Sentences with phrase «good knowledge of physics»

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Panpsychist or proto - mentalist interpretations of Bergson's thought, by way of contrast, are most rare.1 To the best of my knowledge, Milic Capek, in his Bergson and Modern Physics,...
The problem here is that the special knowledge that such people have (knowledge about physics) doesn't make their opinions in this area any better than those of anyone else.
You likely have a basic working knowledge of physics, astronomy, evolutionary biology and cosmology and a good idea of the history of life on this planet.
This is the way followed by some thinkers, for example, A. N. Whitehead in a series of books, The Principles of Natural Knowledge, The Concept of Nature, and Science and the Modern World; by Milic Capek in his The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics; and by C. F. von Weizsäicker in his recent Die Einheit der Natur, as well as other books of his — this list is intended as illustrative, not exhaustive.
Leon Lederman, the well - know physicist in his book on the history of particle physics, The God Particle, (GP 175) expresses the unavoidable finitude as a limit of knowledge expressed by what Max Planck called the «quantum of action,» now known as Planck's Constant: «Heisenberg announced that our simultaneous knowledge of a particle's location and its motion is limited and the combined uncertainty of these two properties must exceed... nothing other than Planck's constant, b...
Panpsychist or proto - mentalist interpretations of Bergson's thought, by way of contrast, are most rare.1 To the best of my knowledge, Milic Capek, in his Bergson and Modern Physics, provides the sole detailed and systematic exposition of Bergsonian protomentalism available in English.
Vaughan Turekian, science adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State, and a leading, global voice in contemporary science diplomacy, applauded TWAS and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) for bringing together «some of the best minds» from across the developing world «to push the fronts of knowledge to make the world a better place.»
«When scientists designed the mission and the instrumentation on the probes, they looked at the scientific unknowns and said, «This is a great chance to unlock some fundamental knowledge about how particles are accelerated,»» said Nicola J. Fox, deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «With five identical suites of instruments on board twin spacecraft — each with a broad range of particle and field and wave detection — we have the best platform ever created to better understand this critical region of space above Earth.»
The field of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science integrates the knowledge and tools of chemistry and physics with the principles of engineering to understand and optimize the behavior of materials, as well as to create new and improved materials to help fulfill the missions of the Department of Physics and Materials Science integrates the knowledge and tools of chemistry and physics with the principles of engineering to understand and optimize the behavior of materials, as well as to create new and improved materials to help fulfill the missions of the Department of physics with the principles of engineering to understand and optimize the behavior of materials, as well as to create new and improved materials to help fulfill the missions of the Department of Energy.
It provides a source of information relating to computers, nuclear instrumentation science, data analysis and medical physics to the Society through meetings, seminars, and publications as well as promoting the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in this area.
This triennially organized joint meeting of medical physicists, biomedical engineers and adjoining health care professionals is a unique opportunity to liaise with your professional colleagues from all over the world, learn and share your knowledge, and discuss the latest research outcomes and technological advancements as well as new ideas in both medical physics and biomedical engineering field.
Undeterred, Collier explores a method of time travel requiring no DeLorean, no Tardis, and no knowledge of the higher physics: good old self - hypnosis.
We have a team of skilled native writers who are the Ph.D. holder in physics and have a well - versed knowledge of teaching physics to many students of different school and universities.
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Well I agree, but today we do not know all the physical relationships, that is why I wrote «To circumvent the lack of knowledge in climate physics, we adopt an alternative approach..
Re # 241, student # 2, having gone through the entire Ph.D. process is definitely a fighter and well accustomed to defending his research, but found your points (re the hurricane stuff) not very interesting owing to lack of knowledge of the data and the physics.
We know more about Earth's climate than any other planet, but using this knowledge to predict weather and climate on other planets is a true test of how well we actually understand the fundamental physics.
Furthermore, good climate analysis requires more than a knowledge of «atmospheric physics or climate science.»
The basic physics knowledge of the greenhouse effect have been examined since 1824 beginning with Joseph Fourier, the hypothesis that we should warm with continued CO2 emissions has been around for more than a hundred years, the general confirmations and realization that this will develop into a global problem have been germinating for over 50 years, and in the last three decades the knowledge that the warming we will experience will affect our climate and agricultural systems is well known.
Although surprises may yet be in store for us when larger computers and better knowledge of cloud physics allow the next stage of modeling to be accomplished, the magnitude of the CO2 effect has probably been pinned down to within a factor of 2 to 4.
I think the best way to proceed is to focus on the structure of the real DGP for the temperature series based on our knowledge of physics.
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