Sentences with phrase «as physicists working»

But the case for the sterile neutrino just took a hit, as physicists working on an experiment in China report data that undermine one of three key pieces of data for its existence.

Even as physicists worked out how to minimise disruptions to wandering elephants, a wildflife sanctuary nearby was declared a tiger reserve in 2008.

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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.

He discovered the work of Geoffrey West, a theoretical physicist who has observed that cities, unlike animals and corporations, get more productive as they grow.

Legendary physicist Feynman won the Nobel Prize for his work in one of the subjects that's the most difficult for the human mind to grasp — quantum mechanics — yet his top advice for accelerating learning is actually to make whatever you're studying as dead simple as possible.

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.

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.

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.).

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..

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.

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

The foundations for real numbers, which physicists as well as mathematicians must have in order to do their work, were insecure under the thesis of Principia Mathematica.

John Ellis, a British theoretical physicist who works at CERN as well as at King's College, London, explains the Higgs boson as the fundamental quantum of the Higgs field, a sort of «snow» (http://cdsweb.

«I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail,» the physicist said in an interview published Sunday in Britain's Guardian newspaper.

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.

Instead, the search for a unifying theory (what many physicists might describe as a search for «truth») dominates the discipline's most cutting - edge work.

As someone who has spent half a lifetime working as a theoretical physicist, I.As someone who has spent half a lifetime working as a theoretical physicist, I.as a theoretical physicist, I...

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.

Finally another physicist, F. W. Astor, working in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge in England, discovered that even the same element might assume two or more distinct forms, termed isotopes, and that the law of the constancy of averages atomic weight holds for each of these forms, but as between the different isotopes differs slightly.

The prospective candidates are Suffolk County Legislator Kate Browning of Shirley; Elaine DiMasi of Ronkonkoma, who worked as a Brookhaven National Laboratory physicist; Perry Gershon, a businessman who has worked in commercial real estate finance and lives in East Hampton; Brendon Henry, a bartender, Westhampton native and Center Moriches resident; David Pechefsky a New York City Council staffer, who hails from Patchogue, but lives in Brooklyn, and Vivian Viloria - Fisher of Setauket, who served as a county legislator until she reached her term limit in 2011.

The prospective candidates include former Suffolk County Legislator Kate Browning of Shirley; Elaine DiMasi of Ronkonkoma, a former physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory; businessman Perry Gershon of East Hampton, who has worked in commercial real estate finance; Westhampton native Brendon Henry of Center Moriches, a bartender who also works in ordering and pricing for a plumbing contractor; David Pechefsky, a former New York City Council staffer from Port Jefferson; and Vivian Viloria Fisher of Setauket, who served as a county legislator until she reached her term limit in 2011.

Put simply, the funding model «did not work out as planned,» Rush Holt, who is the CEO of AAAS (which publishes Science Careers), a former member of Congress, and a physicist who served as assistant director of a national laboratory, told the gathering.

During his student days, he had studied the work of James Clerk Maxwell, a Scottish physicist who recognized the speed of light — 300,000 kilometers or 186,000 miles per second — as a fundamental property of electromagnetic fields.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The early inventors studied the work of Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell, who had formulated a set of equations — «Maxwell's equations» — that expressed the basic laws of electricity and magnetism, but as a purely theoretical exercise in understanding how nature works.

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.

► In this week's Science Careers - produced Working Life column, Richard Dasheiff describes his transformation from aspiring physicist to clinical neurologist via several decades as a physician scientist.

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.

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.

A new method for cooling down the elements of quantum devices such as qubits, the tiny building blocks of quantum computers, was now theoretically proven to work by a group of physicists.

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.

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.

When Moffat first read Einstein's later work in 1953, he didn't dismiss it as many physicists did.

Finally, Andre, originally trained as a physicist, is working in molecular biology at the Center for Cancer Research in Bethesda, Maryland.

Louis Lanzerotti, a physicist at New Jersey Institute of Technology who spent many years at Bell Labs and worked on space missions such as Voyager, Ulysses and Galileo, was a graduate student in nuclear physics at Harvard University when Telstar 1 went into orbit.

Used to working as a huge team, LIGO physicists «were absolutely unprepared for the chaos that is the astronomical community,» he says.

When Albert Einstein died in 1955, he had spent decades on a lonely, quixotic quest: to derive a theory of everything that would unify gravity and electromagnetism — even though physicists discovered new nuclear forces as he worked.

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.

In the latest work, carried out by physicist Kilian Singer of the University of Mainz in Germany and colleagues, the calcium ion doubles as both the working medium and the piston; electrical noise provides the hot bath, and a laser beam the cold bath.

I realize that your «Working Group On Review Of Bioengineering And Technology And Instrumentation Development Research», defined «bioengineering and technology» as encompassing areas such as biotechnology, functional genomics, informatics, chemistry and physics, nevertheless they did not discuss the problems experienced by physicists engaged in basic research on the frontier of physics and biology from the present system of study sections.

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.»

I'm as much a fan of Mr. E = mc2 as anybody, but consider this: I'd be willing to bet that, when viewed from centuries hence, Einstein's most significant contribution to civilization will not be as arguably the greatest physicist of the modern world but rather as an inspirational role model whose life and work ignited the lives of countless other great young thinkers.

Tim Darling, another Los Alamos physicist working on the microwave interferometer with Migliori, says that as the electronics become cheaper, a microwave inspection system will eventually be applied to most large bridges in the US.

«Just as an observation, this is an intriguing result,» says Sarita Thakoor, a physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who works on robotic flight systems based on ideas gleaned from insects such as dragonflies and bees.

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.