Sentences with phrase «well as a physicist»

I asked a physicist, Dr P E Hodgson, staunch Catholic as well as a physicist, whether the claim that a moving body is constantly in and out of existence (which claim the above understanding of motion implies) was acceptable to science and he replied «there are speculations about this, but no experimental evidence».

As described here, these advances create opportunities for neurobiologists as well as physicists and chemists.

The results, which were reproduced in March by a separate European team, raise serious questions for astronomers as well as physicists.

Not exact matches

«The good news is the «get inside, stay inside, stay tuned» phrase works for both for the threat of a potential nuclear detonation as well as a nuclear detonation that has occurred,» Brooke Buddemeier, a health physicist and expert on radiation and emergency preparedness at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, told Business Insider.

An engineer might have an office as well as a laboratory, but the two rooms would be in different wings, forcing him to walk through the corridors, running into chemists and physicists along the way.

As the cold war wound down, CEO James Yoh, a nuclear physicist by training, figured his best chance for growth would come from within.

Meanwhile, to Hawking's supporters who suggest that I am not owning up to his scientific «proofs,» I believe airwx has already said it best for me — he's a THEORETICAL physicist, and having read some of his work, I'm smart enough to know that much of what he says about God is an exercise in jumping to conclusions, even as sound as much of his scientific work is.

I have heard good physicists use 300,000 km / s as a good round figure in refering to the speed of light.

I think Paul Davies would fit in here as well and I think, but am not sure, that he is an atheist (and a physicist).

How can profoundly deep agreement occur between David Bohm, an important quantum - physicist, and Krishnamurti, a world - teacher on philosophical spirituality, as well as with the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism?

There is growing interest today among physicists in Whitehead's vision, and that implies, basically, in the Buddhist vision as well.

Physicists, contrasting this view with an anthropocentric worldview, express it in terms of the anthropic principle — the human is seen as a mode of being of the universe as well as a distinctive being in the universe.

Moreover if it did (assuming this to be possible in the framework of an overall Whiteheadian scheme), then it would itself be forcefully repudiated — and not simply by physicists, for the material world of common sense as well as of physics would be drastically impugned.

All the better that I felt similarly about another task which I was given (again without asking), in the same year (1925 - 26) to help A. N. Whitehead grade papers, hence listen to him lecture, and read what he wrote as a philosopher, rather than just a logician, mathematician, and physicist.

The foundations for real numbers, which physicists as well as mathematicians must have in order to do their work, were insecure under the thesis of Principia Mathematica.

The author brings to this inquiry training and experience as a physicist, as well as study in theology.

John Ellis, a British theoretical physicist who works at CERN as well as at King's College, London, explains the Higgs boson as the fundamental quantum of the Higgs field, a sort of «snow» (http://cdsweb.

Being a physicist as well as a student of theology, the author has avoided the claim that there is only one way in which the life of the scientist can be a proper life.

It reflects the understanding of some physicists that what they have called matter in the past is better viewed as energy.

Here I agree with Popper, as well as Einstein, against some quantum physicists.

All the discoveries of the best evolutionists, geologists, archeologists, physicists etc. that search high and low large or small to date have not changed God as revealed.

Long was the list of those — not only of popularizers, but philosophers as well, and even some physicists — who interpreted Minkowski's four - dimensional continuum not as the four - dimensional process, essentially incomplete, but as a sort of a four - dimensional hyperspace, whose fourth dimension exists in its completeness as much as the three spatial dimensions.

Leon Lederman, the well - know physicist in his book on the history of particle physics, The God Particle, (GP 175) expresses the unavoidable finitude as a limit of knowledge expressed by what Max Planck called the «quantum of action,» now known as Planck's Constant: «Heisenberg announced that our simultaneous knowledge of a particle's location and its motion is limited and the combined uncertainty of these two properties must exceed... nothing other than Planck's constant, b...

Well, since we've already established your future as a physicist / astronaut / doctor / entrepreneur / rock star (no pressure, I love you, I just want you to be happy), I know you or the teams of people you employ will be all over this someday.

String theory, for example, regarded by many physicists as our best bet for a unified theory of reality, proposes between 10 and 26 space - time dimensions, many of them wrapped so up tightly as to be virtually inaccessible.

