Sentences with phrase «scale experiments carried»

Three of these quasiparticles, the Dirac, Majorana, and Weyl fermions, were discovered in such materials, despite the fact that the latter two had long been elusive in experiments, opening the path to simulate certain predictions of quantum field theory in relatively inexpensive and small - scale experiments carried out in these «condensed matter» crystals.

Not exact matches

Another experiment carried out in 1990 at the South Pole by Phil Lubin of the University of California at Santa Barbara and his colleagues may have detected primordial ripples at angular scales of 1.5 degrees, though they are not yet convinced that they can rule out a galactic origin for their signal.

Moreover, many large - scale experiments have been carried out at Liverpool John Moores University in collaboration with the rest of the project group.

The project is good news for British researchers who lost a chance to carry out large - scale experiments when the Science and Engineering Research Council pulled out of a similar joint project with Germany.

Importantly, he pointed out that human beings were now carrying out a large - scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past or be reproduced in the future - an allusion, perhaps, to the growing realisation of the finite, one - off nature of the fossil fuels, being as they are a non-renewable resource over human timescales.

The foundation finances the Education Innovation Laboratory, run by Harvard economist Roland Fryer, which carries out large - scale experiments in schools districts, focused on teacher pay for performance and rewarding students for good test scores and grades.

24/3 - 13/5/2018 FIONA CRISP: MATERIAL SIGHT Material Sight is a new, large - scale commission that uses photography, moving image and sound to approach the material environments where experiments that challenge the limits of our imagination are carried out.

Revelle is best known for the comment he added late in the drafting of a seminal 1957 climate paper co-authored with Hans Suess: «Human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past nor be reproduced in the future.»

Forget physical risk reduction, when it comes to research, these are the sort of outcomes that should be the primary goal of governance (most if not all field experiments that might be carried out over the next decade carry extremely low to negligible risk to the environment because of their small scale).

«Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past... Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.»

Thus human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past nor be reproduced in the future.

However, even as the UN report becomes public this Friday in Bangkok, one commercial enterprise, California based Planktos Inc, will be sailing from Florida to carry out a large - scale geo - engineering experiment.

Importantly, he pointed out that human beings were now carrying out a large - scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past or be reproduced in the future - an allusion, perhaps, to the growing realisation of the finite, one - off nature of the fossil fuels, being as they are a non-renewable resource over human timescales.

Quirke: And I concede that we are pondering the distant future in this burning - the - earth's - carbon experiment, but as Roger Revelle said it best, «Human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past nor be reproduced in the future.»