| 单词 | physics |
| 例句 | “I had never before discussed physics seriously with anyone as old as Alfred.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Oh. My. God. I didn’t even think of that. But they don’t store weapons. It’s physics research.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z So at first there was not one Scientific Revolution but two, one exemplified by Newton’s classical physics, the other by Rutherford’s nuclear physics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For laypersons in the twenties, physics was invested with an aura of drama, even romance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Similarly, in physics it may be necessary to use different formulations in different situations, but two different formulations would agree in situations where they can both be applied. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1937, a typical year, the Rad Lab listed seventeen postdoctoral physics fellows on its staff but paid the salaries of only two. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I believe you understand the physics of the knackery,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Zeitoun was just getting accustomed to the new physics of this world. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z According to Thorne, "he did not understand the laws of physics well enough to be able to substantiate his ideas." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Within the decade, Oppenheimer’s theoretical teachings and Ernest Lawrence’s cyclotron would transform Berkeley into very much Caltech’s superior—no longer a desert but the preeminent center of nuclear physics in the world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That made the substance much more potent than radium and therefore useful for physics and medical research alike. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “And is there no science? No physics?” he said. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Liverpool was a poor institution with an undistinguished physics faculty. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Organs and organisms might behave according to the laws of physics and chemistry—but the genesis of life itself could never be understood through these laws. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Luke was pretty sure Toby had physics this period, so he peeked into the classroom as the room began to fill up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Fresh from the journey, he materialized in Caltech’s physics lab with his arm in a sling, and declared, “I am Oppenheimer.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In chemistry and physics the acid test of one’s understanding of a system is whether one can successfully predict its future behavior. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The day I went into physics class it was death. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z We took algebra, chemistry, and, my favorite, physics. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer continued to teach physics, but he felt restless, like he should be doing something to help stop Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Pash had picked up enough physics to know he was looking at the heart of Germany’s atomic research. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z According to conventional nuclear physics, this was extraordinary, even bizarre: nuclei of different weights would be expected to emit disintegration products of widely variable energies, with the heavy elements producing the more energetic recoils. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And since the buildings were just pieces of software, their design wasn’t limited by monetary constraints, or even by the laws of physics. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The theory of relativity says that the laws of physics appear the same to observers moving at different speeds. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Einsteinian physics can thus be regarded as inheriting the results of Newtonian physics while going far beyond them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He knew a kind of physics that somehow didn't relate to the transphysics that we knew about. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Smyth was a former chairman of the Princeton physics department who had authored an official history of the bomb program released to the public following Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The first indication that the laws of physics might really allow people to travel in time came in 1949 when Kurt Godel discovered a new space-time allowed by general relativity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lawrence the experimentalist and Oppenheimer the theoretical man formed about as strong a team as you could imagine in physics,” James Brady told an interviewer years later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Modern physics and chemistry have reduced the complexity of the sensible world to an astonishing simplicity: three units put together in various patterns make, essentially, everything. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Or if there were ample reasons in the world—physics and anatomy and so on—there was at least no reason here. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z As if by an act of providence, Ernest promptly came within the orbit of a genuinely free-thinking pioneer of advanced physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Newton practised alchemy as well as publishing on physics and optics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Dispute over Copernicanism was distorted by the intervention of the theologians, but the dispute over physics could take place without such interference. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z An object in motion stays in motion until acted upon by an outside force, the words said in her physics textbook. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He studied theoretical physics and threw himself body and soul into work on entropy, a process at the heart of thermodynamics, which seemed to hold much promise for an ambitious young man.* A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z His response was a lecture attacking Aristotle’s account of falling bodies, the weakest point in his physics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Up until that point, American physics magazines had been filled with articles on new experiments and theories about fission. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Forty minutes later she was inside the physics building once more, arguing with the porter, but this time she had a trump card. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Radioisotopes would be the currency of a new physics, chemistry, and biology, and Lawrences cyclotron would be the world’s preeminent mint. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This barrier was disappointing news to the physics world, but it was the beginning of a new branch of physics: thermodynamics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Particle physics, in short, is a hugely expensive enterprise–but it is a productive one. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Sitting in the emptier office, she plunged into the analysis, although the pesky laws of physics turned an afternoon of rote celestial tennis practice into a forces free-for-all. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Ultrasonics had promising potential for physics, chemistry, and biology, ranging from the detection of underwater objects to the removal of diseased tissue, but the research required hugely expensive equipment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It has been responsible for major advances in astronomy, physics, biology, anthropology, economics and politics. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I need physics more than friends,” Oppenheimer once told his younger brother. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon, Hall was asked to report to a meeting room in the physics lab building on campus. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Ernest spun a grandiose vision of how science being done right there on the Berkeley campus would change human lives, not just through advances in physics but in the fields of health and medicine. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Ice cubes don’t wipe out civilizations with bursts of gamma rays, though following the then-accepted rules of physics led inexorably to that conclusion. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This sharpened the feelings in the physics community and among the program’s civilian leadership that discussions about the deployment of the bomb and postwar management of its technology should be urgently stepped up. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Chemistry was, generally speaking, a science for businesspeople, for those who worked with coal and potash and dyes, and not gentlemen, who tended to be drawn to geology, natural history, and physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Galileo contributed to physics and astronomy, while teaching fortification and optics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “He would say, ‘If you go away now and become a member of a physics department in some other school, you may have to do some of these things.’ Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Penelope had taken physics at Swanburne and, thus, knew all about Newton’s laws of motion. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z They use virtual cameras—imaginary cameras, essentially, made of math; shooting imaginary characters, also made of math—whose lens physics is faithful to the real world. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z NOTE: Although percussion specializes in "noise"-type sounds, even instruments like snare drums follow the basic physics rule of "bigger instrument makes longer wavelengths and lower sounds." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Modern physics, chemistry and biology do not emerge out of the corpuscular philosophy, but out of its collapse. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This book was written by Mr. Manzi to explain physics to college girls, and if it worked on us he would try to have it published. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Science was barren of the idea that underlying the phenomena of Nature might be the laws of physics. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The problem with the relativists is that they explain bad science and good science, phrenology and nuclear physics, in exactly the same way—advocates of ‘the strong programme’ explicitly insist on this equivalence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The public came to imagine that physics held the key to all phenomena of the natural world, including the chemical and the biological. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer said he’d gotten out of the car to think about physics. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In this sense, statistics is to probability as engineering is to physics—an applied science based on a more intellectually stimulating foundational discipline. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At college I had to take a required course in physics and chemistry. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Recent breakthroughs in physics, made possible in part by fantastic new technologies, suggest answers to some of these longstanding questions. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a looseness and a fluidity that defied physics—imagine a jellyfish if it could walk on land. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Another paradox lies in the physics of the sport. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z With the goal of turning lady math teachers into crack junior engineers, the laboratory sponsored a crash course in engineering physics for new computers, an advanced version of the class offered at Hampton Institute. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The physics that works for falling bodies and pirouetting ice skaters down here in the microcosm of the Earth makes galaxies up there in the macrocosm of the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The first inescapable zero in physics comes from a law that had been in use for half a century. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Your last quiz was an improvement, but you still need to do the extra credit project to pull your grade up. You need at least a B to get into physics next year.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Do you think we could catch Nestor 10 by quick questioning on etheric physics?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The constraints on the size and power of the cyclotron came from something other than physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His grasp of physics enabled him to establish a theoretical foundation for almost any new experimental finding. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Zero is behind all of the big puzzles in physics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z At Harvard, a fellow student marveled, “he intellectually looted the place,” drinking deeply of physics and chemistry, of course, but also mathematics, philosophy, and French literature. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The ethos of atomic physics—the relentless drive to find irreducible particles, universal mechanisms, and systematic explanations—would soon permeate biology and drive the discipline toward new methods and new questions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Consequently, it would no longer be possible to compel “all those interested in nuclear physics and penetrating radiations to come to Berkeley.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z All through the fall of 1933, Ernest Lawrence had been on a soaring high, his fame growing within the physics fraternity and among the public. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He reviewed his math, his physics, his English, struggling for long hours with his broken-backed books, and as the boat rocked and pitched he set out two main goals for himself. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z To Ernest, the discovery was more than a triumph of applied physics; it was a means of reminding the GAC of the Rad Lab’s standing as the preeminent high-energy laboratory in the world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By all the laws of conventional physics, atoms shouldn’t therefore exist. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In fact, everything in particle physics was about to get a whole lot more complicated. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Where Aristotle had assumed that each element behaved differently, the new physics assumed that all heavy objects could be thought of as the same. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z With Alvarez standing by, he put through a call to Edward Teller, who then was still at Los Alamos weighing UCLA’s offer to join its physics faculty. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He was intimating that physics at Berkeley might have to continue without Robert Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The atom provides an organizing principle for modern physics—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling matter and energy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z At its inception, the division had a roster of four faculty members, including John, who was appointed an assistant professor of medical physics and mostly paid out of the Physics Department budget. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z These cases differ from that, for example, of Newtonian physics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Goldman wasn’t much interested in physics, but it struck him that some of the same mathematical principles the group was using might be helpful in deciding whether someone was suffering a heart attack. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Or are they going to team up and try to win the Nobel Prize in physics one day? Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There were only five minutes left before the end of school— five minutes until I could get back to Rachel and hear her explanation—when the intercom in Mr. Berlin’s physics class beeped. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z We’re in physics class, and the assignment is to set up a pulley system. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z He doesn't look up from his physics book. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The upshot of all this is that physics ended up with two bodies of laws–one for the world of the very small, one for the universe at large–leading quite separate lives. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Scribbling graphs and formulas on the blackboard as he spoke, Serber began to explain the physics of an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He published prolifically; his areas of interest, which included the propagation of electron beams and their usefulness as ionization agents, were among the most intriguing in physics; and his resourceful laboratory technique was widely praised. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The reason is that the laws of physics are not quite the same for particles and antiparticles. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In part this new skepticism reflected the superior technical knowledge of his official overseers, who now included trained physicists with knowledge of nuclear physics that equaled or even exceeded his own. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I went back to doing physics,” he would write. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He would be the lone American in attendance this time, rubbing shoulders and debating the fine points of nuclear physics with the most glittering stars of European science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I looked down at the research proposal, not ready to tackle the physics of an acoustic tag. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “Did you know Ben-Ben’s been learning about the physics of hitting a baseball?” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Leaders of Lawrences Berkeley and Livermore empire during the postwar bonanza, which enriched the university and secured the Rad Lab’s position as the preeminent center of high-energy physics in the nation, perhaps the world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Among those won over was a twenty-four-year-old physics grad student named Richard Feynman. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z String theory has further spawned something called "M theory," which incorporates surfaces known as membranes–or simply "branes" to the hipper souls of the world of physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And the most profound problems in physics—the dark core of a black hole and the brilliant flash of the big bang—are struggles to defeat zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z When Max Planck was turning the physics world on its head, Albert Einstein was scrambling for a job. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This would not have puzzled Duhem, who specifically formulated his thesis to address modern physics; he acknowledged that it did not apply, for example, to nineteenth-century biology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Nor could dispensers of government patronage merely weigh scientific projects against one another: the cost of high-energy physics had become so great that broader priorities were implicated. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “An efficacious method of transportation. Remind me to talk with you some other time about Newton’s laws of physics and how they apply to banister travel.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z We are used to it in the physics of sound. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In astronomy, this process really gets under way with Tycho Brahe; in physics, with Pascal. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He believed the Rad Lab was destined to face inevitable decline as physics progressed and competitive laboratories emerged—many of them built on the model Lawrence had pioneered. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In doing so, she was forced to turn right at every turn, and the simple laws of physics and geometry ensured that eventually she found the exit. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The upshot is that physics had two theories, based on conflicting premises, that produced the same results. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The rules of physics dictated that an element with a half-life of 2.3 days had to be highly unstable. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Mendel had spent two years studying physics, chemistry, geology, botany, and zoology at the university in Vienna. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It would seem that these two theories could live in harmony together, each dictating the rules of physics for different aspects of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Berg spent some time in London studying atomic physics. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Physicist Marc Millis heads NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Project and hopes to overcome this problem with the physics of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He introduced himself as a physics professor who now worked for the government in Washington, D.C. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z These days it is reassuring to know that nature and physics, in their present meanings, have been interconnected in our minds, by a sort of hunch, for all these years. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It also leads many other music traditions to prefer tunings other than equal temperament, particularly tunings in which some of the important intervals are based on the pure, simple-ratio intervals of physics. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z What made their partnership extraordinary was that during this nascent period of nuclear physics, theorists and experimentalists customarily regarded each other with mutual condescension and suspicion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Scotland. There’s a university there. For Dad to teach particle physics.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z There were shelves of paperbacks; there were encyclopedias, histories, novels, philosophies, and textbooks of physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, and others, more than I can name. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Some thirty universities were performing nuclear physics research on navy contracts, which in some cases accounted for 90 percent of their research budgets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In Aristotelian physics different laws apply in the sublunary and supralunary spheres. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Reality and the new science happened, in certain areas of physics, to dovetail quite neatly together. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was a matter of hours—during which the equivalent of something like seventeen fat volumes of mathematical physics were fed into The Brain. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Groves, who thought the latter shortcoming deprived Oppie of the scientific prestige the project leader should possess, plainly was unaware of the scientists towering reputation in the physics community. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Some laws of physics would be reassuring right now. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z M31 has two small satellites, dwarf elliptical galaxies bound to it by gravity, by the identical law of physics that tends to keep me in my chair. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The discovery of the positron in 1932 confirmed Dirac’s theory and led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1933. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Would they be built on different laws of physics? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Later that year came the award ceremony for the Comstock Prize, given every five years by the National Academy of Sciences for outstanding work in physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Cushing introduced John to the systematic discipline required in medical research and, perhaps more crucially, to the idea that the X-rays produced in physics labs could be deployed to treat tumors. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z So this is why he freaked out on the physics field trip. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Ernest’s destiny to begin his career at a moment when physics had hit a brick wall in its understanding of the atomic nucleus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Based on the laws of physics, if our pendulum was placed in a vacuum, it would never stop swinging, back and forth, back and forth. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Meitner responded immediately, agreeing that the news was amazing, but adding: “We have experienced so many surprises in nuclear physics that one cannot say without hesitation about anything: ‘it’s impossible.’ Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z "I'm a physics guy, not a computer guy." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z How do the physics of this light/dark fantasy work themselves out for guys, I wondered. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Finding the work too easy, he transferred to Harvard and loaded up on the toughest math and physics courses available. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “But you use physics in your magic tricks,” I tell him. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Quentin and Sherman and I had discussed it after Miss Riley had begun to teach us a little Newtonian physics. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z This was an extraordinary claim that promised to rewrite fundamental laws of physics, backed up by extensive results from the cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She was a big wheel-president of her class and a physics major and the college hockey champion. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Jessie had shrugged and said, “It’s just physics, no big deal.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Solving this paradox quickly became the leading puzzle in physics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Rabi stitched together the new lab’s sponsoring consortium, known as Associated Universities, from nine large Eastern research institutions that would have been hard pressed to compete individually in the multimillion-dollar world of postwar high-energy physics.* Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Like for our huts, we used engineering and physics. And interior decorating.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The laws of physics had to change to accommodate the Planck formula. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer in particular had evolved; he no longer was the aloof, self-absorbed intellectual who had gone off to Los Alamos anxious to prove himself in the world beyond theoretical physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He thought Lawrence’s endorsement of a policy that deprived his lab of its entire theoretical physics staff disgraceful. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There is a certain engaging irony therefore that when he won the Nobel Prize in 1908, it was in chemistry, not physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I said nothing, unwilling to move or speak lest I offend the strange sorcery of physics that I still believed had saved me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “I am a physicist,” he snapped, “and I have no knowledge to lose in which physics has caused me to know sin.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The problem arose because the ordinary assumptions of statistical mechanics—the laws of physics—did not lead Planck to his formula. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I’d already done a disappointing job on my physics exam, so I would have to get a perfect score on this exam if I was going to take the number one spot back from Malka-e-Noor. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z One of the major endeavors in physics today, and the major theme of this book, is the search for a new theory that will incorporate them both—a quantum theory of gravity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d be able to explain to them everything we know—from the adventures of Alice in Wonderland to the paradoxes of quantum physics—and they could teach us how their people view the world. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z After calculus it was off to honors physics and then honors English and then honors chemistry. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing in physics prevents you from traveling as close to the speed of light as you like; 99.9 percent of the speed of light would be just fine. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately for Einstein, the laws of quantum mechanics work incredibly well, and you can’t successfully explain quantum effects with traditional classical physics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z All we can say is that when it comes to thinking about really hard things like physics, they are both clearly smart enough. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Galileo’s physics was intended to be practical but turned out to be of little practical use in its most obvious field of application. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At a physics department reception on New Year’s Day, he pulled Herb York aside. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As they crossed the line, Bobby Moch, defying the laws of physics and common sense, suddenly stood bolt upright in the stern of his twenty-four-inch-wide shell, triumphantly thrusting one fist into the air. