Sentences with phrase «as physicists call»

Supersymmetry — or SUSY, as physicists call it — predicts that every particle known to physics has a heavier, «super» partner: For every electron, there's a selectron; for every quark, a squark.

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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:

The general implications of which I am thinking are, so far as I can see, independent of the divergences between the versions of «Relativity» advocated by individual physicists; their value as I think, is that they enable us to formulate the problem to which Bergson has the eminent merit of making the first approach in a clear and definite way, and to escape what I should call the impossible dualism to which Bergson's own proposed solution commits him.

It reflects the understanding of some physicists that what they have called matter in the past is better viewed as energy.

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...

The «little - air - monitor - that - could,» as physicist and former U.S. diplomat David Roberts calls it, has become a worldwide watchdog.

For nearly a century, physicists have explained the peculiarities of their quantum properties — such as wave - particle duality and indeterminism — by invoking an entity called the wave function, which exists in a superposition of all possible states at once right up until someone observes it, at which point it is said to «collapse» into a single state.

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.

The growing disorder — physicists call it an increase in entropy — is driven by the expansion of the universe, which may be the origin of what we think of as the ceaseless forward march of time.

Now, Jeffrey Hangst, an experimental physicist at Aarhus University in Denmark, and his 48 colleagues at the ALPHA collaboration at CERN have precisely measured the energy difference between antihydrogen's lowest energy state, called the 1S, and a higher energy state known as the 2S, by far the most precisely measured transition in ordinary hydrogen.

Just as light, which is an electromagnetic field, is transmitted by particles called photons, physicists expect that the mass - endowing effect of the Higgs field is ferried by Higgs bosons.

Students of human pathos may one day cherish the 16 - minute recording of me, with my 100 percent positive - feedback rating as an eBay purchaser, failing to make renowned physicist Steven Weinberg, who won a Nobel for unifying electromagnetism with the so - called weak force, admit that he can't explain how a magnet holds a dry - cleaning ticket to the door of a refrigerator.

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.

Our understanding of the structure of matter was revolutionized in 1964 when American physicist, Murray Gell - Mann, proposed that a category of particles known as baryons, which includes protons and neutrons, are composed of three fractionally charged objects called quarks, and that another category, mesons, are formed of quark - antiquark pairs.

Theoretical physicist James Overduin sees an unbroken chain from Pythagoras to Albert Einstein, whose work on curving space and time Overduin calls «physics as geometry.»

For example, in a recent Nature Physics paper, physicist Neill Lambert of the Advanced Science Institute in Japan called out new photosynthesis research as remarkable just for suggesting quantum effects can happen in biological systems at room temperature.

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.

So if physicist A (call her Alice) snags one of the photons and measures its spin as +1, she knows instantly that if physicist B (for Bob) measures the other photon, its spin will be − 1.

The equations utilised to solve the problem are based on the physicists» basic knowledge, such as the definition of an event horizon and the so - called equivalence principle, which is part of the foundation of Einstein's theory of gravity.

Even if the existence of magnetic monopoles as elementary particles remains a fundamental open question, condensed - matter physicists have managed to reproduce artificial versions of these exotic particles in rare - earth oxide crystals called «spin ices.»

Los Alamos National Laboratory staff scientist Cristiano Nisoli explained, «The emergence of magnetic monopoles in spin ice systems is a particular case of what physicists call fractionalization, or deconfinement of quasi-particles that together are seen as comprising the fundamental unit of the system, in this case the north and south poles of a nanomagnet.

The skyrmions, as these tiny whirls are called after the British nuclear physicist Tony Skyrme, follow a complex trajectory and even continue to move after the external excitation is switched off.

To make their measurements as sensitive as possible, LIGO physicists have to ensure that the positions of the peaks and troughs in each light wave — its so - called phase — remain steady and stable.

Built of wire and sealing wax in 1930 by a 29 - year - old physicist named Ernest Lawrence, the cyclotron, as it came to be called, had an accelerating chamber measuring just 4 inches across — about the size of a saucer.

Physicists have gone through three generations of particle accelerators searching for new particles, posited by a theory called supersymmetry, that would drive the Higgs mass down exactly as much as the known particles drive it up.

