Sentences with phrase «as a physicist does»

Moreover, the laws of physics hold that it should always be possible to follow processes backward in time — as physicists do, for example, when they reconstruct particle collisions by studying the debris created in accelerators.

Not exact matches

Hawking comes up with things such as his theory that blackholes can radiate energy and since we don't have any blackhole sitting around to test his theory it remains unchallenged until a physicist of equal standing challenges it.

Peter Higgs, the physicist who first deduced and proposed the existence of the theoretical field now known as the Higgs boson, does not believe in God.

It does, however, lend credence to the concept of Intelligent Design, as more and more physicists will tell you as they gather more and more evidence for it.

We do not go to the physicist or chemist (as such) to learn how to think out and write a book.

Moreover if it did (assuming this to be possible in the framework of an overall Whiteheadian scheme), then it would itself be forcefully repudiated — and not simply by physicists, for the material world of common sense as well as of physics would be drastically impugned.

The foundations for real numbers, which physicists as well as mathematicians must have in order to do their work, were insecure under the thesis of Principia Mathematica.

A majority, composed mainly of cosmologists, physicists, chemists, and a few biologists, surmised that the extraterrestrial evolutions should proceed as the earthly one did, including the production of «humanoids,» i.e., of rational beings.

In dialogue with physicists such as David Bohm and Ilya Prigogine, process thought maintains that its view of time is more adequate, does not violate the fundamental tenets of physics, and upholds the concept and experience of freedom.

If you are simply giving your opinion, please do so without inferring that your position as a physicist somehow gives you insight into the matter that the rest of us do not have.

Put simply, the funding model «did not work out as planned,» Rush Holt, who is the CEO of AAAS (which publishes Science Careers), a former member of Congress, and a physicist who served as assistant director of a national laboratory, told the gathering.

James (left) and Gregory Benford have both written science fiction and, as physicists, done their part to help science fact catch up.

When deciding where to do your postdoc, pick a PI who will support you as an aspiring academic rather than treat you like «cheap labor at the service of a great project,» says physicist Pedro Miguel Echenique.

But as all physicists know, the standard model doesn't explain everything — it accounts for less than 20 percent of the matter in the universe, for instance — the rest is invisible or «dark» and can not be made of the ordinary matter particles found on Earth.

In the 1950s, David Bohm, a leading American physicist, did some additional work with de Broglie's idea, but for the most part pilot wave theory languished until the early 1990s when it hooked Valentini as a grad student.

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.

I was lucky to join a scuba tour that one of the physicists had organized (though I did regret not knowing Spanish, as the route and much else had to be translated — a little disconcerting in what from my novice's perspective appeared to be a matter of life and death).

The world's largest organization of physicists clarified its position on climate change last week, and it no longer believes, as it did in 2007, that the evidence for global warming is «incontrovertible.»

«Molecular electronics is something we can now do in earnest and feel good about as physicists.

So I said to myself as a child that when I become a theoretical physicist, and I do research, I want to be able to answer these questions for children who ask these questions and get no answer.

When Moffat first read Einstein's later work in 1953, he didn't dismiss it as many physicists did.

Physicist Peter Chen (also known as Chen - Yuan Chen) of Taiwan's National Pingtung University of Education reportedly constructed an elaborate web of over a hundred fake e-mail addresses and used it to get some 60 papers — all now retracted — into the Journal of Vibration and Control, which apparently did not have sufficient control of its own reviewing process.

Physicists around the world are building rudimentary quantum computers that exploit this and other quantum effects to do things that are provably impossible for ordinary computers, such as finding a target record in a database with too few queries.

The four together feel as elegant, as whole, and as complete to a physicist as a Shakespearean sonnet does to a poet.

I realize that your «Working Group On Review Of Bioengineering And Technology And Instrumentation Development Research», defined «bioengineering and technology» as encompassing areas such as biotechnology, functional genomics, informatics, chemistry and physics, nevertheless they did not discuss the problems experienced by physicists engaged in basic research on the frontier of physics and biology from the present system of study sections.