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z As the mathematicians turned their attention from observation to experiment, from astronomy to physics, they found they required a new set of intellectual tools, a new language. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It would be led by Lyman J. Briggs, a career government scientist then directing the National Bureau of Standards, which by default served as the government’s physics laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There are several high-school physics classes here, and our classmates mingle with kids from other schools, but Boy21 and I just hang silently by Mr. Franklin. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The complex workings of living beings can be perceived in terms of these layers: physics enabling chemistry, and chemistry enabling physiology. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Although training to become a priest, the courses Kepler was required to attend in his first two years at Tübingen included mathematics, physics and astronomy, in all of which he was an outstanding pupil. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Lawrence’s results bore important implications for nuclear physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That was the period when divine good humor and the hidden forces of human nature acted with impunity to provoke a state of emergency and upheaval in the laws of physics and logic. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It is here that the mainstream of physics ends and the fringe begins. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In most of physics and chemistry the concepts of “ultimate cause,” “purpose,” and “function” are meaningless, yet they are essential to understanding living systems in general and human activities in particular. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The word came from John Slater, MIT’s physics chairman, who was passing on thirdhand information from a National Research Fellow in his laboratory, who heard it from a friend at Harvard working at Raytheon part-time. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Nowhere does he acknowledge that there was such a thing as ‘natural science’; in the text he considers only natural philosophy and mathematics, not ‘physiology’, ‘physics’, etc. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was a dazzling insight, and it won Bohr the 1922 Nobel Prize in physics, the year after Einstein received his. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Robert dove deep into chemistry and physics in high school, graduated from Harvard University in 1925, then earned advanced degrees at top universities in Britain and Germany. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The errors, then, lie not in the abstractness or concreteness, not in geometry or physics, but in a calculator who does not know how to make a true accounting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Dad told us that zone vras known in physics as the boundary between turbulence and order. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He talked with a friend from down the hall, a fellow physics student who had also been recruited by the mysterious man from Washington. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Along with the Post-Impressionists and, more recently, Op artists, color theorists have tried to set down their understanding of colors as perceptual and artistic laws equivalent to those of optical physics. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The son of a country doctor, Wilkins had studied physics at Cambridge in the 1930s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The neutron and deuterium were both discoveries from that miraculous year of 1932, when nuclear physics gave up some of its greatest secrets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Rutherford had drawn a road map for the future of nuclear physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And years later, it was also to be the starting point for my work in theoretical physics. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Although styled professor of mathematics, his brief included what we would now call physics and was then called natural philosophy. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I could stand my ground in calculus and physics with any straight-A student, and I was very proud of that, because in many ways I was self-educated. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The team approach to physics, Alvarez judged, was “Lawrence’s greatest invention.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On campus, he emerged as the “Pied Piper of theoretical physics,” Serber later remarked. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Early in 1942, a young Soviet physicist named Georgi Flerov sat in the library of a military base in southwestern Russia, flipping through a tall stack of physics journals from the United States. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The scout was Leonard B. Loeb, professor of physics at the University of California. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z English, as the most common language in the country, was used in teaching mathematics, history, geography, physics, biology, religious instruction, woodworking and domestic science. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Alvarez’s experiment, which involved his spending long hours in the LeConte basement counting clicks on his handmade X-ray detector, set a new standard for rigorous physics at the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Seven of Ernest’s students and colleagues there would win Nobel Prizes in physics or chemistry after his death. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This principle of ever-more-exact measurement derives from Tycho Brahe; in tightening up the relationship between evidence and theory in physics, Galileo was extrapolating from the practices of the astronomers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Before this new language, clocks could be used to understand the heavens but not terrestrial physics or biology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Well,” Noah replied thoughtfully, “math is easy, and the only thing easier than chemistry is biology or maybe physics. Social studies—easy. And English— well, you get the picture.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Even though I understand the physics of it, I find it strange that my body could be moving though I am sitting still. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “The position of Heisenberg in German physics is essentially unique,” Oppenheimer said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But as much as it felt like third-period physics would never end, it did, and then I was in the cafeteria with Ben. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z What was a plane but a bundle of physics? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I not only learned about physics at Fort Hare, but another precise physical science: ballroom dancing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But on returning to England, Wilkins—following the trend among many physicists—had edged away from physics toward biology. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Every year or two the relative positions of the planets and the physics of Kepler and Newton permit the launch of a spacecraft to Mars or Venus with a minimum expenditure of energy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “No! Isaac Newton! The father of modern physics!” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z The university was then almost as much of a physics backwater as Berkeley had been when Lawrence first set foot on its campus, especially in comparison to its Cambridge neighbor, MIT. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z After spending a few days studying atomic bomb physics, Hall went to work with a team led by the Italian-born physicist Bruno Rossi. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Abandoning his own initial error, he promptly apprehended the underlying physics and, more impressively, envisioned the extended implications like a chess master thinking dozens of moves ahead. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Here was a community of scholars, exploring physics, literature, medicine, astronomy, geography, philosophy, mathematics, biology and engineering. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oppie was extremely good at seeing the physics and doing the calculation on the back of the envelope and getting all the main factors,” recalled his colleague Robert Serber. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Fuchs escaped to England, where he earned his PhD in physics. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, they had encountered the same wave-particle duality of light that was confounding their elders in physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Stuart needs “space” and “time,” as if this were physics and not a human relationship. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I prefer the phrase ‘the mathematization of the world’ rather than ‘of nature’ because ‘nature’ seems to me to imply that biology is involved, rather than just physics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The theory predicted that light reaching the Earth from distant stars would be bent by the gravitational field of the sun to a much greater degree than was predicted by classical Newtonian physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Conant figured that recruiting Lawrence would eliminate with one stroke the two universities’ disparity in experimental physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z "Straight A's in Flushing's gifted program? You'll do just fine here, young lady. I'll enroll you in Advanced Placement for math, English, French, and physics." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Indeed, many would say this is the prime goal of physics today. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The cyclotron principle was not exactly unknown to physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Michelson was awarded a Nobel Prize in physics for the work–the first American so honored–but not for twenty years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “It was terribly cold—below zero,” remembered Leona Woods, a twenty- three-year-old physics grad student. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Altogether, the abstract was, in the words of Caltech astrophysicist Kip S. Thorne, "one of the most prescient documents in the history of physics and astronomy." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The Journal Club proved to be an ideal way to keep the lab abreast of the latest advances in physics, but over time the agenda reflected the lab’s own expanding prominence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The clock was designed by Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens - who incidentally had published essays on the physics of music - and built by clockmaker Salomon Coster. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Distant galaxies revolving about one another follow the same laws of gravitational physics as govern the motion of an apple falling to Earth, or Voyager on its way to the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They had taken away her physics books and the piles of dusty spiral pads full of lecture notes that had ringed her room, and she was confined to grounds again. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He had a lot to learn about physics, but we were already landing. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They spent hours questioning Pearl Young, who had left the agency in the late 1940s for a job teaching physics at Penn State. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Modern physics is a struggle of two titans. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As Lawrence had pointed out to Alvarez, outstanding results in nuclear physics were now emerging steadily from the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Even “physics,” save us, is a kind of “nature,” by its nature, and is, simultaneously, another kind of kind. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “A physics book, I suppose,” he said stiffly. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “The problem,” the counselor told me afterward, “is that most of the applicants have many more advanced courses in math, physics, and science than Eric does. What would we tell them?” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As mathematicians were uncovering the connection between zero and infinity, physicists began to encounter zeros in the natural world; zero crossed over from mathematics to physics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Bassi held a chair in physics, and naturally taught the physics of Newton. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When he saw the report card, Walt made an appointment with the physics teacher to see what the problem was. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, he had lost all desire to stay in physics and decided instead to try biology. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z James Chadwick’s discovery of the neutron in early 1932 posed questions about atomic structure and behavior that could not be fully processed without an understanding of chemistry in addition to physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer went to Harvard and then on to Cambridge University to pursue a doctorate in physics. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z His mouth talks, but his eyes never stop hunting, looking for some hidden law of physics that could explain the missing head and hands that ought to be sticking out of my black turtleneck shirt. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z With that step, Ernest Lawrence became more than just another physics professor with a clutch of graduate students in his charge. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Dad waited a while, still convinced that under the laws of physics she must ultimately rise. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The story of these fundamental features of our universe is called physics. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Ernest’s genius, Seaborg perceived, was to draw into his orbit like-minded scientists in every field, not just physics, and imbue them with his own drive to build and perfect his magnificent invention. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the longer term it would lay the foundation for the whole of modern physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z His projects conduct electricity, engage motion with toothed wheels, react in concert with universal laws of physics. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Some think that the laws of nature are then randomly reshuffled, that the kind of physics and chemistry that orders this universe represent only one of an infinite range of possible natural laws. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When neither herb teas nor physics cured him she was helpless. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z This is why Boyle’s contribution to the vacuum debate was entitled New Experiments Physico-mechanical: mechanics is now being used to explain physics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Dad was an expert in math and physics and electricity. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “We talked about physics,” Oppenheimer recalled, recognizing that Ernest’s intellectual interests were narrower than his own and that he might not be especially receptive to wide-ranging symposia on Eastern philosophy and Western art. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He was equally enthralled by Lawrence’s innovative Journal Club, that weekly free-form exchange of scientific data and news for graduate students, physics faculty, and the occasional visiting eminences that Oppie called Lawrence’s “other great invention.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He was doing lab experiments by the third grade and studying physics and chemistry by the fifth grade. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He was an unmarried professor of physics at Yale. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Einstein’s arguments were closer to physics than those of Poincare, who regarded this problem as mathematical. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Your dad’s name is on the physics building, right?’” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The Michelson-Morley outcome became, in the words of William H. Cropper, "probably the most famous negative result in the history of physics." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “But if the physics-—the quantum physics— suggests that God exists, I’m more than willing to entertain the notion.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Once again, Thomas looked in awe at the massive moving wall—it defied any sense of physics. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z In 1946, wrote Philip Morrison, “for every dollar the University of California spends on physics at Berkeley, the Army spends seven.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “And what are you going to do later on, Lizzie? Are you going in for physics too?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was all velocity and dream physics—no more need to stand or lean or fly, but only fall. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “We think it’s some kind of elementary particle. Something quite different from anything discovered so far. But the particles are very hard to detect...Where do you go to school? Do you study physics?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The common force in their lives was physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z With a background in math and physics, she brought to the job an understanding of the physical phenomena behind the calculations she worked on. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z This says that the laws of physics conspire to prevent macroscopic bodies from carrying information into the past. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There Oppenheimer delivered an impressively detailed explication of atomic bomb physics, along with his own rough estimate that 100 kilograms of U-235—that is, 220 pounds—would be enough for a practical device. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Ernest’s determination to keep on Groves’s good side showed in his muted response to an incident that outraged the physics community and inflamed public opinion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She had been doing physics homework when the knock came at her door. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The pinch of the Depression forced many research philanthropies to reduce their grants for basic science in physics and chemistry, but money still flowed abundantly for projects in biology and medicine. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was a practical and effective school of medicine, which Hippocrates insisted had to be based on the contemporary equivalent of physics and chemistry.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But Chadwick knew the moment had arrived when only the high energies produced by the cyclotron would serve physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Four hours later: I'm in the middle of the line of people rushing out of the physics classroom fifth period when I see Tiny walking past the window. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z “But I have a feeling she’s going to be really engrossed in her physics homework for a while.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z After another ludicrously brief interval it was joined by electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces–the stuff of physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z We in high school could wear olive drab and campaign hats and learn the manual of arms from the physics teacher, but, Jesus Christ! East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In spite of his fame as a medical man, Gilbert made his mark on science in physics, through his thorough investigation of the nature of magnetism. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z But they’d seek his help for physics and even software coding, a tribute to a rare depth and breadth of scientific capability. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Its designers had miscalculated the physics of the fusion reaction and drastically underestimated its yield, with the result that an expected five-megaton device exploded with triple that energy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He had come out from Pennsylvania three years earlier to study at McKendree College, where an uncle was professor of natural philosophy, a subject that later generations would call physics. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The bond between Ernest Lawrence and Robert Oppenheimer would influence the development of nuclear physics itself, allied strategy in World War II, and civilian and military nuclear policy through the postwar years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But the complexity of nuclear physics was rapidly outstripping the capabilities of the laboratory apparatus of small science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She shoved her physics book onto the counter and opened it up. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z During a period of unexampled intellectual ferment in physics, there were few topics on which Oppenheimer failed to publish a letter or paper. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He had earned a master’s degree in applied sciences, and he taught physics and chemistry during the weekdays at the all-black George Washington Carver High School in North Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Sounds like what we call physics, your experimental theology. You want scientists, not theologians.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z People’s image of science is unfortunately often based on physics and a few other fields with similar methodologies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He had not escaped into biology only to find it personally as Objectionable as physics, with its atomic consequences. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z A major factor in his leaving physics and developing an interest in biology had been the reading in 1946 of What Is Life? by the noted theoretical physicist Erwin Schrodinger. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “I’m speaking very loudly, and you’re only three feet away. The elementary physics of sound waves assures me that you are receiving my auditory signals.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z And in two years’ time I am going to take A-level physics and get an A grade. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Remember the feeling that the great public gardens, the long lunches, might all be undone by a physics, cousin to our rules and the reckoning of our own country, that we do not fully comprehend. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It took me doing her physics homework for weeks to make it up to her. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z It was a Saturday, and they should have been hanging out, but Claire had to watch her little brother and Maya was up to her neck in physics homework. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I took the physics book back to my dormitory. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Her younger brother, Rana, studies for a physics exam on the bed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z One day we may discover that some of our most cherished forms of knowledge are as obsolete as epicycles, phlogiston, caloric, the electromagnetic aether and, indeed, Newtonian physics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Medical students were advised to stay away from mathematics and physics and chemistry, and take mostly biology,” John recalled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Like all the scientists involved in the discovery, Oppenheimer was fired up by new ideas in physics, deeper glimpses into the weird inner world of atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There is only chance in this world, chance and physics. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Convinced that rowing instruction needed to be more scientific, he pored over anatomy books and physics texts. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Everything rested upon the brain busters’ mastery of the laws of physics and mathematics. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As Ernest could not fail to recognize, much of the physics community was lined up behind Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A girl who has to stay up late studying for her physics test. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The old guard’s natural radiation sources, the thimblefuls of radium and clumps of radium-beryllium they used to make the discoveries that transformed physics—nuclear disintegration, the neutron, and artificial radioactivity—had had their day. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z After all, they didn’t know any biology, and so it was best to take their remarks as politeness, even condescension, toward someone opposed to the competitive pace of postwar physics. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The young Einstein rebelled against the notion of privileged frames of reference in physics as much as he did in politics. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He rubs his eyes and sighs like when he’s trying to break down a physics formula for somebody he tutors. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z After a few seconds of tense, gut-feel physics, he felt the force on the tether abate. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z One other discovery by a European laboratory would help to establish the cyclotron as a must-have apparatus for physics research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Ernest recognized that the rapidly rising stature of the Rad Lab in worldwide physics was based partially on its generosity to other universities seeking advice, manpower, and radioactive products. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Its initial radioactive products were suited best for physics research, but that was only a start. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He took the news to a physics conference in Washington, D.C., where it leaped from one physicist to another. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Such was the case with McMillan, who was offered a physics instructorship that summer, allowing him to turn down a competing offer from Princeton. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He passed her envelopes containing reports on everything British scientists knew about atomic bomb physics, and she radioed the material to Moscow. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I got up and walked to Latin, and then to physics, and then finally it was fourth period, and I found Ben in the cafeteria and said, “I really need a nap or something.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The only other year like it in the history of physics was Einstein’s “Miracle Year” of 1905. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Music history and the physics of sound are included to the extent that they shed light on music theory. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Irina Rakobolskaya, who grew up in the “generation not from this universe,” was twenty years old and in her third year as a physics student at Moscow University when the Great Patriotic War broke out. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Matters in physics have now reached such a pitch that, as Paul Davies noted in Nature, it is "almost impossible for the non-scientist to discriminate between the legitimately weird and the outright crackpot." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The enormous stone wall to the right of them seemed to defy every known law of physics as it slid along the ground, throwing sparks and dust as it moved, rock against rock. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Tad wanted to meet him alone in a physics teacher’s classroom? Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Eager to jump into what was now the hottest line of research in nuclear physics, Brady checked out a lump of lithium from the Chemistry Department storeroom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It screws up the laws of physics for her to occupy the same room as the first wife. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Only once did he receive a grade lower than B: an F, in high school physics. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Conant had been pondering for some time how to move Harvard into the forefront of experimental and theoretical physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It says that even if space-time is warped so that it would be possible to travel into the past, what happens in space-time must be a consistent solution of the laws of physics. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Brilliant and abrasive, Jenkin had diverse interests in linguistics, electronics, mechanics, arithmetic, physics, chemistry, and economics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Gerald Black had taken his degree in etheric physics the year before and, in common with his entire generation of physicists, found himself engaged in the problem of the Drive. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z This idea conflicted with the accepted physics of light, because it meant that light was not a wave. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Their approaches to physics were divergent: Lawrence was an experimentalist nonpareil, Teller a profoundly intuitive theorist. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Dad used to teach me physics with crayons on paper tablecloths while we waited for our pancakes. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Germany had dominated science in the early twentieth century: it had been the crucible of atomic physics, quantum mechanics, nuclear chemistry, physiology, and biochemistry. