Sentences with phrase «attempt by a physicist»

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He now makes sensational public statements in an attempt to cover up the fact that his career as a Physicist has basically been a failure, by the measure of other Physicists.

Trends in macroeconomics are the sum of microeconomic decisions, but attempts to extrapolate from the one to the other are by necessity grossly oversimplified, says Eric Weinstein, a physicist who works for the Natron Group, a hedge fund in New York City.

So optical physicists Chunlei Guo and Anatoliy Vorobyev of the University of Rochester in New York state, like others before them, attempted to find out whether silicon chips could be cooled by water or other fluids.

The first attempt was made by a team of French physicists in 1981, with the result suggesting that only quantum effects could explain what was observed.

The 1977 work showed a stabilizing effect that appeared to override the impact of a later effect by French physicist Paul - Henri Rebut that attempted to demonstrate runaway growth of the islands.

The latest attempt to explain away dark matter is a much - discussed proposal by Erik Verlinde, a theoretical physicist at the University of Amsterdam who is known for bold and prescient, if sometimes imperfect, ideas.

This overt attempt to control the message by a physicist and others is so transparent that it reminds me of a conversation that could have happened in the Oval Office 40 years ago.»

By Joseph D'Aleo In the LA Times, there was a story on Richard Muller's invitation to DC to testify to congress about the Berkeley Project, which attempts to reconstruct global dataThe Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study is led by physicist Richard Muller, a longtime critic of the scientific consensus on climate change, who plans to -LSB-..By Joseph D'Aleo In the LA Times, there was a story on Richard Muller's invitation to DC to testify to congress about the Berkeley Project, which attempts to reconstruct global dataThe Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study is led by physicist Richard Muller, a longtime critic of the scientific consensus on climate change, who plans to -LSB-..by physicist Richard Muller, a longtime critic of the scientific consensus on climate change, who plans to -LSB-...]

A physicist is no more likely than a sociologist to know what human emissions will be 50 years from now — if a slight warming would be beneficial or harmful to humans or the natural world; if forcings and feedbacks will partly or completely offset the theoretical warming; if natural variability will exceed any discernible human effect; if secondary effects on weather will lead to more extreme or more mild weather events; if efforts to reduce emissions will be successful; who should reduce emissions, by what amounts, or when; and whether the costs of attempting to reduce emissions will exceed the benefits by an amount so large as to render the effort counterproductive.