But Wertheim did not set out to argue a case or to complain — her initial intention was to fill a perceived gap by writing, as a physicist, a popular «history of physics» that took into account social studies of science.

Higgs to two - photon candidate event as seen by CMS in May 2012 When last we checked in on the hunt for the Higgs, physicists weren't yet ready to call the deal done.

Many of the folks who are involved in building the last round of nuclear weapons or even the first round of nuclear weapons are either passing away or retiring or otherwise their knowledge is becoming inaccessible; and of course there are records, but there is, as many physicists who I interviewed said, «There is nothing like learning by doing and if we want to maintain the ability to build nuclear weapons for the indefinite future, then some argue that we need to continue to build them to train up this next generation of potential nuclear weapon scientists.»

But when working at temperatures near absolute zero, a well - designed acoustic resonator could ring longer than a microwave one does, enabling it to act as a sort of quantum memory, says Robert Schoelkopf, a physicist at Yale University.

And as do all great physicists, they include some simplifying assumptions: «The track is circular rather than oval, [and] the vehicle is already traveling at a given speed on the vertical banking.»

«I don't have any formal training as a physicist,» he says, «but sometimes that's good.

Also, the machine learning software can help experimental physicists by allowing them to perform virtual measurements that would be hard to do in the laboratory, such as measuring the degree of entanglement of a system composed of many interacting qubits.

Last week famed physicist Stephen Hawking caused an uproar with his assertion that black holes do not exist — at least not as we've defined them for the past 40 years.

The particle's existence was first predicted 50 years ago by several physicists working independently, including Peter Higgs at the University of Edinburgh, as a solution to what had been one of the most vexing mysteries in physics: How do particles acquire mass?

«As it turns out, I did not mind,» McDonald, a physicist at Queen's University in Ontario, said about his predawn wake - up call.

Our background, as physicists, did not fit with the more mathematically inclined people we were trying to convince, especially in France.

He also says it is «completely wrong» to describe, as the research teams do, the chain of magnetism within spin ices as a Dirac string, a hypothetical invisible tether with a monopole at its end that was envisioned in the 1930s by English physicist Paul Dirac.

But that effort at least showed that global searches do not necessarily lead to many false positives, as some physicists feared.

He also asserts that it is «completely wrong» to describe, as the researchers do, the chain of magnetism within spin ices as a Dirac string, a hypothetical invisible tether with a monopole at its end that was envisioned in the 1930s by English physicist Paul Dirac.

Philip Walther, a physicist at the University of Vienna, and colleagues recently reported a similar result in a paper posted to the arXiv preprint server, as did Roberto Osellame of the Italian National Research Council and the Polytechnic University of Milan, and colleagues.

As STAR collaborator Salvatore Fazio explained, the RHIC physicists do it by measuring the number, trajectory, and energy level of particles called W bosons that emerge from RHIC's collisions of polarized protons.

And that's exactly what Andrew White, a physicist at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and colleagues (including Aaronson) report in today's issue of Science, as do Ian Walmsley, a physicist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and colleagues.

Now, physicists have shown that entanglement can occur across time as well, so that two photons don't have to exist at the same time to form what Albert Einstein called «spooky action at a distance.»

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.

Or if such particles, known as superpartners, do exist, they're not what physicists expected.

«It's been very hard to get a clear view of what these spicules do, as Earth's atmosphere creates a murky picture,» said Lockheed and Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory principal physicist Bart de Pontieu.

«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.

«So, the question was whether lithium will have the same effect on tungsten walls as it does with carbon walls,» said PPPL physicist Rajesh Maingi, lead author with Jiansheng Hu of the Institute of Plasma Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) of a paper describing the results in the journal Nuclear Fusion.

It is because we, the physicists, do NOT say it — or if we do say it, we only whisper it, and in private — furiously blushing as we mouth the words.