• Two prominent physicists, Richard Garwin, the former director of IBM's Thomas J. Watson research lab, and William Happer, a senior member of the Princeton Plasma Physics lab and a former director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, wrote to Science editor-in-chief Donald Kennedy and tried to convince him not to publish the paper. (newenergytimes.com)
  • Garwin is the first film to profile renowned physicist and inventor Richard Garwin, who helped. (mcintyre.ca)
  • The aim of this Joint Discussion is to bring together these distinct, but intimately related, components of X-ray astronomy -- astronomical X-ray observers and modellers, and experimental and theoretical atomic physicists -- with the goal of discussing atomic data needs and availablity. (ohio-state.edu)
  • Theoretical physicist Paul Davies writes that, when looking at the overall structure of the universe, "the impression of design is overwhelming" (1988, p. 203). (infidels.org)
  • Video of an al-Jazeera programme in which theoretical physicist Jim al-Khalili explores al-Khwarizmi's 9th century treatise that also underpins the science of flight and the engineering behind the fastest car in the world. (al-bab.com)
  • As the acclaimed physicist Albert Einstein once said, "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. (tamiranews.com)
  • Nowadays, the physical, natural, and medical sciences are progressing at rates that would have no doubt impressed the likes of legendary physicists Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein had they been around to witness them. (blogspot.com)
  • Not everything that counts can be counted, as physicist Albert Einstein once observed , while not everything that can be counted counts. (19fortyfive.com)
  • For example, as Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson has pointed out (1979, p. 251), if the Pauli exclusion principle did not exist - which is what keeps two electrons from occupying the same energy state in an atom - all electrons would occupy the lowest atomic energy state, and thus no complex atoms could exist. (infidels.org)
  • 2 However, at the same time, some scientists and environmental activists have become quite skeptical of alarmism on this issue, including former president of Greenpeace Canada Patrick Moore, physicist Freeman Dyson, and emeritus MIT professor of meteorology Richard Lindzen. (creation.com)
  • Other prominent scientists have also expressed concern that alarmists are being too dogmatic in their claims of the dangers of climate change. (icr.org)
  • What all of these prevailing factors reveal is that there can be no consensus agreement regarding the nature of reality and for the purpose of this article the reality of the rich, multifaceted, and operative stream of mental life we call human consciousness. (blogspot.com)
  • This is the only reason there is any consensus among physicists, same can be said about the Big Bang or even more basically quantum mechanics. (columbia.edu)
  • 15 The fact that a prominent climate scientist would be willing to seriously entertain such a possibility in a public forum is quite telling. (creation.com)
  • And Muller, with his twinkling eyes, high forehead and somewhat wild grey hair perfectly meets our visual expectations of an independent scientist tirelessly seeking the facts on which to build a better world. (climatedenial.org)
  • It is nearly a certainty that today's most prominent industries will be eclipsed someday. (horseracingbusiness.com)
  • Additionally, optimizing your website's loading speed and making it mobile-friendly are crucial factors in today's SEO landscape. (tamiranews.com)
  • About 25 years ago, physicist Geoffrey West , - Distinguished Professor and Past President of the Santa Fe Institute , - got interested in whether some of the techniques from the world of physics could be applied to the study of complex biological and social systems. (irvingwb.com)
  • As the prominent businessman Richard Branson once said, "The brands that will thrive in the coming years are the ones that have a purpose beyond profit. (tamiranews.com)
  • Indeed, other calculations show that stars with lifetimes of more than a billion years, as compared to our sun's lifetime of ten billion years, could not exist if gravity were increased by more than a factor of 3000. (infidels.org)
  • Prior to higher education, American students attend primary and secondary school for a combined total of 12 years. (edu-consultancy.com)
  • Thanks for 3 Quarks Daily which has been very high on my reading list for several years now! (3quarksdaily.com)
  • He went directly from high school to taking advanced graduate courses in physics at Harvard, where he was graduated in just three years at the top of his class, Summa Cum Laude in physics. (drmirkin.com)
