Sentences with phrase «nuclear forces as»

When Albert Einstein died in 1955, he had spent decades on a lonely, quixotic quest: to derive a theory of everything that would unify gravity and electromagnetism — even though physicists discovered new nuclear forces as he worked.

Modern physics is trying to understand the nuclear force as a part of a more general «baryonic force.»

Not exact matches

The Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory was built in the 1950s as a radiation testing ground by the Air Force and weapons manufacturer Lockheed.

Retired Gen. Roger A. Brady, who was responsible for American nuclear weapons in Europe as part of his past role as commander of the U.S. Air Force there, turned to Apple support this year when he noticed something suspicious on his computer.

The Air Force's Nuclear and Missile Operations Officers, more casually known as «missileers,» monitor and control the U.S.'s collection of 450 intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The laws of physic requires that there be forces and objects that interact with each other, such as the four forces now known, of gravity, electro - magnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces (and now there is possibly dark energy) that is interwoven within matter.

Who is ready to say that as the last of all resorts the Iranian nuclear effort must be destroyed by force before it comes to term?

Despite the slogan («Peace Is Our Profession») of the Strategic Air Command of the U.S. Air Force, which has been in charge of strategic nuclear weapons as well as the high altitude bombing of Vietnam, having more and fancier weapons will not make us more safe, and these weapons will not prevent war or save lives.

As is the case with atomic power, the nuclear family has the potential to be a social force that is constructive or destructive.

If anything positive can be said about this grim and ironic situation, it is that as victims of terrorism we may be forced to rethink our own policies on the use of force (including nuclear force) in order to bring them into line with our moral denunciations of terrorism.

But I continue to believe, if anything more strongly, in the hidden existence and eventual release of forces of attraction between men which are as powerful in their own way as nuclear energy appears to be, at the other end of the spectrum of complexity.

When Britain's third party can put aside its differences on issues such as Europe and our nuclear deterrent to join forces with the Conservatives, it must make us question the relevance of dog - tagging parties with ideological values of old.

Any hypothetical military engagement where a nuclear armed country were to be in danger of being completely overrun would change the calculation on whether they would be willing to use nuclear weapons, but Russia probably would not, for example, use their nuclear weapons as a deterrent against attacks against their conventional troops in Ukraine, even if they were in danger of being forced out of Ukraine completely because the retaliation would cost much more to them than what they would be losing.

The Air Force has announced contracts for nuclear cruise and ground - based missiles, even as some experts call the programs, which Trump has embraced, unnecessary and dangerous.

It also called for all states to refrain from conducting nuclear test explosions and to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty in order to bring it into force as soon as ponuclear test explosions and to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty in order to bring it into force as soon as poNuclear - Test - Ban Treaty in order to bring it into force as soon as possible.

For a second year in a row, the PSC has deeply slashed the amount of renewable energy that utility companies are forced to buy under Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, casting further doubt on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for money - losing upstate nuclear plants.

The Cuomo administration estimates the Clean Energy Standard, chiefly its nuclear subsidies, will add an average of $ 2 to residential electric bills, although the Empire Center calculated the standard would hike the average residential bill by more than $ 2.09 in 2018 and by $ 3.40 in 2021 from added supply costs alone; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind turbines.

Prof Chalmers suggests a «CASD - capable» submarine force which could credibly reconstitute the nuclear deterrent if needed, or a «dual - capable» submarine force which could be used either for conventional or deterrent purposes, as alternative options to be considered.

As the Treasury has refused to pay for the nuclear deterrent out of its own funds the impact of continuing with Trident on the number of conventional forces Britain can afford will be exacerbated further.

I think moving all your nuclear forces to boomers is actually more destabilizing and scary, as it isn't a sign that you are insuring a MAD strategy, but that you intend to attempt an aggressive first strike.

At one point, she was forced to say «there's no point trying to shout me down» as she was challenged by opponents of unilateral nuclear disarmament.

Most concerning is the fact that Cuomo's scheme to force New Yorkers to foot the bill for the bailout of Exelon's nuclear plants could be seen as a policy framework for other states.

He said: «As well as her own extensive and wide - ranging consultations with senior figures from the armed forces, the defence industry, the unions, academic experts and others, Emily is hosting a series of round table events for MPs to inform the defence review, focusing on issues such as intelligence, international relations, cyber-security, terrorism, and the role of special forces, as well as the future of the nuclear deterrenAs well as her own extensive and wide - ranging consultations with senior figures from the armed forces, the defence industry, the unions, academic experts and others, Emily is hosting a series of round table events for MPs to inform the defence review, focusing on issues such as intelligence, international relations, cyber-security, terrorism, and the role of special forces, as well as the future of the nuclear deterrenas her own extensive and wide - ranging consultations with senior figures from the armed forces, the defence industry, the unions, academic experts and others, Emily is hosting a series of round table events for MPs to inform the defence review, focusing on issues such as intelligence, international relations, cyber-security, terrorism, and the role of special forces, as well as the future of the nuclear deterrenas intelligence, international relations, cyber-security, terrorism, and the role of special forces, as well as the future of the nuclear deterrenas well as the future of the nuclear deterrenas the future of the nuclear deterrent.

