Sentences with phrase «set by physicists»

Our cosmos is failing to meet the rigorous beauty standards set by physicists.

Not exact matches

The equations of electromagnetism have a mathematical structure that is dictated by a set of so - called gauge symmetries, discovered by the mathematician and physicist Hermann Weyl almost a century ago.

But his failure to justify this distinction, by showing how to map a domain of rationality in which the elucidation of metaphysical concepts followed the secure path of a science («in accordance with the example set by geometers and physicists») indicates a general limitation on natural philosophy.

Modernism developed on the basis of the Newtonian universe, conceived as a complex inanimate machine, operating in absolute space and absolute time according to its own internal laws, which were also believed to be eternal and absolute.4 Understanding this «natural world» was the key to everything; physicists set about uncovering the laws by which the physical world operates; Adam Smith looked for the natural laws by which the economy operates; Darwin thought he had discovered, in the law of natural selection, the origin of species.

For a fourth time, physicists have spotted gravitational waves — ripples in space itself — set off by the merger of two massive black holes.

«The legacy that I'd like to leave behind is a set of benchmark data that can be used by future weapon physicists to make sure that our codes are correct so that the U.S. remains prepared.

The Centre for Vision in the Developing World, set up by University of Oxford physicist Joshua Silver, says that by 2030 eyesight will be one of the world's top 10 health issues in terms of productivity and opportunities — taking a bigger economic toll than the HIV epidemic.

Indeed, they found solutions that were faster than what the physicists had assumed was a speed limit set by quantum mechanics itself.

But Wertheim did not set out to argue a case or to complain — her initial intention was to fill a perceived gap by writing, as a physicist, a popular «history of physics» that took into account social studies of science.

Physicist Stuart Parkin and his colleagues at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., set out to determine just how magnetized regions move along nanowires when driven by electric current.

In case you missed the news, a team of physicists reported in September that the tiny subatomic particles known as neutrinos could violate the cosmic speed limit set by Einstein's special theory of relativity.

Submissions to arXiv made after 16.00 US Eastern Standard Time each day do not appear until the following day — a cut - off time set by arXiv's operators — and the timing of the submissions shows that physicists are rushing to e-mail in their papers just before this deadline, Ginsparg adds.

For decades, physicists had claimed that the detection of gravitational waves — ripples in spacetime set off by cataclysmic events deep in space — would usher in a new type of astronomy and reveal new wonders.

The flow of a fluid, for example, is governed by a set of equations which physicists have understood for nearly two centuries.

And this is something that physicists have been arguing about for a very, very long time, but what the authors of this article point out is that the work by John Bell, but also some more recent experimental work, seems to indicate that in fact there really is a deep nonlocality to the universe; that there really is someway in which there is not some sort of missing x-factor that if we just knew what it was that would explain everything; that we would see the dominos connecting, those invisible tiny dominos connecting those different particles and set up the effect of going one to the other.

Surprisingly, people playing an online game came up with better strategies for moving the atom than a computer algorithm alone — even finding solutions that were faster than what the physicists had assumed was a speed limit set by quantum mechanics itself.

These «supermemories» are close to realising a vision set out by revered physicist Richard Feynman 50 years ago this month.

The lab used the light to probe the shift in an ultra-high quality, two - dimensional electron gas supplied by Purdue University physicist Michael Manfra and set in a gallium arsenide quantum well (to contain the particles) under the influence of a strong magnetic field and low temperature.

After that interview, I did some Web sifting and found a site set up (but not yet built) by Simon Billinge, a physicist at Michigan State University, promoting the idea, suitably called globalheating.org.

To me, this should have been the big story: a new comprehensive data set, put together by a team of physicists and statisticians with private funds.