Sentences with phrase «experiments led theory»

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Dark matter is the dominant form of substance in the universe, which leads physicists to devise theories and experiments to explore its properties and understand how it originated.

It is failure — most often, the failure of a theory to match up with a new experiment — that leads to exciting breakthroughs.

To test this theory, the research team designed an experiment to see if increased LPA signaling led to schizophrenia - like symptoms in animal models.

A tweak to the iconic double - slit experiment could reveal if quantum mechanics is incomplete, and maybe lead to a theory of quantum gravity

«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 team of researchers, led by Nobel Prize - winning chemist John Polanyi, employed a combination of experiment and theory to discover that the position of the molecule on the catalytic surface is a key factor in determining the rate at which particular bonds break.

What led up to your most famous and most dangerous experiment, testing your theory on yourself?

«Part of the excitement of the experiments is that they're leading the theory.

Neuroscience theories suggest ways to translate experiments into smarter algorithms that could lead to a greater understanding of general intelligence.»

Chen is the experimental and intellectual lead of these studies, which now include national and international collaborators in both theory and experiment.

The close collaboration with experiment is not only teaching us about the efficacy of common approximations in electronic structure theory, but is also leading to important insights into the ways we might improve such approximations and consequently our ability to predict and design new materials.»

As he speculates in «Injecting Charter School Best Practices Into Traditional Public Schools: Evidence from Field Experiments,»» [A] leading theory posits that reading scores are influenced by the language spoken when students are outside of the classroom... [The researchers] argue that if students speak non-standard English at home and in their communities, increasing reading scores might be especially difficult.

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.

And so I want to emphasize that, in the present case, all three paths (physical, geometric, and computational) lead to the same conclusion, which is entirely consistent with experiments and observation: Gravito - thermal theories are just plain wrong.

It is our belief that «theory leads experiment» on climate change because all well - accepted atmospheric models predict a temperature rise.

They were wrong by being internally contradictory, differing essentially from a correct theory and by leading to totally wrong predictions in contradiction with experiments.

Requiring new empirical proofs for everything that has already been proven solidly by a combination of experiments and theory does not lead anywhere.