Sentences with phrase «space physics at»

To allow simultaneous ground - based observations, flight operations engineers at Ball Aerospace and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder will perform a maneuver turning the spacecraft around to point the telescope in the forward velocity vector.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation operates the flight system with support from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

«At such times the two fields (Earth's and the Sun's) link up,» says Christopher Russell, a Professor of Geophysics and Space Physics at UCLA.

«We are beginning to see the links in a chain that begins with solar - driven processes acting on gas in the upper atmosphere and leads to atmospheric loss,» said Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator with the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Thirty years ago he got a Ph.D. in space physics at the University of Paris.

«The MAVEN mission tells us that Mars lost substantial amounts of its atmosphere over time, changing the planet's habitability,» said David Brain, a MAVEN co-investigator and a professor at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.

This idea seems «pretty preposterous,» however, given that solar particles arrive at Earth from all directions, says Daniel Baker, director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Not exact matches

On the flip side, it is also impossible to disprove the existence of a magical being who can bend the rules of space, time, and physics at will.

Yes, I understand that quantum entanglement is not actually showing anything moving faster than the speed of light, or moving at all for that matter, but it does show how little we truly understand about how both space - time and physics and quantum physics behave so if we are making a claim based on a predictor we don't yet understand then there is virtually no chance we might be correct in our hypothesis.

This is at first treated as if it were highly relevant to the question of how the universe might have come from nothing — until Krauss acknowledges toward the end of the book that energy, space, and the laws of physics don't really count as «nothing» after all.

This, of course, assumes that what we see, or what is observable visually, should wholly determine what real space is — whereas even a casual glance at the development of modem physics shows that much of reality stubbornly defies visualization.

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.

Despite the fact that the mathematical tools at his disposal were significantly less advanced than are available today, many of his comments on the origin of space - time could easily be found in a contemporary physics paper.

Only a black hole — which is made of pure gravitational energy and gets its mass through Einstein's famous equation E = mc2 — can pack so much mass into so little space, says Bruce Allen, a LIGO member at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hanover, Germany.

«There's been no other report like this for space weather,» says lead study author Daniel Baker, a space physicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (Lspace weather,» says lead study author Daniel Baker, a space physicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (Lspace physicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LSpace Physics (LASP).

Before that, she spent three years at New Scientist as a reporter, covering space, physics and astronomy.

«No one has before made measurements when a comet passes so close by a planet,» says Associate Professor Mats Holmström at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Kiruna, Sweden.

Often described as the fabric of reality, this four - dimensional amalgamation of space and time was set at the heart of physics by Einstein (see «How to think about... Relativity «-RRB-.

«Mach wanted to obliterate Newton's absolute space and time, arguing that physics should not be at the mercy of an invisible grid that nobody can verify exists,» Barbour says.

MAVEN's principal investigator is based at the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder.

This links events within a contorted space - time geometry, such as in a black hole, with simpler physics at that space's boundary.

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It's a compelling thought experiment, and one that Adam Frank, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, and Gavin Schmidt, the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, take up in a paper published in the International Journal of Astrobiology.

«Swift is always watching the sky for bursts of X-rays and gamma - rays,» said Neil Gehrels, the mission's Principal Investigator and chief of the Astroparticle Physics Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

I also look into setting up relationships with large science organizations such as the European Space Agency, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, and the Science Museum, so that we can share content at the most basic level or work together on larger projects.

Another model predicted that cycle 24 would be weaker than recent cycles, but the present model's accuracy in predicting past events and scientists» deeper understanding of the underlying solar physics may give it an edge, according to David Hathaway, a solar astronomer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

«Our paper makes progress in one aspect of this problem,» said Krauss, a Foundation Professor in ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics, and the director of the Origins Project at ASU.

Cluster's observations provide «the first look at the future of auroral research,» says space physicist Patrick Newell of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

Further studies of SN 2009ip and its aftermath will help tease out the physics of these exotic supernovae, says Armin Rest, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland, who was not part of the study team.

Michael Moyer is the editor in charge of physics and space coverage at Scientific American.

Louis Lanzerotti, a physicist at New Jersey Institute of Technology who spent many years at Bell Labs and worked on space missions such as Voyager, Ulysses and Galileo, was a graduate student in nuclear physics at Harvard University when Telstar 1 went into orbit.

In a presentation given in Chicago on Monday at the International Conference on Particle Physics and Cosmology, Hogan said that the initial results show the Holometer is capable of measuring quantum fluctuations in space - time, if they are there.

The dynamic range that our eyes and our brains offer is much greater than a computer algorithm,» said Anupreeta More, a project researcher at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) at the University of Tokyo and a co-principal investigator for Space Warps.

«When scientists designed the mission and the instrumentation on the probes, they looked at the scientific unknowns and said, «This is a great chance to unlock some fundamental knowledge about how particles are accelerated,»» said Nicola J. Fox, deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «With five identical suites of instruments on board twin spacecraft — each with a broad range of particle and field and wave detection — we have the best platform ever created to better understand this critical region of space above Earth.»

They've inspired us with their dedication and productivity,» said Aprajita Verma, a senior researcher in the department of physics at the University of Oxford and also a co-principal investigator for Space Warps.

According to Dan Baker, REPT instrument lead at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado in Boulder, «a powerful electron acceleration event was already in progress, and we clearly saw the new belt and new slot between it and the outer belt.»

The expense and technical difficulties of aiming X-ray lasers at targets thousands of miles away in outer space had seemed insurmountable, but Dirk Bouwmeester, a former post doc under Penrose who is now a professor of physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara, saw a way to make it feasible.

«Our model shows a way to understand why these three types of cosmic messenger particles have a surprisingly similar amount of power input into the universe, despite the fact that they are observed by space - based and ground - based detectors over ten orders of magnitude in individual particle energy,» said Kohta Murase, assistant professor of physics and astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State.

MAVEN's principal investigator is based at the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.

Last summer, I attended a new media professionals workshop at the Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) in Colorado to learn more about the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission which launched last November.

My friends in physics look at space - time purely from the perspective of real physics, yet the general theory of relativity describes space - time in terms of geometry, because that's how Einstein looked at the problem.

The thesis will be defended on Tuesday 31 May at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Kiruna, Sweden.

The candidate's supervisors are Assoc. Prof. Mats Holmström and Dr Martin Wieser at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna.

«Understanding how rotating black holes drag the space - time around them and how this process affects what we see through the telescopes remains a crucial, difficult - to - crack puzzle,» said Alexander Tchekhovskoy, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

The thesis defence will take place at 9 am in the Aula at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Kiruna.

Dreamt up in the 1970s, the Unruh effect — named after one of its discoverers, physicist William Unruh, now at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver — hinges on the fact that in quantum physics, empty space is never truly empty.

asks Krimigis, the former head of the space department at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.

Laine is promoting an elevator from the lunar surface to a point in space between Earth and the moon, because the physics is kinder and at least five existing materials meet its requirements, including Zylon and Kevlar.

She received her doctorate in physics from Stanford University in 1978, and once her career as an astronaut ended, she became a physics professor at the University of California, San Diego, and director of the California Space Institute in 1989.

«We are not trying to fly the best and the latest, if what is available will meet the mission requirements,» says Stamatios Krimigis, head of the space department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, which is building the probe.