This is called as the charge symmetry of the nuclear force.

The weak nuclear force is responsible for — well, nothing much, as far as familiar phenomena are concerned.

So if the relative strength of these forces changes, it would show up as a divergence in the time kept by a nuclear clock compared with an atomic clock, a technique that could be the most sensitive yet for seeing this effect.

It describes all known particles, as well as three of the four forces that act on them: electromagnetism and the weak and strong nuclear forces.

One reason is that when enough mass is concentrated in a small enough space — as, for instance, in a large star that has exhausted its nuclear fuel — no force known can resist the implosive force of gravity.

Another motive for North Korea's nuclear buildup is that it wants to use that capability as a negotiating chip with South Korea, maybe to force the U.S. out of South Korea — although I don't think that's going to happen.

Now, in a new $ 62 million, 5 - year program, the network of doomsday machines is expanding to simulate hurricanes and tornadoes and is joining forces with computer modeling to study how things too big for a physical test — such as nuclear reactors or even an entire city — will weather what Mother Nature throws at them.

As part of the project, announced last week by Kenneth Hagemann, director of the Pentagon's Defense Nuclear Agency, 24 soldiers from Brooks Air Force Base in Texas are taking prescription drugs — ondansetron hydrochloride and granisetron hydrochloride — that are given to cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy or chemotherapy.

Subsequent testing has shown that not to be the case, at least in the opinion of many physicists — many highly respected physicists — and so the supporters of the RRW have moved onto other rationales for why we would need these including margin, which is your, I guess, confidence, that a nuclear weapon will explode as it is intended to; it will deliver exactly, say ten kilotons of destructive force or one megaton or whatever the desired explosive force is.

LONDON — One of the driest spring seasons on record in northern Europe has sucked soils dry and sharply reduced river levels to the point that governments are starting to fear crop losses and France, in particular, is bracing for blackouts as its river - cooled nuclear power plants may be forced to shut down.

One reason is thatwhen enough mass is concentrated in a small enough space — as forinstance in a large star that has exhausted its nuclear fuel — no forceknown can resist the implosive force of gravity.

Ordinarily protons, which carry the same electric charge, would repel each other, but when they are close enough, those forces become less important than the strong nuclear force, which binds the antiprotons together, just as it does for ordinary protons.

«Enriching our knowledge of the structures of highly unstable nuclei and the nucleon - nucleon forces that drive nuclear shell evolution and the appearance or disappearance of the nuclear magic numbers in radioactive nuclei plays an important role in understanding astrophysical processes such as nucleosynthesis in stars,» he adds.

Its findings suggest that there is an equivalence between generalised Casimir forces and those that are referred to as weak nuclear interactions between protons and neutrons.

Neglecting gravity, electromagnetism intensifies as you go down in size, whereas the nuclear forces weaken.

Critics of the plan also point out that various natural forces such as erosion and earthquakes could render the site unstable and thus unsuitable to store nuclear isotopes that can remain hazardous to humans for hundreds of thousands of years to come.

In addition to not needing to refuel between flights, a nuclear - powered airplane in theory would not pollute the environment as long as the radioactive waste from its reactor could be contained (the Air Force's project never progressed far enough to come up with a practical way to address this).

Instead of studying the decays of the Higgses, they looked for signs of a Higgs produced in tandem with a Z boson or a W boson, particles that convey the weak nuclear force, as they explain in a paper in press at Physical Review Letters.

In that case, the asymmetry is driven by interactions governed by the strong nuclear force — as the theory developed back in 2011 correctly described.

In the past methods developed to understand partitions have later been applied to physics problems such as the theory of the strong nuclear force or the entropy of black holes.

There are several ways to produce them, as predicted by the theoretical framework known as the Standard Model, and the most common one was the first one discovered: a collision in which the strong nuclear force creates a pair consisting of a top quark and its antimatter cousin, the anti-top quark.

The company's strategy is to expand the business into the life sciences arena, where nanotechnology and biotechnology intersect This involves the combination of core technologies in areas such as low temperature, high magnetic field and ultra-high vacuum environments; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance; X-ray, electron, laser and optical based metrology; atomic force microscopy; optical imaging; advanced growth, deposition and etching.

Normally, those protons would repel one another, being like - minded charges and all, but they are forced close together as the Strong Nuclear Force tries to bunch them up with their fellow neutrons.

As to the light nuclei — The forces which hold all nuclear particles together are attractive.

As in the TV show, the feature centers on the team of American agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) and Soviet agent Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer), bitter rivals forced by their governments to team up to thwart a plan by unrepentant Nazis to unleash a nuclear bomb.

First there's the dark humor which clashes»50s apple - pie Americana with the nuclear apocalypse, casting you as a resident of Vault 101 in the year 2277, forced to search a ravaged Washington DC for your father who is Liam Neeson.

Playing as Dockson, a US Army Special Forces corporal, the fate of the American Southwest rests in your hands as you fight to launch a nuclear - warhead loaded missile vital to stopping the spread of zombies.