Sentences with phrase «described by physicists»

The parallel between the needs of dual - career couples and the problem as described by physicists is striking.

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This view also fits that described by modern physicists.

One possibility is that if physicists ever manage to unify quantum theory and general relativity, space and time will be described by some modified version of quantum mechanics.

They were led by Chris Wehrenberg, a physicist at the DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and described in a recent paper in Nature.

Calculations run with this model show that these spaces are described by well - known quantum Fermi - Dirac, and Bose - Einstein statistics, used in quantum mechanics, indicating that they could be useful to physicists working on quantum gravity.

Devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1925, it describes subatomic particles and how they may display wavelike properties such as interference.

Physicists Leonard Susskind and Gerard» t Hooft stressed that the lesson should be general: Since the information required to describe physical phenomena within any given region of space can be fully encoded by data on a surface that surrounds the region, then there's reason to think that the surface is where the fundamental physical processes actually happen.

The self - bending beam, described in the April 10 Science, does not curve by more than the beam's diameter, but that amount is enough to help physicists probe the structure of laser pulses.

In the 1990s, other physicists (notably Gerard» t Hooft and Leonard Susskind) developed this insight further, proposing the «holographic principle»: Information contained in a three - dimensional volume can be completely described by the two - dimensional boundary surrounding it.

This work was described in a recent issue of Nanotechnology by Ha, collaborator Yohan Yoon of NIST and Maryland's NanoCenter, and NIST physicist Nikolai Zhitenev.

Physicists have calculated that the centre of the Earth is two - and - a-half years younger than its surface, thanks to the effects of gravity as described by general relativity.

Ever since the 1940s, physicists have described the movement of slender structures through fluids — such as a jump rope through air — as a flat plane whose speed is limited by drag.

Described by a spokesperson from NASA's Astrobiology Institute as «a revolution that will require its own revolution,» astrobiology draws on the expertise of astronomers and biologists, physicists, chemists, and geologists to understand the development of life in the universe.

Solid state physicists have previously described the microscopic theory of superconductivity — by relating superconductivity to the macroscopic occurrence of pairs of electrons bound into so - called Cooper pairs.

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

Ramon Barthelemy describes the experiences faced by LGBT physicists for the AAAS Colloquium Series on 28 June.

Recently declassified work by aerospace engineer Franklin Mead Jr. of the Air Force Research Laboratory and physicist Eric Davis of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin, Texas, describes this «lightcraft propulsion.»

«From the atomic physics perspective, the experiment is beautifully described by existing theory,» says Stephen Eckel, an atomic physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the lead author of the new paper.

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.

One of the new techniques, described online in Science this week (www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1127344) by physicists Eric Betzig, Harald Hess, and colleagues, began with a device assembled in Hess's living room while both he and Betzig were unemployed.

Standing by one detector, called DZero, Gerald Blazey, project spokesman and a physicist at Northern Illinois University, described the complicated shower of secondary particles emitted from every collision.

Now physicists at MIT have found another unusual phenomenon produced by the Dirac cone: It can spawn a phenomenon described as a «ring of exceptional points.»

But while the district had supported Barack Obama by 10 points in his presidential campaign, conservatives in the district were riled up, said Hultgren supporter Lee Lueking, a physicist at Fermilab whose self - described «conservative» views put him at odds with his congressman.

A number of physicists, including Stephen Hawking and Lawrence Krauss, have angered philosophers by describing philosophy as useless.

The Kondo effect, first described last century by the Japanese physicist Jun Kondo, is observed when magnetic impurities, i.e., very few atoms (even only 1 in 1000) of magnetic material such as iron are added to metals like gold or copper.

He also says it is «completely wrong» to describe, as the research teams do, the chain of magnetism within spin ices as a Dirac string, a hypothetical invisible tether with a monopole at its end that was envisioned in the 1930s by English physicist Paul Dirac.

The main story» Splitting Time from Space — New Quantum Theory Topples Einstein's Spacetime,» describes recent excitement over a quantum theory of gravity proposed by physicist Petr Hoava of the University of California, Berkeley.

He also asserts that it is «completely wrong» to describe, as the researchers do, the chain of magnetism within spin ices as a Dirac string, a hypothetical invisible tether with a monopole at its end that was envisioned in the 1930s by English physicist Paul Dirac.

I would suggest that there is an insurmountable hurdle to physicist Dirk Helbing's work, described by Weinberger, in trying to make a «computing system that would effectively serve as the world's crystal ball»: the discrete architecture of the natural world.

The six benchmarks are: 1) HDR brachytherapy procedures are supported with the appropriate team as described in the report of the AAPM TG 59 and the American College of Radiology HDR Brachytherapy Practice Standard; 2) commissioning of the treatment unit, treatment planning system and each new source is performed by a qualified medical physicist and verified through a QA process; 3) assay of the HDR brachytherapy unit source is performed using a well - type ionization chamber with a calibration traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and this assay is performed or confirmed for each source change.

There physicist Raymond Davis built an experiment using 400,000 litres of cleaning fluid to detect electron neutrinos, one of the three types of neutrino described by the standard model.

Two Argonne physicists offered a way to mathematically describe a particular physics phenomenon called a phase transition in a system out of equilibrium (that is, with energy moving through it) by using imaginary numbers.

Rydberg atoms can be described with simple rules written down more than a century ago by Swedish physicist Johannes Rydberg.

In the centenary year of the publication of a seminal treatise on the physical and mathematical principles underpinning nature — On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson — a Cambridge physicist has led a study describing an elegantly simple solution to a puzzle that has taxed biologists for centuries: how complex branching patterns of tissues arise.

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.

The first paper describing the principles of such detectors was published in 1962 by a pair of Soviet physicists, Mikhail Gertsenshtein and Vladislav Pustovoit, who argued that interferometers could be far more sensitive than bar detectors because they could be made much longer.

In general, physicists prefer to study processes involving larger numbers of particles, since the added complexity assists in searches for physical effects that aren't described by today's best theories.

This myth reflects a general misunderstanding of entropy, the term used by physicists to describe randomness or disorder.

This phenomenon, first theoretically described by nuclear physicists in 1957, creates elements in nature that are heavier than iron.

It was later famously quoted by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to describe the first nuclear bomb test on July 16, 1945.

Australian mathematical physicist Ian Enting, author of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute book Twisted: The distorted mathematics of greenhouse denial, has analysed the book, describing it as being characterised by «half - truths and slanted misrepresentation» and «appalling hypocrisy.»