• At the beginning of the 20th century, physicists were aware of a pervasive shower of particles that seemed to rain down from space. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • Physicists built on this principle to predict the existence of generations of other particles, such as neutrinos, which with electrons, muons and taus round out the set of particles called leptons. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • Two international experiments, one currently underway and the other slated to begin in the early 2020s, are using the previously perplexing particles to push the boundaries of physics. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • But then physicists discovered that the group of (uncharged lepton) particles called neutrinos are unaware they are expected to follow the rules. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • This phenomenon, which won researchers Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2015, left scientists with a question: If neutrinos could violate flavor conservation, could other particles do it, too? (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • AMHERST, Mass. - The long-awaited first results from the Muon g-2 experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory show fundamental particles called muons behaving in a way that is not predicted by scientists' best theory, the Standard Model of particle physics. (umass.edu)
  • Interactions with these short-lived particles affect the value of the g-factor, causing the muons' precession to speed up or slow down very slightly. (umass.edu)
  • But if the quantum foam contains additional forces or particles not accounted for by the Standard Model, that would tweak the muon g-factor further. (umass.edu)
  • But when the theorists calculate the same quantity, using all of the known forces and particles in the Standard Model, we don't get the same answer," said Renee Fatemi, a physicist at the University of Kentucky and the simulations manager for the Muon g-2 experiment. (umass.edu)
  • The Higgs, one of the heaviest elementary particles known, weighs about 125 billion electron volts, in the units of mass and energy favoured by particle physicists - about as much as an entire iodine atom. (thehindu.com)
  • For a long time, the phenomenon physicists have thought would appear to save the day is a conjecture known as supersymmetry, which comes with the prediction of a whole new set of elementary particles, known as WIMPs, for weakly interacting massive particles, one of which could comprise the dark matter that is at the heart of cosmologists' dreams. (thehindu.com)
  • Physicists model how particles interact. (independent.org)
  • Meanwhile it must have dawned on particle physicists that the non-discovery of fundamentally new particles besides the Higgs is a problem for their field, and especially for the prospects of financing that bigger collider which they want. (uncommondescent.com)
  • Fact is, particle physicists have predicted dark matter particles since the mid-1980s. (blogspot.com)
  • It will therefore provide more accurate measurements of fundamental particles and enable physicists to observe rare processes that occur below the current sensitivity level of the LHC. (sciencebusiness.net)
  • Time: 2024-03-21 17:00 - 2024-03-21 18:30 Type: Lecture/talk Place: Auditorium: Rydbergsalen, Department of Physics, Professorsgatan 1 Welcome to a public lecture with famous physicist, senior expert and distinguished speaker Sergey Ketov from Tokyo Metropolitan University in Japan. (lu.se)
  • The collaboration saw students and physicists from Lund University, Sweden, Keele University, UK, and the Physics Division at the ORNL. (lu.se)
  • A consortium of researchers from the Max Planck Institutes for Quantum Optics and for Microstructure Physics, of the Max Born Institute, at the University of Greifswald and Graz University of Technology have only now been able to manipulate the magnetic properties of a ferromagnetic material on a time scale of electrical field oscillations of visible light-and thus in sync with the electrical properties-by means of laser pulses. (phys.org)
  • The electronic excitation is translated into a change in magnetic properties," explains Martin Schultze, who until recently worked at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Munich, but who is now professor at the Institute of Experimental Physics at TU Graz. (phys.org)
  • Regarding new perspectives, this could lead to similar fantastic developments as in the field of magnetism, such as electronic coherence in quantum computing," says Schultze hopefully, who now leads a working group focusing on attosecond physics at the Institute of Experimental Physics. (phys.org)
  • Quantum physicists also reach desperately for The Mind at times, since after sixty or seventy years their data are still impossible to interpret. (seeingtheforest.com)
  • That, however, is way too light by a factor of trillions according to standard quantum calculations, physicists say, unless there is some new phenomenon, some new physics, exerting its influence on the universe and keeping the Higgs mass from zooming to cataclysmic scales. (thehindu.com)
