Sentences with phrase «experiment by the physicist»

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In 2012, four physicists at the University of California, Santa Barbara — Ahmed Almheiri, Donald Marolf, Joseph Polchinski and James Sully, known collectively by physicists as AMPS — shocked the physics community with the results of a thought experiment.

The website, created by physicists Anthony Aguirre and Gregory Laughlin of the University of California, Santa Cruz, along with former postdoc Max Wainwright, is an experiment to test whether our pooled instincts can produce reliable predictions.

Seeking an explanation, Suarez and his colleague Valerio Scarani (now at the National University of Singapore) proposed a way to modify the basic experiment, which had been carried out by physicists in Geneva.

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.

The standard model has been tested by experiments countless times, and it has never failed to predict what physicists would see.

A computer code used by physicists around the world to analyze and predict tokamak experiments can now approximate the behavior of highly energetic atomic nuclei, or ions, in fusion plasmas more accurately than ever.

Led by University of Glasgow physicist Patrick Spradlin, the LHCb team found evidence of more than 300 of the new particles in data collected last year by the experiment, teasing out their signals from a dense forest of more common particles produced by high - energy proton collisions at the LHC.

Physicists from the ATLAS experiment at CERN have found the first direct evidence of high energy light - by - light scattering, a very rare process in which two photons — particles of light — interact and change direction.

The new work is a variation on a famous experiment, devised by the 19th century English physicist Thomas Young, which showed that light is a wave.

«Since the middle 1970s we've been in a situation in fundamental physics in which theory has run on, largely unchecked by experiments,» says Lee Smolin, a theoretical physicist at the Perimeter Institute near Toronto.

«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.

In the experiment, performed by physicist Benjamin Huard and colleagues, the demon extracts energy from the system, a tiny circuit made of superconducting metal, which can carry electricity without resistance.

ConCERNed and similar groups argue that since such review committees are convened by CERN, and staffed with particles physicists who have devoted their careers to the results of the LHC's experiments, there is a conflict of interest.

The engine is the result of experiments undertaken by the QUANTUM work group at the Institute of Physics of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in collaboration with theoretical physicists of Friedrich - Alexander - Universität Erlangen - Nürnberg (FAU).

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

To move a major muon experiment from Brookhaven to Fermilab, however, particle physicists decided that a key piece of equipment — the massive but fragile accelerator storage ring — should travel by barge on a 6 - week voyage down the U.S. Atlantic coast, around Florida, and up the Mississippi River.

Part of the problem was they had no generally accepted theory to guide them and explain the proposed phenomenon — as physicists like to say, no experiment should be believed until it has been confirmed by theory.

These were then tested in experiments carried out by the experimental physicists involved in the study.

The problem goes back to the earliest days of quantum mechanics and was formulated most famously by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, who imagined a Rube Goldberg - type of quantum experiment with a cat.

A team of physicists has succeeded in performing an extraordinary experiment: They demonstrated how magnetism that generally manifests itself by a force between two magnetized objects acts within a single molecule.

By 2002 physicists attuned to the potential of weak measurements were repeating their experiments thousands of times, hoping to build up a bank of data persuasively showing evidence of backward causality through the amplification effect.

«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.

In the next step, the physicists plan an experiment in which they will time resolve the interaction by splitting the high - intensity attosecond pulse into separate pump and probe pulses.

The experiment, called Miniboone, was being run by a team of nearly 80 physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) at Batavia, Illinois — and the results presented a puzzle.

Thankfully Schrödinger's cat is all in the mind, a bizarre thought experiment proposed by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935 to highlight the weirdness of quantum theory.

Clark mentions the experiment by US physicists Albert Michelson and Edward Morley that tried to measure the then - expected difference in...

It's not the result physicists were hoping for, but the first data from LUX, the most sensitive dark matter detector in the world, show no signs of the lightweight dark matter particles hinted at by other experiments.

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.

An international group of atmospheric chemists and physicist could now have solved another piece in the climate puzzle by means of laboratory experiments and global model simulations.

This fact was finally made clear in 1838 by English physicist Charles Wheatstone, who published an elegant series of experiments on binocular vision.

Gerald Gabrielse, a Harvard physicist who works on a rival experiment at CERN known as ATRAP, warns that it's easy to be fooled by subtleties of the magnetic traps.