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Because the weapon salve involved action over a distance, it defied a fundamental principle of Aristotelian physics, that action requires contact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In fact, Bush acknowledged privately that most atomic physics went “over my head.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Then he read physics at University College, London, and had commenced work on an advanced degree when the war broke out. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z One of the laws of physics had to be wrong. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If astrophysics developed, the existence of stars could eventually be deduced from the principles of physics, but they would be theoretical constructs only. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There are certain laws of physics by which all crew coaches live and die. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z That confidence paid dividends when the board turned its attention to Robert Serber, who had been Oppenheimer’s right-hand man in theoretical physics at Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Any undergraduate could see that nuclear physics using artificial beams of high-energy protons and helium ions was such a field, and ... he should stake out a territory there to work and grow in.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It had the multimillion-dollar sports complex, physics lab, arts center, and global studies buildings to prove it, not to mention the two-hundred-year-old red brick mansions and halls housing all the other classrooms and offices. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z "All science is either physics or stamp collecting," he once said, in a line that has been used many times since. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The government’s enormous role in research, especially in nuclear physics, made many scientists uneasy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Dad’s weird because he’s afraid we’re going to be cripplingly and emotionally damaged,” Maya replied, her pen between her teeth as she flipped back and forth between her physics textbook and her lab book. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He was working in his room at Princeton University when in burst a young physics teacher named Bob Wilson. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Avid inventors tend to swamp physics departments and science magazines with blueprints for incredible machines—machines that eternally generate power without any source of energy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He, too, was awarded with a Nobel Prize in physics, in 1935. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “She’s always helping me with my physics homework. I never know what I’m doing,” I say, and smile at Lorena, trying to ease the tension. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Albert Einstein, a twenty-six-year-old patent clerk, showed the physics world that nature worked in quanta rather than in smooth increments. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Their publication of new discoveries had been halted during the war, but they had not stopped thinking—or absorbing the knowledge gained from work on the physics of the bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Let me explain the physics of having your balls stepped on. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z His published discourses on the physics of music and on the proper use of dissonance - deliberately clashing discords of various kinds - influenced many, if not all, Italian composers of the seventeenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He enjoyed the work: it was challenging enough to engage his mind, but not so challenging as to distract him from his physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was there that Michelson learned his physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z To understand all of the discussion below, you must be comfortable with both the musical concept of interval and the physics concept of frequency. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The harmonic series is not just a useful idea constructed by music theory; it is often found in "real life," in the real-world physics of musical sounds. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Either way, Galileo’s and Baliani’s claims struck at the very heart of Aristotelian physics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Perhaps he had be come frustrated watching his boyhood chum collect accolades and public acclaim for his marvelous engineering while complacently performing atrocious physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That same plunging, hopeless feeling, that emotional physics. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “In college, your grandmother was a physics major who dreamed of one day working on spaceships.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Rutherford’s discoveries launched a surge of ingenuity in physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In nuclear physics, it’s the time it takes for unstable atoms to lose energy by emitting radiation. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z She looks for a passion and finds it in the study of physics. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z It was thought that a similar equation would govern the proton, which was the only other particle known at the time, and that would be the end of theoretical physics. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z To claim that there existed a substance with no measurable attributes was, he maintained, to turn physics into a fantastical story, like Don Quixote. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There is a curious inverse relationship in modern physics between the tininess of the thing being sought and the scale of facilities required to do the searching. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “I ain’t that small! Plenty boys my age are smaller’n me. Besides, a thing don’t have to be difficult if you give it some thought and apply a little elementary physics.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Of the other possible candidates, Compton could not be spared from Chicago, and Harold Urey, a chemist, was not qualified to manage a physics lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z So the physics of music is the physics of the kinds of sounds these instruments can make. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z They learned biology, African history, math, physics and a foreign language. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Sasha was the brilliant one, the one who blazed through calculus, linguistics, physics, and computer programming with a kind of effortlessness. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It was the chill of knowing they had used something they loved—the study of physics—to build the deadliest weapon in human history. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z From such elementary questions, Einstein produced a fundamental rethinking of the world, a revolution in physics. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He interrupted physics lectures with his own theories, sometimes charging to the chalkboard, grabbing the chalk and declaring, “This can be done much better in the following manner.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t have a cell phone, I’d never texted. He might as well have been talking about nuclear physics.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “I told you, Susan, when I spoke to the other Nestors here that the two new arrivals hadn’t learned etheric physics yet.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z In poverty, as in certain propositions in physics, starting conditions are everything. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In his early teenage years, while working as a farmhand, he started to read widely in the area of theoretical physics. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z What I knew of physics I had learned in the junkyard, where the physical world often seemed unstable, capricious. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Kepler replaced orbs with orbits because his ambition was to replace geometry with physics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z To Szilard’s friend Enrico Fermi, the possibility of an explosive reaction was so remote that Szilard’s concerns seemed driven by paranoia, not physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Aristotelian view of physics, as wrong as it was, was so influential that for more than a millennium it eclipsed all opposing views, including more realistic ones. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In order to give particles any mass at all we have to introduce the notional Higgs boson; whether it actually exists is a matter for twenty-first-century physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But it was the presence of scientists from outside physics that marked the real departure from custom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Living physiology should be explicable in terms of physics, biophysicists argued—forces, motions, actions, motors, engines, levers, pulleys, clasps. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Staggering from the examination room, Livingston sought out Lawrence to warn that he almost certainly would be refused his doctorate, due to his failure to demonstrate a grasp of basic nuclear physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Pascal’s Puy-de-Dôme experiment seems pretty straightforward to us, but that is because we are used to modern physics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Einstein stated that if a number of people watch the same phenomenon—say, the flight of a raven toward a tree, the laws of physics are the same for each observer. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Zero is so powerful because it unhinges the laws of physics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Einstein was honored, somewhat vaguely, "for services to theoretical physics." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He pointed out that nothing in our understanding of physics could account for why everything, gathered to a point, would suddenly and dramatically begin to expand. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He picked the University of California, in Berkeley, where he quickly built the country’s best theoretical physics program. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If you studied physics at Harvard, then you know how to talk to an army general who did engineering just down the road at MIT. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z In physics class that day, I tried not to stare at Miss Riley, but I couldn’t help it, and she caught me at it more than once. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Thomas Hobbes, writing in 1655, thought that there was no astronomy worth the name before Copernicus, no physics before Galileo, no physiology before William Harvey. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Still, I grab my headphones, my physics textbook, and some comics. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z In Vermillion, Lewis Akeley taught a broad-minded curriculum of chemistry, physics, Latin, and physiology. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In 1903 the Curies and Becquerel were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Any physics nut will tell you that there's never nothing. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The quest for such a theory is known as “the unification of physics.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But now the physics world expected him to make good on his boast. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Wilkins had followed in Rutherford’s wake, studying atomic physics and radiation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z His understanding of the details of the sport—the physics of water, wood, and wind; the biomechanics of muscle and bone—was unmatched. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “A thing doesn’t have to be difficult if you give it some thought and apply a little elementary physics.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Where Aristotelian physics had depended on all five of the senses, the new physics relied only on the sense of sight. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the driver’s seat was a very thin young physics professor named Robert Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Doubtless Master Artemis would have understood the physics of this machine; all Butler cared about was whether or not he could disable it. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Biology is more like history than it is like physics. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Science would never progress until the world discarded Aristotle’s physics—along with Aristotle’s rejection of Zeno’s infinities. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Just because Lena was nice in physics class doesn’t mean she should be freighted with this, or would know what to do. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Scientists fished for trout in nearby streams, or climbed mountains and discussed physics while watching the sunrise. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Through it all, he continued to read deeply in philosophy, mathematics, and physics as he worked on a sprawling treatise he calls the “CTMU”—the “Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The test is incredibly difficult; answering the multiple-choice questions requires knowledge of chemistry, physics, advanced algebra and geometry, and testing lasts for two days. Motherlode Blog: Was Your Child Born to Take Tests, or Born to Panic? 2013-02-06T18:21:36Z So I did what my father advised – learned Afrikaans along with my physics. Maye Musk: ‘We used to live in a rent-controlled apartment in Toronto with Elon on the couch’ 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z In “Death’s End” spaceships encounter mysterious artifacts when they pass through a region of fourth-dimensional space, and we meet a killer super-civilization, which wages war by altering the laws of physics. China's most popular science fiction writer, Cixin Liu, brings his spectacular trilogy to an end 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z “It’s researching the basics of the physics of sight and sound and movement,” she said in an interview at the Chocolate Factory in Long Island City, Queens. From the Prairie to the City, Dancing to Invoke the Dawn 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Author of textbooks on physics, chemistry, geology and, most popular, botany, Phelps also wrote moralistic novels, which she read to her students in the evenings. How a garden once lost to history is being brought back into bloom 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Picasso and Braque revolutionised art at the same moment that Einstein transformed physics. Leonard Lauder's $1bn gift to Met gives new lease of life to cubism 2013-04-10T15:08:08Z Nobel decided the physics, chemistry and medicine should be awarded in Stockholm, and the peace prize in Oslo. 2 Nobel literature prizes to be awarded after 2018 scandal 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z This year we thought, no, we're going to find the most difficult piece of physics possible and discuss it for an hour. 'My bus smells of wee!' Celebrities on their Glastonbury 2013 experience 2013-06-30T15:42:59Z The dominant Kantian approach was born during the era of Newtonian physics, which was displaced in 1905 by Einstein’s theory of relativity. How Wittgenstein and Other Thinkers Dealt With a Decade of Crisis 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z The best of it brings together threads not just from the physics or chemistry, but from the arts, politics, philosophy and beyond. Why Hollywood doesn't get sci-fi 2010-10-15T11:49:00Z Dr. Day studied the physics of biological structures. Donna Pennestri, Chris Day 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z “It is at this point like a law of physics: For every Trump action, there is an equal and opposite Trump clip.” Trevor Noah Has a Hard Time With Confederate Memorial Day 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z A lot of this micro-level particle physics is difficult to associate with the ordinary world we live in. Listen up, Marco Rubio!: Science lessons for the tea party 2012-11-25T19:00:00Z Nonetheless, SF contains many who believe the laws of physics make their ideology true. War of the worlds: who owns the political soul of science fiction? 2013-04-08T09:00:01Z As the plot swings between slightly overbearing teen angst and extrapolations into quantum physics — itself an extended metaphor for the angst-inducing, open-ended possibilities of adolescence — the art in-jokes feel like a concession to adult aesthetes. When Spider-Man Met Jeff Koons 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Charmingly enough, he also took the opportunity to give his starships an entire imagined system of physics in which faster-than-light travel was possible. Iain Banks: 'A star whose light will travel a long way' 2013-06-10T16:56:34Z It is certainly a very interesting time in physics and science at the moment. Brian Cox digested: A summary of Thursday's live Q&A session 2011-03-25T17:58:00Z At one point in “Warrior” we see Brendan Conlon, a high school science teacher, laying down the law — the law of physics that is — for his students. | 'Warrior': ?Warrior,? Directed by Gavin O?Connor - Review 2011-09-08T16:26:17Z “Green card. Gold digger. Your Ba, so stupid, only knows his physics!” From ‘Homewrecker’ to Caretaker 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z I and a large group of others with no more than a college education in math, physics, finance, engineering or statistics certainly understand these terms. Markov Chains, Sinclair Lewis and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z As the authors stress, at magic shows we never seriously believe that the performer is actually violating the laws of physics and nature. Review | How do they do that? ‘The Secret History of Magic’ is a study of deception as art 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z So quantum physics — quite unlike any other realm of science — has acquired its own metaphysics, a shadow discipline tagging along like the tail of a comet. What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Of course, TV, unlike nuclear physics, is not a science. 'Manhattan' traces a culture of secrecy, nuclear anxiety 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z So in addition to the chemistry and physics there is logistics. When Cooking, Invest Time. Or Work. Not Both. 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z He added, without breaking stride, that there was some evidence that lightning produced neutrons, but it hadn’t been proven; it was an open question in physics. The “rage to master”: What it takes for those scary-smart kids to succeed 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z Unusually for this scientifically literate group, Miller conducted postgraduate research, though never finished his PhD in quantum physics. Ignorance by Stuart Firestein; It's Not Rocket Science by Ben Miller – review 2012-07-19T10:00:04Z Momentum: Defined within a physics context, it is measured as a product of mass and velocity, used to quantify a body’s motion. A Forgotten Town at the Center of the Manhattan Project 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z He spent a semester at Oxford University, where he focused on particle physics and space phenomena like black holes. Film: Cyberspace Gamble 2010-12-04T23:03:00Z The nine artists who contributed to “Shadowlands” are informed by physics, yet not bound by its laws. Review | In the galleries: Glenn Ligon exhibition draws on Baldwin, Stein and Warhol 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z A full ideological reading of SF would interrogate the "hospitality to otherness" model with the same rigour as "the laws of physics validate my political beliefs" model. War of the worlds: who owns the political soul of science fiction? 2013-04-08T09:00:01Z Charen, in fact, grew up in New Jersey, the daughter of a psychologist and a physics and chemistry professor who were moderate Democrats. Pundit Mona Charen blew up CPAC. Even she was stunned by the vitriol that ensued. 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z If physics tells us a wave and a particle can be the same irreconcilable phenomenon, she represents the same thing in a pianist. Martha Argerich mesmerizes the L.A. Phil 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z But the dancers had their own agendas, testing their bodies in experiments of strength, flexibility and physics. The Place to Challenge Ballet’s Gender Stereotypes? In Daily Class 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z "The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder," said Alfred Hitchcock, a man with a keen understanding of both cinema physics and the excretory system. Time and motion pictures: from Boyhood to old age, Everyday 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Having finally disrupted the curse, though, she returned earlier this month to once again defy psycho killers and quantum physics. The cosmic joke's on her: The antiheroine's journey through a cursed universe 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Earlier dates are arguable, but on 16 January 1961 Thorold Dickinson gave his inaugural lecture in the physics theatre at University College London, accompanied by a programme evoking the dawn of cinema. Slade film school: the department that was nearly a movement 2011-01-28T17:10:06Z His interest steadily grew through high school and college, where he studied engineering and physics, and graduated with a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1986. Art by the Numbers 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z For some reason an old physics lesson of Brother Brophy's came back to me now. Extract: Jude in London by Julian Gough 2011-08-25T11:18:47Z Ballet can turn music into physics; the connection of time and space becomes full of mysterious significance. Critic?s Notebook: At City Ballet This Winter, You Could Sometimes See the Music 2011-02-28T23:15:07Z So I booked a flight and started brushing up on my physics. Colliders, Sundials and Wonder: When Science Is Your Destination 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Williams started as a physics major at Reed before graduating with a degree in philosophy and serving for in the U.S. Don’t fence me in: Phil Williams, who co-founded Folklife and fought to keep it free, dies at 80 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z And he wasn't trying to knock me down, he just knew a lot about everything, theoretical physics, whatever, but he could never get it across. Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice – it's within my grasp' 2013-03-23T22:24:20Z I do not break or bend the laws of physics – except for some minor violations that are not immediately obvious to people. "I don't want to be L. Ron Hubbard": Andy Weir on writing escapism & new book "Project Hail Mary" 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z The engines whine, the tires squeal, and the laws of physics are flouted with an impunity that would make Chuck Jones proud. ‘F9’ Review: Objects in Rearview Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z She is variously said to be studying physics, or painting, or gerontology. ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ Review: Where to Begin? 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z The laws of social physics no longer apply. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Mother of the bride gets an unveiled threat from her daughter 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z He wanted to write a balanced account of the physics community’s quest to prove string theory — and thus to resolve the messy, imperfect Standard Model of subatomic particles into one elegant theory of everything. Michio Kaku Says the Universe Is Simpler Than We Think 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z The inherent uncertainty embodied in quantum mechanics permits these spontaneous fluctuations—as long as the particles don’t live for more than a fleeting instant, the process violates no laws of physics. Could Higgs Boson spell the end of the universe? 2013-03-26T17:06:00Z There was Ron Drever, an “impossible” Scot who, as a university student in Glasgow, ran a series of ambitious physics experiments in his mother’s garden. Review: ‘Black Hole Blues’ Recounts the Quest to Find the Cosmic Kazoo 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z In a long career, 50 years and counting, Mr. Stoppard, 81, has written plays, radio plays and screenplays that have discoursed on everything from Dadaism to analytic philosophy to particle physics to early Pink Floyd. Tom Stoppard, Always Tackling ‘The Hard Problem’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z I am convinced that women do not understand the physics, dynamics or technologies related to automobile operations. Perspective | Ask Amy: Area man prefers Barbies to biddies 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z "The Expanse" cast's performances are powered with the same level of devotion to profundity that the producers give to getting the details of physics and space travel right. "The Expanse" shows the dangers of treating extremism as a joke 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z This ethnographic orientation, distilled in the concept of cultural relativism, was a radical departure, as unique in its way as was Einstein's theory of relativity in the field of physics. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review 2013-01-09T10:22:31Z Considered against other biographies in its weight class — those mega-books to which the word “definitive” adheres as if by laws of physics — Brands’s account is peculiarly unambitious, overfull of pat and timeworn observations. Book Review Podcast: 'Reagan: The Life' 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Cézanne got there first, then the abstract painters pushed still further: Kandinsky and Miró point towards the profound realities of quantum physics as these gradually emerged after the first world war. Want to imagine what the Higgs boson might look like? Embrace modern art 2011-07-27T15:31:36Z Instead, he said, Hawking, who is best known for his work explaining the physics of black holes, has been surrounded by former students and built collaborative relationships with colleagues. Stephen Hawking honored at NYC science, arts gala 2010-06-03T01:15:00Z Genevieve Antoine, who graduated from Tuskegee University with a double major in chemistry and physics, attended the Yale program and is now doing research on historic photographs at the institute. Preserving the Past for Museum Visitors of the Future 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z But then "Ginny & Georgia" operates in its own universe, one where the rules of physics don't seem to apply. "Ginny & Georgia" has a tone problem, undermining its emotional impact 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z The Nobel season of the world's most coveted awards, each worth $1.1 million, opens on Monday with the medicine or physiology prize followed by physics, chemistry, peace and economics. Change looms for Nobel Peace Prize as chairman risks coup 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Shortly thereafter, Reed declared himself "a triumph of modern medicine, physics and chemistry". Lou Reed receives hospital treatment 2013-07-02T10:21:32Z Mr. Vouillamoz, an engineer in nuclear physics and a microfluids specialist, wanted to create a new application of that ancient concept by replicating a clepsydra in a wristwatch. When Liquids and Mechanics Work Together 2013-04-24T15:32:10Z Harman worked as a sportswriter while pursuing his degree in philosophy, and any baseball fan knows that limiting your study of “reality” to the operations of physics misses nearly the whole story. HP Lovecraft, pulp philosopher 2013-04-11T20:22:00Z The charm of this movie, a relatively restrained exploration of the laws of physics from a director, Tony Scott, whose approach to action sometimes tends toward the baroque, is its simplicity. Film: In Line at the Movies, Hoping for Good Enough 2010-11-20T19:14:00Z It was a nervy ballet of both physics and customer service. Goodbye to Gate 35X, cursed portal to the rest of America 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z “It is chemistry and physics and biology all wrapped into one,” he told the Los Angeles Times. Homaro Cantu, Chicago chef who blended food and science, dies at 38 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z What might first seem like a practiced callousness is actually a music of incredible sensitivity, with all four members of the group collectively attuned to the physics that define our reality. Review | Eyehategod’s high-gravity metal can connect you to the heavens 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Well, the appeal is family . . . in addition to the base level onscreen antics that includes plenty of scantily clad women, biceps for days and feats defying the laws of physics and narrative. Tracing the evolution of "The Fast and the Furious" franchise, movie by movie 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z Life, according to Crick, was an epiphenomenon of physics and chemistry — complex, yes, but still explicable in molecular terms. What Does It Mean to Be a Living Thing? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z There was a 490-page report on alleged UFO sightings, and a series of studies on experimental physics. UFOs are suddenly a serious news story. You can thank the guy from Blink-182 for that. 