  • Physicists are left to explain how the positive and negative factors for these quantum corrections, all dozens of digits long, have magically canceled out, leaving an extraordinarily tiny value behind. (creation.com)
  • Tipler is a professor of Mathematical Physics at Tulane University, a theoretical physicist, a quantum cosmologist. (shroudstory.com)
  • The only reliable prediction we currently have for physics beyond the standard model is that we should eventually see effects of quantum gravity. (blogspot.com)
  • Thank you for visiting Quantum Diaries, which from 2005 to 2016 hosted blogs by scientists from particle physics institutions around the world. (quantumdiaries.org)
  • I am not the only modern physicist/cosmologist who thinks that 'dark matter' is the Vulcan of today. (creation.com)
  • Benson T. Chertok was professor of physics at The American University in Washington, D.C., a researcher in the field of high energy nuclear physics, and an advocate for arms control. (wikipedia.org)
  • On his return, he completed a Ph.D. in nuclear physics at Boston University in 1964 as the first doctoral student of Edward Booth. (wikipedia.org)
  • Interaction Point: Thirty Years of Quarky Nuclear Physics" (PDF). (wikipedia.org)
  • Today is an extraordinary day, long awaited not only by us but by the whole international physics community," said Graziano Venanzoni, co-spokesperson of the Muon g-2 experiment and physicist at the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics. (umass.edu)
  • In 2026, the LHC plans to boost its luminosity by a factor of 10, which will mean tripling the amount of data stored each year. (aps.org)
  • The High-Luminosity LHC will increase the luminosity by a factor of 10, delivering 10 times more collisions than the LHC would do over the same period of time. (sciencebusiness.net)
  • On August 5, physicists from the same two CERN teams reported that under the onslaught of more data, the possibility of a particle had melted away. (thehindu.com)
  • The new results were presented in Chicago at the International Conference of High Energy Physics, ICHEP for short, by Bruno Lenzi of CERN for the ATLAS team, and Chiara Rovelli for their competitors named for their own detector called CMS, short for Compact Muon Solenoid. (thehindu.com)
  • While we may have thought that making a decent pizza is all about the ingredients, it's a matter of thermodynamics according to physicists Andrey Varlamov and Andreas Glatz. (businessinsider.com)
  • Boltzmann constant works as a proportionality factor between the kinetic energy of molecules and their temperature. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • In fact, there's such a huge discrepancy between the observed value of this constant and what theory predicts that it is widely considered the worst prediction in the history of physics. (space.com)
  • The Higgs was the last good prediction that particle physicists had. (blogspot.com)
  • With this method of prediction not working, there is now no reason to think that the LHC in its upcoming runs, or a next larger collider, will see anything besides the physics predicted by the already known theories. (blogspot.com)
  • Particle physicists had a good case to build the LHC with the prediction of the Higgs-boson. (blogspot.com)
  • Physicists have named this enigmatic phenomenon dark energy , as its true nature remains a mystery. (space.com)
  • According to the Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2022), the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 11.500. (ntu.edu.sg)
  • Not too big or too small, muons are a sort of Goldilocks particle that are perfectly suited to aid physicists in their search for new physics. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • Pinning down the subtle behavior of muons is a remarkable achievement that will guide the search for physics beyond the Standard Model for years to come," said Fermilab Deputy Director of Research Joe Lykken. (umass.edu)
  • So what kind of new physics are physicists looking for, and why the fervent search? (creation.com)
  • Download Engineering Physics Pdf Books & Notes: Candidates who are in search of engineering first-year subjects lecture notes and books can find all books and study materials in pdf formats for free on our site.So, today we have come up with the Engineering Physics Books & Notes pdf for first-year btech students. (newideas.net)
  • Precision measurements of the Higgs boson such as this give new clues of where to look for new physics. (creation.com)
  • The Higgs field was first theorized to make the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics consistent. (creation.com)
  • With the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics is now complete. (creation.com)
  • 6 Scientific American clearly reports the reason physicists have fallen in love with SUSY: "by far the biggest motivation for studying supersymmetry-it solves the conundrum of the Higgs hierarchy problem. (creation.com)
  • With this upgrade, the LHC will continue to push the limits of human knowledge, enabling physicists to explore beyond the Standard Model and Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism. (sciencebusiness.net)
