Sentences with phrase «string theorists»

Even string theorists admit that it is not really a theory.

One of the central ideas of string theory is that there are other spatial dimensions than the three we're used to; many string theorists imagine a world with 10 of the things.

While these notions are deeply strange, the key issue for string theorists has actually been the difficulty of testing their ideas.

Leonard Susskind, a prominent quantum gravity and string theorist at Stanford University, saw value in carrying out the proposed experiment because «it provides an observation of gravity in a new range of masses and distances.»

Take note, it is ONLY string theorists who even give fine tuning the time of day... and that's ONLY because they have the multiverse to lose the implied significance that resides in the observation.

The standard model is perhaps the most successful quantum theory, explaining every subatomic interaction witnessed so far, but it merely whets the appetite of string theorists.

«Most string theorists, myself included, assumed that they were an aberrant offshoot of the real theory,» Polchinski wrote in his memoirs.

Also Bill Nye (who worked as a mechanical engineer for Boeing before heading off to TV - land) and string theorist Brian Greene.

Harvey, a theoretical physicist at the University of Chicago, wrote the lyrics to honor Juan Maldacena, a young Argentine string theorist now at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Lubos Motl, PhD, Physicist, former Harvard string theorist, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic John Nicol, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Physics, James Cook University, Australia

I think a lot of other string theorists are well aware that if you go down that road you really can't predict anything and you're in danger of leaving what is normal science.

If the signals LISA and its successors pick up are those expected by string theorists, they will verify that some version of string theory is the correct quantum theory of gravity.

«In string theory you learn one thingyou are in higher dimensions,» says string theorist Burt Ovrut of the University of Pennsylvania.

Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away layers of mystery to reveal a universe that consists of eleven dimensions, where the fabric of space tears and repairs itself, and all matter is generated by the vibrations of microscopically tiny loops of energy.

In keeping with this two - dimensional analogy, string theorists describe our observable universe as a membrane — «brane» for short — flapping in the breezes of the actual 10 - dimensional cosmos.

SA: In the past few years string theorists have started thinking about cosmology, in particular this dark energy that seems to be making galaxies spread apart faster over time.

String theorists soon made a remarkable discovery.

String theorists continue to dominate the awardees of this year's New Horizons and Frontiers in Physics prizes.

One of them, string theorist Jeff Harvey of the University of Chicago, won the tournament.

We're mathematically exploring a new type of universe, which is what string theorists do all the time.

We're just medieval string theorists.»

These are hypothetical cracks in the fabric of space that are thought to have been created at the very beginning of the universe, by the inflationary expansion of fundamental strings — the objects that string theorists tell us everything is made from.

«Women physicists were uncommon enough... but a black female string theorist was a rare phenomenon indeed.

A beautiful string theorist joins him in the harrowing scramble to prevent destruction:

By sorting through the debris momentarily created by the colliding protons, string theorists hope to find massive particles that have never been seen before.

Particle - accelerator test Impatient physicists may not have to wait for LISA to find out whether string theorists are on the right track.

Caltech string theorist John Schwarz shrugs off Hawking's argument.

Then, Milner gave nine theorists — mainly string theorists — $ 3 million each.

In response, string theorists posited the existence of seven extra dimensions that are hidden from us.

Dawid considers why string theorists possess such a strong belief in their theories despite the lack of empirical confirmation.

Brian Greene (born February 9, 1963) is a theoretical physicist and one of the best - known string theorists.

It's almost like today's string theorists who are suddenly finding themselves working with a bomber, David Cameron and Putin and what have you.

Scientists Descend on Comedy Central Comedians - slash - news anchors Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have hosted an impressive roster of science notables this year, including astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, neuroscientist David Eagleman, and string theorist Brian Greene, who called Colbert «a bag of particles governed by the laws of physics.»

With this formulation, many string theorists say, it may be possible to come up with one set of laws that describe the universe from the Big Bang onward.

We disagree about string theory to some extent, but unlike a lot of other string theorists, Brian is certainly someone who is willing to publicly admit that string theory is something that may very well be wrong.

I think if you talk to most string theorists, they actually see themselves as suffering from this overselling of the theory.

Even if we take the String theorist view of a multiverse and colliding «branes» as the reason for the advent of the Big Bang one then has to ask... where do the branes come from?

Even the scientific community regularly fights and mocks each other (string theorists and staunch reductionists).

I then asked him about a prominent physicist's complaint that string theorists were basically doing macrame.

String theorists have tried to reconcile the differences but keep running into roadblocks: For instance, the ripples caused by uncertainty might cause such frenzied gyrations of Einstein's space - time that every location would be riddled with black holes, an impossible outcome.

Both string theorists and condensed matter physicists — those studying the properties of complex matter phases such as solids and liquids — are enthused by the development.