robotic flight systems based on ideas gleaned from insects such as dragonflies and bees.

In the 1950s, interest in gravity waves accelerated as physicists realized that a quantum theory of gravity would probably require such waves (just as the original quantum mechanics required particles to be wavelike).

On 11 February, physicists working with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO)-- twin instruments in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana — announced that they had seen just what Einstein predicted: a burst of waves created as two black holes spiraled into each other 1.3 billion light - years away.

A few physicists, such as Joe Lykken of the Fermi National Laboratory and Lisa Randall of Harvard University, speculate that our situation in the real universe is just like that.

James Gates, a physicist at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the report's other co-chair, says that it's just as important to help students at 2 - year colleges and those seeking technical training as it is to address the challenges at a large research university like his.

She says that there may be practical applications in the future — a commentary accompanying the paper suggests that the method could aid in the development of technologies such as molecular wires, atom - thick conductors that could help shrink electronic devices — but that their result concerns «extremely fundamental» physics that might be just as valuable for developing quantum intuition in the next generation of physicists.

Built of wire and sealing wax in 1930 by a 29 - year - old physicist named Ernest Lawrence, the cyclotron, as it came to be called, had an accelerating chamber measuring just 4 inches across — about the size of a saucer.

Is there any chance that the bigon is just a figment — or some kind of ridiculous April Fool's joke, as virtually all other physicists are saying?

«Microbiologists have rarely taken into account fluid flow as an ecological parameter, whereas physicists have just recently started to pay attention to microbes,» he says, adding: «The ability to directly watch microbes under the controlled flow conditions afforded by microfluidic technology — which is only about 15 years old — has made all the difference in allowing us to discover and understand this effect of flow on microbes.»

Working then as a fusion physicist at the Draper Laboratory at MIT, he saw this achievement as just another step toward the goal that consumed him still: a career as an astronaut.

For much of that time, he had worked in isolation, a younger generation of physicists regarding his obsession as just that, treating him with reverence, of course, but a form of reverence in which the first faint curl of contempt might be seen.

Knowing when such storms are coming helps protect astronauts as well as ground communications: Physicists estimate that a 1989 solar outburst released enough radiation to expose astronauts on the Mir space station to their yearly dose in just a few hours.

Just as a theoretical physicist might assume Earth to be a perfect sphere, for Peterson a loaf of bread became one sugar and one protein.

«We can't just stick a thermometer in there,» says physicist Barbara Jacak, spokesperson for an instrument at RHIC that measured the energy of emitted gamma rays as a proxy for the incredible peak temperatures.

But the case for the sterile neutrino just took a hit, as physicists working on an experiment in China report data that undermine one of three key pieces of data for its existence.

So just as doctors use x-rays to look into our bodies, physicists can use muons to peek into thick structures — from volcanoes to disabled nuclear power plants.

Like Albrecht, and like just about every other physicist, Lee Smolin of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, started as a true believer in timeless law.

We have Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist, and, as it happens, director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University, where they are; we mentioned before, Steve and I were, when we were talking about origins as the issue, one of the reasons why origins is so intriguing is not just because, we can all say, well where did life come from.

Just a few weeks after one team of antihydrogen - making physicists announced that it had created 50,000 atoms of cold antihydrogen, a rival team says that it has created more than three times as many and is starting to analyze their properties.

«There is the possibility that one could use the hollow spheres as a means of chemical delivery agents, or microscopic containers of some kind, but some more work would need to be done here just to check what happens inside the spheres, in terms of sample heating,» said David McGloin, a physicist at the University of Dundee in the U.K. not connected with the Australian team.

Lithium compounds improve plasma performance in fusion devices just as well as pure lithium does, a team of physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has found.

OK, the not so good stuff: I am beginning to despise 3 - D (it adds nothing, while diminishing the brightness of colors); Jotunheim (land of the Frost Giants) is plain, gray and boring; Natalie Portman, fresh off an Oscar is just terrible as an astro - physicist with a teenager - style crush on Thor; Tom Hiddleston as Loki is one of the weakest villains I have ever seen in a super - hero / comic book movie; Rene Russo must not have read the script prior to accepting her role — she has about 3 lines and is totally wasted.

«As every physicist knows, you can travel anywhere in space and time with just a pencil, a sheet of paper and your imagination.

March 29 brings the release of Ian McEwan's Solar (Doubleday), which promises to be as topical as his last novel, 2005's Saturday — it's the story of a physicist who just might have hit on a way to save the planet.

As a physicist, I'm big on math so I focus on interest rates, but in the real world, the people with the biggest problems with debt aren't just those with the most debt, it's those with no plan to get out of debt (or to at least manage it wisely).

As a physicist, I winced when I read «This is because energy can not just be created or destroyed (unless it involves nuclear reactions or takes place on quantum physics scales).»