  • The increase in luminosity will mean physicists will be able to study new phenomena discovered by the LHC, such as the Higgs boson, in more detail. (sciencebusiness.net)
  • Resolving the discrepancy may be the most important goal of theoretical physics this century. (space.com)
  • Lucas Lombriser, an assistant professor of theoretical physics at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, has introduced a new way of evaluating Albert Einstein's equations of gravity to find a value for the cosmological constant that closely matches its observed value. (space.com)
  • He assembled a team of physicists starting with Ray Arnold (2000 Bonner prize recipient), and followed by Steve Rock, Zen Szalata and Peter Bosted. (wikipedia.org)
  • The first to use high energy electron beams to study nuclear structure, the SLAC experiments led by Chertok successfully furthered the understanding of the nuclear form factors in the region of momentum transfers where the traditional picture of nuclei made of nucleons begins to merge with the picture of nucleons made of quarks. (wikipedia.org)
  • They conducted experiments with Margherita pizzas to produce a formula, and their research was published in the journal, Physics Education. (businessinsider.com)
  • Recently, physicist Dan Boyer of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) used this technology to design quick and precise forecasts for progressing control of experiments in the National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U) - the flagship fusion facility at PPPL that is under repair at present. (azorobotics.com)
  • Monte Carlo event generators play an important role in virtually every physics analysis at collider experiments. (lu.se)
  • Thus, if the 'simple basic physics' of radiative forcing from CO2 are correct, this forcing is overwhelmed by net-negative feedbacks, contrary to the net positive feedback predictions of climate models [Lindzen & Choi 2010, and others]. (blogspot.com)
  • But it does not matter whether you believe (or even understand) my arguments, you only have to look at the data to see that particle physicists' predictions for physics beyond the standard model have, in fact, not worked for more than 30 years. (blogspot.com)
  • This question is perhaps not so surprising when you consider that the probability for a physicist to experience personally this challenge is only on the order of one chance in a thousand. (aps.org)
  • In statistical mechanics, the Boltzmann factor gives us the probability of occupancy of some energy state at temperature T. In this formula, the Boltzmann factor comes inside of the exponential. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • It works as a proportionality factor between macroscopic quantity entropy and microscopic quantity thermodynamic probability. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • This transcript may not be quoted, reproduced or redistributed in whole or in part by any means except with the written permission of the American Institute of Physics. (aip.org)
  • This transcript is based on a tape-recorded interview deposited at the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics. (aip.org)
  • Okay, this is David Zierler, Oral Historian for the American Institute of Physics. (aip.org)
  • Scitation hosts journals and conference proceedings from AIP (American Institute of Physics) Publishing and AIP member societies. (physics-network.org)
  • Applied Physics Letters is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by the American Institute of Physics. (physics-network.org)
  • About AIP Publishing AIP Publishing is a wholly owned not-for-profit subsidiary of the American Institute of Physics (AIP). (physics-network.org)
  • Where is the American Institute of Physics? (physics-network.org)
  • I think kids are smarter than "PHD Corporate Scientists" - they play with matches more often :) and have a better understanding of FIRE - its properties, capabilites and the Laws of Physics than NIST, The American Society of Civil Engineers, MIT etc. (911blogger.com)
  • Topics cover facilities from the operations, physics and engineering perspective and participants represent people from all backgrounds including technicians, engineers, physicists, management and operators. (lu.se)
  • Plans for the Superconducting Super Collider opened deep fissures within the physics community in the 1980s and 1990s, pitting "big science" against "small science. (aps.org)
  • Fact is, particle physicists predicted grand unified theories starting also in the 1980s. (blogspot.com)
  • After discarding a few alternative theories-including one that posited that this particle might be a new kind of electron-physicists were left with one conclusion: They had discovered a particle that nobody had predicted. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • While physics-based models for predicting electron pressure and density exist. (azorobotics.com)
  • TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Nobel Prize-winning Taurus physicist Richard Feynman got his undergraduate degree from prestigious MIT and his PhD from prestigious Princeton University. (newcity.com)
