Sentences with phrase «studied by physics»

Accordingly, Whitehead affirms that even the actual entities studied by physics have emotional responses to their environments.

And in the low - grade entities studied by physics it is negligible.

Part and parcel of this reductionism is the claim that «macrocausal relations should be viewed as in general reducible to microcausal relations» (SM 99), meaning those that are studied by physics.

Given the impossibility of conceiving of the emergence of higher - level physical individuals, the materialist version of physicalism interprets this principle to mean that all causal efficacy must be exerted by the level of physical entities studied by physics.

Why do not accidental characteristics studied by physics reveal a material reality's essence, or nature?

Not exact matches

Cardinal Mercier not only began the revival of the study of St. Thomas in the late 19th century, with the gratitude and encouragement of Leo XIII, but it was he who noticed the mathematical precocity of a young seminarian, and fellow Belgian, whom he encouraged to study the then revolutionary new branch of physics developed by Albert Einstein.

For example, following Thomas Aquinas, whom he studied carefully at the Louvain Université in 1919, he insisted many times on the fact that creation (in the theological sense) can not be confused with natural beginning (as it is described by physics).

After earning his degree, he studied Spanish, mathematics, physics and the real estate business through mail - order texts paid for by family members.

This absolute of physics has thus far not only resisted all attempts at «relativization», but, if I am not mistaken, it tends to find its counterpart in a current moving in the opposite sense, positive and constructive, which is revealed by the study of the earth's biological past: the ascent of the Universe towards zones of increasing improbability and personality.

Many who have come to accept history in this sense trace their conversion, first, to a breakdown of natural structure that began with Charles Darwin, was magnified by quantum physics, and is still unfolding in the philosophies of the sciences; and, second, to a breakdown of cultural structure that began with Friederich Nietzsche in Europe and William James in America, was magnified by the chaos and brutality of twentieth century politics and warfare, and is still unfolding in postmodern studies.

Also see Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature; two recent studies by Kenneth Boulding entitled The World As a Total System (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1985) and Ecodynamics (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1981); and two works by Fritjof Capra entitled The Tao of Physics (Boulder, CO: Shambala Publications, 1975) and The Turning Point (New York: Bantam Books.

So, although some «physical entities» do not embody any of the forms of energy currently recognized by contemporary physics, they all do embody creative power that can be converted from or into the creative power embodied in the entities studied by physicists.

In fact by reason of my own studies in mathematics and mathematical physics, I did in fact arrive at my convictions in this way (SMW 219f.).

The temptation to determinism in our thinking arises from the fact that the bulk of nature, the mineral level studied by geology, physics or inorganic chemistry is constituted by aggregates of occasions so conforming to their past that any present state in this inert realm seems to be the purely passive recipient of a series of events leading up to it.

So after the fashion, the post-structuralists have answered Snow's complaint about the rift between the two cultures by demonstrating a way to make the study of literature just as scientific as the study of nuclear physics.

A French study in the June 2002 issue of «Medical Physics» found that hats reduced heat loss by 18.9 percent in newborn infants.

The study found a relationship between the size of the central object and the speed of the flickering produced by the disc, suggesting the physics of the accretion must be very similar around these different astronomical objects despite them being completely different in other ways, such as size, age, temperature and gravity.

The study was published on March 21 in Proceedings of the Royal Society A by Takato, Sen and Michael E. Benson, who completed his portion of the work as an undergraduate physics student at UB.

The latest studies by Stefan Gillessen of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany show that the black hole's potent gravity has warped G2 into a long, snaking blob, with the leading part already coiled all the way around Sagittarius A *.

Yet just by studying such a possibility, physicists are hoping to make a breakthrough in their efforts to combine general relativity and quantum mechanics into a theory of quantum gravity — one of the most intractable problems in physics today.

Scientists may also become able to distinguish between different scenarios sooner by studying the physics of local ice - sheet changes and refining reconstructions of changes during warm periods in geological history.

With ALMA, an international team lead by Yoko Oya, a graduate student of Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, and Nami Sakai, an associate chief scientist of RIKEN, studied the distribution of various organic molecules around a Solar - type protostar IRAS 16293 - 2422A at a high spatial resolution.

«We know very well that black holes can be formed by the collapse of large stars, or as we have seen recently, the merger of two neutron stars,» said Savvas Koushiappas, an associate professor of physics at Brown University and coauthor of the study with Avi Loeb from Harvard University.

These views are consistent with the results of a recent study by Steven J. Smith et al. [published in the American Journal of Physics 70 (11), pp. 1081 - 1092 (2002)-RSB-, a summary of which was presented at the 2003 AAS meeting in Nashville.

All the particles and forces in the standard model, the dominant schema of modern physics, are represented by Lie groups, and their study has become an essential tool for understanding — and attempting to unify — the laws of nature.