Kaku's story is an outgrowth of a session at Aspen called «Einstein's Unfinished Symphony,» which was supposed to be a discussion about the great physicist's long and unsuccessful effort to come up with a unified field theory — what has become known as a theory of everything.

So for years, physicists have chased an elusive dream: replacing the physical kilogram with a standard inherent in properties of nature such as the speed of light, the wavelength of photons and the Planck constant (also called h - bar), which links the energy a wave carries with its frequency of oscillation.

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

Even though, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, most people who call themselves religious tend to adhere to only those bits and pieces from scripture that appeal to them, by according undue respect for ancient religious beliefs in general, we nonetheless are suggesting that they are on par with conclusions that have been drawn from centuries of rational empirical investigation.

A phenomenon called van der Waals forces, named for Nobel Prize - winning physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals, explains the non-permanent stickiness of the grippers, as well as gecko feet.

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.

The axion was first conjectured by physicists in the late 1970s as a solution to a problem in a theory called quantum chromodynamics.

Physicists had long suspected that the energy spectrum of an electron in a strong magnetic field is, mathematically, a fractal known as a Cantor set — a poser that came to be called the «10 - martini problem» after a bounty that was offered for its solution.

There, «magic numbers» — as normally dour physicists call them — of protons and neutrons should play together nicely, making for a more stable nucleus.

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.»

This classification remained virtually unchallenged until 2007, when an international team of 400 physicists and engineers known as the Belle Collaboration discovered an exotic particle called Z (4430), which appeared to have two quarks and two anti-quarks.

The lost difference, about three Suns» worth, was dispersed as gravitational radiation — much of it during what physicists call the «ringdown» phase, when the merged black hole was settling into a spherical shape.

When the isotope of helium known as helium - 3 is cooled to 3.2 degrees above absolute zero it changes from gas to liquid — what physicists call a «change of state.»

The nature of dark matter — which physicists describe as the invisible component or so - called «missing mass» in the universe that would explain the faster - than - expected spins of galaxies, and their motion in clusters observed across the universe — has eluded scientists since its existence was deduced through calculations by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky in 1933.

You can now help physicists hunt for the Higgs boson, as CERN has begun a citizen science project called Higgs Hunters.

The «spooky action at a distance» — as the famed physicist once derisively called it — is very real.

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!

The narrators are a member of a doomsday cult who releases poison gas in a subway in Tokyo, and details his retreat to Okinawa and a small nearby island, Kume - jima; a jazz aficionado who works as a sales clerk in a Tokyo music store; a lawyer in a financial institution in Hong Kong who has been moving large sums of money from a certain account; a woman who owns a Tea Shack on China's Holy Mountain and speaks to a tree; a non-corporeal sentient entity which is searching for who or what it is; a gallery attendant in Petersburg who is involved in an art theft scam; a ghostwriter / drummer living in London who saves a woman from being run over by a taxi; an Irish nuclear physicist who quits her job when she finds her research is being used for military purposes; and a late night radio talkback DJ who finds himself fielding calls from an intriguing caller referring to himself as the zookeeper.

As a physicist, I do not see why one variable is differently treated than another one, in the complex system called climate, particularly one that has so huge societal implications.

Physicists refer to that as a model, whereas statisticians call that the prior evidence.

Since 1935, solar physicists have subscribed to what we could call the «eruption theory» where 11 - yr cycle is produced as a unit by a well - developed physical theory that does not rely on excitation of «modes» but on a continuously progressing generation of activity by magnetic induction amplifying existing flux and eventually dying out.

First, it's incorrect to call this preposterous bogosity «the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis,» inasmuch as the term «hypothesis» has a specific technical meaning in scientific usage, which is summarized in physicist Jeff Glassman's brief layman - accessible article «Conjecture, Hypothesis, Theory, Law.

Among those who have championed gas is Ernest Moniz, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was appointed as Barack Obama's next energy secretary in 2013; Moniz has called gas «a bridge to a low - carbon future».

Someone who has never completed any course work in physics is calling an esteemed physicist clueless as to the likes of Occam's razor.