Sentences with phrase «by physicist john»

As expressed decades later by the physicist John Archibald Wheeler, mass grips spacetime, telling it how to curve, and spacetime grips mass, telling it how to move.

The term «black hole» was coined in the 1960s by physicist John Wheeler to describe what happens when matter is piled into an infinitely dense point in space - time.

The review panel, chaired by physicist John Pethica, vice president of the Royal Society and a physicist, is expected to produce a published report by September.

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This article by Richard John Neuhaus, who passed away January 8, 2009, was published in the February 1999 issue of First Things, and is reprinted below in honor of the feast day of Mother Teresa.A couple of years ago physicist Alan Sokal published an article in Social Text arguing in the most abstruse postmodernistic jargon that gravity, among other things, is a social construct.

This idea is defended in our volume by A.C. Ewing, by Keith Ward (writing as Oxford's Regius Professor of Divinity), and by the physicist - turned - theologian John Polkinghorne.

The Faith of a Physicist by Cambridge physicist and Anglican priest John Polkinghorne is a compendium of conclusions drawn from decades of dialogue between natural science and Christian Physicist by Cambridge physicist and Anglican priest John Polkinghorne is a compendium of conclusions drawn from decades of dialogue between natural science and Christian physicist and Anglican priest John Polkinghorne is a compendium of conclusions drawn from decades of dialogue between natural science and Christian theology.

The Way the World Is by John Polkinghorne, Westminster John Knox Press (distributed by Alban Books), 130pp, # 9.99 Leaving behind twenty - five years as a theoretical physicist and Cambridge professor of mathematical physics for Christian ministry was bound to raise a few eyebrows.

If a satellite could spot fluctuations in the neutral wind caused by the approaching storm, «we could get a few hours of warning,» says physicist John Hsieh of the University of Arizona in Tucson.

The other three — John Christy, a climate scientist at the University of Alabama; Judith Curry, a climatologist at the University of Georgia; and Richard Lindzen, an emeritus physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — are well - respected by climate skeptics and are often challenged by the climate science establishment.

One possible solution, proposed in 2007 by physicists Patrick Hayden of Stanford University and John Preskill of Caltech, is that the black hole could act like a mirror, with information about infalling particles being reflected outward, imprinted in the Hawking radiation.

Physicist John Pendry talks about the profound physics obscured by his invisibility cloak and how metamaterials could help realise the perfect lens

A bad textbook is «one of the reasons that students get turned off by science,» says physicist John Hubisz of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, who headed the study.

As described by the legendary physicist John Archibald Wheeler, «Mass grips spacetime, telling it how to curve.

The crew is testing a rig suggested by John Barrow, a mathematical physicist at the University of Cambridge.

But it is still not compatible with the measurements taken by non-muonic techniques, says John Arrington, a nuclear physicist at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois.

And this is something that physicists have been arguing about for a very, very long time, but what the authors of this article point out is that the work by John Bell, but also some more recent experimental work, seems to indicate that in fact there really is a deep nonlocality to the universe; that there really is someway in which there is not some sort of missing x-factor that if we just knew what it was that would explain everything; that we would see the dominos connecting, those invisible tiny dominos connecting those different particles and set up the effect of going one to the other.

«This gorgeous experiment shows that the road to redefining the kilogram is opening up,» says John Hall, a physicist at JILA, a laboratory run jointly by the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

This was brought into sharp relief through a series of experiments based on theoretical work done by the Irish physicist John Bell in the early 1960s.

The group was led by a well - respected electrical engineer, inventor and physicist at the time: John G. Trump, the uncle of Donald J. Trump.

The thought bubbles of Arthur Kantrowitz in the 1960s and 1970s were picked up by the Ehrlichs and John Holdren in their 1977 book [Ecoscience]--[One suggestion for opening up the process of ethical decision - making in science has been put forward by physicist Arthur Kantrowitz.

The other three — John Christy, a climate scientist at the University of Alabama; Judith Curry, a climatologist at the University of Georgia; and Richard Lindzen, an emeritus physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — are well - respected by climate skeptics and are often challenged by the climate science establishment.

Let's pick things up with two specific appointments by President - elect Obama which have implications for U.S. - China energy relations — one being the 1997 Nobel Prize Laureate Dr. Steve Chu of Lawrence Berkeley Labs (LBL) as the new Secretary of Energy, and the other being Dr. John Holdren, physicist and energy technology policy professor at Harvard and Director of the Woods Hole Research Center (whom yours truly had the pleasure of meeting in the copy room as a policy intern there way back in 2003) as the White House science & technology adviser.

In 1990, British cloud physicist John Latham published a paper arguing he could cool global climate by brightening clouds over the ocean.

This was disproven by expermental physicist John Tyndall over 150 years ago.