Sentences with phrase «proposed by physicist»

Researchers found that making adjustments to the design of a real - life warp drive first proposed by physicist Michael Alcubierre in 1994 significantly reduces the amount of energy required to power it.

PCM was first proposed by physicist and inventor Stanford Ovshinsky in 1968.

The main story» Splitting Time from Space — New Quantum Theory Topples Einstein's Spacetime,» describes recent excitement over a quantum theory of gravity proposed by physicist Petr Hoava of the University of California, Berkeley.

Since 1867, when the demon was proposed by physicist James Clerk Maxwell, scientists wondered whether such a creature could violate the second law, a sacred tenet of physics.

E8 is also the basis for another «theory of everything» proposed by physicist Garrett Lisi, who called E8 «perhaps the most beautiful structure in mathematics».

TeVes Tensor - Scalar - Vector, a relativistic approach to gravity proposed by physicist Jacob Bekenstein.

His solution to the problem came in response to a modified Whiteheadian theory of events proposed by physicist Henry Pierce Stapp in «Quantum Mechanics, Local Causality, and Process Philosophy» (PS 7 [1977]: 173 - 182).

Incidentally, Chance, the Big Bang theory was first proposed by a physicist who was also a Catholic priest.

Multiple universes is an idea proposed by physicists and cosmologists based on the verifiable evidence to this point.

Another variety of extra spacetime dimension, of potentially infinite size, was proposed by physicists Lisa Randall and Raman Sundrum in 1999 (SN: 9/26/09, p. 22).

Playing a game such as «Find the Lady» in the quantum world has now been proposed by physicists at the Institute of Applied Physics (IAP) of the University of Bonn together with their colleagues from Austria and the USA.

Known as phase - change memory (PCM), the idea was first proposed by physicists in the 1960s.

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I mean if the quantum physics proposed by so many Physicist are correct, string theory, who knows right.

Also, this «Big Bang confirms Jewdeo - Christian genesis» claim has been made before... the first time by the Pope when Big Bang was first proposed by a Belgian physicist and a catholic priest named Georges Lemaître, who actually came up with the name Big Bang.

The general implications of which I am thinking are, so far as I can see, independent of the divergences between the versions of «Relativity» advocated by individual physicists; their value as I think, is that they enable us to formulate the problem to which Bergson has the eminent merit of making the first approach in a clear and definite way, and to escape what I should call the impossible dualism to which Bergson's own proposed solution commits him.

First proposed in 1962 by physicist and science fiction writer Robert L. Forward, and subsequently developed and tested by the Benfords, these spacecraft are defined by their giant sails.

String theory, for example, regarded by many physicists as our best bet for a unified theory of reality, proposes between 10 and 26 space - time dimensions, many of them wrapped so up tightly as to be virtually inaccessible.

Although pages of text or strings of bits seem easily erased with the press of a button, the act of destroying information has tangible physical impact, according to a principle proposed in 1961 by physicist Rolf Landauer.

Perhaps the strangest of all the interpretations is the one first proposed in 1957 by Princeton physicist Hugh Everett.

Seeking an explanation, Suarez and his colleague Valerio Scarani (now at the National University of Singapore) proposed a way to modify the basic experiment, which had been carried out by physicists in Geneva.

One theory, proposed in 2000 by a group of theoretical physicists including Georgi Dvali, predicts a type of large extra dimension.

One possible solution, proposed in 2007 by physicists Patrick Hayden of Stanford University and John Preskill of Caltech, is that the black hole could act like a mirror, with information about infalling particles being reflected outward, imprinted in the Hawking radiation.

Almost simultaneous with the birth of discover, physicist and Nobel laureate Luis Alvarez (along with his son, Walter Alvarez of the University of California, Berkeley) proposed that a giant asteroid impact killed off the dinosaurs by causing global firestorms and dust clouds that blotted out the sun.

In the 1990s, other physicists (notably Gerard» t Hooft and Leonard Susskind) developed this insight further, proposing the «holographic principle»: Information contained in a three - dimensional volume can be completely described by the two - dimensional boundary surrounding it.

The idea proposed by the three physicists offers a new strategy for addressing a long - standing conundrum in physics known as the black hole information paradox.

It's a standard practice of study sections to say, in effect, this proposal is submitted by a physicist, hence is not worthy of NIH funding, regardless of the importance to biology of the proposed research.

21 SOLAR SHUTDOWN Back in the 1970s, when it seemed that the sun was not emitting the expected number of particles known as neutrinos, some solar physicists proposed that our star might go through million - year stretches of reduced activity, during which time its brightness could drop by perhaps 40 percent.

An interdisciplinary team of UvA physicists and astronomers proposed to search for primordial black holes in our galaxy by studying the X-ray and radio emission that these objects would produce as they wander through the galaxy and accrete gas from the interstellar medium.

A team of University of Toronto physicists led by Alex Hayat has proposed a novel and efficient way to leverage the strange quantum physics phenomenon known as entanglement.

It is cited by a leading theoretical physicist who proposes that evolution helped shape the laws governing the cosmos.

There is a hypothesis in physics called complementarity, which was first proposed by Stanford University physicist Leonard Susskind in 1993.

Moses Chan, a physicist at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, who served on a 2010 study by the National Academies» National Research Council (NRC) on the effects of the sales on the global helium supply, welcomes the proposed legislation.

Part of the problem was they had no generally accepted theory to guide them and explain the proposed phenomenon — as physicists like to say, no experiment should be believed until it has been confirmed by theory.

Zoltan Ligeti, a physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, and his colleagues have calculated that as it ramps up, the LHC will generate enough collisions to produce clear signatures of a hypothetical «diquark» particle proposed by some forms of string theory.

In an exciting extension of this work — proposed by Roger Penrose, the renowned Oxford physicist — not just light but a small mirror that reflects it becomes part of an entangled quantum system, one that is billions of times larger than a buckyball.

Thankfully Schrödinger's cat is all in the mind, a bizarre thought experiment proposed by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935 to highlight the weirdness of quantum theory.

This principle, first proposed 40 years ago by physicist Roger Penrose, keeps sacrosanct an idea — determinism — key to any physical theory.

This «magnetic shock acceleration» model was first proposed by the great physicist Enrico Fermi as an explanation for the acceleration of most cosmic rays.

According to this theory — first proposed in 2004 by University of Pennsylvania physicist Justin Khoury — these chameleon fields shrink so dramatically in dense regions of space, such as the Earth's atmosphere, that the force exerted by them can only be measured in low - density interstellar space.

The existence of gravitational waves was first proposed in 1893 by Oliver Heaviside, when the self - taught English physicist used an analogy that likened the propagation of gravity to that of electricity.

This vision was first elucidated by Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman, who proposed in 1959 that «The problems of chemistry and biology can be greatly helped if our ability to see what we are doing, and to do things on an atomic level, is ultimately developed — a development which I think can not be avoided.»

That's the theory behind emergent gravity, an idea most recently proposed by Erik Verlinde, a theoretical physicist at the University of Amsterdam.

Hence the Boltzmann Brain proposed by super famous 19th century physicist Ludwig Boltzmann the father of statistical mechanics.