Sentences with phrase «as a physicist on»

I work as a physicist on global warming using NASA satellite data.

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«The good news is the «get inside, stay inside, stay tuned» phrase works for both for the threat of a potential nuclear detonation as well as a nuclear detonation that has occurred,» Brooke Buddemeier, a health physicist and expert on radiation and emergency preparedness at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, told Business Insider.

Professionals with MBAs and corporate experience are attempting to strike out on their own as never before: Michael Lutz, for example, is a physicist and Stanford MBA who worked at Hughes Aircraft and Raychem for 15 years before he joined up with a Silicon Valley guru to launch a new venture.

Separate from greedy self - serving religion, which is obfuscating any valid discussion on the scientifically high probability of an intelligence we humans could rightfully call «extra-terrestrial,» I would guess physicists would add God to your list of probability figures as follows:

Apart from the problems with the idea of «fixed probabilities», one might think that Papineau's readiness to surrender to the physicists the last word on human thinking imperils his employment as a philosopher.

Miller now regularly presents seminars on the evidence for the shroud being the burial cloth of Christ, and he believes it also provides evidence of Christ rising: «I realised, as a physicist, that this is really like a videotape of the resurrection.»

How can profoundly deep agreement occur between David Bohm, an important quantum - physicist, and Krishnamurti, a world - teacher on philosophical spirituality, as well as with the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism?

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..

In consequence, with such models as their objective, physicists frequently formulate the content of quantum mechanics in the language of classically conceived particles and waves, because of certain analogies between the formal structures of classical and quantum mechanics... Accordingly, although a satisfactory uniformly complete interpretation of quantum mechanics based on a single model can not be given, the theory can be satisfactorily interpreted for each concrete experimental situation to which the theory is applied.2

The extreme cases of unambiguous wave and particle behaviour occur in mutually exclusive laboratory situations.7 As one physicist puts it, you may have to use a wave model on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and a particle model on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

Named after the British physicist, Peter Higgs, in the 1960s, it remains a «missing link,» as yet undetected in experiments and yet crucial to much of the current theoretical understanding of the fundamental properties of matter on the quantum scale.

He also comments on the speculations of cosmologists, physicists, mathematicians and philosophers, and evaluates the role of religious experience as evidence of a non-physical reality.

On the purely materialistic side, physicists have been arguong for quite sometime whether the laws of physics existed before or came into existence at the same time as «stuff» (new drinking game: take a drink everytime the word «stuff appears on the board»On the purely materialistic side, physicists have been arguong for quite sometime whether the laws of physics existed before or came into existence at the same time as «stuff» (new drinking game: take a drink everytime the word «stuff appears on the board»on the board»).

We have four philosopher - scientists in the Dialogues: Margaret Masterman, developing a new theory of language; Christopher Clarke, a mathematical physicist working out a theory of space; Rupert Sheldrake, who has a hypothesis of «formative causation» as supplementing energetic causation; and Jonathan Westphal, who is working on the philosophical psychology of colour perception.

Physicist David Bohm, who dares to speculate on what he considers to be the philosophical implications of modern physics, asks whether thought itself might not be part of reality as a whole.

Miller's remark that the triumph of theory «is evident in the violence and irrationality» of attacks on it repeats the scornful confidence with which Haeckel refers to those (distinguished contemporary physicists and biologists among them) who refused to abandon the «faith of our fathers» as they attacked his new monistic religion.

DE: I would like to know what Jonathan would say about putting the «secondary qualities» back into nature, as termini in sense - awareness of a process that physicists describe in terms of vibrations and so on.

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...

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.

Or (as the Observer has also discovered) underdeclaring the costs of his physicists on the spending returns by # 43,000.

Let me preface this by saying that as a physicist, I know little about the inner workings of the legal world, but here's my guess based on reading newspaper and blog accounts.

Physicist and Nobelist Serge Haroche describes using a mirrored box to trap photons to spy on them as they bounce around inside.This Nature Video was produced with support from Mars, Incorporated.

As a physicist and an eight - term member of Congress before taking the helm of AAAS, Holt has a unique perspective on the critical role science plays in a democratic society.

