THEME NATURAL WORLD The natural world can be seen
from the subatomic to the cosmic.
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Rogers has a scientist's curiosity and a poet's eye and consequently writes of the cosmos —
from the subatomic world to the stars, from a bird perching on a branch to the workings of the human brain — with passionate specificity, philosophical insight, and elegantly expressed exaltation.
He continues: «The magnification of the universe
from the subatomic to the macro scales seems kind of crazy, but it keeps on predicting the things that we see in the universe.»
Caltech's chemists and chemical engineers study nature's most intricate processes on scales
from the subatomic to the macroscopic.
Johnson, who specializes in the study of complexity, is one of a new breed of physicists turning their analytical acumen away
from subatomic particles and toward a bewildering array of more immediate human problems, from traffic management to urban planning.
Once you scale up
from the subatomic level, other factors disrupt transparency, like flaws in a uniform material — think of bubbles in a piece of glass.
Ray Jayawardhana: They are connected to such a wide range of phenomenon
from the subatomic to the cosmic that they could tell us a lot about the nature of matter, about what triggers exploding stars, to what the universe might have been like, the conditions within seconds after the big bang.
They really have a strong reluctance to mingle with other particles, which makes them antisocial and difficult to pin down, but they are connected to such a wide range of phenomenon
from the subatomic to the cosmic that they could tell us a lot about many different things, many different mysteries about the nature of matter, about what triggers exploding stars, to what's going on in the heart of the sun, to what the universe might have been like, the conditions within seconds after the big bang.
Will we one day have a complete theory that will explain everything
from subatomic particles, atoms and supernovae to the big bang?
These waves are direct evidence that the currently observable universe expanded rapidly
from a subatomic volume in the first tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang.
Many models have suggested that the flow of particles
from these subatomic fireworks produced in high - energy nuclear collisions should behave like a gas and not a liquid.
That's where the Superconducting Supercollider, a 54 - mile - long underground circular particle accelerator, was supposed to smash protons together and glean vital clues
from the subatomic wreckage.
A fresh analysis of data from the particle collider that delivered the Higgs boson has dashed physicists» sliver of hope that another new particle had emerged
from the subatomic shrapnel.
The arrangement of the world's occasions into an array of aggregates, organisms, and societies ranging
from the subatomic to the galactic, from the simple to the complex, has no limits.
That is, societies do not just line up side by side like mosaics — they form «nested hierarchies» that go
from subatomic particles through cells to animal bodies, or through stars to galaxies.
To talk about the leap
from subatomic particles and probabilities to objects as we know them, and to talk about the leap from chemistry to consciousness, is in a very real sense to engage in metaphysics.
The theory of societies, like modern general systems theory, pictures a world made up of societies within societies (systems within systems) That is, societies do not just line up side by side like mosaics — they form «nested hierarchies» that go
from subatomic particles through cells to animal bodies, or through stars to galaxies.
Not exact matches
There is absolutely no evidence anywhere in the known univers,
from the tiniest
subatomic particle to the structure of the universe as a whole, that even remotely implies the faintest possibility thata deity exists.
From Whitehead's point of view, at least, evolutionary thought requires that there be continuity from the simplest subatomic event to the most complex human experie
From Whitehead's point of view, at least, evolutionary thought requires that there be continuity
from the simplest subatomic event to the most complex human experie
from the simplest
subatomic event to the most complex human experience.
All knowledge, including scientific knowledge, comes ultimately
from personal experience (though scientists can not, for example, directly observe the
subatomic particles whose existence they infer
from their experiments).
Physics has already learned that it can not understand its
subatomic particles by categories drawn
from the visual world.
As with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, there is an interconnectedness at the
subatomic level that defies simple causal explanations
from the macroscopic world.
Given his panpsychism or «psychicalism,» Hartshorne holds that the ultimate units of reality are, in the broadest sense, feelings, or that feeling is a «cosmic variable» which can range
from the most primitive, unconscious aesthetic reactions of
subatomic particles to their environment to the most elaborate conscious experiences of God's.
Such a view might help interpret the «smeared - out» character of atomic and
subatomic events and explain some supraluminal relationships even better than suggestions made here that the)» may result
from God's mediation.
