Sentences with phrase «as a physicist with»

As a physicist with NNSA, he was among the first sent onto the scene following 9/11.

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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.

InnerEye goes beyond the research lab through cloud - based image segmentation services that integrate with third - party software products to enhance the clinical workflow of healthcare professionals such as radiation oncologists, surgeons, radiologists and medical physicists.

Overall, despite warnings from Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and prominent physicists such as Stephen Hawking, countries such as China are going full throttle towards a future that is rife with evolving, intelligent AI.

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.

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.

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?

Physicists, contrasting this view with an anthropocentric worldview, express it in terms of the anthropic principle — the human is seen as a mode of being of the universe as well as a distinctive being in the universe.

If physicists come up with a mathematically consistent explanation for God and the model works for everything in physics, then that might be the right answer, but that God won't be the God in any of mankind's religions because all of those God's have been as disproven as gravity is proven.

Whitehead observes that these lines could be taken as «the lines of force of the modern physicist» (MC 32), with the one proviso that, unlike line of force, these primitive lines never end.

Whitehead, another mathematician - physicist - philosopher, had a similar view Thus our theological scheme is no longer as seriously at odds with science or the philosophy of science as it was in the days of classical or Newtonian physics.

With Heisenberg's uncertainty article, 1927 (I read it as it reached the Harvard Library, thanks to a young physicist friend I had), many physicists began to get the message.

But apparently when Carter was working in a nuclear submarine, some nuclear physicists pronounced it as «nuculear» along with him.

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

He defines «nothing» and other key concepts precisely so as to guarantee that only the physicist's methods he is comfortable with can be applied to the question of the universe's origin — and that only a nontheological answer will be forthcoming.

The physicist David Bohm, with guidance from Einstein, produced a «hidden variables theory», involving the idea that there might be unmeasurable variables which, if «unlocked», as it were, could predict those quantities exactly and also give the probabilities predicted by QM.

He was attributing to external reality only those properties with which he as a physicist had been able to deal.

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.

Thus the physicist Pattee (1970) expresses himself as neither satisfied with the claim that physics explains how life works nor the claim that physics can not explain how life arose.

Nevertheless, many of the greatest physicists, such as Eddington (1936), continued to believe that with the advent of quantum mechanics the electromagnetic theory of matter had entered into its final state and that all matter consisted of electrons and protons.

Here I agree with Popper, as well as Einstein, against some quantum physicists.

NeverBeenBrainwashed Not that I disagree with Hawking, but as far as brilliant minds go, lets not pretend that Hawking is something of an anomaly among physicists.

Here, as Rabkin summarizes the physicist Niels Bohr, twentieth - century physicists «forced to live with apparently irresolvable paradoxes and contrarieties are, distressing though it may seem at first, in the mainstream of human experience.»

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.

His rise to fame and relationship with his first wife, Jane, who was a Christian, was dramatised in a 2014 film, The Theory Of Everything, in which Eddie Redmayne put in an Oscar - winning performance as the physicist battling with a devastating illness.

In 2012, four physicists at the University of California, Santa Barbara — Ahmed Almheiri, Donald Marolf, Joseph Polchinski and James Sully, known collectively by physicists as AMPS — shocked the physics community with the results of a thought experiment.

«Our research shows for the first time that classical systems such as artificial spin ice can be designed to demonstrate topological ordered phases, which previously have been found only in quantum conditions,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Cristiano Nisoli, leader of the theoretical group that collaborated with an experimental group at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, led by Peter Schiffer (now at Yale University).

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.

That's why it was a surprise when physicists with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced in February 2016 that they had detected ripples in space from the violent merger of two black holes 29 and 36 times as massive as our sun.

Although the chat was not completely secure from hacking, it was about a million times as secure as what's possible with standard, or classical types of encryption, says Rupert Ursin, a physicist at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna and a member of the Austrian team.

Physicists working with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO), which has twin instruments in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, spotted a burst of gravitational waves from black holes 29 and 36 times as massive as the sun that spiraled into each other 1.3 billion light - years away.

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.

This connection with a man of such broad yet practical brilliance and deep scientific curiosity may be why Congressmen Richard Hanna (R - NY) and Rush Holt (D - NJ and a Ph.D. physicist) arranged to use the Library's exquisite Members of Congress Room as the setting for an event marking what they consider a significant milestone in American education: the establishment of the country's 300th Professional Science Master's degree (PSM) program.

As a physicist at the University of Colorado in the 1970s and 1980s, he taught a popular course called The Physics of Snow, and in 1996 he co-authored The Physics of Skiing with his son - in - law, Scott Sanders.

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.

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.

Amazingly, physicist Serge Haroche and his team at École Normale Supérieure in Paris reported in August that they were able to watch the process of this collapse as it happened in a photon, one of the most difficult — and most useful — particles to work with in experimental physics.

Paul Ewart, an atomic and optical physicist at Oxford, describes himself as «pessimistic» about finding God hidden within the uncertainty principle, with or without chaos to lend a helping hand.

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.

It has become a very effective group in parliament, according to Adams, meeting regularly with advocates for postsecondary and research interests (such as the Canadian Society for Chemistry, the Canadian Association of Physicists, and the Canadian Federation of Biological Sciences) and assisting them in communicating their views within the federal system.

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.

While there are still parts to be tested with greater precision and aspects to be fully exploited (such as using gravity waves to detect the formation of black holes and events that occurred during the earliest moments of creation), physicists are ready and eager to go beyond Einstein in their understanding of gravity.

Nanoplasmonic materials have attracted the attention of biologists, chemists, physicists and material scientists, with possible uses in a diverse array of fields, such as biosensing, data storage, light generation and solar cells.

An international team of physicists is preparing XENON100, a simple experiment with a huge ambition: to record the moment when a bit of dark matter — known as a weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP — smacks into the nucleus of an atom of liquid xenon, triggering a flash of light and an electric charge.

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»).

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 B meson is paired with an anti-B meson, which physicists indicate in their equations as a B with a bar drawn over it, and they pronounce it «B - bar.»

«The frontiers of fundamental physics have traditionally been studied with particle colliders, such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, by smashing together subatomic particles at great energies,» says UCSD physicist George Fuller, who collaborated with Paris and other staff scientists at Los Alamos to develop the novel theoretical model.

Physicist Brown illuminates all these episodes — as well as Planck's celebrated friendship with Einstein — with heartbreaking empathy.

As part of the Manhattan Project effort to build an atomic bomb during World War II, Szilard worked together with physicist Enrico Fermi and other colleagues at the University of Chicago to create the world's first experimental nuclear reactor.