  • Before considering global land use in simple equations, the factor of location must be considered. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Ruffini (1799) attempted a proof of the impossibility of solving the quintic and higher equations. (wikipedia.org)
  • He was valedictorian at his high school, the Ethical Culture School of New York. (drmirkin.com)
  • Munger's path to high scientific achievement started like that of many others, as valedictorian of his rural high school. (jax.org)
  • Wolfgang Karl Ernst Finkelnburg (5 June 1905 - 7 November 1967) was a German physicist who made contributions to spectroscopy, atomic physics, the structure of matter, and high-temperature arc discharges. (wikipedia.org)
  • Physicist Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific director of the Manhattan Project that created the atomic bomb. (drmirkin.com)
  • These are all pretty useful properties for high-level reasoning in the fields of physics, biology and AI, respectively. (lesswrong.com)
  • Unfortunately, upside-down Popper now drives theory-development, both in cosmology and in high energy physics. (blogspot.com)
  • In the foundations of physics, compatibility with existing data is a high bar to jump, or so they want you to believe. (blogspot.com)
  • Physicists seeking to understand the deepest levels of reality now work within a framework largely of Susskind's making. (columbia.edu)
  • Physicist Russell Humphreys has argued that recent warming has occurred, but that it is not a reason for panic and that higher atmospheric carbon dioxide levels likely contributed to abundant vegetation in the pre-Flood world. (creation.com)
  • They also report high levels of mental and behavioral symptoms, particularly mood and anxiety disorders, suicidal thoughts and behaviors, trauma-related symptoms and disorders, alcohol and substance use, and autism. (bvsalud.org)
  • A precocious girl fascinated by science, she married physicist Sheldon Goldstein at 19. (neh.gov)
  • At the Jodrell Bank Centre for Engagement, director Prof. Teresa Anderson explained, they position science as part of culture, emphasising the 'wow-factor' and inspiring visitors of the annual festival of music, art and science, bluedot. (sissa.it)
  • As a physicist with cerebral palsy, she showed the conference participants that being a good science communicator doesn't need to be hampered by a physical disability. (sissa.it)
  • The common factor, however, was the Arabic language, which for a time became the international language of science. (al-bab.com)
  • She said the 'craziness' of climate science was a 'deciding factor. (icr.org)
  • Curry stated on her blog, 'A deciding factor was that I no longer know what to say to students and postdocs regarding how to navigate the CRAZINESS in the field of climate science. (icr.org)
  • Magnetic graphene oxide-lignin nanocomposite, for instance, has shown strong potential as a suitable material for alternating magnetic fields in fluid hyperthermia therapy, according to experiments conducted by physicists from the Iran University of Science & Technology and Tehran University of Medical Sciences. (gminsights.com)
  • Judith Curry, whose blog Climate Etc . is a leading source to follow physical-science and related developments, is another critic of high-sensitivity models. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • But we didn't have high-level math or science in school, so I really had no idea. (jax.org)
  • According to the Journal Citation Reports , Science ' s 2020 impact factor was 47.728. (knowpia.com)
  • In 2011 Physicist Ivar Giaever, a 1973 Nobel Prize winner, resigned as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in protest over its dogmatic stance on the issue. (icr.org)
  • The idea that falsifiability is sufficient to make a theory scientific is an argument I hear frequently from amateur physicists. (blogspot.com)
  • They had some success while covering the meetings of prominent American scientific societies, including the AAAS. (knowpia.com)
  • He has seen a lot since his birth on the Kansas high plains in 1935 and the early memories of the sound of the wind in the cab of a Reo Speedwagon truck. (realitystudio.org)
  • As applied in the university environment, political factors took priority over the historically applied concept of scholarly ability, even though its two most prominent supporters were Nobel Laureates Philipp Lenard and Johannes Stark. (wikipedia.org)
  • After graduating high school (12th grade), U.S. students may go on to college or university. (edu-consultancy.com)