One physicist who had faith in Maxwell, or at least in his equations, was Hertz, who performed experiments in his lab in Karlsruhe, Germany, that successfully produced and detected radio waves, eventually to be exploited by propagandists to spread a lot of illogical nonsense on talk radio.

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.

It would also defy a thought experiment dreamed up by physicist Erwin Schrödinger: in principle it is now possible to peek inside his box without endangering the life of the precarious pussycat inside.

In that case, the COLTRIMS experiments proved that the position of the Danish physicist Niels Bohr in the «Einstein - Bohr debates» 80 years ago was correct and, shortly before that, other physicists from the atomic physics work group used COLTRIMS to «film» the destruction of a molecule by a strong laser pulse — a reaction so fast that it can not be captured by an ordinary camera.

In this program, now involving 23 countries, particle physicist mentors show the students how to use data gathered by the large particle collider experiments at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, to unravel hidden secrets of high energy physics.

The experiment, developed by physicists from The Australian National University (ANU) and UNSW ADFA, created an extremely cold gas trapped in a laser beam, known as a Bose - Einstein condensate, replicating the experiment that won the 2001 Nobel Prize.

The new seasonal variation, recorded by the Coherent Germanium Neutrino Technology (CoGeNT) experiment, is exactly what theoreticians had predicted if dark matter turned out to be what physicists call Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs).

A combination of PPPL modeling led by physicist Gerrit Kramer and DIII - D experiments has found that broadening the electric current in the center of plasma could reduce the loss of crucial elements called alpha particles that heat the plasma and sustain fusion reactions.

The first contribution to the experiment made by PPPL physicists and engineers was designing and delivering the five massive 2,400 - pound trim coils that fine - tune the shape of the plasma in fusion experiments.

SouthPeak Games is going high brow with their first iPhone title Schrödinger's Rat, an accelerometer assisted labyrinth puzzler inspired by Austrian theoretical physicist Erwin Schrödinger's famous thought experiment.

New Paper: Experiment Reveals No Detectable «Greenhouse» Difference Between CO2 And Air Below is a very abridged quoted summary of a new scientific paper published by Dr. Thomas Allmendinger, a physicist (chemistry, quantum mechanics) who uses a real - world experiment to document a glaring lack of empirical support for the position that CO2 is a dominant agentExperiment Reveals No Detectable «Greenhouse» Difference Between CO2 And Air Below is a very abridged quoted summary of a new scientific paper published by Dr. Thomas Allmendinger, a physicist (chemistry, quantum mechanics) who uses a real - world experiment to document a glaring lack of empirical support for the position that CO2 is a dominant agentexperiment to document a glaring lack of empirical support for the position that CO2 is a dominant agent -LSB-...]

As I wrote at 2/20 6:07 am above the 1996 paper has been followed up, verified and published more recently by several other independent atmospheric thermodynamic physicist authors proving Fig. 1 in the top post thought experiment to be non-isothermal, isentropic at equilibrium (they do include for Willis» sake equations with = signs).

There is however vigorous random mixing of the molecules up and down the ideal gas column at equilibrium in a gravity field leading to non-zero pressure and non-zero temperature gradients at equilibrium proven by reasonable experiment and theory of published physicists.

The thought experiment of Fig. 1 in top post being isothermal at equilibrium is wrong & shown irrefutably (by many published atmospheric thermodynamic physicists cited) to be non-isothermal, isentropic in equilibrium by the correct algebraic steps to maximize entropy and reasonable experiments as posted above.

There is no convincing evidence found of an atmospheric physicist publishing a proof otherwise by experiment or theory since then.

entropy, conserving total enthalpy / energy equilibrium of Fig. 1 is irrefutably proven non-isothermal, isentropic by published atmospheric thermodynamic physicists as early as 1996, again in 1998, 2004 and 2010 including experiments validating their results.

Independent atmospheric physicists verified Fig. 1 is non-isothermal, isentropic in equilibrium again in 1998, 2004 and 2010 by publishing their algebraic work steps and physical logic entirely consistent with all thermo laws that include confirming experiments.

This is not dreamed about by climate scientists but is actually measured via in situ lab experiments by material scientists and physicists.

In 1906 American experimental physicist R. W. Wood published the results of an experiment that demonstrated that a glass greenhouse was not heated by trapped long - wave (infrared) radiation.