  • This Fund will support the Dresselhaus Prize, the first APS prize named in honor of a woman, and the Dresselhaus Keynote Lecture, which will provide opportunities and mini-grants to undergraduate women in physics. (aps.org)
  • It also partners with other departments and programs at U of T to offer a range of collaborative undergraduate specialists, majors and minors, involving chemistry, geography, earth sciences, human biology, physics, philosophy and others. (utoronto.ca)
  • The discovery of the muon originally confounded physicists. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • The strength of the internal magnet determines the rate that the muon precesses in an external magnetic field and is described by a number that physicists call the g-factor. (umass.edu)
  • Physicists now have a brand-new measurement of a property of the muon called the anomalous magnetic moment that improves the precision of their previous result by a factor of 2. (interactions.org)
  • To avoid that storage nightmare, the SKA collaboration plans to reduce the data-through processing-by about a factor of 1000. (aps.org)
  • The challenge described in this case study was the need to create an educational activity to promote interaction and collaboration among an interdisciplinary participant group comprised of physicians, radiobiologists, and radiation physicists. (ed.gov)
  • To see new posts, visit the Interactions collaboration 's new blog, Particle People , which hops from country to country, highlighting a new blogger involved in particle physics research each month. (quantumdiaries.org)
  • There is a fundamental problem in physics. (space.com)
  • It is generally anticipated that resolving the issue may lead us to a more fundamental understanding of physics. (space.com)
  • In December, two teams of physicists working at CERN's Large Hadron Collider reported that they might have seen traces of what could be a new fundamental constituent of nature, an elementary particle that is not part of the Standard Model that has ruled particle physics for the last half-century. (thehindu.com)
  • Now atomic physicists at Goethe University in Professor Reinhard Dörner's team have for the first time studied a process that is shorter than femtoseconds by magnitudes. (scitechdaily.com)
  • it allowed physicists to predict the interactions they would observe in particle accelerators and nuclear reactions. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • Dark matter is also invoked to explain certain motions in galaxies that appear not to follow the laws of physics. (creation.com)
  • According to recent research in Physics Education, a thermodynamic equation that you can translate to use at home is the key to perfectly baked pizza. (businessinsider.com)
  • According to recent research in Physics Education - yes, conducted by a pair of physicists - you don't have to travel all the way to Italy to get a taste of the best pizza. (businessinsider.com)
  • This resource letter intends to provide physics instructors - particularly graduate student teaching assistants - at the introductory university level with a small but representative collection of resources to acquire a familiarity with research in physics education for guidance in everyday instruction. (blogspot.com)
  • I was one of only five students presenting research in physics. (spsnational.org)
  • When you have some kind of an interaction that involves charged leptons, such as nuclear or particle decay or some type of high-energy particle interaction, the number of a given flavor of charged leptons remains the same," says Jim Miller, a professor of physics at Boston University. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • Cahn describes his work at the University of Washington, where he collaborated with Lowell Brown, and he explains his decision to join the physics faculty at University of Michigan, where he collaborated on several projects with Gordy Kane and where he became interested in parity violation in atoms. (aip.org)
  • A physicist explains the science behind a tight spiral pass down the field. (insidescience.org)
  • Since the late 1960s, when physicists hit on the "particle zoo" at nuclear energies, they always had a good reason to build a larger collider. (blogspot.com)
  • With the LHC starting soon, collider based particle physics is about to enter a new energy regime. (lu.se)
  • Therefore, in this study, we surveyed workloads in Japan to estimate the optimal medical physics staffing in external beam radiotherapy. (bvsalud.org)
  • A total of 837 facilities were surveyed to collect information regarding radiotherapy techniques and medical physics specialists (RTMPs). (bvsalud.org)
  • Compared to published models, larger facilities (over 500 annual patients) had a shortage of medical physics staff. (bvsalud.org)
  • At the American University, Chertok developed a course, "Arms Control, Politics, and Science," which became one of the most popular courses offered by the physics department. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Dr. Benson T. Chertok Lectureship Fund at Boston University (annual Physics Department colloquium), started in 1984. (wikipedia.org)
  • Physicists hope to answer that exact question with Mu2e, an experiment scheduled to start generating data in the next few years at the US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. (symmetrymagazine.org)
