Sentences with phrase «far as physicists»

Unlike those particles, which as far as physicists know can't be broken down into...

u «As far as physicists know, matter and antimatter should have been created in equal amounts in the early Universe and so blasted each other into oblivion.

«As far as physicists know, matter and antimatter should have been created in equal amounts in the early Universe and so blasted each other into oblivion.

Unlike those particles, which as far as physicists know can't be broken down into more basic pieces, Majorana quasiparticles arise from coordinated patterns of many atoms and electrons and only appear under special conditions.

Not exact matches

As far our atomic composition, we are made up of «stardust» from exploding supernovas (as noted by Lawrence Krauss, an American theoretical physicist, and Robert Kirshner, Harvard College Professor of AstronomyAs far our atomic composition, we are made up of «stardust» from exploding supernovas (as noted by Lawrence Krauss, an American theoretical physicist, and Robert Kirshner, Harvard College Professor of Astronomyas noted by Lawrence Krauss, an American theoretical physicist, and Robert Kirshner, Harvard College Professor of Astronomy).

I would go a step further and say we need educated scientist, engineers and physicist as politicians instead of bloodsucking lawyers.

The general implications of which I am thinking are, so far as I can see, independent of the divergences between the versions of «Relativity» advocated by individual physicists; their value as I think, is that they enable us to formulate the problem to which Bergson has the eminent merit of making the first approach in a clear and definite way, and to escape what I should call the impossible dualism to which Bergson's own proposed solution commits him.

Through the nineteenth century physicists believed that atoms were, as the name implies, tiny pellets of matter not susceptible of further analysis or division.

Thus we have two forms of inquiry, the one restricting itself to the study of behavior, the description of behavior being austerely limited to geometrical and arithmetical properties, and the other also studying behavior, but interpreting it as far more than merely that, and as having its meaning, and perhaps also in part its causal explanation, in terms of a large class of concepts excluded from the physicists» explanations.

NeverBeenBrainwashed Not that I disagree with Hawking, but as far as brilliant minds go, lets not pretend that Hawking is something of an anomaly among physicists.

To understand «the real Cameron» she interviews his biographer, Francis Elliott, who argues that Cameron could have been a captain of industry, or a leading physicist but was always going to be motivated to go as far as he can in his chosen field.

As far back as the 1920s, some physicists proposed that if gravity is related to a curvature in our three - dimensional universe, other forces in nature might result from curvature in as yet unseen dimensionAs far back as the 1920s, some physicists proposed that if gravity is related to a curvature in our three - dimensional universe, other forces in nature might result from curvature in as yet unseen dimensionas the 1920s, some physicists proposed that if gravity is related to a curvature in our three - dimensional universe, other forces in nature might result from curvature in as yet unseen dimensionas yet unseen dimensions.

Now, Jeffrey Hangst, an experimental physicist at Aarhus University in Denmark, and his 48 colleagues at the ALPHA collaboration at CERN have precisely measured the energy difference between antihydrogen's lowest energy state, called the 1S, and a higher energy state known as the 2S, by far the most precisely measured transition in ordinary hydrogen.

Second, physicists had accumulated decades of experience building real machines that could manipulate and measure particles» spin; as far as thought experiments went, this one could be grounded on some well - earned confidence.

«As theoretical physicists, Wladimir and I could predict the existence of this new form of matter, but no material has been found to have these properties so far,» Hughes said.

My top marks go to an extract from the Dutch physicist Samuel Goudsmit's Aslos, in which he superbly and hilariously recorded his experiences as a member of the Second World War mission to determine how far the Germans had progressed in atomic weapons.

This is, however, far from a complete explanation, and the Nobel prizewinning physicist Richard Feynman described the result as the «central mystery» of quantum physics.

Now an Israeli physicist predicts that a similar but far more subtle anomaly in the orbits of the planets, if detected, might prove his own theory, known as modified Newtonian dynamics, or MOND.

As plasma is ejected from the sun's surface, its temperature skyrockets — and so far physicists have not been able to explain why

Although theoretical physics allows for much more exotic recipes, physicists have so far only found quarks arranged in pairs (mesons) and trios (baryons, such as neutrons and protons).

Although the particle could very well be a fluke signal that disappears as further data from the LHC come in, theorists» time is still well spent analysing it, says theoretical physicist Lisa Randall of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

As far back as 1867, physicist James Clerk Maxwell described a hypothetical way to violate the Second Law: if a small theoretical being sat at the door between the hot and cold rooms and only let through particles traveling at a certain speeAs far back as 1867, physicist James Clerk Maxwell described a hypothetical way to violate the Second Law: if a small theoretical being sat at the door between the hot and cold rooms and only let through particles traveling at a certain speeas 1867, physicist James Clerk Maxwell described a hypothetical way to violate the Second Law: if a small theoretical being sat at the door between the hot and cold rooms and only let through particles traveling at a certain speed.

People have demanded answers to these questions since 1979, when Nancy Wertheimer, an epidemiologist, wrote a paper with Ed Leeper, an independent physicist in Boulder, Colorado, purporting to show that children living close to power transmission lines were twice as likely to contract leukaemia as children in homes farther away.

«Certainly as far as chiral Majorana fermions go, this is the only definitive evidence that has been reported,» says theoretical physicist Taylor Hughes of the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, who was not involved with the research.

Such enterprise is far removed from the world of fundamental physics that has occupied most of Kapitza's time as senior scientist and head of the laboratory at the Institute for Physical Problems, the Moscow research establishment founded by his father, the Nobel physicist Peter Kapitza.

That is fine as far as it goes, but according to Anthony Tyson, a physicist at the University of California at Davis and now the director of the LSST project, it will not be possible to answer the great questions in astronomy and cosmology without a technological breakthrough.

Except for his background as a physicist, the young, straight - talking conservative who served President Ronald Reagan was a far cry from the seasoned, blend - into - the - background men (there's never been a woman in the job) who held the portfolio for Democratic Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.

The physicists have transmitted the quantum entanglement in the far long distance such as space.

Even for a seemingly elementary case such as freezing water, physicists have yet to compute exactly when a transition will occur, he notes — and cancer is far more complicated than water.

So far, astronomers and physicists have investigated the universe using electromagnetic radiation, such as infrared, X-rays and gamma rays.

This is the only blog on climate matters run by a physicist and, as such, is by far the most interesting.

Watching a lecture by the Physicist Lawrence Krauss, I was struck by the idea that in 100 billion years, there will be no cosmic microwave background and you will look out into the sky with a telescope and only see our galaxy (all other galaxies now being so far beyond the «horizon» as to be undetectable).

As far as I can see, most physicists in attendance are shooting big holes in the story..As far as I can see, most physicists in attendance are shooting big holes in the story..as I can see, most physicists in attendance are shooting big holes in the story....

Further, he appointed a technologist, the Nobel Prize - winning physicist Chu, as energy secretary to oversee that investment.

My educated layman's physicist's gut (layman as far as climate science goes, not physics) tells me 2W / m2 out of the ocean seems pretty high given that the temperature difference is generated by a peak forcing of only -3.4 W / m2 - it implies that the ocean response is of the same order as the atmospheric response, which seems unlikely given the «impedance mismatch» between the ocean and atmosphere.

At least as far back as 2007 — before Cycle 23 had bottomed — a Russian solar physicist, predicted what we are seeing now.

But remember that Fredrick Seitz, a prominent physicist and past president of the US NAS, was attacked and defamed when as far back as 1996 he protested the tendentious climatological bowdlerization of the IPCC's 2AR.