Sentences with phrase «as a physicist looking»

But, as physicists look for cheaper ways to test fundamental questions, cyclotrons could experience a renaissance.

You'll play as a physicist looking for a little relaxation in Germany, 1967.

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Physicists could look for evidence of other universes using tools designed to measure ripples in spacetime — also known as primordial gravitational waves — that would have been generated by the universe's initial expansion from the Big Bang.

In other words, there is a complete paradox if we attempt to look at the ordinary physicist's view of time as anything more than an abstraction.

Modernism developed on the basis of the Newtonian universe, conceived as a complex inanimate machine, operating in absolute space and absolute time according to its own internal laws, which were also believed to be eternal and absolute.4 Understanding this «natural world» was the key to everything; physicists set about uncovering the laws by which the physical world operates; Adam Smith looked for the natural laws by which the economy operates; Darwin thought he had discovered, in the law of natural selection, the origin of species.

These waves look very different in the cyclic model, and those differences could be measured — as soon as physicists develop an effective gravity - wave detector.

As he looked round, Feinberg's eyes came to rest on a nearby plaque commemorating physicist Paul Dirac.

«It looks like important physical objects, such as curved space - times... emerge naturally from entanglement in tensor network states via holography,» writes physicist Román Orús of Johannes Gutenberg University in Germany.

By then, physicists might look back on this moment as their first glimpse of a major discovery.

In the meantime, physicists will continue to look for proton decays, as well as search for supersymmetric particles in underground traps and in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland, when it comes online in 2007.

At the time, most physicists working on electricity and magnetism were looking for analogies with gravity, which they viewed as a force acting between bodies at a distance.

A study on page 298 of this week's Nature unveils an atlas of materials that might host topological effects, giving physicists many more places to go looking for bizarre states of matter such as Weyl fermions or quantum - spin liquids.

But, as Leonard Susskind wrote, «I would bet that at the turn of the 22nd century philosophers and physicists will look nostalgically at the present and recall a golden age in which the narrow provincial 20th century concept of the universe gave way to a bigger better [multiverse]... of mind - boggling proportions.»

«It's satisfying to find a new twist on ideas dating back to the start of the 20th century, and as a materials physicist it is fascinating to be looking for materials which would operate in an environment so different to standard photocathodes.»

At the same time, he suggested, neuroscientists could take a cue from physicists in looking at natural systems as a whole rather than as a sum of their parts.

Physicists with the SNO looked at neutrinos from the sun, all of which start out as electron neutrinos.

That move was underscored last month when physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, announced that their rival accelerator had spotted signs of what looks to be the Higgs boson, the last particle to be discovered as part of the standard model of particle physics.

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.

«It's not so much that these look like really good energy schemes so much as they are clever ways of broaching some really hard questions and testing them,» says Marc Millis, the NASA physicist who oversaw the propulsion program.

Things took a more interesting turn when physicists looked at excitations in the scalar field, which are interpreted as particles.

Physicists have taken it as an article of faith that the bedrock laws are there to be discovered, if only we are clever enough in looking for them.

«Our team predicted exactly where to find the Majorana fermion and what to look for as its «smoking gun» experimental signature,» said Zhang, a theoretical physicist and one of the senior authors of the research paper.

Physicists look at neutron stars as a way of showing how matter acts under these extreme conditions.

Michelle Trachtenberg stars as Casey Carlyle, a gifted science student (don't laugh — the girl who played Winnie on «The Wonder Years» is a world - renowned physicist) looking for an «unusual but personal» project that will push her application for a special physics scholarship over the top.

Karl Urban, who played an assassin in The Bourne Supremacy and Eomer in the Lord of the Rings movies, is oddly cast as Dr. McCoy — he still looks as though he'd be more comfortable administering injuries than healing them — but the gamble pays off neatly (though the inevitable, inside - joke «Damn it, man, I'm a doctor, not a physicist,» might've been a tad more creative).

I called the resource Pupil Stars because as a Physicist I thought Slide 1 looked like a star chart and that got my students off in completely the wrong direction!

Watching a lecture by the Physicist Lawrence Krauss, I was struck by the idea that in 100 billion years, there will be no cosmic microwave background and you will look out into the sky with a telescope and only see our galaxy (all other galaxies now being so far beyond the «horizon» as to be undetectable).

«An explanation of climate change from a Nobel Prize - winning physicist looks exactly the same on your Facebook page as the denial of climate change by somebody on the Koch brothers» payroll.