Sentences with phrase «as physicists know»

Unlike those particles, which as far as physicists know can't be broken down into...

u «As far as physicists know, matter and antimatter should have been created in equal amounts in the early Universe and so blasted each other into oblivion.

«As far as physicists know, matter and antimatter should have been created in equal amounts in the early Universe and so blasted each other into oblivion.

Unlike those particles, which as far as physicists know can't be broken down into more basic pieces, Majorana quasiparticles arise from coordinated patterns of many atoms and electrons and only appear under special conditions.

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.

«As every physicist knows, you can travel anywhere in space and time with just a pencil, a sheet of paper and your imagination.

Not exact matches

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.

Meanwhile, to Hawking's supporters who suggest that I am not owning up to his scientific «proofs,» I believe airwx has already said it best for me — he's a THEORETICAL physicist, and having read some of his work, I'm smart enough to know that much of what he says about God is an exercise in jumping to conclusions, even as sound as much of his scientific work is.

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.

Or i could point out that the big bang is the biggest joke ever told... That even the top physicists can't figure out how their own theory could work, not to mention the fact that for it to work they would need for the Universe to break the fundamental laws we understand as true since the beginning i.e. (No matter in the Universe can be created nor destroyed, you can only change it's state (solid to liquid, liquid to gas etc.).

Piotr Malecki, Karol Wojtyla's altar boy at St. Florian's parish and the self - described «enfant terrible» of that network of Wojtyla's friends known as Srodowisko, is a distinguished physicist.

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.

As theologian - physicist Robert Russell of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences said: «Why would physics know if there is God or not?

I want to know if they think physicist Paul Davie is right about the obvious creation of universe governing physical laws, if Einstein was right in a God presence and what they think about quantum mechanics that goes back to von Neumann, where one is led by its logic (as Wigner and Peierls were) to the conclusion that not everything is just matter in motion.

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...

Well, since we've already established your future as a physicist / astronaut / doctor / entrepreneur / rock star (no pressure, I love you, I just want you to be happy), I know you or the teams of people you employ will be all over this someday.

A flamboyant Lebanese - born physicist known as Dr. K, Dr. Kaloyeros was also at the center of a separate complaint brought by the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman.

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.

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.

ER stands for Einstein and Rosen, the two physicists who wrote the seminal paper describing wormholes (otherwise known as Einstein - Rosen bridges).

Physicists in Russia have drawn up a design for a 180 - PW laser known as the Exawatt Center for Extreme Light Studies (XCELS), while Japanese researchers have put forward proposals for a 30 - PW device.

The possibility that time may not exist is known among physicists as the «problem of time.»

The planetary physicist is well - known to fans of Syfy's Defiance and Battlestar Galactica, and TNT's Falling Skies, as the science adviser who helps give authenticity to sci - fi adventure.

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.

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.

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.»

According to the calculations of Caltech physicist Kip Thorne, who served as scientific consultant for Interstellar, the movie's black hole, known as Gargantua, must...

The interactions between neighbouring particles try to align them either in the same or in the opposite direction, which is known as the Ising model, after the physicist Ernst Ising who studied it in his 1924 PhD thesis.

Physicist Stephen Hawking determined in 1974 that black holes slowly evaporate over time, emitting what's known as Hawking radiation before eventually disappearing.

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.

According to the calculations of Caltech physicist Kip Thorne, who served as scientific consultant for Interstellar, the movie's black hole, known as Gargantua, must have had a mass 100 million times that of the sun and whirled about its own axis at breakneck speeds.

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?»).

Some of these structures are already known to physicists as useful tools from modern quantum optical laboratories.

The new capability, developed by physicist Mario Podestà at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), outfits the code known as TRANSP with a subprogram that simulates the motion that leads to the loss of energetic ions caused by instabilities in the plasma that fuels fusion reactions.

The preprint server arXiv.org is perhaps best known as the preserve of theoretical physicists and astrophysicists.

For decades, many particle physicists have devoted themselves to the beloved theory, known as supersymmetry.

Evidence for the Higgs would be the capstone of an edifice that particle physicists have been building for half a century — the phenomenally successful theory known simply as the standard model.

In the 1970s, physicists put all the known particles (including a few whose existence had not yet been confirmed, like the Higgs boson) and the forces that govern their interactions — the electromagnetic, weak and strong — into a single theoretical framework known as the Standard Model.

HE IS known as one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century.

The idea that the universe was made just for us — known as the anthropic principle — debuted in 1973 when Brandon Carter, then a physicist at Cambridge University, spoke at a conference in Poland honoring Copernicus, the 16th - century astronomer who said that the sun, not Earth, was the hub of the universe.

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.

The idea proposed by the three physicists offers a new strategy for addressing a long - standing conundrum in physics known as the black hole information paradox.

These days Einstein's once - lonely quest engages thousands of physicists around the world, most of them working on an ambitious physics framework known as string theory.

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.

In my whole career as a theoretical physicist, I have known only a handful of colleagues who truly can be said to follow Einstein's path.

In Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon, Matthew Stanley uses the contrasting values of the devout Christian physicist James Clerk Maxwell and his contemporary — Thomas Henry Huxley, the agnostic biologist known as «Darwin's bulldog» to illustrate the transition from theistic to naturalistic science in the late nineteenth century.

21 SOLAR SHUTDOWN Back in the 1970s, when it seemed that the sun was not emitting the expected number of particles known as neutrinos, some solar physicists proposed that our star might go through million - year stretches of reduced activity, during which time its brightness could drop by perhaps 40 percent.

The Russian physicist Pyotr Kapitsa discovered the strange phenomenon known as superfluidity in liquid helium in 1938.