  • Cahn describes the way LBL has been integrated with the physics department at Berkeley, and he discusses his tenure as Director of the Physics division. (aip.org)
  • It's fantastically interesting to work on," says Kawall, a professor in UMass's physics department. (umass.edu)
  • Join us on Thursday 21 March from 17:00 to 18:30 in Rydbergsalen, Department of Physics. (lu.se)
  • This Perspective presents an overview of the development of the hierarchy of Davydov's Ansätze and a few of their applications in many-body problems in computational chemical physics. (ntu.edu.sg)
  • In the global race to measure ever shorter time spans, physicists from Goethe University Frankfurt have now taken the lead: together with colleagues at the accelerator facility DESY in Hamburg and the Fritz-Haber-Institute in Berlin, they have measured a process that lies within the realm of zeptoseconds for the first time: the propagation of light within a molecule. (scitechdaily.com)
  • That is, rather than introducing a fudge factor that really explained and predicted nothing, what was needed was new physics that both explained observations at the time and predicted new ones . (creation.com)
  • This influence was able to be accelerated by a factor of 200 and was measured and represented using time-resolved attosecond spectroscopy. (phys.org)
  • Although physicists have had indirect evidence of it for some time, now we have direct proof that this hypothesis is correct. (creation.com)
  • Boltzmann's constant is denoted by letter $\mathrm{k_B}$. Certain physical quantities in physics remain constant with time and are universal constants. (tutorialspoint.com)
  • Boltzmann constant first time arises in physics in the context of statistical physics . (tutorialspoint.com)
  • The author of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, makes clear that cosmic inflation was intended to deal with evidence for fine-tuning, which she considers a "waste of time. (uncommondescent.com)
  • We found no significant behavioral economic factors other than time preference, and personality that differed between patients with breast cancer who did and did not have a delayed diagnosis. (bvsalud.org)
  • Full-time equivalent (FTE) factors were estimated from the workload and compared with several models. (bvsalud.org)
  • Most scientists believe that only objective factors are real and try to eliminate all subjectivity from their explanations - subjectivity is seen primarily as a source of error. (seeingtheforest.com)
  • The three-day meeting, held in a 19th century building of the German Physical Society , brought together physicists, astronomers, and computer scientists for the purpose of identifying "a common set of needs," says meeting organizer Karl Mannheim, an astrophysicist from the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany. (aps.org)
  • Space tornadoes are rotating plasmas of hot, ionized gas flowing at speeds of more than a million miles per hour, far faster than the 200 m.p.h. winds of terrestrial tornadoes, according to Andreas Keiling, a research space physicist at the University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory. (universetoday.com)
  • Kimberly Strong , a physicist who studies the Earth's atmosphere, will lead the University of Toronto's new School of the Environment starting July 1, 2013. (utoronto.ca)
  • On September 8, 2023, Professor Shoji Asai, Director of International Center for Elementary Particle Physics (ICEPP), the University of Tokyo, was selected by the Selection Committee for the Director General of KEK, as the candidate for the next Director General of KEK. (interactions.org)
  • the "standard model of particle physics" - is complete. (blogspot.com)
  • Everybody is excited about the possibilities of finding new physics beyond the TeV scale, but the vast majority of events at the LHC will be Standard Model QCD events. (lu.se)
  • No discoveries of new physics can be claimed before the Standard Model at these energies is measured and understood. (lu.se)
  • Since discoveries in particle physics rely on statistics, the greater the number of collisions, the more chances physicists have to see a particle or process that they have not seen before. (sciencebusiness.net)
  • PURPOSE: Hypoxia is one of the most important factors influencing clinical outcome after radiotherapy. (lu.se)
  • APS learned that the health of science depends on raising support for all active areas of basic and applied physics. (aps.org)
  • What you may not hear about as much is the physics involved but understanding the science can help you take your throwing skills to the next level. (insidescience.org)
  • During times of prosperity economics is a hard science like physics. (seeingtheforest.com)
  • An article in Evolution News & Science Today states that physicists seem to be "expanding sets of hypotheses to avoid some embarrassing metaphysics. (creation.com)
  • When you optimize the system, the science is one of the factors that you can weigh. (nasa.gov)
