Sentences with phrase «used by the physicists»

He mentions the use by physicists of the geometrical symmetries of nature to inform their understanding and reminds his audience that the separation of science and theology damages both.

This field data is used by the physicists to model typical disturbance scenarios and to train the system with the aid of complex mathematical methods.

A computer code used by physicists around the world to analyze and predict tokamak experiments can now approximate the behavior of highly energetic atomic nuclei, or ions, in fusion plasmas more accurately than ever.

Spin is one of the labels used by physicists to distinguish between particles.

This myth reflects a general misunderstanding of entropy, the term used by physicists to describe randomness or disorder.

In the units used by physicists, the strength of a magnetar's magnetic field is about a million billion Gauss; a refrigerator magnet has a field of about 100 Gauss.

Not exact matches

Physicists could look for evidence of other universes using tools designed to measure ripples in spacetime — also known as primordial gravitational waves — that would have been generated by the universe's initial expansion from the Big Bang.

The «cosmic ray test» was developed by Silas Beane, a nuclear physicist at the University of Washington, and involves scientists building up a simulation of space using a lattice or grid.

Chopra, who might have been a good physician once, is no physicist - in the summer of 2000 he used to believe that it is possible to levitate from the ground and be transported from one place to another by dint of the earth's rotation (by defying momentum)-- an impossibility that I and another friend had tried to teach him when he had publicly professed this belief.

Space Physicists led by Lancaster University used data to show that Cassini had passed through the region at Saturn where magnetic reconnection was occurring, which has never before been observed.

«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.

As our knowledge has expanded physicists have had to calibrate the cosmos not by using ourselves as zero but by discovering zero points in nature or creating them from scratch.

Calculations run with this model show that these spaces are described by well - known quantum Fermi - Dirac, and Bose - Einstein statistics, used in quantum mechanics, indicating that they could be useful to physicists working on quantum gravity.

The language a physicist uses — uncertainty, chance, risk — could be misunderstood by an audience of the type the Journal attracts, he said.

Federico Capasso, a physicist at Harvard, leads a small team that is trying to create a repulsive Casimir force by tinkering with the shapes of plates or with the coatings used to cover them.

«And unfortunately, the technical language that is understood and practiced by physicists is not the same as the language that is used by the public media.»

By analyzing the motions of sound waves reverberating inside the sun, solar physicists can reconstruct the temperatures and motions of gas under the surface — comparable to using seismic waves to probe structures within the Earth.

Now a team led by physicist Andre Clairon of the Paris Observatory in France has stretched out the interaction time drastically by using a trick with two laser beams to launch a single «ball» of 600,000 cesium atoms into a vacuum.

Purdue University physicists are part of an international group using spinach to study the proteins involved in photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert the sun's energy into carbohydrates used to power cellular processes.

SN 10 scientist Kerwyn Casey Huang of Stanford University is a physicist by training who uses that knowledge to explore the challenges that bacterial cells face.

So far, Otte has used the technology to store text by Charles Darwin — and overwritten Darwin with an excerpt from physicist Richard Feynman's text «There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom.»

Leonardo da Vinci pointed out that this information existed 500 years ago; the fact that the brain actually uses it was discovered by Victorian physicist Charles Wheatstone.

Now, a team led by Jens Gundlach, a physicist at the University of Washington, Seattle, reports today in Nature Biotechnology that it has incorporated Akeson's phi29 protein into its nanopore setup, which uses a different pore protein that's more adept at quickly identifying all four chemical bases.

In a paper accepted for publication by Physical Review Letters, the researchers used a technique familiar to physicists called «degenerate perturbation theory» in a novel way to prove that global symmetry is not required for a sped up search.

«Based on their work, neutrons have been used by thousands of chemists, physicists and materials scientists to look at the structure of all classes of materials,» says Jack Rush, head of neutron scattering at the National Institute of Standards and Technology near Washington DC.

A team of physicists and geochemists at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have shown that instead of just passively observing surface reactions of minerals, they can use X-rays to create the conditions by which reactions happen while simultaneously observing them.

With this tool, a team of physicists and geochemists at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have shown that, instead of just passively observing surface reactions of minerals, they can use X-rays to create the conditions by which reactions happen while simultaneously observing them.

