Sentences with phrase «done by physicists»

BT's system is based on experiments done by physicists at the Defence Research Agency laboratory in Malvern.

Much work still needs to be done by physicists to determine the precise nature of the Higgs particle and its significance for our physical understanding of the material universe.

When you refuse to accept everything that is done by physicist based on their best judgment of the best methods of learning about real world you move to a mode, where answering your requests does not make sense.

Not exact matches

The quantum physicist Max Planck famously quipped: «A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.»

(this ad is supported by a believer who is not a religious «crazy», who does not go to church every Sunday, but also does not believe in «non-belief» and is also not a scientific physicist or whatever kind of scientist who dreams of mimicking creation of man someday).

Moreover if it did (assuming this to be possible in the framework of an overall Whiteheadian scheme), then it would itself be forcefully repudiated — and not simply by physicists, for the material world of common sense as well as of physics would be drastically impugned.

The desperate efforts by physicists to integrate it with the other materialist and mechanicist model has nothing to do with truth, but purely ideology.

The importance of the medieval thinkers Buridan and Oresme for science had been rediscovered by the great twentieth - century French physicist Pierre Duhem, whose own work Jaki has done so much to restore to the prominence it deserves.

This is the attitude that says, «If it can't be studied and analyzed by chemists or physicists or biologists, it doesn't exist.»

So, although some «physical entities» do not embody any of the forms of energy currently recognized by contemporary physics, they all do embody creative power that can be converted from or into the creative power embodied in the entities studied by physicists.

These co-ordinates have entered the whole of physics and are by now pervasively present in almost all that physicists do.

The event horizon dwelt on by Hawking is - essentially - nothing... but then that is not an obstacle to belief for a lot of physicists because when something does come from nothing they admit that they have reached the limit of their understanding.

Danish physicist Niels Bohr explained this wave - particle duality by doing away with the concept of a reality separate from one's observations.

Whereas physicists have never worried too much about that because even if you are doing something that is logically a bit inconsistent, it doesn't really matter because it is all going to get sorted out by the experiment in the end.

Olson's project was motivated by the challenge of doing fusion — and by the same promise that has inspired thousands of physicists over the past half century.

Victorian physicist Sir David Brewster was struck by how when the disk disappears, you do not experience a dark shadow or gaping hole in its place.

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.

A team led by atomic physicist Lene Vestergaard Hau of the Rowland Institute for Science and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, found that light moved 20 million times more sluggishly through the tiny condensate than it does through a vacuum.

Physicists look for results inconsistent with those predicted by the Standard Model to expand knowledge of the physical world — but that didn't happen here.

The mission didn't seem worth its $ 700 million cost to some physicists, who felt that during its 40 - year gestation Gravity Probe B had been overtaken by other research.

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.

But Wertheim did not set out to argue a case or to complain — her initial intention was to fill a perceived gap by writing, as a physicist, a popular «history of physics» that took into account social studies of science.

Marconi, an Italian physicist, rose to fame because he had greater commercial acumen, and very possibly because Lodge did not try to patent his ideas until three years after his demonstration — by which time Marconi was well established, having filed for his own patents in 1896.

Harvard did not give tenure to a female physicist until 1992, and Princeton had still not done so by the end of last year.

Higgs to two - photon candidate event as seen by CMS in May 2012 When last we checked in on the hunt for the Higgs, physicists weren't yet ready to call the deal done.

Many of the folks who are involved in building the last round of nuclear weapons or even the first round of nuclear weapons are either passing away or retiring or otherwise their knowledge is becoming inaccessible; and of course there are records, but there is, as many physicists who I interviewed said, «There is nothing like learning by doing and if we want to maintain the ability to build nuclear weapons for the indefinite future, then some argue that we need to continue to build them to train up this next generation of potential nuclear weapon scientists.»

We are linked to them by our research interests, have worked with them in the past, and hope to continue doing so in the future,» the physicists add.

• Quantum Leap In January, two teams of Harvard physicists announced they had done the impossible by stopping a beam of light dead in its tracks.

