The anthropic principle, championed by
leading physicists such as Leonard Susskind of Stanford University, is cosmology's version of creationism.
Not exact matches
I do not envision that
such changes would
lead to talk of God among
physicists or biologists or psychologists.
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Leading nuclear
physicists at the Federal Institute of Technology Zürich
such as Paul Scherrer made this a realistic possibility.
«Our research shows for the first time that classical systems
such as artificial spin ice can be designed to demonstrate topological ordered phases, which previously have been found only in quantum conditions,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory
physicist Cristiano Nisoli, leader of the theoretical group that collaborated with an experimental group at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign,
led by Peter Schiffer (now at Yale University).
The National Eclipse Ballooning Project,
led by Angela Des Jardins, a solar
physicist at Montana State University in Bozeman, will launch over 100 weather balloons at various times along the path of totality and measure changes in
such parameters as temperature and wind speed.
Such work won't
lead to anything like Star Trek's warp drive, but it may enable
physicists to determine whether hydrogen and antihydrogen atoms have exactly the same masses, spins, and other basic properties.
Attempts to answer
such questions
lead physicists time and time again to the same expedient: invent a new particle.
Peter Gehring, a
physicist for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), researches «smart» materials
such as
lead - oxide ferroelectric relaxors and highly magnetostrictive compounds.
A team
led by
physicists Norman Booth of the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, and Antonio Barone of the University of Naples, Italy, have constructed
such a transistor out of ultrathin layers of superconductors, insulators, and normal metals.
Recently
physicists led by Per Delsing of the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden created
such a mechanical ear, which could soon tune in on the phonon's minuscule notes.
For several years, the «Molecular Imaging» research group at the FMP
led by
physicist Leif Schröder has been developing new MRI methods that rely on just
such a «flux compensator» and has demonstrated the impressive potential of this method.
Currently, a group of
physicists from the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw,
led by Prof. Jerzy Lewandowski, has formulated a general mechanism responsible for the emergence of
such a spacetime rainbow.
Study
lead author Michael Raupach, GCP co-chair and atmospheric
physicist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, says it will take economic, policy and social changes to reverse the trend,
such as capturing the CO2 emitted by coal - fired power plants and increased international cooperation.
Standard quantum computers use algorithms that each only solve a very specific problem,
such as cracking encryption, whereas adiabatic quantum computers can in theory solve any kind of problem, said study
lead author Rami Barends, a
physicist at Google.
Postnuclear
physicists still dismiss astrology but could only object to alchemy on grounds
such as not being a cost - effective way of turning
lead into gold as well as posing serious health and environmental hazards.