  • College or university study is known as "higher education. (edu-consultancy.com)
  • The group, headed by a physicist (a classic "mad physicist" according to Munger) was developing and testing polymers for color, durability and other factors that could produce full-color displays. (jax.org)
  • I felt like I belonged in this high-powered peer group. (jax.org)
  • Physicists are very interested in group representations, especially of Lie groups, since these representations often point the way to the "possible" physical theories. (wikipedia.org)
  • Secondary school consists of two programs: the first is "middle school" or "junior high school" and the second program is "high school. (edu-consultancy.com)
  • A diploma or certificate is awarded upon graduation from high school. (edu-consultancy.com)
  • High School was not worth it for me. (realitystudio.org)
  • I went to Military School in San Antonio in my first year of high school and my father bought me a brand new 1952 Chevy coupe to get back to Wichita. (realitystudio.org)
  • I soon realized that high school then and especially now are stupid unless one needs that structure. (realitystudio.org)
  • Robert was always brilliant but shy, and preferred to study rather than mingle with classmates in both high school and college. (drmirkin.com)
  • The idea that defining coherent extrapolated volition in terms of an idealised process of reflection roughly makes sense, and that it converges in a way which doesn't depend very much on morally arbitrary factors. (lesswrong.com)
  • Saunderson (1740) noted that the determination of the quadratic factors of a biquadratic expression necessarily leads to a sextic equation, and Le Sœur (1748) and Waring (1762 to 1782) still further elaborated the idea. (wikipedia.org)
  • 8 Likewise, respected physicist Hal Lewis also resigned from the American Physical Society for essentially the same reason. (icr.org)
  • Building high-quality backlinks from reputable websites is a fundamental SEO technique. (tamiranews.com)
  • I go on to analyse India's 'governance effectiveness' in terms of three factors: public resources, state capacity and the centralized federal structure, with the concomitant weakness of regional and local government. (3quarksdaily.com)
  • So if we permit some high level of information to enter the system, then low-level information can be created from energy sources. (uncommondescent.com)
  • Thus rich as well as poor congregate and use little urban land, making city dwellers, despite their generally higher incomes, the most sparing of land. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The core disagreement is about how much we expect the limiting case of arbitrarily high intelligence to tell us about the AGIs whose behaviour we're worried about. (lesswrong.com)
  • Producing high-quality, informative, and engaging content is essential for attracting both search engines and users. (tamiranews.com)
  • In fact, the ability to use a large variety of skills is one of the factors that initially drew me to being a church worker. (youthesource.com)
  • Segre remarks: "The false perception that there are so many Jews in Italy derives from the fact that they are considered so prominent. (jcpa.org)
  • They discovered that the measurable infrastructure of cities, - e.g., the lengths of roadways and electrical lines, energy consumption, the number of gas stations, - scale sublinearly, with a scaling factor of .85. (irvingwb.com)
  • They depict the nude figures of a woman and a man, an arm raised in greeting, a schematic of the planets of our system, and a rayed pattern of lines and binary dots representing the most prominent pulsars detectable from Earth. (blogspot.com)
  • Prominent categories identified included additional education, gender identification at patient registration and consideration of current policies and guidelines. (bvsalud.org)
  • There has been a lot of coverage of this story on this blog, for some high points, see here , here , here and here . (columbia.edu)
  • Knowledge-intensive industries have long been centered in cities and surrounding metropolitan areas, where they've had the most access to a college educated, high skill workforce. (irvingwb.com)
  • But, - from Milan to New York, - high density, globally connected urban areas have been ground zero for the spread of Covid-19. (irvingwb.com)
  • A major factor in his thinking was the geopolitical theory of. (mcintyre.ca)
  • They also scale with population, but instead of following a sublinear .85 scaling factor, socioeconomic attributes scale exponentially, with a superlinear factor of 1.15. (irvingwb.com)
  • The minority stress model attributes mental health symptoms to these factors. (bvsalud.org)