  • Its focus is rapid publication and dissemination of new experimental and theoretical papers regarding applications of physics in all disciplines of science, engineering, and modern technology. (physics-network.org)
  • Applied physics is the application of the science of physics to helping human beings and solving their problems. (physics-network.org)
  • Free essays, homework help, flashcards, research papers, book reports, term papers, history, science, politics Laser physicists typically choose to make θ the divergence of the beam: the far-field angle between the beam axis and the distance from the axis at which the irradiance drops to eâ 2 times the on-axis irradiance. (newideas.net)
  • This article discusses whether or not gender-related disparities exist within the academic fields of mathematics and physics regarding the application of career knowledge and the experiences of disadvantage in relation to recognition of performance, assessment of professional competencies, and integration into networks. (gesis.org)
  • On November 1, theoretical physicist Jun'ichi Yokoyama was welcomed as the third Director of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI-Kavli IPMU). (interactions.org)
  • He did not, however, take my nomination seriously enough to factor the possibility of my election into my work assignments for the coming years. (aps.org)
  • First, it has been a marvelous experience to work with so many distinguished physicists and thoughtful people. (aps.org)
  • After the 60s, Zinkernagel was primarily preoccupied with physics while also formulating the political and ethical consequences of his work on logic. (n55.dk)
  • The Nazis dismissed Einstein's groundbreaking work, including his Law of Relativity, as "Jewish Physics. (euronews.com)
  • Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the world. (quantumdiaries.org)
  • The Society's membership grew by a factor of 10, in part due to the expansion of physics research during and after World War II. (aps.org)
  • As Eugene Wigner told J. H. Van Vleck in 1945, "The charm of physics consists for me, and I am sure for most of our colleagues, is the fact that it comprises all the phenomena of the non-living world and that a Society which has abandoned general interest in all this is not a physical society any more. (aps.org)
  • ZapperZ's physics blog on the world of Physics and Physicists. (blogspot.com)
  • Mark, of WeAreChange Boston, recently met with world renowned theoretical physicist and author, Dr. Michio Kaku. (911blogger.com)
  • Every little detail matters, and all future theories of physics will have to be compatible with this result. (umass.edu)
  • Keiling's colleagues include Karl-Heinz Glassmeier of the Institute for Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics (IGEP, TU) in Braunschweig, Germany, and Olaf Amm of the Finnish Meteorological Institute. (universetoday.com)
  • The novelty of electric microcontact printing is not the physics involved, but the demonstration of nanoscale patterned charge transfer, said Aime S. DeReggi, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. (trnmag.com)
  • Its corporate headquarters are at the American Center for Physics in College Park, Maryland, but the institute also has offices in Melville, New York, and Beijing. (physics-network.org)
  • I found the link to Art Hobson's selected papers a while back and added it to my favorite Physics Links, but if you've missed it, it might be very educational and useful for you to look at it. (blogspot.com)
  • Strong and members of her group are actively involved in outreach activities, through an education and outreach program developed by U of T physicist Kaley Walker. (utoronto.ca)
  • Boyer is planning to tackle this limitation by adding the results of physics-based model forecasts to the training data and developing methods of adjusting the model as new data becomes accessible. (azorobotics.com)
  • Presumably the mechanisms which decrease the rise have a greater effect than those which increase it so that the actual rise in temperature is smaller than that predicted by the simple [physics] model. (blogspot.com)
  • Only if the Monte Carlo agrees with many complementary observables can we trust it to have predictive power, and from disagreements we can learn something about model deficiencies and the underlying physics. (lu.se)
  • Physics lore has it that Einstein later confessed that his introduction of the cosmological constant was perhaps his greatest blunder . (space.com)
  • Later in 1922, Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. (euronews.com)
  • It's hard to pin down when all this started, but the publication of Frank Tipler's The Physics of Christianity seems defining. (shroudstory.com)
  • The rem is calculated by multiplying the absorbed dose (rad) by a quality (Q) factor or the radiation weighting factor (RWF), which reflects the differences in the amount of potential biological effect for each type of radiation. (medscape.com)
  • However, physics can tell us more generally about why smaller animals such as cats are more likely to survive the same high fall as a human. (thenakedscientists.com)
  • This workshop aims to stimulate information sharing on technical issues and challenges faced, common cultural and human factors, and future opportunities. (lu.se)