«The greatest city on earth, a great jiving funkapolitan melting - pot... And that's why we lead in all those creative and cultural sectors and that's why we have the best universities, because the best minds
from across the world are meeting in some of the best pubs and bars and nightclubs like
subatomic particles colliding in a cyclotron.»
In one model, cosmologists propose that dark energy emerges
from the fuzzy laws of quantum physics, which govern the
subatomic realm.
Complicated cascades of
subatomic reactions in the atmosphere triggered by high - energy cosmic rays
from outer space.
In fact, just before posting this Top Pictures list, a NASA press release came out saying the Fermi satellite has seen gamma rays
from this object, which is another very strong piece of evidence for this; gamma rays are the very highest energy form of light, and should be made when
subatomic particles bounce around in supernova shock waves.
These Chandra observations showed that expanding debris
from a supernova can accelerate
subatomic particles faster than previously thought, and in fact can account for the highest - energy protons that come
from outer space and are seen hitting the Earth's upper atmosphere.
Perhaps the most surprising scientific evidence for the soul comes
from quantum mechanics — specifically,
from investigations of the
subatomic phenomena that produce consciousness.
Solar wind creates a huge magnetic bubble, known as the heliosphere, that protects Earth and the other planets
from energetic
subatomic particles that constantly zip around in deep space.
The ghostly
subatomic particles seem to have zipped faster than light
from the particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, to a detector in Italy.
When it comes to the highest energy cosmic rays —
subatomic particles raining in
from space — the sky is lopsided: More come
from one direction than the other, according to a new study.
Instead it takes us to specific waypoints throughout the physical scales of the cosmos across 62 orders of magnitude,
from the quantum building blocks of the
subatomic world to realms in which entire planets are mere droplets of frozen minerals and onward into the greatest expanse yet discovered, in which entire galaxies swarm like glinting motes of dust against the cosmic horizon.
Such dark energy might arise
from the tangle of fields that fill the vacuum on the
subatomic level.
A near - match for Colman's brilliance, Olivia Williams is Jenny's strait - laced, but wounded sister Alice, whose job at CERN allows Kirkwood to shift the scale of her storytelling
from the existential, through the political and the personal, way down to the
subatomic.
On August 25, 2012, the scientists say, Voyager 1 exited a giant invisible bubble called the heliosphere that is inflated by a torrent of
subatomic particles spewing
from the sun.
Short films about exploding stars and
subatomic particles top the list of prizewinners
from the annual Quantum Shorts contest
Giorgio Gratta, a physicist at Stanford University, is going fishing for high - energy neutrinos, ghostly
subatomic particles that bombard Earth
from unknown objects in deep space.
A breed of
subatomic particle made
from nothing has huge implications for technology — and shows how tenuous reality itself is
Called the quantum phonon, this
subatomic acoustical wave can be detected only by intricate instruments that distinguish pure silence
from its smallest possible deviation.
Well, the magnetic field deflects particle storms and cosmic rays
from the sun, as well as even more energetic
subatomic particles
from deep space.
Just as his earlier work paved the way to harnessing the smallest
subatomic forces, the general theory opened up an understanding of the largest of all things,
from the formative Big Bang of the universe to its mysterious black holes.
Ulysses» passage over the Sun's far north may also confirm another of last year's discoveries: the finding that cosmic rays — high - energy
subatomic particles
from deep space — do not seem to penetrate to the Sun's poles easily.
Hungering for that
subatomic particle, they exhibit a propensity for stealing an electron
from any nearby molecule.
AMONG the hail of
subatomic particles hitting the Earth
from space are a few monsters: single particles with incredibly high energies of around 1020 electronvolts, 100,000 billion times as much as typical particles emitted through radioactivity.
Borrowing a page
from astrophysics, they are using the curious
subatomic particles known as neutrinos.
Now, a pair of scientists
from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich have proposed the first solution to such
subatomic stoppage: a novel way to create a more robust electron wave by binding together the electron's direction of movement and its spin.
But in July, Takashi Nakano of Osaka University reported that he had detected a pentaquark, a bizarre
subatomic particle built
from five quarks: two ups, two downs, and an antiquark.