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z This time, the strand of unreality is in the plot, in the physics of the world, with the existence of these doors. This Week in Fiction: Mohsin Hamid on the Migrants in All of Us 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z “Cold” begins to discuss the physics of entropy, but it barely restates the general principle, meanders a bit, then stops before it discovers anything unfamiliar. Knausgaard’s Seasonal Book Series Continues With a Wintry Mix 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Stragglers crush in tight, as if the instrument were some magnetic field or centrifugal force or — never mind, I’m hopeless with physics. The Tipsy Diaries: Getting a Kick From Piano Bars 2010-09-30T21:00:00Z In Ms. Santoro’s new piece, “Relative Collider,” she creates intriguing effects with small, precise gestures, working on “the physics of attention, the collision of watching,” according to a description on the Chocolate Factory’s website. Dance Listings for May 16-22 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z “I did a year of particle physics and that was appallingly hard. I struggled because I don’t see the world in terms of mathematics.” Surgeon, ultrarunner, thriller writer… meet the man who lives life to the full 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z It co-opted everything, from terrestrial microbiology and the origins of life, to interstellar chemistry, planetary physics, and even a smattering of cosmology. Sputnik’s spawn: How the Cold War created astrobiology 2014-03-09T17:30:00Z Pixar’s characters often want to increase productivity or solve problems; the films often feel like industrious American projects combining gumption and physics. Pixar's Scientific Method 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z When scientists search for meaning in quantum physics, they may be straying into a no-man’s-land between philosophy and religion. What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z You’ve said you loved physics and mathematics and wanted to become an engineer before turning to art. Malika Favre’s “Spring to Mind” 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Saturday offers ’‘Science on Site,” from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Brooklyn Bridge Park, where children can join researchers on a botanical safari, explore marine life and investigate the physics of the Brooklyn Bridge. Spare Times — For Children for June 1 — 7 2012-05-31T21:26:54Z Weir infuses the book with enough science, math and physics to infuse the story with awful plausibility. ‘The Martian’: stranded on Mars, botanist battles to survive 2014-03-12T19:03:18Z The intertwined works explore arcane scientific and metaphysical fields of study that McCarthy had long been obsessed with: quantum physics, the philosophy of mathematics and theories about the nature of consciousness. A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Books 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Cartoons are generally rubbery, gag-driven diversions not beholden to laws of physics or logic. "BoJack Horseman": Life's hilarity and pain, illustrated 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z But when she meets a physics teacher in Tokyo, their shared fascination with light helps draw Fuyuko out, helping her confront her past — and her desire to change her life. 18 New Works of Fiction to Read This Spring 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z We also discover that Van Doesburg, fascinated by physics and mathematics, experimented with the fourth dimension. Mondrian and De Stijl at the Pompidou Centre, Paris ? review 2011-01-11T14:00:19Z But unlike Jobs, Musk has an understanding of physics and thermodynamics that has helped him know what boundaries could be successfully pushed. What Makes Elon Musk Different 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z His father retired as a physics teacher at Sandusky High School. Mila Versteeg, Kevin Cope 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z They learn the physics of footwork, a dance style popular in Chicago, and the engineering that goes into hip-hop production. At a hip-hop chess tournament, fun wins with a checkmate 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z She spoke of her interest in physics while backing which looks for 12 new artists in Wales to support over the next year. Church to study for physics degree 2014-03-12T14:40:46Z Here, Ben Miller, who studied quantum physics at Cambridge, attempts to tackle a question that is simple at first glance, but rather more complicated when you think about it: what is one degree of temperature? Tonight's TV highlights: Horizon: What Is One Degree? 2011-01-10T00:04:00Z At NASA, various brainiacs take hammers and tongs to physics at both the Johnson Space Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where supernerds take on the logistics of a rescue mission. Review: In ‘The Martian,’ Marooned but Not Alone 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z “Things happen for artistic reasons, not for physics reasons.” Why James Cameron keeps getting that sinking feeling 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Here she focuses on a shy proofreader who is coaxed out of her solitude by a physics teacher — andconfronts unsettling episodes from her past. 14 New Books Coming in May 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z A running debate in the book is the question of whether patterns in nature are defined by physics and chemistry or are they whimsical, frozen accidents of evolution? Survival of the Beautiful by David Rothenberg - review 2012-02-10T08:59:00Z He added: "There were moments when I wished I'd brushed up beforehand on my quantum physics. And other moments when I simply wished I'd emptied my bladder." Nolan's Interstellar 'a flawed epic' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Cameras are the ultimate manifestation in social life of what in physics is sometimes called the “observer effect”: There is no such thing as observation that doesn’t impact the things being observed. Review | Illustrating the guilty: James Earl Ray, Jean Harris, Charles Manson 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z "They actually run quite complex physics models," said Wilfred Pinfold, a super computing expert. Software behind 'Big Hero 6' pushes envelope on computer animation 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Is there a “Theory of Everything” that will include all of physics? Circle in a circle 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Math and physics used to be my strong suit. Dolph Lundgren flexes box office muscle 2010-08-17T05:39:00Z I wondered if I should change the title of the story, but then I felt that the title—with the question mark—is directed outward toward the reader, so it has a different physics. David Means on Waiting for the High to Kick in 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Born in Baltimore on 12 April 1947, Clancy studied physics at college but switched to English, saying later that he wasn't clever enough for the challenges of science. Obituary: Tom Clancy 2013-10-02T17:15:27Z By all laws of literary physics, this memoir shouldn’t work at all. It’s the End of Marriage as They Know It and They Feel Fine 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z He studied physics at the University of California before enlisting in the military during the second world war, serving as an aerial photographer for the air force. Joseph Strick obituary 2010-06-17T18:02:00Z "Remember, I'm the physics guy," he told me. After 8 years of marriage, I’m teaching my husband how to cook 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Reality is profoundly ambiguous, modern physics tells us. Off the scale: why Gerhard Richter towers above the artists of today 2010-11-22T14:51:00Z Deep down, the book feels like an attempt by Dr. Alexander to understand how his passions for physics and jazz can coexist so intensely. Review: As Goes Music, So Goes the Universe 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Buried near the core of the trilogy is an idea that would shock the scientists currently pursuing the Higgs boson: that any physics will do. M John Harrison: a life in writing 2012-07-20T21:55:12Z The physics that Kaplan and his colleagues practice is forbiddingly complex, comprehensible to most of the people in the film and to very few outside it. ‘Particle Fever’: Scientific endeavor is no small matter 2014-03-13T20:15:13Z In physics and math, you write a proof to show that the rules don't work. After 8 years of marriage, I’m teaching my husband how to cook 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Sarah Jacobs, a physics teacher at San Jose High School in California, said some of her students made TikToks explaining Newton’s Laws for extra credit last year. High Schools to TikTok: We’re Catching Feelings 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z He writes for two very different types of readers, he said: experts who want a fresh perspective and people who know little to nothing of physics but are curious about its big ideas. Searching for What Connects Us, Carlo Rovelli Explores Beyond Physics 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z That can be verbal, or visual, or physics playing out — something is on the edge of a table that might fall off. Amazon's "Vast of Night" is a Richard Linklater, sci-fi, "All the President's Men" thriller mash-up 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z The action scenes are visceral, and more or less rooted in the laws of physics. ‘The Woman King’ Review: She Slays 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Haacke’s aesthetic was similar to the pedagogical distillation of a good physics or chemistry professor, animating ideas through carefully chosen experiments that clarified their essence. Review | Hans Haacke makes that banana on the wall look ridiculous 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z She double majored in physics and English, then entered Stanford's PhD program studying astrophysics. Lynn Sherr examines the public and private lives of Sally Ride 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z There are also some nice jokes about physics lore: we see the Newton character playfully dropping apples from different heights, a delighted smile on his face. A physicist's view on The Physicists 2012-06-17T18:30:01Z From one point of view, quantum physics is just a set of formalisms, a useful tool kit. What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z While studying physics, he joined the Communist Party's youth wing and rose to become its secretary in the early 1930s, but broke with the party in 1934 over purges by Soviet leader Josef Stalin. Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato dies at 99 2011-04-30T16:58:15Z His poems alluded to advanced physics but he refused to install central heating. RS Thomas, my favourite religious poet 2010-04-29T16:50:00Z She is Maryam, a younger Iraqi refugee, now a physics student at Stanford. Review: In ‘Noura,’ an Iraqi Refugee Leaves More Than Home Behind 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z It’s one thing to say that the book may have about as much to do with discovering the laws of human physics as it does with traditional narrative. Michael Cunningham on Virginia Woolf’s Literary Revolution 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z “Hair is very expensive to animate in games these days,” Yazijian said, explaining that getting the physics to behave properly is time intensive. Scare Me Once? Great Game. Scare Me Twice? Great Remake. 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Such an attitude doesn’t account, though, for the paradoxically lazy energy that Mr. Birbilgia emanates — a seductive force of physics that can be felt only partly when he’s onscreen. Review: Mike Birbiglia Is a Very Nervous Dad in ‘The New One’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z His physics class was tough, and he didn’t suffer fools. 8 Lessons That Can Make You a Better Leader 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Kelley also went to the University of California, Berkeley at the tender age of 15 to study physics. Keep the dream alive: why waking up later is good for us all 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z Kessler’s book doesn’t deliver much beyond showing what you might already guess: Ballet is difficult, especially for an older person; it requires sacrifices and pain; some of its moves ignore “the laws of physics.” Is it ever too late to dance ‘The Nutcracker’? No, says one writer. 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z A funeral buffet, in Mr. Foer’s hands, is a lesson in the quantum physics of solace: “Impossibly dense kugels bent light and time around them.” ‘Here I Am,’ Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tale of a Fracturing Family 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z I wrote earlier this season about how enjoying “The Mandalorian” requires some willingness to ignore the goofy physics of the Grogu puppet, toddling about and flipping through the air. ‘The Mandalorian’ Season Finale Recap: A Sort of Homecoming 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z The plot of this novel is kick-started by quantum physics — namely, the principle of the wave-particle duality of light. New Books From Louisa Hall, Christian Kracht, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Others 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z I looked at it and thought it to be more physics than biography. Letters to the Editor 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z And even if string theory turns out to be a dead end for physics, it has led to a lot of progress in pure mathematics. Q. & A.: Jim Holt on Why the World Exists 2012-07-18T14:09:41Z "Because of the laws of physics. It just takes time for the transmission to get there." "Veep" creator on trading the Oval Office for lawless space in HBO's wacky comedy "Avenue 5" 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Standing on the concrete floor in semidarkness, he played one long, unbroken improvisation that defied the conventional limitations of the instrument, if not the laws of physics. With Peter Evans on Trumpet, Only the Shape Is Familiar 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Or maybe a nuclear scientist, but her physics grades were not strong enough. The British ambassador brings her unique style to Washington 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z According to Lindley, something happened in 20th-century theoretical physics that caused some in the field to “reach back to the ancient justifications for mathematical elegance as a criterion for knowledge, even truth.” Has Physics Lost Its Way? 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z The introduction he dated March 10th, New Orleans; no laws of physics stop the mental traveller from being in two places at once. Whimsy and War: Boris Vian’s Two Minds 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Instead, it’s an exercise in physics, architecture and ingenuity. Spare Times for Children Listings for Jan. 1-7 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z “Glasses on!” the high school physics teacher bellowed over the loudspeaker. My Husband Wore Really Tight Shorts to the Eclipse Party 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Over the next year Sabrina and Lucretia were required to carry out household chores while learning about physics, geography and astronomy, and they were kept entirely ignorant as to Day's real intentions. How to Create the Perfect Wife by Wendy Moore – review 2013-01-04T22:55:08Z Joel teaches Ellie how to siphon gas from parked cars — though when he fumblingly tries to explain the physics behind it, she flashes a wicked smile and says, “You don’t know.” ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: Truck Stop 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z It incorporates sophisticated concepts of physics, language and time, and wrestles with the idea of free will. Love astronaut-themed science fiction? Seattle Times staffers name their favorite books, movies and TV shows of that genre. 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z In 1937, after a series of dead-end jobs, Vance entered the University of California in Berkeley, where he read physics, journalism and English. Jack Vance dies aged 96: master of bold and bizarre science fiction 2013-05-29T23:13:06Z Einstein was deemed a failure before he proved them wrong and changed physics spectacularly, and more than once. Gifted and Talented and Complicated 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z To bring Pandora to life, the team at Weta had to become expert not only in hydrodynamics, but also in rendering those complex physics photorealistically. How ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Solved the Problem of Computer-Generated H2O 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z The Center for Wooden Boats Science of Sailing Day will feature explanations of the physics of sailing and boat rides, weather permitting, on June 9. Tickle your brain at Seattle Science Festival 2012-05-30T20:57:10Z She played opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in a Broadway production of “Constellations,” about two lovers caused by the laws of physics to meet over and over again. Ruth Wilson Is a Riddle, and You Like Her That Way 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z His material is more overtly satirical here, as he turns an unforgiving eye on coalition politics, the debate between religion and evolution and the particle physics work of Cern. Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind ? review 2010-11-21T00:06:00Z We sense physics — the movement of matter through space and time — as drama. City Ballet to Present ‘La Sylphide,’ a Romantic Ballet Standard 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Coates, a former member of New York City Ballet who now directs the dance studies curriculum at Yale University, proposes the idea that dance and physics are equal partners. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Through a friend, she met a religiously traditional Egyptian man who loved art and taught physics; when they got engaged, two months later, they had not yet kissed. The Writer Behind a Muslim Marvel Superhero on Her Faith in Comics 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z It was therefore inevitable, I suppose, that something divisive would enter our lives, because marriage—like physics, literature, and carpentry—is almost always synonymous with complexity. I love my dog as much as my child 2012-11-10T17:00:00Z "Atomic physics," he once said, "was the worst thing that happened in the 20th century." Gustav Metzger: 'Destroy, and you create' 2012-11-26T20:00:08Z Playing with a conceit borrowed from theoretical physics — the hotly contested “multiverse” hypothesis — “Spider-Verse” proposes a multiplicity of web-slingers from different dimensions, all of whom converge thanks to disruption in the space-time continuum. ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ Review: A Fresh Take on a Venerable Hero 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Somerstein, who was the managing editor and the picture editor of his college newspaper, went on to a career in physics. Historical Society Exhibition to Commemorate Selma-to-Montgomery March 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z For a second year, the coronavirus has scuttled the traditional formal banquet in Stockholm attended by winners of the prizes in chemistry, physics, medicine, literature and economics. Nobel Prizes awarded in pandemic-curtailed local ceremonies 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Her real name is Madame Géquil, and she teaches physics, or tries to, at a technical school in an unnamed Parisian suburb. Review: Zapped by Lightning, a French Teacher Becomes ‘Mrs. Hyde’ 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z The announcement ranked as the physics discovery of the year, confirming Einstein’s century-old theory of gravity and putting the Ligo team on course for a Nobel. 2016's best bits: breakthroughs in science 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Her trajectory might appear baffling, but it aligns with the mind-bending physics of the Trump era, in which ideology is second to notoriety, allowing peripheral performers proximity to the presidency. Kimberly Guilfoyle was once half of a liberal power couple. Now she’s basically a Trump. 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Books about the God wars are easier to argue about than those that parse the finer points of quantum physics. Books of The Times: Many Kinds of Universes, and None Require God 2010-09-07T17:30:00Z With neither artistic nor scientific training, he likened the process of making his constructions to “discovering physics.” Mon Levinson, 88, Op Art Sculptor, Dies 2014-04-03T05:00:01Z The commissions are not light on intellectual input, however, with Nitin Sawhney researching calculus and quantum physics for his Entanglement, the "shot" based on a pregnancy test. Classics to share Royal Opera House stage with experimental works 2010-05-02T14:29:00Z This is music based on a mathematically sophisticated way of looking at harmony though the physics of sound and with the help of computer calculations. Weekend concerts across L.A. provide solace in a world gone wrong amid Paris attacks 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Stop worrying about the physics of basketball, for example, and let your body float — and all of a sudden you're making consecutive three-pointers. Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa album shows rappers in the zone 2011-12-26T20:46:03Z “At once ardent and analytical, cerebral and swooning, ‘Carol’ is a study in human magnetism, in the physics and optics of eros,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Monday 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z With side-on 2D courses that defy both conventional architecture and the laws of physics, Super Stickman Golf is a beautifully made game of risk and reward. iPod, iPhone & iPad games round-up 2011-07-29T23:10:46Z "I suspect that win, lose or draw, this will be how I'm remembered, unless I win the Nobel prize for physics, which is not likely because I'm not a physicist." Fair Game: Free agents 2011-03-06T22:30:01Z There were subtle gender-stereotyping pressures against physics when I was young. 'Think about the bigger picture': life lessons from Meryl Streep and other successful women 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z "All of a sudden he'll know everything about, like, quantum physics, and you had no idea he was even studying it," she says. Elisabeth Moss: 'How I found my inner tough guy' 2013-07-02T17:12:01Z Having watched several accidents already--including a rear-ender involving my 9-year-old son and a kid driving a bright yellow sled with "Taxi" written on the side--I grasped the physics of the situation. Don't Try This At Home 2010-03-11T21:00:00Z Maybe Tim was distracted with news of the breakthrough research in subatomic physics that happened yesterday, and he was anxious to get back to the lab and work on his dissertation. Usher as 'American Idol' mentor: The definition of cool ? and helpful too 2010-03-31T21:01:00Z But upon graduating, I found that, unlike other science majors, there are few jobs earmarked for people with just a bachelor’s degree in physics. The gig economy goes to class 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z But I feel certain Stone would also see Putin’s restatement of Newtonian physics in a larger political and historical context, and understood that way it helps make sense of this entire project. Oliver Stone’s Putin puzzle: An evil genius who made history, or a shrewd, small-minded nonentity? 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z At one level, you’re a collection of atoms obeying the laws of physics. ‘Westworld’ and ‘Devs’ Asked Big Questions. A Physicist Responds. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Majoring in physics, he received his bachelor’s degree from New York University and had several jobs in the Navy during World War II before entering Princeton, where his professors included the noted musicologist Oliver Strunk. Joseph Kerman, Colorful Critic of Musicology, Dies at 89 2014-03-25T04:23:17Z Brookmyre also shares the older writer's delight in creating strange worlds with strange physics – and using those rules to wreak havoc in his characters' lives. Bedlam by Christopher Brookmyre – review 2013-02-14T09:01:01Z After turning to academia and continuing to publish professional physics papers, Ride founded Sally Ride Science, a program targeted toward young girls. Lynn Sherr examines the public and private lives of Sally Ride 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z These lighthearted stories offer a taste of the curiosities of modern physics. David Kaiser's top 10 books about quantum theory 2012-09-26T12:02:55Z All in all, Schwartz’s biography adds importantly to the literature of the utterly remarkable men and women who opened up nuclear physics to the world. A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Its operator wears a vest attached to the camera rig; through the principles of Newtonian physics, it effectively renders the camera itself weightless and controllable by fingertips. The Invention That Shot Rocky Up Those Steps 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Max froze in admiration of such galloping physics. How to See the World When You’re Stuck at Home 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z For mind-bending paradoxes, it’s hard to beat quantum physics, the subject of the final selection, “Touchdown,” a solo by the Taiwanese mathematician-turned-choreographer Hao Cheng. Review: Reveling in Live Dance at Japan Society 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z But rather than the quarks and gluons of conventional physics, Mr. Hannah sought the dark matter of the heart, the half-life of memory. Books of The Times: Southern Writer With a Soft Spot for Wild Men Metes Out High-Octane Bonbons 2010-12-28T20:32:04Z When Andy Weir was writing his new novel, “Project Hail Mary,” he stumbled into a thorny physics problem. Andy Weir’s New Space Odyssey 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z He knits together the vocabularies of science and art, memory and prediction, literature and math, physics and emotion. Ted Chiang’s Soulful Science Fiction 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Two years ago he became professor of particle physics at Manchester, aged only 41. Brian Cox: Physics is better than rock'n'roll 2011-03-24T08:01:00Z A G dominant chord wants to go to C. That principle is physics. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z This is not a philosophical statement; this is just science based in physics, chemistry and biology … To keep operating at our current level, we need 50 percent more Earth than we’ve got.” From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z It's also a hard school, with many hours of not only laboratory, but also chemistry, physics and history of art. British art restorer uncovers a lost Giotto masterpiece 2010-10-23T23:07:00Z Every October, committees in Sweden and Norway name Nobel laureates for their contributions in fields including physics, literature and peace work. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Inspired by the popular science books of George Gamow and Sir James Jeans, Weinberg was drawn to study theoretical physics. Steven Weinberg: 'I wanted to be on the in – privy to all the secrets of physics' 2013-03-03T00:05:05Z Smirking at its own putative cleverness, “The Big Bang” carries film noir parody into previously unexplored territory — particle physics — to address, if not to solve, the mystery to end all mysteries. | 'The Big Bang': A Taste for Psychedelics and the God Particle 2011-05-12T23:22:16Z It’s a powerful concept but requires a delicate physics that staging a story in three dimensions tends to defy. Review: In ‘The Butcher Boy,’ an Anti-Coming of Age Story 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z But the "600-pound gorilla" of high-energy physics will power down after a run of more than two decades. Fermilab poised to hit the off switch 2011-09-30T14:41:00Z The pianist's mission is to create the illusion of one note connecting to the next, artistic magic convincing us that we can hear what physics says we can't. The natural elements prove a breeze for Vicki Ray's Piano Spheres recital at REDCAT 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Coming to it fresh, it's a neat story about aforementioned missing cat and time travel, with a smattering of quantum physics and the fundamental connectedness of things. TV review: The House That Made Me; Dirk Gently 2010-12-16T22:00:02Z He’s a member of his school speech and debate team and is working hard to get good grades so he can “get a scholarship to a good college” and study physics. Mormon Boy Scout gives ultimatum on gays 2013-02-21T15:07:00Z Walter Murch: the film and sound editor says he has had a lifelong interest in particle physics. Walter Murch: searching for the sound of the God particle 2013-06-20T16:00:02Z Like DC’s Batman, they are prone to grievous injury and they are at least somewhat familiar with the laws of physics. ‘Marvel’s Daredevil’: A blind hero with a clearer vision for comic-book TV 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z If much of your life was characterized by a desire to find permanence and meaning in math and physics, you describe in this book a moment of realization that everything, including math, is impermanent. In this global crisis, there’s one consolation: the beauty of the universe 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Marx thought a single theory would someday cover everything from the laws of physics to the laws of human progress: “There will be one science.” The Groundbreaking Scientist Who Risked All in Pursuit of His Beliefs 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z The Nobel Prize announcements begin Monday with the award in medicine, followed by physics on Tuesday and chemistry on Wednesday. Nobel literature award to be announced Thursday 2012-10-08T10:46:03Z There wasn't much time to wonder about the physics that kept the craft in flight, because it was drifting straight toward Burch Mountain. 