In the course of their research into the use of magnetic domain walls (local regions of magnetic «charge» usually driven by magnetic fields) to increase our capacity for information storage and logical processing, physicists at the University of Nottingham have discovered a phenomenon which has allowed them to «manipulate» the structure of a magnetic domain wall.

Here for the first time (give or take one or two irritatingly anachronistic uses of the word «feminist») I found myself unconvinced by this generally sympathetic and entertaining writer, partly because the idea of defined social purpose might tie physicists too closely to the prevailing orthodoxies and pieties of the day.

To dig a few centimeters deeper into Mercury's surface, solar physicist Amir Caspi and planetary scientist Constantine Tsang of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., and colleagues will use an infrared camera, specially built by Alabama - based Southern Research, that detects wavelengths between 3 and 5 micrometers.

The U.S. Department of Energy funded the new study, and the physicists used facilities of the University of Utah's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, funded by the National Science Foundation.

The winners were much heralded following last year's discovery of the Higgs by physicists at the CERN particle physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland, using its Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

The debate over whether a bacterium can incorporate arsenic into its DNA just flared up again, with the posting yesterday of a paper refuting the idea on ArXiv, an electronic preprint archive primarily used by astronomers, mathematicians, and physicists.

Her work began in the realm of pure mathematics, but unlike most mathematical advances, which might find a practical use after decades, if ever, her work is already being applied by physicists.

The discovery made by physicists at the University of Warsaw demonstrates that other magnetic elements - such as chromium, iron and nickel - can be used in place of manganese.

This was originally developed by physicists to quantify lost energy in mechanical systems, such as a steam engine, but entropy can also be used to measure the range or randomness of a system.

The United States used science and technology to great economic benefit after World War II and can continue to «master the innovation cycle» by drawing on the collaborative nature of millennials who started to come of age as the century turned, a leading physicist told a AAAS gathering recently.

A team led by solar physicist Bart De Pontieu of the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, used a Swedish telescope equipped with a rapidly flexing mirror, which cancels the blur caused by Earth's air.

Although the team is focusing on medical scanner technology, French believes the lasers could cut the cost of sophisticated equipment used by chemists and physicists.

By using electron and positron beams instead of heavier protons, the ILC will allow physicists to probe particle properties with much greater precision than they can at the LHC.

Recent progress by physicists from the Georgia Institute of Technology could one day help sharpen weather forecasts and extend their range by making better use of masses of weather and climate data.

Yet by connecting a single - pixel camera to a patterned light source, a team of physicists in China has made detailed x-ray images using a statistical technique called ghost imaging, first pioneered 20 years ago in infrared and visible light.

«By using this technique, we open a new window into the atomic scale world,» says physicist Aaron Lindenberg, lead author of the paper published 15 April in Science.

Cooperation with the local university is important for Oxonica, says Gareth Wakefield, Oxonica Vice-President Research, Co-founder, and a physicist by training, as the company uses some of the university equipment for the characterisation of the nanoparticles.

Drivers will use electrons from the tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) to help jolt their molecules along, typically by just 0.3 nano - metres each time — making 100 nanometres «a pretty long distance», notes physicist Leonhard Grill of the University of Graz, Austria, who co-leads a US — Austrian team in the race.

By the standards physicists use, the quarks and gluons make a much better liquid than water.

It also means that the graphite left behind by a pencil — stripped down to a layer one atom thick — can be used to prove the theories scrawled in pencil by physicists of old.

Through a collaboration between the University of Calgary, The City of Calgary and researchers in the United States, a group of physicists led by Wolfgang Tittel, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary have successfully demonstrated teleportation of a photon (an elementary particle of light) over a straight - line distance of six kilometres using The City of Calgary's fibre optic cable infrastructure.

The six benchmarks are: 1) HDR brachytherapy procedures are supported with the appropriate team as described in the report of the AAPM TG 59 and the American College of Radiology HDR Brachytherapy Practice Standard; 2) commissioning of the treatment unit, treatment planning system and each new source is performed by a qualified medical physicist and verified through a QA process; 3) assay of the HDR brachytherapy unit source is performed using a well - type ionization chamber with a calibration traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and this assay is performed or confirmed for each source change.

said Aihong Tang, a Brookhaven physicist involved in the analysis, which used data collected by RHIC's STAR detector.