Sentences with phrase «when space physicist»

CLOUD's genesis is in the mid-1990s, when space physicist Hendrik Svensmark hypothesized that cosmic rays as mediated by solar effects, play a very large role on the physics of climate, and could explain the warming and cooling trends.

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«I've certainly been pitching this for 20 years, really from the beginning of BECs, when doing something like this in space seemed crazy,» says Robert Thompson, a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and CAL's project scientist.

That's why it was a surprise when physicists with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced in February 2016 that they had detected ripples in space from the violent merger of two black holes 29 and 36 times as massive as our sun.

What struck Barbour most was Einstein's comment that his intuitive leap about space and time had been inspired by Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach, whose study of the speed of sound in fluids helped explain the sonic boom heard when objects break the sound barrier.

Rainer Weiss, a German - born American physicist, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, took a defining step when he authored a 1972 paper on the design of a laser - based interferometer to detect the collision of black holes in outer space that would take more than a billion years to reach Earth.

Louis Lanzerotti, a physicist at New Jersey Institute of Technology who spent many years at Bell Labs and worked on space missions such as Voyager, Ulysses and Galileo, was a graduate student in nuclear physics at Harvard University when Telstar 1 went into orbit.

However, two theoretical physicists from the University of Barcelona (Spain) have demonstrated that what occurs on the space - time boundary of the two merging objects can be explained using simple equations, at least when a giant black hole collides with a tiny black hole.

His passing came less than 18 months after LIGO physicists spotted gravitational waves — ripples in space itself — set off when two massive black holes spiraled into each other.

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.

The term «black hole» was coined in the 1960s by physicist John Wheeler to describe what happens when matter is piled into an infinitely dense point in space - time.

The instrument has been in the works since 1994, when former NASA administrator Dan Goldin was looking for a science rationale for the space station — and Nobel prize — winning physicist Samuel Ting of MIT realized he could help.

Knowing when such storms are coming helps protect astronauts as well as ground communications: Physicists estimate that a 1989 solar outburst released enough radiation to expose astronauts on the Mir space station to their yearly dose in just a few hours.

When the Fermi Gamma - Ray Space Telescope, launched in 2008 by NASA, detected gamma ray emission from four spiral galaxies in its first year of orbit, physicists were perplexed.

Next year, when Naomi Klarreich is not developing new theories to help physicists understand the nature of space and time, she'll be working to improve the quality of math instruction in the Cleveland public schools.

Another World is a platform game that sees you, a physicist named Lester Chaykin, warped through a hole in time and space to a mysterious, alien planet after an experiment goes horribly wrong when a lightning bolt hits your laboratory.