He read what Whitehead had
written as physicist and said to himself and others, «This man should be teaching philosophy.»
Not exact matches
We do not go to the
physicist or chemist (
as such) to learn how to think out and
write a book.
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.
This idea is defended in our volume by A.C. Ewing, by Keith Ward (
writing as Oxford's Regius Professor of Divinity), and by the
physicist - turned - theologian John Polkinghorne.
ER stands for Einstein and Rosen, the two
physicists who
wrote the seminal paper describing wormholes (otherwise known
as Einstein - Rosen bridges).
James (left) and Gregory Benford have both
written science fiction and,
as physicists, done their part to help science fact catch up.
Theoretical
physicist Peter Woit of Columbia University in New York
wrote on his blog that the LHC's two main experiments are seeing the same signal
as in December — hinting at a Higgs with an energy of 125 gigaelectronvolts — but this time with greater statistical significance.
As he fed lines of code
written by
physicists into the supercomputer, he was struck by how inefficient some of the coding was.
Here was a
physicist who had served in the Obama administration apparently
writing that climate science is uncertain on The Wall Street Journal editorial pages, which some say have served
as a Bible for climate deniers.
Clauser would later
write with great passion that in those years,
physicists who showed any interest in the foundations of quantum mechanics labored under a «stigma,»
as powerful and keenly felt
as any wars of religion or McCarthy - like political purges.
«It looks like important physical objects, such
as curved space - times... emerge naturally from entanglement in tensor network states via holography,»
writes physicist Román Orús of Johannes Gutenberg University in Germany.
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.
Steve: You
wrote back in 1992: «I came to understand that there were thousands of people spread all around the world, mathematicians,
physicists, philosophers, computer scientists, on and on, who thought of Martin Gardner's column not merely
as a feature of Scientific American but
as its very heart and soul.»
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.»
It was
written 70 years before a team of
physicists produced the first empirical evidence of this phenomenon, known
as the Bose - Einstein condensate, and earned the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics for providing proof of Einstein's remarkable prescience.
«Even in one - shot interactions, humans are not
as selfish
as theory suggests,»
write physicist - sociologist Dirk Helbing and colleagues.
People have demanded answers to these questions since 1979, when Nancy Wertheimer, an epidemiologist,
wrote a paper with Ed Leeper, an independent
physicist in Boulder, Colorado, purporting to show that children living close to power transmission lines were twice
as likely to contract leukaemia
as children in homes farther away.
Dr. Boslough has
written a minority opinion
as Appendix D.» The mysterious «Appendix D» In Appendix D Boslough, a
physicist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M.,
wrote that he disagreed with the steering committee's reasons for removing the climate data.
Writing for historians of science and
physicists, the author explores how
physicists used and adapted Feynman diagrams
as well
as how the diagrams influenced their research.
Madhusree Mukerjee distinguished herself at Scientific American for the depth of her knowledge about string and related theory
as well
as the elegance of her news and feature
writing.After she left, the trained
physicist applied her
writing prowess to a book on the Andaman Islanders and recently to Churchill's Secret War, a scathing investigation from a raft of primary sources that revealed how direct decision - making by Winston Churchill led to massive famine on the Indian subcontinent.Meet Madhusree in this recent interview in Harper's, in which she parries gracefully a series of sharp questions from interviewer Scott Horton.
So, he spends most of his life — we think of Newton
as a
physicist or mathematician but he spends — he
writes several million words of theology over the course of his life.
as if some theoretical
physicist / philosoper / and very good sci - fi story teller
wrote it.
Spiros:
As a quantum
physicist, maintaining the public's interest while discussing quantum mechanics requires the use of every genre of
writing I can think of.
Cuban - American artist Enrique Martínez Celaya (born 1964) embraces painting, sculpture, photography and
writing, inspired by sources
as diverse
as Nordic poetry and quantum physics (Celaya initially trained
as a
physicist).
I retired from my position
as a Research
Physicist at the U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory in late 2001 and have not
written any new reports of new original research.
As I
wrote at 2/20 6:07 am above the 1996 paper has been followed up, verified and published more recently by several other independent atmospheric thermodynamic
physicist authors proving Fig. 1 in the top post thought experiment to be non-isothermal, isentropic at equilibrium (they do include for Willis» sake equations with = signs).
As Blaise Pascal (French mathematician,
physicist, inventor, writer, and philosopher) famously said, «I would have
written a shorter letter, but I ran out of time.»