Eminent physicist John Wheeler says he has only enough time left to work on one idea: that human consciousness shapes not only the present but the past as well

The planetary physicist is well - known to fans of Syfy's Defiance and Battlestar Galactica, and TNT's Falling Skies, as the science adviser who helps give authenticity to sci - fi adventure.

In fact, a particle with some properties opposite to those of physicists» current favorite dark matter candidate — the weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP — would do just as good a job at explaining the stuff, a quartet of theorists says.

«Molecular electronics is something we can now do in earnest and feel good about as physicists.

Physicist Brown illuminates all these episodes — as well as Planck's celebrated friendship with Einstein — with heartbreaking empathy.

For generations of physicists and engineers, the confirmation also completed a decades - long hunt for proof, as well as months of excited rumors.

As well as this, I am enrolled for both an Institute of Physics Professional Development and Formation Scheme to become a Chartered Physicist and Engineer (CPhys and CEng), and a part - time Ph.DAs well as this, I am enrolled for both an Institute of Physics Professional Development and Formation Scheme to become a Chartered Physicist and Engineer (CPhys and CEng), and a part - time Ph.Das this, I am enrolled for both an Institute of Physics Professional Development and Formation Scheme to become a Chartered Physicist and Engineer (CPhys and CEng), and a part - time Ph.D..

The preprint server arXiv.org is perhaps best known as the preserve of theoretical physicists and astrophysicists.

Other examples include the development of agent - based models, such as the minority game and asset exchange models, as well as the analysis of economic networks, which is influenced by physicists» analyses of large complex networks.

Second, physicists had accumulated decades of experience building real machines that could manipulate and measure particles» spin; as far as thought experiments went, this one could be grounded on some well - earned confidence.

SolarWorld employs around 100 chemists, physicists and engineers in its R&D centre in Freiberg, says Nitzschke, and similar - sized companies offer internships for those with backgrounds in these sciences, as well as computer science and economics.

In the meantime, physicists will continue to look for proton decays, as well as search for supersymmetric particles in underground traps and in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland, when it comes online in 2007.

Applied physicist David Keith holds joint appointments in Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, as well as the Kennedy School for public policy.

For decades, physicists have sought the sources of the most energetic subatomic particles in the universe — cosmic rays that strike the atmosphere with as much energy as well - thrown baseballs.

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686 — 1736) The Dutch physicist invented alcohol and mercury thermometers, as well as the temperature scale that now bears his name (and perplexes the world outside the U.S. and a handful of other countries), with 0 degrees marking the temperature of a 1 - 1 mix of ice and salt.

As physicists in Europe prep for a major announcement about the long - sought Higgs particle, U.S. scientists are not going gentle into that good night.

For this purpose, the Mainz physicists have been collaborating with scientists of the BESSY II synchrotron facility at the Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy and the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA, as well as with the Technical University of Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart.

But when working at temperatures near absolute zero, a well - designed acoustic resonator could ring longer than a microwave one does, enabling it to act as a sort of quantum memory, says Robert Schoelkopf, a physicist at Yale University.

This had been predicted as a relic from when hot ionized plasma of the early universe first cooled sufficiently to form neutral hydrogen and allow space to become transparent to light, and its discovery led to general acceptance among physicists that the Big Bang is the best model for the origin and evolution of the universe.

Moreover, studying the properties of antinuclei such as these might help physicists to better understand why the Universe is full of matter rather than antimatter.

The tough - yet - fragile physical properties of the tadpole - shaped pieces of glass known as Prince Rupert's drops have puzzled physicists for as long as, well, there have been physicists.

«I don't have any formal training as a physicist,» he says, «but sometimes that's good.

But, as Leonard Susskind wrote, «I would bet that at the turn of the 22nd century philosophers and physicists will look nostalgically at the present and recall a golden age in which the narrow provincial 20th century concept of the universe gave way to a bigger better [multiverse]... of mind - boggling proportions.»

Physicists study flocking to better understand dynamic organization at various scales, often as a way to expand their knowledge of the rapidly developing field of active matter.

Feng Wang, a condensed matter physicist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and UC Berkeley's Physics Department, as well as an investigator for the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at Berkeley, led a study in which photo - induced doping of GBN heterostructures was used to create p - n junctions and other useful doping profiles while preserving the material's remarkably high electron mobility.