But many physicists are uncomfortable with seeing the wave function as a fundamental aspect of reality, preferring to treat its companion equation as a calculating device and seeking a deeper theory to explain what is really going on.

STEP began in 1971 as a thesis project by then - graduate student Paul Worden, with Stanford physicist Francis Everitt serving on the thesis committee and then as the project's chief scientist soon afterward.

Dr Weinfurtner said: «This research has been particularly exciting to work on as it has bought together the expertise of physicists, engineers and technicians to achieve our common aim of simulating the conditions of a black hole and proving that superadiance exists.

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.

Eminent physicist John Wheeler says he has only enough time left to work on one idea: that human consciousness shapes not only the present but the past as well

Smolin is too modest to say so, but he might qualify as a seventh; with physicist Fotini Markopoulou - Kalamara (our number - five pick) he works on loop quantum gravity, a promising, left - field approach to making peace between the quantum and relativity worlds.

According to the orthodox interpretation of quantum mechanics (although «orthodox» seems an odd description for such a radical world view), subatomic entities such as electrons or photons are either waves or particles — depending on how the physicist chooses to observe them.

Physicists (and most other «quants») on Wall Street will tell you over a beer that they know that finance is not a science, but they act as if it is.

The surprising findings come as physicists wrestle with conflicting results from experiments designed to detect dark matter directly on Earth (see «The ongoing WIMP war»).

Using an optical fiber and laser light, physicists have simulated a «white hole» — essentially a black hole working in reverse — as they report on page 1367 of this week's issue of Science.

Theoretical physicist Peter Woit of Columbia University in New York wrote on his blog that the LHC's two main experiments are seeing the same signal as in December — hinting at a Higgs with an energy of 125 gigaelectronvolts — but this time with greater statistical significance.

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.»

As an upgraded LHC begins collecting data from high - speed proton collisions on June 3 after a two - plus - year hiatus, physicists are anxiously wondering whether the machine's second act will lead to discoveries of new particles and forces that add pages to the catalog.

But physicist Eugene Gregoryanz of the University of Edinburgh, who works on similar experiments, decries the study's publication as a failure of the journal's review process.

Based on models of the Big Bang, physicists have inferred that the cosmos began as a ball of energetic, ephemeral particles, all moving at light speed.

About 75 % of recent RAMS participants from Fisk University, an HBCU in Nashville, Tennessee, went on to graduate school in computational sciences and engineering related fields, according to Stephen Egarievwe, a computer scientist and nuclear physicist who serves as the main RAMS connection at Fisk.

The garish pink capitals in which the lecturer chalked those words up on the blackboard remain etched in my mind, an indelible memory from my first year as an undergraduate physicist.

Gamow added the famous physicist Hans Bethe as the third co-author, not because Bethe was involved but because his inclusion would turn the author list into Alpher, Bethe and Gamow — a play on the first three letters of the Greek alphabet.

Here was a physicist who had served in the Obama administration apparently writing that climate science is uncertain on The Wall Street Journal editorial pages, which some say have served as a Bible for climate deniers.

Representing the 6,000 physicists who work on two separate detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), called CMS and ATLAS, two spokespersons said that both experiments seemed to agree, as both their data sets suggested that the Higgs has a mass close to that of about 125 hydrogen atoms.

Some physicists worry that by fixating on it and other «known unknowns», such as supersymmetry, the LHC might be missing other, more interesting, particles (see «Is the LHC throwing away too much data?»).

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

In a study whose results were published in Nature last July, physicist Ali Yazdani used a powerful microscope to track electrons as they encountered stairlike barriers on the surface of antimony, a material that shares several characteristics with topological insulators such as bismuth telluride.

As the English physicist Arthur Eddington pointed out, such a universe was balanced on a knife - edge between runaway expansion and runaway contraction.

Second, physicists had accumulated decades of experience building real machines that could manipulate and measure particles» spin; as far as thought experiments went, this one could be grounded on some well - earned confidence.

Until we have a theory that effectively integrates quantum mechanics and gravity, theoretical physicists are likely to remain almost as puzzled as everyone else about what goes on at the heart of a black hole — although that hasn't stopped them from trying to work it out.

If the project had gone on as planned, «by now we'd be asking a new generation of questions and refining them,» says theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek, a Nobel laureate at MIT.