Despite the initial
resistance by physicists and philosophers, the role of contingency and chance in natural processes is now almost universally acknowledged.
Not exact matches
The phenomenon was first discovered
by Dutch
physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, who in 1911 saw mercury's
resistance drop to zero at 4.2 degrees above absolute zero.
In the experiment, performed
by physicist Benjamin Huard and colleagues, the demon extracts energy from the system, a tiny circuit made of superconducting metal, which can carry electricity without
resistance.