11 strange stories from the national UFO reporting center 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z He majored in physics at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Va., and minored in math and computer science. Randall Munroe Explains It All for Us 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Bim Adewunmi Nearly 80 years after her death, Marie Curie remains the only person to have won Nobel prizes in two sciences: chemistry and physics. TV highlights – 03/05/2013 2013-05-03T06:00:05Z At once ardent and analytical, cerebral and swooning, “Carol” is a study in human magnetism, in the physics and optics of eros. Review: ‘Carol’ Explores the Sweet Science of Magnetism 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Once we marvelled at the giant leaps computer animation was making: the fur in Monsters Inc, the food textures in Ratatouille, the balloon physics in Up. Frozen II: how Disney left other animation studios out in the cold 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z As the story goes, my father arrived in America with a wristwatch, a scholarship to study physics, and an enthusiasm for classical music. Our Favorite Dylan Lyrics 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Dr. Alexander valiantly if laboriously takes us through the full history of physics, from Pythagoras to Einstein. Review: As Goes Music, So Goes the Universe 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The laws of physics don’t seem to apply. Music Review: New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-04-18T21:42:45Z What contemporary physics tells us about how a universe like ours might arise from almost nothing just fascinates me. Q. & A.: Jim Holt on Why the World Exists 2012-07-18T14:09:41Z But Senegal faces a tall order in facing the rejuvenated Colombian team led by James Rodriguez, who recorded a long-distance assist last game that seemed to defy physics. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ and ‘CMT Crossroads’ 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z He is regarded today in physics as the father of neutrino astronomy – a new branch of science. Frank Close: What I'm thinking about ... Higgs Boson and nuclear spies 2012-08-18T09:36:59Z The Higgs discovery is the jewel in the crown of particle physics and a worthy testament to nature's astonishing beauty. The beauty of the Higgs boson 2012-08-04T23:05:33Z The Fast and Furious franchise breaks the laws of physics and laughs in the face of logic, but there is one rule that holds firm: anything is possible inside a fast car. How the Fast and Furious franchise used cars to symbolize the American dream 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Technology hasn't just made astronomy, biology and physics more efficient. Digital keys for unlocking the humanities' riches 2010-11-18T02:01:00Z Jarry’s play was developed from sketches assembled by a conspiracy of his fellow students at a French lycée, devoted to the portrayal of their pompous physics teacher as a bizarre zoological specimen. Review: ‘Ubu Roi,’ Mom and Dad’s Party of Grown-Up Grotesques 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Twenty-five years ago, my father was a professor of theoretical physics, charismatic, with an agile mind. From ‘Homewrecker’ to Caretaker 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z The physics are solid, the player can control a character across all games and there is a challenging career mode. ArtsBeat: Bowling, Golfing and Shooting With the Sony Move 2010-10-15T22:50:00Z Most of the action takes place in a parallel world called Limbo where the laws of physics don't necessarily apply. Review: 'Devil May Cry' an infernal thrill ride 2013-01-17T12:56:12Z After high school, Baumgartner attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, majoring in physics. U-Md. professor hooks students on this particle accelerator — by building one 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z His lyrics often describe events that defy physics and echo the cosmic musings of ’60s psychedelic rock, which leads people “to label Vile a spaced-out stoner,” as Pitchfork wrote. Kurt Vile, Indie Rock’s Charming Riddle 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z His jokes are logic puzzles, full of reversed laws of physics and clever nonsense. Comedy gold: A Steven Wright Special 2013-03-14T15:49:19Z Mr. Bourgeois is an acrobat and dramatist of physics. The Acrobatic Artwork That Pretty Much Sums Up 2017 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z While the physics of that seem impossible, it seemed to interfere with Jones’ performance, which resulted in somewhat lower scores for the Super Bowl champ. Dancing with the Stars Watch: Our Star’s in Jeopardy 2013-05-08T15:36:06Z Jake Sterling is in the middle of teaching a physics class when his students’ cellphones begin to ring. Very, Very Bad Things, Very, Very Tiny Packages 2011-03-13T22:52:19Z Meanwhile, Grace Carrow, a physics student at Oxford, is trying to obtain a fellowship from her college to avoid getting married, as her parents would prefer. 'Watchmaker of Filigree Street' is a magical tale of Victorian London 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Artists like James Turrell force us to perceive the world in abstract terms that are not a world away from modern physics. Want to imagine what the Higgs boson might look like? Embrace modern art 2011-07-27T15:31:36Z In other words, for all of the jokes about particle physics and obscure Star Trek references, the show is more familiar than your facecloth - something its newly-wealthy star readily admits. More buck for your Big Bang Theory 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z The series adopts the American dream not only in message but in form, delivering a blockbuster ruled by dream logic more than trivial things such as physics. How the Fast and Furious franchise used cars to symbolize the American dream 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z At once “ardent and analytical, cerebral and swooning, ‘Carol’ is a study in human magnetism, in the physics and optics of eros,” he wrote. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Extinction — The Facts’ and ‘Hysterical’ 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z And an interest in science is not unknown in the music industry with Professor Brian Cox swapping life in the band D:Ream to further pursue his love of physics. Church to study for physics degree 2014-03-12T14:40:46Z It was one of his many early science experiments, inspired by an article in Popular Mechanics about Isaac Newton’s contributions to modern physics involving a bucket of water and a rope. The Artist Who Throws Newton a Curve 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z My library at home being woefully deficient in volumes on theoretical physics, I turned to the work of another British playwright, Michael Frayn, for guidance. Love, trickery and the drama of uncertainty: It's 'Heisenberg' at the Taper 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z And yes, a character does shrink so small as to be plunged into the Quantum Realm, named after and based on scientific reality, where the laws of classical physics break down. The Science (and the Scientists) Behind ‘Ant-Man’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z "Remember physics? I was so stoned," Hickey joked in recalling his dalliance with the subject as a youth. Emmy contenders: 'Manhattan's' John Benjamin Hickey is no physicist 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z One person found a way to experiment with physics. Twitter users get creative during self-isolation amid coronavirus outbreak 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Apparently, the physics teacher was holding a review session for the upcoming AP exam. Pseudonym: On vision loss and hiding in plain sight from my high school classmates 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z Scientists may know more about the behavior and characteristics of U.F.O.s and are closer to understanding the physics of how the technology operates, according to A.A.T.I.P. documents and interviews. ‘Project Blue Book’ Is Based on a True U.F.O. Story. Here It Is. 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z In spite of a comically hellish childhood, Frank Grimes managed to obtain a degree in nuclear physics. From ER to The Sopranos: what were the most shocking TV deaths? 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z "These movies kind of defy physics and logic to some degree," he acknowledged. 'Furious 7's' 'insane' car drop from on high adds fuel to action fire 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z He writes in praise of “the physics of the form”: efficiency, velocity, specificity and, above all, escalation. George Saunders Conducts a Cheery Class on Fiction’s Possibilities 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z The spectacular action sequences were difficult to stage, but they had a sense of actual weight and physics that had been lost in a decade and a half of CGI spectacle. ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: The Oral History of a Modern Action Classic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z He received a doctoral degree in theoretical particle physics from Northwestern. Molly Sammon, Jeffrey Berryman 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z The language of physics, for example, relies heavily on mathematics, which is rarely mastered by biologists. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z So it is natural that a great deal of modern physics concerns nothing—or rather the precise nature of the nothing that permeates the cosmos. The uncanny physics of empty space 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z On the pretext of performing usability testing for Sparkle Dungeon 5, she is taught “power morphemes” — ways to condense layers of meaning into abstract sounds that can bend real-world physics, shattering glass and folding space-time. A Gamer Learns to Weaponize Sounds in This Genre-Bender 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Today, with digital tools, crews of hundreds of visual effects artists can conjure any monster, devastate any cityscape and defy any law of physics. Forty years later, revisiting the original summer blockbuster: 'Jaws' 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z After studying at the Bronx High School of Science, Moog attended Queens College before graduating in electrical engineering at Columbia University and earning a doctorate in engineering physics at Cornell. Robert Moog's 78th birthday celebrated in Google doodle 2012-05-23T00:47:59Z He deconstructs Shakespeare, throws in references to philosophy and quantum physics, raps against religious hypocrisy and undercuts himself and his audience's expectations at every turn. Edinburgh fringe comedy roundup 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Dr. Bender, 33, is a postdoctoral researcher in physics at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Utrecht University, where his research focuses on spintronics, the study of electron spin. Rachel Mehlsak, Scott Bender 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z An early showing of the piece, in 2015, included a winning demonstration of how George Balanchine, who defined a high-speed American style of ballet, finessed the physics of the pirouette. Emily Coates’s ‘Incarnations’: Quantum Leaps, When Physics Meets Dance 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Once chapter one of the universal textbook is written, it might seem the end of interesting physics, but Weinberg draws a parallel from geography. Steven Weinberg: 'I wanted to be on the in – privy to all the secrets of physics' 2013-03-03T00:05:05Z Four years after the show’s debut … he still knows almost nothing about physics. ArtsBeat Blog: Emmys Watch: Johnny Galecki of 'The Big Bang Theory' 2011-09-15T17:15:07Z Superman comics don't have much to tell us about the physics of flight. Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova – review 2013-01-04T15:19:54Z His superb “Constellations,” a reconfiguration of the classic boy-meets-girl story according to the principles of advanced physics, reopens in the West End in November. Theater Review: Jake Gyllenhaal in ‘If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet’ 2012-09-21T02:00:00Z Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian Popularisers of modern physics face a problem that is possibly insuperable. Time Reborn by Lee Smolin – review 2013-06-06T06:30:01Z Bhattacharya, a science journalist who also holds a Ph.D. in physics, doesn’t probe too deeply into these apparent contradictions. ‘The Man From the Future’ Recounts the Life of a Restless Genius 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z He was disappointed with his 3.1 grade-point average first semester and thinks that this semester — physics, chemistry, calculus 3 — will be even tougher. This Life: An accident cost Luis Jovel Jr. his independence — and his friends. Now he has both again. 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Examples include Einstein's equation of general relativity, Dirac's equation for the electron and the Lagrangian at the heart of the standard model of particle physics. The beauty of the Higgs boson 2012-08-04T23:05:33Z No. I’m saying, for example, when the physics community comes out now, like they do every few decades, and say we’re close to a theory of everything. Dr. Eben Alexander’s so-called after-life 2012-11-26T16:00:00Z Tuesdays, they have physics, engineering, piano and soccer. Worried about racism’s impact on her biracial son, a mother looks at home schooling 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Before that he'd studied physics, worked in factories, played bass in touring bands, and was contemplating becoming a maths teacher. The man behind Butt-head: Mike Judge 2010-04-23T23:13:00Z Quantum physics presents particular limits on human knowledge, as it suggests that there is a basic randomness or uncertainty in the universe. Circle in a circle 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z According to the laws of physics and the principles of philosophy, time travel is impossible. The Inspiration Issue: What ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Terminator’ Owe to ‘La Jetée’ 2012-09-26T15:52:19Z His mother was a nurse; his father a physics professor who relocated from Texas A&M University to the University of Western Ontario, Canada, when Geoff was 8. Geoff Nuttall, First Among Equals in Acclaimed Quartet, Dies at 56 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z His high point so far: sitting on the pedalo listing all the words in the realm of physics that begin with the letter P, while a horrified Cameron struggled to retain consciousness beside him. Charlie Brooker's 10 years of watching Big Brother 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z They are now among the most cited papers in particle physics. The Dark Energy of a Theoretical Physicist 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z For those of you who bombed physics: A cyclotron is a particle-accelerating instrument that uses high-frequency electricity and a magnet to create and focus a stream of protons to probe the nucleus of an atom. U-Md. professor hooks students on this particle accelerator — by building one 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The two linked novels McCarthy delivered were heavy on esoteric mathematics, physics and intelligence theory. A Successful Editor Turns Debut Author, Surprising Nearly Everyone 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z Holt offers a series of previously published essays and sketches of scientific thinkers that answer these questions and other mysteries from the world of physics and math. New & Noteworthy 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z A pair of Yalies fall in love until one of them — physics prodigy Sophie — is forced to cope with the unexpected. Review | The best books to beat this year’s special brand of Valentine’s Day blues 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z I was very good in math and physics and successfully passed entry exams to a highly selective and renowned engineering school in Paris. I believe in full equality, but I’ve spent too long watching women play the victim 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z There's a crackle between them – of chemistry, physics probably, biology certainly. Burton and Taylor; Take on the Twisters – TV review 2013-07-22T21:30:00Z His Indy is so impossibly outmatched that when Roach backhands his right cheek, a dazed Ford pirouettes toward the blow and out of frame, defying the laws of physics. Four Secrets About ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z She studied math and physics in college, then earned another degree in computer science, eventually studied film at Columbia University and also shot commercials and shorts before tackling “Dukhtar.” Avoiding Sectarian Violence to Tell a Story That Refused to Go Away 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Alone with my books and my thoughts, I write about physics. The Night Girl Finds a Day Boy 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z And like most sports, farce requires from its players hair-trigger timing and an intuitive grasp of the physics of bodies in motion. Review: Great Pretenders Pocket Laughs in ‘The Nap’ 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z He got a scholarship to Caltech and he went there and studied physics but he never got his doctorate. ‘The Passenger’ 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Faced with the primal question that animates this book — why is there something rather than nothing? — many serious people turn to math too, or to physics, philosophy or God. Books of The Times: ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-02T18:37:46Z Maybe it’s because Erik Jendresen’s screenplay is so enraptured with its own in jokes about quantum physics that everything has to be announced. | 'The Big Bang': A Taste for Psychedelics and the God Particle 2011-05-12T23:22:16Z Arthur: In physics we talk about “unstable equilibrium.” Perspective | The physics of ‘On Top of Spaghetti’ has bedeviled him for years. So he asked experts. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Ryan, who held a bachelor’s degree in physics and a master’s in atmospheric science, had previously worked as a cloud physicist. Willard Scott, TV’s Clown Prince of Sun and Showers, Is Dead at 87 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z “Everyone is part plumber, part diplomat, part graphic designer, part physics genius, part bureaucracy wrangler.” ‘Futures’ comes alive in the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z As an undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he studied physics and spent a lot of time surfing. Matthew Crawford and How to Survive Brain-Eating Distractions 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z For instance, you may try to play a new piece of music every day, read a physics textbook, write a few more pages in your novel, or learn a new computer skill. 25 Habits That Will Make You Smarter 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z A bunch of books about the greatest figures in physics. Why Michael Eric Dyson Would Demote ‘Heart of Darkness’ From the Canon 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z “Particle and Wave,” written by Cash alone and backed by Leventhal, measures a lifetime against the laws of physics, immutable on a scale far larger than mere human existence. Rosanne Cash Takes the Long View on ‘She Remembers Everything’ 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z He seems just as happy talking about quantum physics and ancient Mesopotamian gods as he is riffing on “The Karate Kid.” Now Damien Echols Will Teach You the Secrets of Magick 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Performance and rehearsal footage reveals an architect’s eye for symmetry, and an oeuvre — including one number derived from a medieval torture device — dedicated to overcoming limitations of physics and physiology. ‘Born to Fly’ Traces Elizabeth Streb’s Avant-Garde Journey 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z It’s about the tension that results when you pit will against physics. Cirque du Soleil's 'Toruk — the First Flight' misses what's great about Cirque or 'Avatar' 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Co-producer and director of photography was Burton de Wilde, who holds a physics doctorate from Stony Brook University in the United States. CERN students make "scientist fiction" zombie film 2012-12-12T19:21:20Z There’s a guy who gets into the physics of swimming — that helped me a lot. It’s Never Too Late to Learn How to Swim 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z At Shaw University, a historically black college in Raleigh, N.C., he studied physics, but protons didn’t capture his attention quite like Tom Ford did. The Man Behind the New Front Row 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z After qualifying for the Asian Physics Olympiad — an international physics competition — she received a full scholarship to attend the prestigious California Institute of Technology. A Pakistani-American Tale Upends Expectations Onscreen and in Life 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z He was trying to do a quick thing for a very particular context – a physics lab. Jaron Lanier: the digital pioneer who became a web rebel –interview 2013-03-17T00:05:39Z The two were going to school — Knight majoring in physics, Mills in design—and in their free time working on solo electronic projects. After bringing down the house at Bumbershoot, ODESZA to drop new album, go on tour 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z He added, “This is not Newtonian physics. It’s not like every action has an equal and opposite reaction. This is an emotional and sometimes unquantifiable thing.” Hall of Fame Decides Who Rocks, Officially 2014-04-09T21:44:44Z Giordano, 27, wrote the book while pursuing a doctorate in physics. Italian swaps physics for writing and wins plaudits 2010-03-24T19:11:00Z That decision – cheating mass to achieve the desired velocity – set the pattern for the bendy new laws of physics that were about to unfurl. Jurassic Park 3D: revisiting the film that put machismo on the extinction list 2013-04-01T15:07:59Z Dr. Schowalter, 31, is a data scientist at VideoAmp, an advertising technology company in Santa Monica, Calif. He graduated from Harvard and received a doctoral degree in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Emily Lowe, Steven Schowalter Jr. 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z A lot of glass and metal comes flying at your head, and you feel surrounded, plunged into a universe governed by new and strange laws of physics. | ?Transformers: Dark of the Moon': They?re at It Again, and Chicago Takes the Hit 2011-06-28T15:11:24Z As a study in collective improvising, or maybe poetry or physics, it’s worth hearing again. Music Review: Sometimes Even the Lulls Are Full of Action 2011-06-26T16:18:17Z “Psychology is very often stronger than physics,” Carbon wrote, by e-mail. Do Walls Change How We Think? 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Awash in cash, Dubai is a “land of signs to nowhere,” a place divorced from the rules of ordinary life, even from the laws of physics. In Joseph O’Neill’s ‘The Dog,’ a depressed lawyer in Dubai won’t stop talking Ferdaus had a physics degree from Northeastern University and enjoyed "taking stuff apart" and "learning on my own," according to court papers. Could model airplanes become a weapon? 2011-09-30T00:07:00Z "The whole thing depends on subtle factors of quark-quark interactions," we are told at one point, and those without a strong interest in theoretical physics will find some of the science baffling. Back to the Hugos: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov 2011-01-06T15:34:14Z Anyone could imagine the better, cleaner, more coherent 90-min. film at the core of Horns: the one about the physics of apparent demonic possession. Review: Horns: Harry Potter Goes Just a Little Voldemort 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z And then, when I was immersed in my last book, about Isaac Newton, I started to feel that I was already writing about information more than, say, physics. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z The physics and the very concept of black holes are daunting for nonscientists to understand, but Levin clearly explains the crucial role they play in galactic formation. New & Noteworthy, From Astrophysics to Reading Nabokov 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z It sort of bothered me how casually he bounced through high-energy particle physics, DNA, evolution and the human genome, but only because I find it hard to do the same. Ignorance by Stuart Firestein; It's Not Rocket Science by Ben Miller – review 2012-07-19T10:00:04Z He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1938 and a master’s degree in physics in 1940. Cyril Harris Dies at 93; Fine-Tuned Concert Halls 2011-01-09T02:20:26Z Luminaries from the fields of physics, opera, poetry, theater, music and dance gathered to pay tribute to British physicist Stephen Hawking on Wednesday, with performances and speeches at a gala in his honor. Stephen Hawking honored at NYC science, arts gala 2010-06-03T01:15:00Z Moreover, the game is presenting these puzzles in virtual three-dimensional environments that tap into our intuitive understanding of physics. Video Game Review: Physics, With Wormholes by You 2011-05-10T16:13:25Z Within them may be the longest-sought link in physics, that between gravity and quantum mechanics. Black and light 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z James immediately ditches physics for fun, moving into Mark's crumbling mansion for a life of parties, culture and booze paid for by his new friend's trust fund. The Lessons by Naomi Alderman | Book review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z House Divided: When I had toddlers, I tried to let natural consequences do their correcting for me — because it made physics or the weather or too much candy the bad guy, not me. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How to respond when people imply your son got burned by affirmative action? 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Unlike many of her classmates, most of whom specialize in physics and engineering, Meir is a biologist. Journey to Mars: Meet NASA astronaut candidate Jessica Meir 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Blackett, who went on to win the Nobel prize for physics, clearly didn't eat the apple, nor did Oppenheimer face criminal charges. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z The rules of movies were as deeply ingrained in me as the laws of physics or the pledge of allegiance, and they went something like this: The best relationships aren’t easy. Modern Love: Casting Call: Bit Player, Male 2011-03-10T22:08:55Z So perhaps a Nobel in physics or some such as well? ‘Nathan for You,’ on Comedy Central, Mixes Absurdity and Economics 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z It was like peering into an alternative world of everyday physics, staring backward into a geologically embryonic time. On Top of Mount Etna, a Lesson in Lava (and Luck) 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Later in life, I discovered I do love science, and I do love physics. Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain on ‘Interstellar’ 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z It pursued many of the questions now studied by hard sciences like physics and neuroscience, yet today is wildly misunderstood by the general public. Their Family Business? The Other Dimension. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Two gifted originals in divergent pursuits — music and physics — come together in this Ford’s Theatre production, based on the true story of the friendship between contralto Marian Anderson and scientist Albert Einstein. Perspective | After a devastating lull, theater is coming back big 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z And in scenes like “Physica Coelestis,” in which Kepler works alongside an ensemble of vocalists to craft a “celestial physics,” Mr. Glass makes a vision of scientifically informed spirituality seem within humanity’s grasp. The Best of Philip Glass’s (Many) Operas After ‘Akhnaten’ 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z It would take a more heavily illustrated book to weigh the pros and cons of Buck’s most daring moves, like using quantum physics as the theme for an entire issue of Vogue. Review: In Joan Juliet Buck’s Memoir, a Parade of Stars and Styles 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Maliphant’s “Critical Mass,” a male duet, was created in 1998, and it’s a manifesto for his interest in the physics of movement. Dance Review: Lyon Opera Ballet Offers a Premiere by Rachid Ouramdane 2014-02-26T22:22:22Z This was followed by Room Temperature, in which Baker muses about the quirks of physics while feeding a bottle of evaporated milk to his infant daughter. Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z But when you're dealing with physics, theoretical nuclear physics -- it's hard for me to say that! -- it's sort of like if your left leg is hurt, you favor your right leg. Emmy contenders: 'Manhattan's' John Benjamin Hickey is no physicist 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z The extreme pastiche of tradition and modernity, East and West, reflected a new, global reality in which physical location, even the laws of physics and gravity, were irrelevant. The recession and its discontents in films by Cao Fei at the Mistake Room 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Niven was ahead of the fashion: nowadays a lot of fantasy writers are interested in the rules of magic, the physics that governs it and the theory that underlies it, the same way Niven was. Lord of the Ringworld: In Praise of Larry Niven 2012-06-13T13:25:03Z Calvin and Hobbes is a joyously inventive, high-energy celebration of an imagination untroubled by responsibility, consequences or even the laws of physics. The artists' artist: children's authors 2011-07-06T21:30:01Z Carroll's book is a very good – and very accessible – guide to all the theoretical physics, precision engineering, data handling, probability-measuring and other marvels involved in an adventure that in all has cost Europe's taxpayers $9bn. Christmas gifts 2012: the best science books 2012-11-28T13:00:01Z Culinary talent was one of those skills I admired in others, like smalltalk, ballroom dancing, jujitsu and nuclear physics. Kitchen confidential 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z Greene will remind you of the brainiest kid in your physics class but one who also happens to be an excellent tutor. A Scientist Puts Things in Perspective 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z How does all this connect with particle physics? | 'The Big Bang': A Taste for Psychedelics and the God Particle 2011-05-12T23:22:16Z This passion requires patience and a certain obsessiveness, as well as a willingness to learn the basics of geometry and physics. ‘Lily Topples the World’ Review: What Goes Up 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z In an earlier book about particle physics, Randall wrote, “The big lesson of physics is what is hidden from our view.” The Dark Energy of a Theoretical Physicist 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, Constellations is more a 70 minute acting sketch than a play with no real characters or plot and with an overlay of physics that may appear to be deep or serious to some people. ‘Constellations,’ With Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson, Opens on Broadway 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z As she writes near the novel’s end, “Each dream contained its own unique physics.” An Ominous Sleeping Sickness Paralyzes a Small California Town in ‘The Dreamers’ 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z She studied physics in college, she said, “because even East Germany wasn’t capable of suspending basic arithmetic and the rules of nature.” ‘The Chancellor’ Portrays Angela Merkel as a Droll Source of Sanity in a Mad World 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z The nuclear physics of breakfast may not sound particularly appetizing, but Orzel is determined to put it on the menu. From Black Holes to Breakfast, Three Books Show How Einstein’s Legacy Lives On 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z In it, a plane fell out of the sky and its survivors landed on a magical island where physics, time and logic went haywire. Jacking it in 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z This book is essential reading for all those who want a glimpse of the state of modern particle physics theory. Tips, links and suggestions: Our review list and what you are reading 2012-07-18T12:25:42Z No matter what the laws of physics decree, there is untold and explosive energy in resistance. Bodies in Pain, Protest and Resistance 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z In a recent interview, Mann explained that he’s fascinated by the electronic architecture and the physics on which the digital world depends, and that he sought to represent it in the movie. The Odd Shadow Over Michael Mann’s “Blackhat” 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z “By sticking to real science and real physics, I have plots presented to me that I would never think of.” Andy Weir’s New Space Odyssey 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z In every other discipline, whether we're talking of mathematics, physics, or the new sciences, people are looking at extended forms. 50 great moments in jazz: Anthony Braxton swims against the tide 2011-04-13T14:57:21Z Having studied art history, physics and film, she had worked in turn as a documentary film producer and a corporate strategist before finding her true vocation. Special Report: Jewelry: Jewelry That Sparkles With Stories and Gems 2011-05-12T13:49:21Z Leaving aside the physics of how such a thing might actually achieve time travel, it may inspire visitors, but again at a cost to losing living space. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z But Mack, a theoretical cosmologist, is interested in how it all ends, since the equations of physics run forward as well as back. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z But in his attempt to explore this question, Holt takes us on an absorbing journey through the physics, philosophy and religion of existence. Why Does the World Exist? One Man's Quest for the Big Answer by Jim Holt – review 2013-07-05T16:32:01Z The largest cyclotron is 59 feet in diameter and run at TRIUMF, Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics. U-Md. professor hooks students on this particle accelerator — by building one 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z To explain that, we must delve into the melon-twisting world of theoretical physics. 'How do wookiees breed?': the big Star Wars questions answered 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z A recent report by the Institute of Physics revealed that in half of UK state schools, A-level physics classes are made up entirely of boys. Women in engineering: the girl gap 2013-06-26T18:30:01Z The laws of physics, like those of logic, don’t apply in Lynchland. Twin Peaks recap: episodes three and four – nobody said it would be easy viewing 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z She describes exactly what gravity is, and isn't, in a way that I would have treasured back when I was struggling through high-school physics. 'Packing for Mars': Mary Roach's take on life in the void 2010-08-11T23:14:00Z Rather, it is about the relationship between abstract reasoning and visual imagination at a time — not long ago — when the most advanced theorizing in math and physics seemed to defy visual representation. Art In Review: ‘THE ISLANDS OF BENOîT MANDELBROT’: ‘Fractals, Chaos and the Materiality of Thinking’ 2012-10-04T21:12:39Z The 83-year-old researcher's work in theoretical physics sought to explain what gives things weight. McCartney, 'God particle' scientist get honors 2012-12-29T01:53:02Z Though Ms. Loh often mocks herself for “limping through” the undergraduate physics program of Caltech and flunking the G.R.E. in dramatic style, she has not abandoned the discipline but rather sought to popularize it. For Sandra Tsing Loh, Change is Good 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z In physics, this principle holds that the act of observing a system alters the state of that system. Why is the third season of "Love Is Blind" so disappointing? Because we seen its type before 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z His publications covered physics, astronomy, acoustics, ballistics and gunnery, cartography, navigation and shipbuilding, optics and the theory of music, as well as number theory and the foundations of calculus. The master of them all 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z They picture a time when people cheat death by uploading their minds into computers, augment or replace themselves with artificial intelligences, or map the uncharted frontiers of physics, biology, and engineering to colonize the stars. What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Evgeny Morozov: 'We are abandoning all the checks and balances' 2013-03-09T19:20:02Z This was altogether appropriate to a work about the limitlessness of physics and the enclosing limitations of human existence. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Big Ideas in Small Spaces 2012-01-31T16:09:34Z He’d gotten that at Ramaz, the Orthodox Jewish prep school in New York, where math and physics were his favorite subjects and the demands of a double curriculum forced him to be hyper-organized. What makes a pastry chef indispensable? 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Art, physics, philosophy, economics, design, literature, fashion, medicine, and architecture were simultaneously rethought during this time, and the cross-pollination turned Vienna into fertile intellectual ground. Inside Vienna's Church of St. Leopold and the Sanatorium Purkersdorf 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Sometimes you want to execute a perfect copy of the thing depicted on the box; sometimes you want to challenge the laws of physics, aesthetics and common sense. Movie Review: ‘The Lego Movie’ Toys With Thinking Outside the Manual 2014-02-06T13:00:01Z The introduction to Mr. Monk’s “Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center” cites at least one of them: physics. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z "I pitched eight plays telling the whole history of physics in the last century. They laughed and said, 'okay, let's select the idea you're most interested in'. And that was J Robert Oppenheimer." Staging Oppenheimer's nuclear story 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z This is believed to be a reference to the physics paradox Schrödinger's Cat, a thought experiment created by physicist Erwin Schrödinger. 'Rick and Morty:' All the Easter Eggs You Missed 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z “I’d just finished my degree in physics when I went on the exchange programme,” he says. How we met: ‘At the start he was too British to argue – I had to teach him’ 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z It is, rather, a play finding through the laws of physics a thrilling way to tell a story of exquisite pain. ‘Colossal’ at Olney Theatre Center aims for the goal post, and succeeds I cried through my free period, skipped my physics class, and was finally given permission to leave school early. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z I enjoyed reading the recent article by Cathy Alter about the University of Maryland professor and his posse of undergrads who are attempting to build a cyclotron in the physics building in College Park, Md. Letters: Magazine readers react to recent stories 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z “It’s like camping. We brought pillows and face masks,” said Brooke Bovee, 27, a physics student, during a food dash to the boulevard with three friends. Inside the 30-hour Marvel marathon: 'Stretchy pants. Cheetos. You got to come prepared' 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z On a windy Southern beach Orville and Wilbur Wright pore over physics statistics to a disjointed melody, their progress confounded by problems of equilibrium. | 'Take Flight': Musical About Early Aviators at McCarter Theater 2010-05-23T22:45:00Z “At once ardent and analytical, cerebral and swooning, ‘Carol’ is a study in human magnetism, in the physics and optics of eros,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘45 Years,’ ‘Carol,’ and Lin-Manuel Miranda on ‘S.N.L.’ 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z And after the apples comes a room of hi-tech devices, working experiments devised by quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger and the physics faculty at the University of Vienna. Documenta 13: Mysteries in the mountain of mud 2012-06-11T17:53:51Z Pollan’s recipe includes liberal sprinklings of physics and microbiology, history and mythology. ‘Cooked’: Michael Pollan gets to the heart and soul of cooking 2013-04-17T19:44:32Z She and an older sister are the children of professors at the University of Nebraska, their father in physics, their mother in English. For Mary Zimmerman, overseeing 'Guys and Dolls' at the Wallis, it starts with imagination 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z The dark humor in that line sharpens when read in concert with “Whistleblower,” in which Fowler describes supplementing her rigorous graduate courses at Penn with hours of research on string theory and theoretical particle physics. Review | ‘Whistleblower’ and ‘Uncanny Valley’ offer a chilling look at life in Silicon Valley 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z “There is something there, measurable by multiple instruments. And yet it seems to move in directions that are inconsistent with what we know of physics or science more broadly.” There’s a ton of crap in the sky we haven’t shot down (yet) 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z What are the physics of flying the balloons, typically handled by people, if one uses squat utility vehicles instead? A Thanksgiving Parade, Unfazed by Snow or Wind, Takes On a Pandemic 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z The way Ms. Buether’s set gave physical life to the physics of time was an astonishment. Loving and Hating the Broadway Season: Our Critics Could Have Argued All Night 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Nobody here ever complains that the physics or medicine juries don't know what they're doing. The gripes of Roth: US incredulity at not winning the Nobel literature prize 2012-10-11T18:07:59Z In the Southern Hemisphere, Tilt-a-Whirls rotate in reverse because of physics. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: You’ll never believe this. Actually, maybe you will. 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z I loved Ben Miller waxing lyrical about quantum physics – he wouldn't be allowed to do that on The One Show. QI: after 10 series still rather more than quite interesting 2012-09-28T10:30:00Z At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he received his doctorate in physics in 1945 and did consulting work on the side, providing solutions to problems like whistling steam pipes and loudly shuddering air-conditioning systems. Cyril Harris Dies at 93; Fine-Tuned Concert Halls 2011-01-09T02:20:26Z The fun starts in the morning with family workshops in botany and glacial physics. Earth Day’s Gone Digital. Here’s Where to Find It. 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Borislaw Bilash, a former professor of chemistry and physics, proves himself a master of things that fizz, foam and flame in this Off Broadway solo production, a companion piece to “That Physics Show.” Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z I especially loved the way you could feel the sound in your body, and also how you could see physics at work. Steven Church talks essays, and his new book 'Ultrasonic' 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z What I’m saying is: the spaghetti cone is a miracle of physics. Spaghetti in a cone: a miracle of physics, a genius food delivery system 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Then again, New Mexico was an unlikely location for a pop-up physics lab. ‘Manh(a)ttan,’ Atomic Bomb Drama, on WGN 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z FEW disciplines are so strongly associated with a single figure: Einstein in physics and Freud in psychology, perhaps. Noam Chomsky 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z The show understands the dreams and challenges of its captivating characters the way an exotic dancer knows the physics of her own body. Review: ‘P-Valley’ Has All the Right Moves 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z That will always be fast by the laws of physics. On The Road With Auto Racing Pros 2010-02-26T21:00:00Z Computing was really born of physics and of this "clean-room" mentality – and a lot of computing is still like that. My bright idea: Dennis Shasha: Nature can improve our computers 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z In practice, Cuban physics means making gaskets out of cardboard. Cuban car guys star in first U.S. show shot entirely on the forbidden island 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z “I learned that campaigns have their own rules, their own laws of physics, and that if I wasn’t willing to accept that, I would never get to be a senator.” Al Franken Has Been Sitting on Jokes for a Decade. Now He’s Ready to Tell Them. 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Their home offices overflowed with what looked like decades of work-related materials: recording equipment, camera lights and computers in Ms. Flanders’s; math and physics textbooks, colored markers and various tchotchkes in Ms. Streb’s. At Home With Elizabeth Streb and Laura Flanders: At Home With Elizabeth Streb and Laura Flanders 2011-12-14T23:55:37Z This need for heft goes beyond the load-bearing physics and into the realm of design. Why every garden deserves a rambling rose 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z She seems as comfortable talking about physics and philosophy as she is discussing God or capitalism. Marilynne Robinson talks religion, fear and the American spirit: “The left, at a basic level, lost courage, because they don’t know how to deal with the proclaimed religiosity of the other side” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Through an accident of physics, the gore is presented in a way that makes it bearable to the casual observer. Lawyers and Secondary Traumatic Stress, or: On the dispersal of brain matter in a Kentucky trailer 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Great news for anyone who found Interstellar’s quantum physics bookshelf banjo finale a bit wooly. The Martian: Matt Damon gets spaced out in Ridley Scott's isolation thriller 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z They thought it was a waste of his physics degree. Bounce so hard 2012-07-28T13:00:00Z Together, these books introduce some of the most interesting and consequential ideas of modern physics. David Kaiser's top 10 books about quantum theory 2012-09-26T12:02:55Z Composing Icarus involved a detailed dialogue between Glass and Greene about how physics might become manifest in the music. Of the spheres 2010-07-02T23:05:00Z An ever-expanding battery of visual and temporal techniques, from simple cuts to elaborate computer-generated effects, allow filmmakers break the laws of physics with impunity. Film: Brace for Impact ? It?s Action Movie Season 2010-06-23T18:10:00Z Being nocturnal isn’t a requirement for physics writing, but it helps. The Night Girl Finds a Day Boy 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Saris was 18 when he found out his father, a physics professor, had been a student informant for the Dutch Nazi party. Dutch to Make Public the Files on Accused Nazi Collaborators 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z In 1904, Einstein was only on the verge of publishing the theories that would revolutionize physics. Keegan gives bright rendering to Steve Martin’s ‘Picasso at the Lapin Agile’ 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z She plays Natalya with the pinched, fretful air of a studious college sophomore facing a physics final. Theater Review: ‘A Month in the Country,’ at Williamstown Theater Festival 2012-08-10T23:46:48Z Some stubborn physics stands between us and "the rapture of the nerds". 20 predictions for the next 25 years 2011-01-02T00:05:22Z Force, you may remember from high-school physics, is mass times acceleration. Yes, That Game of Thrones Exploding Head Thing Could Really Happen (Probably) 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z One parent seeking that official stamp is Vicki Robinson, 58, a physics professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester. Special Issue: Gay Marriage: Ready to Wed? No, Mom. 2011-07-22T19:37:03Z NuCalm uses biochemistry, physics and neurophysiology to quickly put you into a deeply relaxed state. How to Recover Like an Elite Athlete 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z It will also skew very heavily toward physics, because that’s where my interests lie; I just don’t read many books about biological science, so can’t easily recommend stuff in that field. Recommended Science Books For Non-Scientists 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z “I was horrible at physics and he was horrible at chemistry,” she said. A Secret Relationship, Until Mom and Dad Needed to Know 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Its characters include male and female black scientists, discussing aspects of my own field of theoretical physics – where black scientists are unfortunately very rare. "Black Panther" and its science role models inspire more than just movie awards 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Because images are constrained only by the limits of imagination — unlike objects, which must obey the laws of physics — they often idealize what they represent, asserting social and political meanings. Review: ‘Image Object’ Looks at the Relationship Between the Virtual and the Physical 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z There is, in “Exit West,” constant underlying movement, and a sense that intrinsic laws of moral physics are at work. A Novel About Refugees That Feels Instantly Canonical 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Now — thanks to an unusual marriage of art history and nuclear physics, partly arranged by an unassuming freelance photographer — the quest may soon be over. Leonardo Mural in Florence May Be Revealed 2011-08-26T23:53:05Z Susan Boyle is one of the most lucrative recording artists in the world, after all, but then BoyleWorld is in many ways a strange, absurdist universe where the normal rules of physics don't apply. Susan Boyle: What happened to the dream? 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z Returning to his studies, he earned a doctorate in physics and went to Paris to work on atomic radiation at the Joliot-Curie laboratories, where he said he suffered a second personal crisis. Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato dies at 99 2011-04-30T16:58:15Z Young continues the performance at our table, using the miracle of physics and an ice-ball maker to transform a square of ice into a perfect sphere for my $35 Manhattan. A staycation, heavy on the ‘stay,’ at El Gaucho Seattle 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z I am a triumph of modern medicine, physics and chemistry. Liver Disease Confirmed as Lou Reed’s Cause of Death 2013-10-30T12:54:22Z Lieberman, 71, took time off from his regular job teaching physics at Cornell University and traveled to Myanmar several times over two years, initially on a U.S. government-funded Fulbright program. US documentary pries lid off isolated Myanmar 2012-03-16T01:06:11Z Pierre Thiam grew up in Dakar, Senegal, and came to the United States three decades ago in hopes of studying physics. Eating Globally: Hungry City’s Top 10 Restaurants of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z There is a powerful, complicated physics at work beneath that river’s skin. 125 years after gold was discovered in the Yukon, we ventured up to Dawson City. Here’s what it looks like now 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Karatani, 81, was selected from hundreds of nominees in the fields of philosophy, social science, economics, human rights and theoretical physics. Kojin Karatani Wins $1 Million Berggruen Prize 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z His tools were popular culture and mechanics, engineering and physics. Art Review: Calder and Tanguy, Together Again at L&M Arts 2010-05-13T21:39:00Z The show is paced like a thriller, and people, not physics, are in the foreground. ‘Manh(a)ttan,’ Atomic Bomb Drama, on WGN 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z I studied physics and philosophy at university – but dropped the physics, not because I didn’t like it but because I found philosophy to be about thinking itself, which I found fascinating. What it was like to work on a film with Stephen Hawking 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z He graduated from the University of Toronto and received a doctoral degree in physics from Cornell. When a Friend Grabs Your Phone and Starts Texting 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Instead, I try to appreciate how the storytellers use physics ideas to tell an interesting story. ‘Westworld’ and ‘Devs’ Asked Big Questions. A Physicist Responds. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z A cairn is a simple thing — "a heap of stones, or a pile of stones," says author David B. Williams, with nothing but the laws of physics and gravity to hold it together. Author David B. Williams stacks up interesting facts about cairns 2012-11-05T19:28:06Z And he was the first to postulate that the laws of physics would be the same all over the universe. Magician’s brain 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z The play begins as a farce, detours into an alternate reality and concludes with a disquisition on quantum physics. ‘Cancún’: Not your average romp On Sunday night she noted "the album's a little chaotic," adding "there's a mathematics, a physics about it," which she saw as tying in nicely with her flying machine. Lady Gaga's latest frock has her airborne as 'ARTPOP' launches 2013-11-11T04:25:39Z The theme continues in sections on math, nutrition, medicine, engineering, physics and architecture that were all developed with Native American scientists. New Youth Center at American Indian Museum Focuses on Invention 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z At university I majored in physics, and the beauty and power of relativity astounded me. Making space: where art meets physics 2012-06-13T17:07:50Z His thirsty intellect drove him to take courses in subjects ranging from chemical engineering to physics and math. The retired inventor of N95 masks is back at work, mostly for free, to fight covid-19 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Dear Carolyn: Barring changes to the laws of physics, my older sister and I age at the same rate. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: They’re in their 40s now, but one sister still says she’s the other’s ‘co-parent’ 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z In just 88 pages, he explores mind-bending topics in physics, like gravitational waves, the heat of black holes and quantum gravity. 12 New Books We’re Reading This Summer (and 6 Not So New) 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The technology required the artist to have a working knowledge of physics — something that has also inspired her work. The 'whoa' moment and Mary Corse: The painter who toys with light is finally getting her due 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z A theatre and film-maker who enthuses about his love for particle physics, van den Berg says scientists and artists are linked because they are the only people really pondering long-term problems. Scientists invade Edinburgh Fringe 2013-08-05T06:56:50Z In modern physics it’s a measure of disorder and information. Just a Few Billion Years Left to Go 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Two Russian-born scientists won the physics prize and the chemistry award went to two Japanese and one American researcher who designed techniques to bind together carbon atoms. Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize 2010-10-07T12:44:00Z These precociously brilliant physics students form an intense friendship at university, after which their lives diverge, leaving them with only sporadic contact. Crime novels roundup | Book reviews 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z History, he seems to suggest, is a by-product of physics, which is in turn a process without substance or cause. Selected Poems by Jaan Kaplinski ? review 2011-07-08T21:55:07Z You will not find a scientist who will say, “quantum physics is true for me.” 15 ways atheists can stand up for rationality 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z But I hate it just as much when I write about physics, for I too am liable to say uninformed and silly things—as I may well do here. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z He and his colleagues wrestled against the laws of physics to produce record players and radios that were sleeker, lighter and more seductive than those of their competitors. Design: A Brush With Mediocrity 2010-02-22T03:37:00Z These works are astonishing achievements in the physics of music. Pierre-Laurent Aimard Plays Bach at Carnegie Hall 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z The literature date completes the schedule for this year's Nobel Prize announcements, which start Monday with the medicine prize, followed by physics on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday and the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Literature Nobel to be announced Oct. 13, later than usual 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z He received a doctoral degree in physics from Yale, where he researched ultrarare nuclear decays. Natalie Heer, Jeremy Cushman 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Heisenberg's physics were brash and bold, while Schrödinger endeavoured to graft quantum theory onto the familiar machinery of classical physics. David Kaiser's top 10 books about quantum theory 2012-09-26T12:02:55Z Ever the student, Mr. Bryant applied that knowledge to style as craftily as he bent physics to his will on the court. Kobe Bryant’s Many Moves to the Net 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z There were also letters to scientists and other scholars, pages of derivations of mathematics and physics formulae, and copious writings on alchemy and religion. Magician’s brain 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Two Russian-born scientists won the physics prize and the chemistry award went to two Japanese and American researcher who designed techniques to bind together carbon atoms. Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2010-10-07T11:48:00Z "Using that logic," said Williams, "I had to throw physics out the window and create a that moved at 60mph, even thought its hollow bones would have busted if it ran that fast." Jurassic Park 3D: revisiting the film that put machismo on the extinction list 2013-04-01T15:07:59Z It includes traces of science fiction, with ideas culled from cosmology, theology and particle physics, alongside fantastical elements such as witches and armored polar bears. The next “Game of Thrones” is coming: Phillip Pullman’s epic fantasy series “His Dark Materials” is a natural fit for TV 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z As much as the show is a heady, brain-bending exploration into the physics and ethics of time travel, it also poses some thought-provoking questions concerning the nature of free will. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Dark’ and a Star-Studded Global Citizen Concert 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z For that matter, Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” provides a livelier and more coherent exploration of the physics of time and space than Mr. Marsh’s film. In ‘The Theory of Everything,’ Stephen Hawking’s Home Life 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z “In physics,” he told me, “You look for the anomalous result. Then you have something 2015to explain. In nutrition, the game is to confirm what you and your predecessors have always believed.” The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Before he caught the acting bug, Geoffrey Rush fancied himself something of a cosmologist, obsessed by space exploration and diligently studying math, physics and chemistry. Geoffrey Rush Loves to Play Rogues and Fools. A Genius, Too. 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Stone’s checkered history in magicianship sets the stage for “Fooling Houdini,” his cheery, inquisitive book about a world where math, physics, cognitive science and pure geeky fanaticism intersect. Books of The Times: ‘Fooling Houdini’ by Alex Stone 2012-06-20T20:11:57Z The pace quickens as he races against time, the nonnegotiable absolutes of physics and distance. ‘The Martian’: stranded on Mars, botanist battles to survive 2014-03-12T19:03:18Z Trained in physics, the landscape artist attended multiple eclipses, making his first excursion in 1918 with a U.S. Solar eclipse: Artists turn to science in rendering the emotion of past eclipses 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z And God, the all-powerful creator, capable of moving mountains and of begetting a universe with all the laws of physics, couldn't find a better way to lift the burden of sin than a blood sacrifice. Why I want all our children to read the King James Bible 2012-05-19T20:30:01Z As young adults just entering Hollywood, they represented a whole new generation discovering the Star Wars world—its physics, its dirty ships, its secrets. Why Disney Should Cast a Total Unknown as Young Han Solo 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z If a movie isn’t trying to get the physics right at all, no one bothers to ask physicists about it. Chris Hadfield meets Randall Munroe: ‘Are we alone in the universe?' 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z At the Cavendish, one of the world's leading physics laboratories, Oppenheimer had been assigned a tutor to bring him up to speed with experimental techniques. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Murray convincingly skims over dicey physics with the help of logic and bravado, not to mention the sociological changes he so persuasively envisions. Review | There’s no shortage of novels about what happens when the Earth stops spinning. ‘The Last Day’ may set a new standard. 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z But The Wrong Trousers gets the nod because it crystallised so much of what Aardman brought to the table: the jokey/sinister crime story; the homely details; and the astonishing application of real-world physics. Aardman's 20 best films – ranked! 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z A beautifully crafted series about sound, from its basic physics of moving particles to its majestic transformation into music and language. 36 Podcast Personalities Recommend Their Favorite Shows 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z See, the thing is: I don’t really need Revolution to be a show about technology or physics. A Second Look At: Revolution 2012-10-03T12:00:04Z Nobel committees have announced prizes so far this week in physics, chemistry and medicine. China’s Mo Yan Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2012-10-11T13:28:15Z Or better understand jazz for having compared it to quantum physics? Review: As Goes Music, So Goes the Universe 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z “There is no quantum physics here,” said Dr. Rogers, a founder of the Global Disinformation Index. What Is Randonautica Really About? 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z “Fortunately,” he writes, “as a physics student, I was accustomed to being bested by Asian kids several years my junior.” Books of The Times: ‘Fooling Houdini’ by Alex Stone 2012-06-20T20:11:57Z The important thing is that I cycle between novels, histories, philosophy, physics, cellular biology and occasionally the odd contemporary political science offering like the recent one about Steve Bannon: “Devil’s Bargain,” by Joshua Green. Francis Ford Coppola: By the Book 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Physics Lessons With Skateboards The Miser strongly suspects that forming a deeper understanding of physics doesn’t typically top the list of reasons that a youngster takes to the skateboard. Weekend Miser: ‘Tony Hawk: Rad Science,’ at New York Hall of Science 2013-04-18T19:39:57Z I felt I was standing next to a kind of human aperture — someone who understood all the physics, all the capacity of digital picture-taking, but with the soul of a humanist. Photographer captures curious power of common items 2012-01-13T18:22:42Z They said they had missed a physics test to testify. Perspective | Please stop insisting trans kids are just struggling with puberty 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z Mr. McDuffie received a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Michigan, followed by a master’s in physics there; he later studied film at New York University. Dwayne McDuffie, Comic-Book Writer, Dies at 49 2011-02-24T06:45:04Z The athleticism, physics and what one person calls the “bit of ballet” of the event are all stirring to witness. ‘Kipchoge: The Last Milestone’ Review: Skipping Ahead 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z The Nobel Prize in medicine was announced Monday and will be followed by physics prize on Tuesday and chemistry on Wednesday. Literature Nobel Prize to Be Announced Thursday 2013-10-07T14:26:03Z Danny Chonde is studying for a doctorate in medical physics at Harvard and sees Yelp as a form of public expression. For online 'super reviewers' rewards go offline 2010-07-08T23:12:00Z He also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana from 2009-11, where he taught chemistry and physics to high school students. Blair Green, Jason George 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z The complex theme at the center of “PopCo” was cryptography, and in “The End of Mr. Y,” it was quantum physics. Review | In the darkly comic boarding-school world of ‘Oligarchy,’ being thin is everything 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Q: How has your background as a former physics student — a self-described “science nerd” — influenced the way you make movies? 29 movies in, Brian De Palma still won’t play by Hollywood’s rules 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z The equations of physics run forward as well as back. This Is How It All Ends 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z “When you say ‘live water,’ that’s going to trigger a lot of people who are into physics and biology. Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Calm on the outside but bustling within, “Inside Outside” ponders fate, physics and free will. Drake Surprises With a Kim Kardashian Sample, and 11 More New Songs 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z "Even though I'm not a science expert, it's been a part of my life and my family," said Blumenfield, whose father is a retired professor of marine physics at the University of the Virgin Islands. Kafi Blumenfield to lead Discovery Cube Los Angeles science museum 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z The 2013 Brazilian physics paper used the Voynich manuscript to illustrate how statistical physics methods can be adapted to find hidden linguistic patterns and concluded that the text didn't seem randomly generated. The strange quest to crack the Voynich code 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Dr. Berryman, also 28, is a postdoctoral associate in theoretical particle physics at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. Molly Sammon, Jeffrey Berryman 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z They would leave the system altogether, but physics forbids. 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson – review 2012-06-14T07:00:03Z Learning to weld is a crash course in physics and metallurgy. The joys of being an absolute beginner – for life 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z No high-tech helmet is going to insulate players from basic physics and physiology. The NFL’s toxic lies: Here are the worst excuses fans use to justify watching football 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z Quantum mechanics is one of science’s most successful theories, superseding Sir Isaac Newton’s “classical” physics, the workaday version taught at school. Nature, the physicist 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z There’s something about the physics of having a car going at high speed that, even if you try to replicate it in C.G., you just don’t get the rush. The Fast & Furious Art of the Car Chase 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z No, he did not, and his lack of adherence to the facts of life has now been uncovered by a group of physics students from Leicester University. Think again, Roald Dahl: scientists hit on giant peach of a theory 2013-01-04T14:40:01Z “I’ve tried to abide by the laws of physics up until now,” he said. Global Migration Meets Magic in Mohsin Hamid’s Timely Novel 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Harvey Littleton expressed an early interest in art — and in the possibilities of glass art — but his father urged him to study physics when he entered the University of Michigan. Glass pioneer Harvey Littleton dies at 91 2014-01-06T06:32:28Z That was Stanford, where she was the school's #1 singles player and, for a time, its only female physics major. Lynn Sherr examines the public and private lives of Sally Ride 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Take, for example, what goes on in particle physics. We love your work… now show us your workings 2012-06-23T23:05:47Z Another yogi talked to me at length over ginger tea about quantum physics, which included the lesson that the pain from holding a pose is only a construct because none of us is real. Unplugging in the Unofficial Capital of Yoga 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z “Even if he’s not practicing mathematics and physics, there’s something beautiful to him about the unyielding quality of a difficult thought,” said Krakauer, who read early versions of the novels. In His New Books, Cormac McCarthy Gets Real 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z "I like physics," he says, "but I love cartoons." The "Reincarnation" of "Futurama" 2011-09-07T20:01:00Z He was passionately interested in physics and astronomy and owned the largest telescope in Europe. Science and Curiosities at the Court of Versailles - review 2010-12-07T13:59:00Z In the early part of the last century, something of the same conversation was happening in theoretical physics. Philosophy is supposed to be difficult 2011-02-25T12:01:28Z I assumed it was a bit also because of the easy way Smith strolled up to Rock and both the compact efficiency of his swing and the physics of Rock’s absorption of it. The Slap Wasn’t the Only Astonishing Thing About the Oscars 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z O.K., physics wins, but fusion attempts do have an impressively vexing history. Dance Review: Big Bang Theory From Armitage Gone! Dance 2010-06-04T23:00:00Z This is a serious introduction to quantum physics and the history of its initial development, disguised under hot tea and toast. From Black Holes to Breakfast, Three Books Show How Einstein’s Legacy Lives On 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z At least she was brilliant in physics class, and I presumed in a few short months she’d be out and on to some great career as a rocket scientist. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z Quite simply, being well-read or educated, to most of us, doesn't mean that you understand basic physics; it just means you are relatively well-versed in the arts. Is the Cox Effect a good thing? 2013-01-14T09:15:44Z I devoutly hope that after the apocalypse, the people rebuilding civilization pick up their physics not from the Principia but from a good recent physics textbook– Matter and Interactions, say. Recommended Science Books For Non-Scientists 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Born and raised in Brooklyn, he earned a degree from Cornell, then a master’s and a doctorate from Yale, all in physics, by the age of 23. Bridge: Recalling Larry Rosler at a 1963 National Pair Championship 2013-06-23T21:06:39Z “Our intern’s sister is studying physics at Berkeley, and we had the physics team on the phone shouting out the possible options.” The Friendship Bracelet Is Back 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Would a unified theory in physics provide a definitive answer? Q. & A.: Jim Holt on Why the World Exists 2012-07-18T14:09:41Z He studied physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, before enlisting in the military in World War II. Joseph Strick, Screenwriter, Is Dead at 86 2010-06-08T04:52:00Z Even with such a far-fetched scenario, Weir was determined to make the math and particle physics in the novel accurate, down to the quantum level. Andy Weir’s New Space Odyssey 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z The 46-year-old inventor-engineer graduated from Columbia with a degree in electronic engineering and earned a PhD in engineering physics from Cornell. Robert Moog: 'I wouldn't call this music' – a classic interview to mark a Google doodle 2012-05-23T10:54:12Z Markel and Pham’s account opens with a double-page portrait in grays and browns of the famous men who dominated each field, from politics and humanitarianism to physics and sports in the 1950s. Hillary’s new star turn: heroine of children’s books 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z The Dartmouth College graduate taught high school science before deciding to mesh his interest in music and physics. Piano tuner marks 25th year at Newport jazz fest 2010-08-05T17:18:00Z In celebrated works that range from the blissfully ordered disorderliness of the backstage farce “Noises Off” to the cosmos-probing physics of “Copenhagen,” Mr. Frayn has mined this most elemental tension to dazzling effect. The Week Ahead: Sept. 26 ? Oct. 2 2010-09-24T16:00:00Z Tom Stoppard has deployed principles of physics stylishly and repeatedly in time-bending dramas like “Arcadia.” ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Big Ideas in Small Spaces 2012-01-31T16:09:34Z And Diehl and Flaugher said they view the Large Hadron Collider as an encouraging development in the pursuit of a deeper exploration of particle physics. Fermilab poised to hit the off switch 2011-09-30T14:41:00Z Surprise: The hero of “Spiral,” Jake Sterling, is an intrepid Cornell physics professor. Very, Very Bad Things, Very, Very Tiny Packages 2011-03-13T22:52:19Z "I am a triumph of modern medicine, physics and chemistry," the 71-year-old rocker said on his website after his wife revealed news of the transplant at the weekend. Lou Reed says he is 'bigger and stronger' after liver transplant 2013-06-03T20:08:47Z And Mr. Miller demonstrates that great action filmmaking is not only a matter of physics but of ethics as well. Review: ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: Still Angry After All These Years 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z That's one of the greatest examples of a show that had to create its own system of physics to tether the audience to. An interview with the dean of "Community" 2011-09-28T22:30:00Z If 2020 were a cartoon character, it would be Wile E. Coyote — and the laws of physics would apply. Style Invitational Week 1402: The fourteeners — a neologism contest 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z In one sense, Midsommar is about the terror of going to an unfamiliar and unfathomable place, where the laws of physics have been all but overturned. Extended scares: in defense of the two-hour-plus horror movie 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z In these games the physics are generous, the characters are colorfully outlandish, and the weapons, like heat-seeking missiles and sonic shock waves, are plentiful. Video Game Review: Sony?s ModNation Racers Is a Driving Fantasy Game 2010-07-02T21:36:00Z The cruel laws of physics that rule here are much like those of silent slapstick movies. Review: ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ Upends a Whodunit 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z The square-jawed Ohio congressman used to coach wrestling and understands that conflict — even in government proceedings — is a matter of physics: leverage, pressure, aggression, submission. Jim Jordan used to torment GOP leaders. Now he’s leading them in defending Trump. 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z They pass the ball back and forth, the larger lamp encouraging the smaller lamp as he figures out the physics of the new toy. This little light 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z "We don't defy the laws of physics," Miller said. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' rules: Keep it real and really wild 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z So too does Alvaro Zinos-Amara, who grew up multilingual in Europe, earned a PhD in theoretical physics and knows his interviewee’s work inside out. Robert Silverberg: The Philip Roth of the science fiction world 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z As such, it's probably going to be a controversial choice: if you want your Doctor Who explained by theoretical physics, this is not for you. The Mind Robber: Doctor Who classic episode #4 2013-03-28T13:01:24Z Standard physics says this path shouldn’t depend on the energy of the particles moving through spacetime, but in rainbow gravity, it does. In a “rainbow” universe, time may have no beginning 2013-12-10T07:15:00Z “We’re like inventors of space. We use the term, ‘the physics of culture.’ Pritzker Architecture Prize Goes to Two Women for the First Time 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z This is, after all, a play titled “Heisenberg,” presumably in reference to Werner Heisenberg, whose uncertainty principle helped redefine physics. Review: ‘Heisenberg,’ With Mary-Louise Parker, Mines the Extraordinary in the Commonplace 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z On the day of the eclipse, professors from the University of Nebraska’s department of physics and astronomy will set up sun-viewing telescopes and will be on hand to answer questions. Where and How to See the Total Eclipse This Summer in the U.S. 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z In this ghost story in which scientific metaphors abound, a physics professor is haunted by the death of a close friend whom she never truly knew. New in Paperback: ‘Lanny’ and ‘The Unwinding of the Miracle’ 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z In the case of physics, the answer is probably not all that much. Evolution and the mind: An author’s response 2012-09-21T22:48:00Z A professor of physics at Dartmouth College and a lifelong student of jazz, Dr. Alexander has taken on “the challenge to find an isomorphism between jazz and cosmology.” Review: As Goes Music, So Goes the Universe 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The topics were, as ever, diverse; from physics to Grey matter, with hard to find books in between. Tips, links and suggestions: Our review list and what you are reading 2012-07-18T12:25:42Z In “Circus! Science Under the Big Top,” visitors identify shapes of animal scat or read about the physics of the bungee cord. ‘Your Brain’ Opens at the Franklin Institute 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Instead, they depict athletes as living just a few toes beyond the realm of possibility, their movements just a beat quicker or their jumps a notch higher than physics usually allows. What Can a Body Do? Anime Pushes at Its Limits 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z While spending the winter in South Carolina she hired a piano-playing, musical theater-loving pre-med student at the University of Charleston to teach her the show “in between physics and microbiology,” she said. Rehearse Me a Little, Wherever You Are 2011-04-06T13:27:09Z “Anything you can think of, your character can do with an infinite number of possibilities and maneuverable physics depending on where the game takes place.” Will Dungeons & Dragons Be the next Hobbit? 2012-12-12T13:00:23Z It’s like one of those issues in physics, involving the uncertainty principle or the observational paradox. “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z He was invited to deliver a pair of lectures at Harvard for a course that uses food and the kitchen to explain fundamentals of physics and engineering. Grant Achatz: The making of Chicago's top chef ... and what's Next 2011-02-15T06:00:00Z The two ruled American physics in the 1930s; Lawrence its experimental, Oppenheimer its theoretical wing. ‘Big Science,’ by Michael Hiltzik 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Resembling a colorful Rube Goldberg contraption, with waterworks, the 60,000-square-foot space lets children study the laws of physics while happily submitting to them. Science and Secrets in City Playgrounds 2011-04-14T22:10:38Z The year after playing for dad-dancing New Labourites, Cox got his PhD in high-energy particle physics at Manchester. Brian Cox: Physics is better than rock'n'roll 2011-03-24T08:01:00Z The Lessons by Naomi Alderman 288pp, Viking, £12.99 Buy The Lessons at the Guardian bookshop The naif in this case is lonely James Stieff, at Oxford to study physics and having a miserable time. The Lessons by Naomi Alderman | Book review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z He's a postdoctoral research associate at the cool-sounding Ultrafast Group at Oxford's physics department and is currently researching the field of quantum memories. The Saturday interview: Janet Suzman 2011-08-19T23:10:48Z Mr. Alonso served as general director and became an innovative teacher by combining his understanding of physics, kinesiology and anatomy with traditional ballet training. Fernando Alonso, a Founder of Cuban Ballet, Dies at 98 2013-08-03T01:42:20Z On a giant hamster wheel in their Brooklyn studio, and in spectacular feats on London landmarks, performers seemingly defy the laws of physics. 'Born to Fly' captures Elizabeth Streb in action 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Since spring 2015 the LHC has been pursuing these ideas by smashing protons together at unprecedentedly high energies at rates of up to a billion per second, pushing into new frontiers of particle physics. Physics confronts its heart of darkness: Cracks showing in dominant explanation for dark matter 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Singer Charlotte Church might make a surprising change of direction - by studying for a degree in physics. Church to study for physics degree 2014-03-12T14:40:46Z Gene had little time for pesky things like the laws of physics — or laws at all, for that matter. Review | ‘Action Park’ looks back at one very dangerous amusement park 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Andrea Brunello, a professional actor with a PhD in theoretical physics, has written and stars in , which he describes as a real quantum mechanics lecture with a dramatic twist. Scientists invade Edinburgh Fringe 2013-08-05T06:56:50Z It will begin with nervous parents reading about brain trauma, with doctors warning about the physics of soft tissue smashing into hard bone…. Motherlode Blog: Will the concussion risk ever push parents to keep their children out of football? 2012-01-12T18:24:44Z Put that way, it's not hard to see why Cox chose physics over rock'n'roll. Brian Cox: Physics is better than rock'n'roll 2011-03-24T08:01:00Z Having a human template, “you’re never in danger of breaking the laws of physics,” said Daniel Barrett, a visual effects coordinator for the film. Summer Movies: For ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,’ Learning Simian Movement 2014-05-01T17:15:35Z This is natural and logical and not even weird: it’s rad to see someone pull off something you didn’t think was possible within the constructs of humanity and physics and humans’ relationship with physics. Spelling bees make trolls of us all 2013-06-01T15:00:00Z The man exclaimed, “Why don’t you challenge physics and math?” Suspicious Minds 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Constellations used advanced physics as a metaphor for life and was intensely theatrical, a "move away from a kind of literalism in which you are asked to imagine almost everything". Royal Court theatre prepares to bid farewell to King Dominic 2013-03-10T07:00:00Z Chuck, the museum’s enormous outdoor catapult, will lift and hurl pumpkins, providing not only entertainment, but also a lesson in physics. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Martinez, 59, has a rugged face and sleeve tattoos, which give him the aspect of road-weary rocker, one who, in casual conversation might drop references to French philosophy and quantum physics. Daniel Joseph Martinez offers a front-row seat to a famous artistic murder -- starring himself 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Adult evening classes are thriving and the Mining and Technical College, which has 2,000 students, provides courses in mining, engineering, chemistry, physics, mathematics and general science. Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z And physics does not lend itself to pithy introductions. The universe, writ small 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z You’d think the answer would involve advanced physics, something to do with some invisible force and nanoseconds. | ?My Cat From Hell?: And You Thought Hair Balls Were Bad 2011-05-06T16:40:43Z If you want to publish a celebrated physics paper, the crucial thing isn’t to be young and energetic, nor old and wise. Are you too old to find success? | Oliver Burkeman 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z This fall, Richoux is studying physics and computer science at the University of Chicago. U-Md. professor hooks students on this particle accelerator — by building one 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z But to mark enduring achievements, would its members ever yearn for a Women's Nobel Prize in physics? Are Hollywood awards by gender out of touch? 2013-01-24T13:24:09Z Just a few years later, physics was upended by the new theories of relativity and quantum physics. Circle in a circle 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” drops a needle on Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” and stands before a Picasso painting, defining works of an age in which physics folded space and time into space-time. ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z In 1998, Chopra was awarded the satirical Ig Nobel Prize for “his unique interpretation of quantum physics as it applies to life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic happiness.” Deepak Chopra Has Never Been Sick 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Suffice to say, the entire show revolves around a single deck of playing cards, and the cards behave in ways that defy reason and, occasionally, the laws of physics. ‘He Must Have Superpowers’: Asi Wind and His Sublime Card Tricks 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z One of its most disappointing essays is about aliens in science fiction, which manages, against stupefying odds, to contain just one interesting insight: that authors tend to be more concerned with physics than with biology. ‘Aliens’ Asks: If the Universe Is So Vast, Where Is Everybody? 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Yildiz, a physics student at Istanbul's Marmara University, was shot dead on July 15, 2008 after he went out for an ice cream break while studying at home for his final exams. Turkish film highlights gay honor killing 2012-01-24T12:16:04Z And perhaps if you ask her nicely she’ll share a cool physics fact! 'One big virtual love-in': how children's book authors are creating online sanctuaries 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Over the loudspeaker, the physics teacher announced it was safe to take off our eclipse glasses. My Husband Wore Really Tight Shorts to the Eclipse Party 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z "So I've amassed a lot of knowledge on quantum physics and American history." A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z The book’s overarching argument is that life is a natural, chemical process, and therefore faces constraints imposed by the iron laws of physics or chemistry. Heart of the matter 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z And every year for the first three years they said, 'OK, the English prize is Bailey', then geography, history, maths, physics, everything. Bill Bailey: Bill's excellent adventure 2013-04-19T14:00:00Z The project took him 11 years and required him to study enough physics to understand Oppenheimer's contribution to science. Critical eye: reviews roundup 2012-11-23T22:55:05Z As Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist, said: “If quantum physics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.” Circle in a circle 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Weir was cagey about describing his next book — after the disaster of “Zhek,” he worries that saying too much could backfire — but whatever he writes will be bound by the known laws of physics. Andy Weir’s New Space Odyssey 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Particle physics is so complicated that it was like trying to understand a foreign language, particularly since high school physics was 25 years in the rearview mirror. Colliders, Sundials and Wonder: When Science Is Your Destination 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z The message to the audience: Abandon all laws of physics and probability, and surrender to the gorgeously alien planet of Cirque. Cirque du Soleil's Zarkana: The Summer's Great Stage Show 2011-07-03T05:50:00Z But at an Upper East Side bar recently, her conversation veered toward Homer’s “Iliad,” the Shroud of Turin and quantum physics. Megan Fox on Becoming a Real-Life Indiana Jones 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z He studied in New York City during the 1930s and served in Britain’s Royal Air Force during World War II. He received a master’s degree in physics from Cambridge in 1949. E.R. Braithwaite, author of ‘To Sir, With Love,’ dies at 104 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Which is another way of saying that physics is weird. Is computing speed set to make a quantum leap? 2013-05-18T21:00:03Z Atkins attended a boarding school in Worcestershire and studied physics at Oxford before becoming a filmmaker. A Filmmaker Put Away for Tax Fraud Takes Us Inside a British Prison 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Three U.S.