Sentences with phrase «fundamental physics»

We know from fundamental physics that the average global surface temperature will warm approximately 1.2 °C from the increased greenhouse effect if the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere doubles.

I certainly don't regret having gone this way since I have been able to stay in touch with fundamental physics while at the same time getting my hands dirty with real experimental equipment.

It's two - dimensional, which is the best possible number for studying fundamental physics.

These insights into fundamental physics will particularly profit further research into new radiation sources and in the field of light wave electronics.

The process, predicted more than four decades ago, provides a new way to test fundamental physics.

This may indicate that new fundamental physics is required to solve the mystery of dark matter.

But this is what fundamental physics is about: finding new ways of thinking about the world and proposing them and seeing if they work.

However, the process of mantle convection should comply with fundamental physics laws, such as conservation of mass, momentum and energy.

The way that these units are defined doesn't matter so much for weighing vegetables, say, but many scientific experiments require precise measurement, especially in areas like fundamental physics.

Indeed, mathematical beauty has become a guiding principle in the search for better theories in fundamental physics.

But I can understand any arguments, based on fundamental physics, that proves this is the mechanism I am looking for.

A research published on the journal Physical Review E, and signed by Agustín Pérez, from the Department of Fundamental Physics of the University of Barcelona, and Iván Santamaría, from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, analyses the implications of the finite size of the system on its thermodynamic behavior.

Second round of Russian billionaire's Fundamental Physics Prize less controversial than first

Along with the research's applications for fundamental physics of magnetic, atomic, quantum and surface phenomena, Dr Streed is also working as part of Griffith's Institute for Glycomics to adapt these sorts of quantum technologies for medical and biological research.

If only chemistry coveted beauty as much as fundamental physics.

GL investigators explore fundamental physics and chemistry at high pressures and temperatures, materials science, astrobiology, mineralogy, geochemistry, planetary differentiation, and Solar System formation.

Loeb's primer on the formation of early stars and galaxies opens a new series meant to offer short, accessible introductions to current frontiers of fundamental physics research.

The levitating nanodiamonds also could find uses in quantum information processing, experimental techniques to probe fundamental physics in quantum mechanics, and the measurement of magnetic and gravitational fields, which could be applied to computer memory and experiments to search for deviations from Newton's law of gravitation.

The quantum network is a worthy goal, says Ruxandra Bondarescu at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, because it could double as a sensor for conducting fundamental physics experiments.

His main research interest is the study of fundamental physics using radio astronomy, in particular radio pulsars.

His work focuses on different aspects of microfluidics, ranging from fundamental physics principles to preparing materials for the pharma and other industries.

The 2012 Fundamental Physics prize was shared among nine physicists, most of who were string theorists.

By teasing out signatures of particles just tenths of a millimeter from the center of a trillion - degree fireball that mimics the early universe, nuclear physicists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and from other sites are gaining new insights about fundamental physics.

This might indicate that something has made those values suited for human life — but this is very speculative: we don't even know if the parameters could be different from what they are, all we know is that we don't know how to derive their values from more fundamental physics.

The question is why fundamental physics is amenable to this kind of abstraction.

Fundamental physics tells us that the place where warming is greatest, in the Arctic, reflecting sunlight back into space has the smallest cooling effect.

That's a shame for the man who discovered what might prove to be the key clue to the theory of everything, advanced our understanding of space and time, helped shape the course of physics for the last four decades and whose insight continues to drive progress in fundamental physics today.

Mark Lee, a senior program scientist at NASA, still believes in STEP, calling it «one of the most critical fundamental physics experiments that mankind could pursue.»

Sitting together at a conference they had organized, called «A School on Connecting Fundamental Physics and Cosmology,» the two physicists suddenly hit on the same idea.

The bad news for STEP, he says, is that after 2004, NASA's fundamental physics program was terminated.

A preliminary display of the resulting temperature map sent ripples through an audience of astrophysicists at the Cosmic Genesis and Fundamental Physics meeting at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California, on October 28.

Then there are even more fundamental physics problems.

I went to the Vienna University of Technology in 1988, and my desire to understand fundamental physics naturally brought me into theoretical physics — quantum field theory, general relativity, and the like.

«He had dominated fundamental physics from 1905 to 1915, with an extraordinary series of insights,» Wilczek says.

«Fundamental physics sets no limits,» he says.

Based on similar fundamental physics used to create optical traps for decades, these tractor beams are true to their name in that they pull objects, trapping small beads — and even insects — at their foci.

In particular, they want to solve the long - standing mystery of how the universe could have begun in such a well - ordered state, as fundamental physics implies, when it seems utter chaos should have reigned.

«What I like most is to make the bridge between fundamental physics and practical applications, and for this the CIFRE is a great opportunity,» he says.

Even alien megastructures must obey fundamental physics, so any energy from starlight they intercept must ultimately be radiated away as heat.

Orfeu Bertolami and José Manuel Mourão of the Higher Technical Institute in Lisbon and Juan Pérez - Mercader of the Laboratory of Space Astrophysics and Fundamental Physics near Madrid say that cosmologists may have gone down a blind alley in inventing exotic types of invisible matter to account for the missing mass of the Universe.

But there is also plenty about the way fundamental physics in general developed during Feynman's lifetime, with his work set in the context of that of other theorists such as Murray Gell - Mann and Julian Schwinger.

Graphene, a newly isolated form of carbon, provides a rich lode of novel fundamental physics and practical applications

The new theory is the logical next step after the so called «AdS - CFT correspondence,» a conjecture put forward in 1997, which has strongly influenced fundamental physics research ever since.

«Our work is mostly fundamental physics,» he says, but adds that «many people believe that graphene could be used for a whole variety of applications.»