Also, the machine learning software can help experimental physicists by allowing them to perform virtual measurements that would be hard to do in the laboratory, such as measuring the degree of entanglement of a system composed of many interacting qubits.

For decades, physicists thought that the subatomic particles called neutrinos were, in fact, the massless particles that Weyl had predicted — a possibility that was ultimately eliminated by the 1998 discovery that neutrinos do have a small mass.

The particle's existence was first predicted 50 years ago by several physicists working independently, including Peter Higgs at the University of Edinburgh, as a solution to what had been one of the most vexing mysteries in physics: How do particles acquire mass?

Submissions to arXiv made after 16.00 US Eastern Standard Time each day do not appear until the following day — a cut - off time set by arXiv's operators — and the timing of the submissions shows that physicists are rushing to e-mail in their papers just before this deadline, Ginsparg adds.

Moreover, the laws of physics hold that it should always be possible to follow processes backward in time — as physicists do, for example, when they reconstruct particle collisions by studying the debris created in accelerators.

Science in the Big League, an essay written by Norwegian particle physicist Egil Lillestol, who has spent a lot of time at CERN, is a great introduction to CERN's multinational environment and the joys and challenges of doing science on such a big scale.

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.

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.

But the crazy thing about empty space, weighing something --[well,] there are many crazy things — it produces a gravitational repulsion, rather than the attractions so the expansion of the universe is speeding up; but this stuff is so mysterious and inexplicable — completely inexplicable right now — that many physicists have been driven wild and mad and have changed what we might mean by fundamental physics by suggesting, for example, that the fundamental concepts in nature are not really fundamental at all, they are accidental; they are an environmental accident; that the are many universes and we just happen to live in the one that has the values it does because if you changed it a little bit then we wouldn't be living.

To see how it's done, a team of physicists led by Alex Tarnopolsky and Joe Wolfe at the University of New South Wales in Sydney introduced a synthesised mix of many sound frequencies into players» mouths while they played the didgeridoo.

As STAR collaborator Salvatore Fazio explained, the RHIC physicists do it by measuring the number, trajectory, and energy level of particles called W bosons that emerge from RHIC's collisions of polarized protons.

The LHC is expected to do its work by 2030, however, and for decades physicists have generally planned that the next accelerator would be a roughly 30 - kilometer straight - shot linear collider.

Today the Universe is in a classical - like state, so now the beta value should be near zero, and estimates performed by other groups of physicists indeed suggest that it does not exceed 0.01.

The particle's existence was missed by physicist Hermann Weyl during the initial development of quantum theory 85 years ago, say the researchers, because it violated a fundamental rule, called Lorentz symmetry, that does not apply in the materials where the new type of fermion arises.

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.

For actual electronic applications, perylene bisimdes are mostly implemented by device engineers and physicists, who often do not have access to chemical laboratories.

An Oxford team found that the evidence for accelerated expansion doesn't meet the certainty standards required by physicists to declare a discovery.

Jacob is a physicist by training, holds a PhD from Utrecht University (research conducted at the AMOLF institute in Amsterdam), did a postdoc at the MESA + Institute in Twente and was a Research Fellow at ICFO (Barcelona) before starting in Delft.

This vision was first elucidated by Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman, who proposed in 1959 that «The problems of chemistry and biology can be greatly helped if our ability to see what we are doing, and to do things on an atomic level, is ultimately developed — a development which I think can not be avoided.»

Billy Crudup, a great actor, does the best he can with the comic's most celebrated character, Dr. Manhattan, a physicist who gets transformed by a lab accident into an enormous, walking, talking, glowing A-bomb and who teleports to Mars whenever he needs to go to his quiet place.

Beyond that, we do know that the film, which was originally to be directed by Steven Spielberg, is based on wormhole and time travel theories from Caltech physicist Kip Thorne.

I don't know what the average IQ of physicists is, but my hunch is that it's high enough that most of us don't feel particularly threatened by a clever bit of marketing.