Sentences with phrase «life as a physicist»

Perhaps Mukerjee's past life as a physicist has come into play here.

If my life as a physicist has taught me anything at all, it's that Plato was right: Modern physics has made abundantly clear that the ultimate nature of reality isn't what it seems.

He concluded that, in his view, global warming was «the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.»

As Hal Lewis said, «trillions» of dollars are what is moving this global warming scam, the biggest «pseudoscientific fraud» in his long life as a physicist.

It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.

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They are much like the physicists of the past who refused to see life as the direction toward which physical, mechanical and chemical transformations were tending, or again like the biologists of old who refused to see in consciousness the direction that life was tending.

Being a physicist as well as a student of theology, the author has avoided the claim that there is only one way in which the life of the scientist can be a proper life.

Thus the physicist Pattee (1970) expresses himself as neither satisfied with the claim that physics explains how life works nor the claim that physics can not explain how life arose.

Here, as Rabkin summarizes the physicist Niels Bohr, twentieth - century physicists «forced to live with apparently irresolvable paradoxes and contrarieties are, distressing though it may seem at first, in the mainstream of human experience.»

The prospective candidates are Suffolk County Legislator Kate Browning of Shirley; Elaine DiMasi of Ronkonkoma, who worked as a Brookhaven National Laboratory physicist; Perry Gershon, a businessman who has worked in commercial real estate finance and lives in East Hampton; Brendon Henry, a bartender, Westhampton native and Center Moriches resident; David Pechefsky a New York City Council staffer, who hails from Patchogue, but lives in Brooklyn, and Vivian Viloria - Fisher of Setauket, who served as a county legislator until she reached her term limit in 2011.

Crack the code and you can read the messages, but as a hint, Venter revealed the quotations: «To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life,» from James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; «See things not as they are but as they might be,» which comes from American Prometheus, a biography of nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer; and Richard Feynman's famous words: «What I can not build I can not understand.»

► In this week's Science Careers - produced Working Life column, Richard Dasheiff describes his transformation from aspiring physicist to clinical neurologist via several decades as a physician scientist.

I was lucky to join a scuba tour that one of the physicists had organized (though I did regret not knowing Spanish, as the route and much else had to be translated — a little disconcerting in what from my novice's perspective appeared to be a matter of life and death).

As Michael Skolones, one of Math Engine's stable of Ph.D. physicists, puts it, «You have to live, eat, and breathe games.»

There are many such examples of the universe's life - friendly properties — so many, in fact, that physicists can't dismiss them all as mere accidents.

Since Newton, through Einstein, and for a few decades after, physicists were seen as the high priests of science, the ones with the purest connection to the underlying reality in which we live.

Described by a spokesperson from NASA's Astrobiology Institute as «a revolution that will require its own revolution,» astrobiology draws on the expertise of astronomers and biologists, physicists, chemists, and geologists to understand the development of life in the universe.

I'm as much a fan of Mr. E = mc2 as anybody, but consider this: I'd be willing to bet that, when viewed from centuries hence, Einstein's most significant contribution to civilization will not be as arguably the greatest physicist of the modern world but rather as an inspirational role model whose life and work ignited the lives of countless other great young thinkers.

Paul led a normal life as an experimental physicist at a national laboratory until, in semi-retirement, he had an opportunity to embark on an entrepreneurial adventure.

Some physicists suspect inflation is still happening, starting up in some regions while stopping in others, such as the part of the universe we live in.

«Nobody makes it his life's work,» says Glenn Starkman, a theoretical physicist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland who has coauthored papers such as «Life and Death in an Ever - Expanding Universe,» among other lighthearted flife's work,» says Glenn Starkman, a theoretical physicist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland who has coauthored papers such as «Life and Death in an Ever - Expanding Universe,» among other lighthearted fLife and Death in an Ever - Expanding Universe,» among other lighthearted fare.

Instead, according to the physicist proposing the idea, the origin and subsequent evolution of life follow from the fundamental laws of nature and «should be as unsurprising as rocks rolling downhill.»

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.

Now, Weiss's tranquil life seems sure to be upended, as physicists expect him to share the Nobel Prize, if not this year, then the next.

Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi reportedly quipped to fellow physicists in 1950, when discussing why we haven't seen any signs of alien civilisations if, as many believe, our galaxy is teeming with life.

Over the years, physicists have conjured new, short - lived and typically supersized elements (as defined by their atomic number, or proton count) by smashing atomic nuclei together in particle accelerators.

Physicist and futurist Freeman Dyson says we should search for extraterrestrial life where it is easiest to find, even if the conditions there are not ideal for life as we know it.

We have Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist, and, as it happens, director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University, where they are; we mentioned before, Steve and I were, when we were talking about origins as the issue, one of the reasons why origins is so intriguing is not just because, we can all say, well where did life come from.

So, he spends most of his life — we think of Newton as a physicist or mathematician but he spends — he writes several million words of theology over the course of his life.

At any given time, as many as 30,000 Americans are living with ALS — which afflicts physicist Stephen Hawking and which killed baseball legend Lou Gehrig.

Most physicists believe that deuterium as we know it is essential to stars» ability to shine, and thus to the existence of life itself.

The space physicists noted that the stellar wind that blows from stars could deplete the atmosphere of such planets over hundreds of millions of years, eliminating liquid water that is vital for life as we know it.

Physicists in these fields have contributed to groundbreaking developments in technology that impact not only society as a whole, but often affect our individual lives on a day - to - day basis.

These soldiers — a psychologist (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a biologist (Natalie Portman), a paramedic (Gina Rodriguez), a physicist (Tessa Thompson) and an anthropologist (Tuva Novotny)-- enter what is about to become a living, breathing nightmare, an environmental disaster zone without scientific explanation, as filtered through the mind of «Ex Machina» director Alex Garland, adapting the first book in Jeff VanderMeer's «Southern Reach» trilogy.

In 2014, the film The Theory of Everything about his life was released, starring Eddie Redmayne as the Cambridge physicist.

The narrators are a member of a doomsday cult who releases poison gas in a subway in Tokyo, and details his retreat to Okinawa and a small nearby island, Kume - jima; a jazz aficionado who works as a sales clerk in a Tokyo music store; a lawyer in a financial institution in Hong Kong who has been moving large sums of money from a certain account; a woman who owns a Tea Shack on China's Holy Mountain and speaks to a tree; a non-corporeal sentient entity which is searching for who or what it is; a gallery attendant in Petersburg who is involved in an art theft scam; a ghostwriter / drummer living in London who saves a woman from being run over by a taxi; an Irish nuclear physicist who quits her job when she finds her research is being used for military purposes; and a late night radio talkback DJ who finds himself fielding calls from an intriguing caller referring to himself as the zookeeper.

In Half - Life you play as Gordan Freeman, a theoretical physicist who gets stuck in the middle of an alien invasion at a secret government facility and the U.S Military trying to kill everyone and everything at said secret goverment facility.

As part of the ongoing Getty Center exhibition HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. HOCKNEY, artists Tacita Dean and Ramiro Gomez, physicist Charles Falco, and writer Lawrence Weschler — author of True to Life: Twenty - Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney — get together this week for a conversation about their friend and colleague David Hockney.

Around 1850, physicist John Tyndall discovered that carbon dioxide traps heat in our atmosphere, producing the greenhouse effect, which enables all of creation as we know it to live on Earth.

Nobel Prize - Winner Richard Feynman was widely regarded as one of the greatest physicists to have ever lived — but his true fame, it could be argued, came from his unique ability to explain complex ideas in a way that was not only understandable but inspirational.