«The frontiers of fundamental physics have traditionally been studied with particle colliders, such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, by smashing together subatomic particles at great energies,» says UCSD physicist George Fuller, who collaborated with Paris and other staff scientists at Los Alamos to develop the novel theoretical model.

Last spring a research team led by Michael Tippett, associate professor of applied physics and applied mathematics at Columbia Engineering, published a study showing that the average number of tornadoes during outbreaks — large - scale weather events that can last one to three days and span huge regions — has risen since 1954.

A survey carried out by the IOP found that of the 5500 final - year physics graduates interviewed between 2006 and 2010 who were then re-contacted on an annual basis, over half of them were doing further study one year later and for those in work, the jobs were varied.

The study was led by Peng Xu, a research associate in the department of physics in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas.

A successful detection would give astrophysicists a better understanding of the astrophysics at the hearts of galaxy mergers, Mingarelli says, and provide a new avenue to study fundamental physics not accessible by any other means.

According to a statement posted on Facebook by LSU's physics and astronomy department, Anton was a third - year graduate student working on theoretical gravity with Parampreet Singh, and Maity was studying theoretical astrophysics with Juhan Frank.

In college in the 1980s, Conley briefly studied physics, but was soon lured away by a fascination with the living world.

He began by studying subatomic particles, but by 1983 he was fed up with complicated physics experiments that took years to execute.

«This measurement has been of great interest to the heavy - ion and high - energy physics communities for several years, as calculations from several groups showed that we might achieve a significant signal by studying lead - ion collisions in Run 2,» says Peter Steinberg, ATLAS Heavy Ion Physics Group Cophysics communities for several years, as calculations from several groups showed that we might achieve a significant signal by studying lead - ion collisions in Run 2,» says Peter Steinberg, ATLAS Heavy Ion Physics Group CoPhysics Group Convener.

Last but not least, Martin Rubin of the Physics Institute is also working as co-author on a study led by Hans Nilsson of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics on the magnetosphere of Chury.

The first study results from the researches carried out by the team of biologist Ana Caño Delgado, CSIC researcher in the Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), and physicist Marta Ibañes, from the Department of Condensed Matter Physics and the Institute of Complex Systems of the University of Barcelona (UBICS).

The study was performed mainly at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, and was led by postdoctoral researcher Junfeng He and graduate student Thomas Mion, researchers in the lab of BC Assistant Professor of Physics Rui - Hua He, a lead author of the paper.

A team led by Latha Venkataraman, professor of applied physics and chemistry at Columbia Engineering and Xavier Roy, assistant professor of chemistry (Arts & Sciences), published a study today in Nature Nanotechnology that is the first to reproducibly demonstrate current blockade — the ability to switch a device from the insulating to the conducting state where charge is added and removed one electron at a time — using atomically precise molecular clusters at room temperature.

For the study, published in the journal Nature Physics, the Kaiserslautern team around Professor Widera (Department of Physics and State Research Center OPTIMAS) developed a novel model system: A single atom is cooled by lasers near to absolute zero temperature and trapped by light within a near - perfect vacuum.

This work was undertaken in a related UCL study led by Dr James Guggenheim (UCL Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering) and recently published in Nature Photonics.

I had my first encounter with plasma theory when the subject was taught as an advanced physics course by Professor Dieter Pfirsch during my undergraduate studies at the Technical University of Munich.

I realize that your «Working Group On Review Of Bioengineering And Technology And Instrumentation Development Research», defined «bioengineering and technology» as encompassing areas such as biotechnology, functional genomics, informatics, chemistry and physics, nevertheless they did not discuss the problems experienced by physicists engaged in basic research on the frontier of physics and biology from the present system of study sections.

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.

He studied physics in college and, by chance, found an old telescope in a laboratory closet and pulled it out to look at stars and planets.

In his study of physics he identified two existing theories of principle: the laws of motion set out by Galileo and Newton and the laws of thermodynamics.

The study forms part of the GATEWAYS (www.gateways-itn.eu) project of the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme, coordinated by Rainer Zahn, a researcher with the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA - UAB) and the UAB's Department of Physics, and taking part in it was Martin Ziegler, a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences of the University of Cardiff (UK) and scientists from the Natural History Museum, London (UK).

The physics of the sliding is the self - lubrication of the earthquake fault by flow of a new material consisting of tiny new crystals, the study reports.

The study by Imamoglu and his colleagues, now published in «Nature Physics,» is a good example for how this principle can be successful.

An earlier, independent study, led by Rupal Mittal of the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, also analyzed the star - birth rates in the same galaxies as Tremblay's sample.

A team of researchers at the Brazilian Center for Physics Research is studying the motion of vortex domain walls — local regions of charge that collectively store information via their configuration — driven by magnetic fields in ferromagnetic nanowires, which are configured in a straight line with an asymmetric Y - like branch.