-based scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for detecting faint ripples flying through the universe — the gravitational waves predicted a century ago by Albert Einstein. U. S.-based scientists earn Nobel Prize for work on gravitational waves 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Through the 19th and 20th centuries, Facts reached adulthood as the world underwent a shift toward proving things true through the principles of physics and mathematical modeling. Facts, 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012 2012-04-20T21:47:00Z A major thrust of physics research today is devoted to finding how to reconcile these two views of the universe. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z The elusive story involves a man and a woman, bound together by advanced physics. Geffen Playhouse season to include 'Constellations,' 'Barbecue' 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z There will be exceptions, of course, but the physics of fashion are working against them, as is the industry’s deep-seated and defining desire for newness. Millennials Are Taking Over Fashion Too 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Instead, by his side is a guy with a Ph.D. in theoretical physics, a beautiful mind who can calculate complex probabilities, in real time, in his head. Why Sports Statisticians Should Be More Involved in Games 2011-03-11T09:35:00Z But if he does, so does modern physics. Want to imagine what the Higgs boson might look like? Embrace modern art 2011-07-27T15:31:36Z My two daughters, studying high school physics at the time, christened her “Quark.” Traveling through the pandemic in the company of dogs 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z "I Am Radar" is packed full of diagrams and science — ideas from quantum physics, theories both fringe and mainstream. Reif Larsen's 'I Am Radar' transmits narrative magic 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z A talented popularizer of science who made regular appearances on TV and radio and also wrote sci-fi, Fred had a good grasp of math and theoretical physics, but also possessed a penchant for unpopular concepts. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z The best physics lesson on television, at least this Sunday night, comes courtesy of “Rick and Morty.” ‘Rick and Morty’ Returns to Destabilize the Universe 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Morality, physics, theology, self-deception and grace pass between them, in halting verbosity and these friezes of guilt and incrimination. Best Performances of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z That’s a shame given that the subject launching “Genius” is Albert Einstein, the 20th century’s face of high intelligence, whose theory of relativity ushered in the era of post-Newtonian physics. Not much “Genius” here: NatGeo’s Einstein series isn’t as great as the grand idea behind it 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z I am despondent that the laws of physics conspire to prevent any conceivable time machine from working. Michael Brooks's top 10 time travel books 2012-11-28T13:38:00Z Helen Arney started performing as a stand-up after graduating in theoretical physics from Imperial College, London, and is now in two science-based comedy shows at the Fringe. Scientists invade Edinburgh Fringe 2013-08-05T06:56:50Z The Japanese soufflé pancake seems to defy pastry physics: An airy vanilla batter is cooked in a pan, which leaves it lightly toasted on each side and cloudlike in the center. Fluffy Japanese Soufflé Pancakes Have American Fans Waiting in Line 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z In each of her fantastical tales, Link creates a new universe from scratch, complete with different laws of physics. A Fantastic, Fantastical Book for the New, Cool Woman in My Life 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z SPAIN: MusikornerLenticular Clouds - Hermanos Humanos Lenticular Clouds is more than a just project, it's a trip through the biggest secrets of modern physics as Albert Zaragoza Gas, the man behind the music, defines it. August's best new music from across the MAP 2011-08-17T17:09:56Z In the context in which he was working in a physics lab, it would have required a more complicated server structure at the start and a bit more work for everybody. Jaron Lanier: the digital pioneer who became a web rebel –interview 2013-03-17T00:05:39Z Also, OWEN’s projection isn’t constrained by the laws of physics; a lot of the humor is visual or slapstick in nature. Building the alternate-universe New York: Novelists Seth Fried and K Chess in conversation 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z He also has a pop-Wagnerian sense of scale, a knack for building large action sequences into frenzied assaults on the laws of physics that nonetheless retain a certain lunatic plausibility. Summer Movies: Some Have a Blast 2011-07-17T01:13:02Z The physics of atoms and their ever-smaller constituents and cousins is, as Adam Becker reminds us more than once in his new book, “What Is Real?,” “the most successful theory in all of science.” What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z "I'm no physicist, but I think quantum physics sort of supports that," Gordon-Levitt said. Toronto film fest opens with time-travel action 2012-09-06T15:35:08Z And she often delivers awkward lines — “I could hold you down like I’m giving lessons in physics” — as if they were punch lines, which they are not. New Music: New Albums by Iggy Azalea, Kelis and Glen David Andrews 2014-04-21T22:02:03Z This is a significant advance in the field of applied potato physics. White Gold Butchers Slices to the Point: Meats Cooked Simply 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z I went to school for biology, and physics was an area of interest. Netflix's existential "Shine Your Eyes" searches for a man who "inhabits the world of fiction" 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z The exhausted, grateful viewer will want to see this scene again, instantly, and to study its explosive physics on the DVD. Spielberg's 3-D Cartoon Adventure: It's Tintinastic! 2011-12-21T18:03:02Z Kids throw up so much sometimes, in fact, that they seem like a physics problem gone awry, a paradox about geometric volume. Motherlode Blog: Emetophobia, Vomiting Children and Me 2013-01-14T19:31:55Z Skilled illusionists look like they are bending the laws of physics. Review: In ‘Open,’ a Love Story Told by Sleight of Hand 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z If we really want to understand the laws of physics – and we do – we need these investments made. Dan Shechtman: 'Linus Pauling said I was talking nonsense' 2013-01-06T00:07:04Z He entered Cornell intending to study electrical engineering but quickly switched to physics, where he felt more freedom to experiment. Lenny Lipton, ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ Lyricist and 3-D Film Pioneer, Dies at 82 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Just like Marie Curie, who earned them for physics and chemistry and is the hero of this particular Wendy, played with a winning perspicacity by Sinclair Daniel. Review | This charming new version of J.M. Barrie’s timeless play is all about girl power 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z After a rough first semester, advisers tried to steer her away from physics. Uber’s Whistle-Blower Is Developing a Movie and Having a Baby 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z Two new books, both written with Musk’s cooperation, now deepen our appreciation of his achievements by showing how Musk’s success comes from his profound understanding of the physics and technology underlying his products. What Makes Elon Musk Different 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z “That is one of those phrases you never thought you would hear, like Vanilla Ice is picking up his Nobel Prize in physics,” said Oliver. John Oliver Can't Believe Donald Trump Is President 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z What you’re seeing is almost physics there, there’s a build up of pressure, and then there’s the release. ArtsBeat: A Documentary Reveals the Dark Side of Conan O'Brien 2011-03-11T14:00:44Z He also graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received a master’s of advanced study at the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. Jia Luo, Daniel Lecoanet 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z The model was created as a computer drawing by Steffan Davies and converted into a scale model using a 3D printer in the university's department of physics and astronomy. King Richard III's medieval inn recreated by archaeologists 2012-12-18T06:40:21Z Sometimes there’s nothing but this movement; but the sheer physics of it make for drama. L.A. Dance Project Takes On Merce Cunningham 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Gwendolyn Warnock, one of the creators of “Baby Universe,” a poignant puppet play inspired by Stephen Hawking’s theoretical physics, said the new piece required the company to extend itself technically. Cyborgs Onstage, Robots in the Wings 2010-12-30T23:58:33Z "I want to go and do a degree in physics - I will have to do an A-level in physics and maths first though," she said. Church to study for physics degree 2014-03-12T14:40:46Z For much of the 20th century, when quantum physicists were making giant leaps in solid-state and high-energy physics, few of them bothered much about foundations. What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z It began life in an Italian newspaper, Il Sole 24 Ore, as a series of breezy introductions to some of the densest corners of physics. The universe, writ small 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z There is serious talk of the Bostrom hypothesis, a theory about reality devised by a real-life Oxford philosopher whose work encompasses theoretical physics, computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence. ‘The Anomaly,’ Part Airplane Thriller and Part Exploration of Reality, Fate and Free Will 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z JN: The chapters I found hardest-going were the ones on randomness and particle physics – though I was much cheered up to discover that the great Richard Feynman said that nobody understands quantum mechanics. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z The conventional rules of physics clearly don’t apply to the House of Black and White or its residents, and I don’t want to obsess too much over details of verisimilitude. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 8: I’m Still Me 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z So were her intellectual interests, which along with art history, included physics, astronomy and theosophy. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z So far, the only guest is Martin, one of Diane’s former physics students. Review | Don DeLillo’s ‘The Silence’ is an absurdist look at our technology dependence 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z That’s the case with Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia,” a dizzying blend of philosophy, physics, higher mathematics and even higher comedy that requires diligent parsing throughout its nearly three-hour running time. Strong cast and inspired staging command your attention in A Noise Within's 'Arcadia' 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z He starts by matching the weird properties and interactions described by the Standard Model of particle physics with the perfectly ordinary blocks of a collection of Legos. Review | Everything explained — in photos, cartoons and Legos 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Something I'm engaged with is evolutionary biology, not physics. Tom Stoppard, beneficiary of the subconscious 2012-02-02T10:54:07Z He lived in defiance of physics and race and gender, and we just kind of lived with that. Michael Jackson Cast a Spell. ‘Leaving Neverland’ Breaks It. 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z We’re in Trump World, where the laws of political physics don’t apply.” Stepping on the message: Trump can’t stop generating bad news amid the good 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Sir Oliver Lodge, a distinguished scientist, professor of physics at Liverpool University, was attracted by the possibility of communicating with his son Raymond, who died at Hooge Hill, near Ypres. The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead by Carl Watkins – review 2013-01-12T09:31:00Z It is all the more dazzling for its sonorous, often fervent voice-over that mixes genesis narratives from different religions and also quantum physics. Aural Installations Take Over New Museum 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Dolnick, a former science writer at The Boston Globe, tells this story in short, punchy chapters, using simple language to explain complex ideas in math and physics. 'The Clockwork Universe': charting the workings of the 17th-century world 2011-03-16T22:19:04Z “Figuring out what quantum physics is saying about the world has been hard,” Becker says, and this understatement motivates his book, a thorough, illuminating exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in modern science. What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Folkloric elements, including a stalking crow and a shape-shifting demon, carry the reader along until quantum physics takes hold of the plot. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Her sprawling philosophy touches on God, quantum physics and the quasi-mystical power of thought to affect the nature of reality. Marianne Williamson’s fans made her the ‘orb queen’ of the 2020 campaign 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z We were subject to the same laws of physics as those that governed the making of stars billions of years ago and everything else since. Rewind TV: Wonders of Life; Jonathan Meades: The Joy of Essex; Derek – review 2013-02-02T22:45:01Z A short list of those forces would include physics, the capital markets, the whims of clients and the passage of time. Harvard's first online architecture course: Does it make the grade? 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z C: Although, when I see other movies with, like, school, and physics, and sciences and stuff, it gives me the confidence to think: “I want to learn more, I want to be a scientist.” ‘Jesus would beat Simba in a fight’ – the Stranger Things kids tackle the big issues 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Incredibly, through ingenuity and hard work, Fowler ended up at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied particle physics and helped design a circuit board for proton therapy cancer treatment. Her Blog Post About Uber Upended Big Tech. Now She’s Written a Memoir. 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z These questions led me to dream that when I grew up I would study physics. Making space: where art meets physics 2012-06-13T17:07:50Z He still vividly remembers when a college professor told him he needed to develop a subspecialty in physics if he wanted to advance in the field. Randall Munroe Explains It All for Us 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Biology has become as reliant on computer power as hard sciences like particle physics or astronomy. Genetics: The number crunchers who are saving lives 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z The Big Idea, suggested by quantum physics, is that all possible lives, past, present and future, exist at once and sometimes cross, allowing sensations from one to seep into the others. Review: Self, Meet Your Future, in ‘A Parallelogram’ 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z That weekend at the racetrack developed into an obsession with auto racing and produced a collection of witty insights gleaned from the physics, exhilaration and culture of amateur racing. Books: A Time to Turn Pages Instead of Corners 2012-12-09T04:17:17Z Using physics to stun and confound is what I do. Style Invitational Week 1239: MASH 3 — combine two movie titles 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Her father was a physics professor and researcher; her mother, Carole, was a painter. A Daughter’s Portrait of Her Mother Through Dementia 2019-05-12T04:00:00Z She graduated from Johns Hopkins University and received a doctoral degree in particle physics from Boston University. When a Friend Grabs Your Phone and Starts Texting 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z The researchers sent 127 applications for a lab manager position in biology, chemistry and physics labs across the country. Study: Male Scientists Employ Fewer Women in Labs 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Using the entirety of their bodies to generate rhythm, these beautiful maniacs inhabit a world equally governed by physics and metaphysics, where they heroically blur violence and finesse. The joy of drumming, with Liturgy’s Greg Fox 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z These endeavours might one day lay bare religious belief in terms of biology, and therefore ultimately in the materialist terms of chemistry and physics. Richard Dawkins’ moralizing atheism: Science, self-righteousness and militant belief — and disbelief 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z Dawkins asks the archbishop of Canterbury if he really believes in miracles such as the virgin birth and the resurrection, happenings in which the laws of physics and biology are suspended. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z At 24, two years into a degree in physics, Daniel Giménez Cacho received a casual invitation to attend a singing class. When Daniel Giménez Cacho Met the Three Amigos 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Weir has made a name for himself among hard-core sci-fi fans for his dizzyingly detailed explanations of the quantum physics, chemistry, engineering, aerodynamics and rocket science underpinning the plots in his novels. Andy Weir’s New Space Odyssey 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z It’s safe to say you’ll learn as much about veterinary medicine as you do about physics from watching this episode. ‘Rick and Morty’ Returns to Destabilize the Universe 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z These principles would provide the basis for deducing everything else, the detailed later chapters covering all of physics. Steven Weinberg: 'I wanted to be on the in – privy to all the secrets of physics' 2013-03-03T00:05:05Z “There were unforgiving laws of physics to overcome,” the authors write. Books of The Times: ?How to Think Like a Neandertal? ? By Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge ? Review 2011-12-27T23:05:30Z The disproportionality between the cosmic “wow” factor and the throwaway means of its illustration makes advanced physics seem all the more miraculous. “Interstellar” Is a Flowery Greeting Card 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z The time has passed when the normally well-educated man without special preparation could understand the most advanced work in, for example, mathematics, philosophy and physics. Milton Babbitt, Composer, Dies at 94 2011-01-30T03:00:14Z Actually, since this is a Michael Bay production, we should say synthetically imaginative; a Bay enterprise obeys no laws of physics, story logic or cinematic integrity. REVIEW: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mock Turtle 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z “You do not want those people teaching the general public. It’s a different skill from being head of the Harvard physics department. We both consider ourselves informal educators, working outside the classroom.” Star talker: Neil deGrasse Tyson on fame, education and tweets 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z But she said she has been impressed by the "experiential lessons" the toy taught about physics. What goes around (and around): Beyblades spin into hot toy 2012-03-23T02:19:04Z Both movies, in their own ways, wrestle with the same head-spinning questions: the mysteries of the universe and the physics of, well, pretty much everything there is. Hawking in Hollywood: How "The Theory of Everything" Got Made 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z The laws of both physics and drama suggest that her reaction will be no less penetrating. Rewind TV: The Kennedys; The Crimson Petal and the White; Louis Theroux: America's Most Hated Family in Crisis; My Brother the Islamist 2011-04-09T23:05:33Z He graduated three short years later from the University of Bristol, and began work in theoretical physics at the University of Edinburgh. The Spy Who Handed America’s Nuclear Secrets to the Soviets 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z The college balked at letting her take math and physics to study astronomy, given her lack of high-school prerequisites. Uber’s Whistle-Blower Is Developing a Movie and Having a Baby 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z He manages — to move from math to physics — an exquisite rendering of what one might call feelings at the subatomic level, emotion’s muons, gluons and quarks. Books of The Times: Paolo Giordano?s ?Solitude of Prime Numbers?: Scarred Souls 2010-03-11T22:53:00Z "She answered the question in the most comprehensive way. It wasn’t just like, 'Well, a car does.' She examined all possibilities, almost from a point of view of physics." Festival of Books: A look inside Brian Grazer's 'Curious Mind' 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z That may well be true, but I longed for more about the specifics of nuclear physics, which Michael Frayn gave us in Copenhagen. The Physicists – review 2012-06-08T11:37:54Z One of the most fundamental in all of physics, it simply says that the amount of disorder, something that physicists label "entropy", increases with the passage of time. Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe by Roger Penrose ? review 2010-10-15T23:14:00Z For another, our narrator, Helen, is a professor of physics, and this is how she understands the world. The Mysteries of Friendship, Illuminated by Spooky Quantum Physics 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z As a young man, Sabato studied physics and earned a doctorate, but became disenchanted with what he saw as the misuse of science. Argentine writer Sabato dies, 99 2011-04-30T17:27:36Z The question of the self and whether there is something beyond just the physics of our life. Director Mike Cahill on his favorite movie, faith, science and existential questions Bomb ballistics, gun gears, phosphorous shells, nuclear detonators: for 80 years, the physics of death was tested and perfected out there on the shining expanses of flint. Robert Macfarlane's Untrue Island: the voices of Orford Ness 2012-07-08T18:01:01Z There are a few displays of superpowers in the early going, but even these are dreamlike, their physics not quite of this earth. Review: In ‘Legion,’ a Hero’s Journey Is a Real Head Trip 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Whether the archaeologists beaming radar into Shakespeare’s grave were able to escape the curse printed above the grave depends on how much you believe in quantum physics. Alas, Poor William Shakespeare. Where Does His Skull Rest? 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Constellations Love and theoretical physics converge in Nick Payne's romantic tale. L.A. theater openings, April 10-17: 'The SuperHero and His Charming Wife' and more 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z For all we know, the "square tube" pasta to which the actor was referring was a tremendous one-off shape, bolstered by some mystery chef's understanding of molecular gastronomy and some bending of typical pasta physics. The peculiar mystery of Nicolas Cage's favorite pasta shape 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z There was a lot to learn, but absorbing the rules and physics was part of the appeal. Experience: I’m a 13-time world champion at real tennis 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z In my newfound enthusiasm for particle physics, I tried to interest my mother in watching a Times video about the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator in the world. The Dark Energy of a Theoretical Physicist 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z But, as I said, we are Americans and we are stronger than physics and an idiot piece of fabric should not be the deciding factor in whether we live or die. AMERICA SURVIVES with Joanna Rothkopf pt. 4: How to survive a parachute malfunction 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Though Maxwell’s physics is deliberately vague, the implications are immediate and real. Generations of Exiles Collide in Post-Katrina New Orleans 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Arthur Avkhadiev, a physics major from Russia who is studying at Brown, argued that there was a silver lining in Russia’s interference in the U.S. elections. Trump’s presidency has prompted a new, nationwide college course on why democracies collapse 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z “It takes three things to look good in New York: eyes, teeth and hair,” said Ms. Gifford, who studied physics and engineering in Romania. A Salon With All the Trimmings 2010-09-03T22:30:00Z Her extensive research involved lots of physics, not to mention consideration of doomed love and radiation poisoning. For Author Lauren Redniss, No Such Thing as Bad Weather 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Wonderful and entirely original, Limbo is an ethereal, monochrome world of immaculate physics puzzles. Nick Gillett's top 10 games of 2010 2010-12-18T00:07:43Z My mother did enjoy some kinds of cooking, mostly where it approximated to physics and chemistry, so she liked making jam and bottling fruit, and she did both very well. Bread and heaven: how compromising over food can save a marriage 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z This is especially true in his case, because he is not popularising accepted theories of physics; he is putting forward a speculative new foundation for the whole of theoretical physics that challenges much accepted wisdom. Time Reborn by Lee Smolin – review 2013-06-06T06:30:01Z Its progenitor was Ernest O. Lawrence, an intense and ambitious South Dakota youth whose passionate inquisitiveness, practical abilities and scientific intuition drew him to experimental physics. ‘Big Science,’ by Michael Hiltzik 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Instead, thinking of physics conjures nightmarish flashbacks of high school memorization. Video Game Review: Physics, With Wormholes by You 2011-05-10T16:13:25Z The same physics apply here: big launch, but a dangerously low orbit. Review | Whatever ‘The Right Stuff’ is, this Disney Plus adaptation could use more of it 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z He graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, from which he also received a master's degree in applied mathematics and physics. Vilsa Curto, Igor Salitskiy 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Cheerful and a little disheveled, he seems in some ways like Marie’s opposite, and we all know what happens to opposites, at least according to the romantic-comedy understanding of the laws of physics. Review: ‘1001 Grams,’ by the Norwegian Filmmaker Bent Hamer, Mixes Levity and Gravity 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Mr. McEuen is a Cornell University physics professor whose areas of expertise, according to his faculty biography, include “the science and technology of nanoscience” and “novel fabrication techniques at the nanometer scale.” Very, Very Bad Things, Very, Very Tiny Packages 2011-03-13T22:52:19Z For Weinberg we are at a dangerous point in the history of physics. Steven Weinberg: 'I wanted to be on the in – privy to all the secrets of physics' 2013-03-03T00:05:05Z Are you saying that women are better at the physics of grilling? Award-winning barbecue guru Steve Raichlen on summer grilling: "Less meat, more vegetables" 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z The mostly young and little-known cast is a conglomeration of Feigean misfits engaged in sibling rivalry, romantic longings and institutional satire, with the added component of physics as farce. Q&A: Paul Feig on 'Other Space' and the comedy of close quarters 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z "We had a computer lab, we had oceanography, we had anatomy, we had physics, that's where it started." Will.i.am: 'I want to write code!' 2012-12-15T23:00:05Z The other two are physics students: Eva, the Ambitious Climber, and Benedict, the Shy Rich Guy. Review: ‘Invincible Summer’ Focuses on Friendships Built to Survive Crises 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z One of the year’s signature rap stylists, Remble declaims like he’s giving a physics lecture, all punching-bag emphasis and tricky internal rhymes. 15 Songs We Almost Missed This Year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z As a junior at Princeton University, in 1976, Phillips bet that he could design an atomic bomb for one of his physics classes. This site bet big on political gambling. Regulators want it shut down. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z But most agree that the known facts of physics do not fit any alternative unifying theory. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z This makes my list not for its erotic merits, but for the sheer physics of it. The best of Reddit porn 2013-09-14T23:34:00Z What about a series of girls' novels about kung fu, space exploration, forming a rock band, mountaineering, free running, sky diving, astronomy, international espionage or nuclear physics? Girls' fiction needs to learn some new routines 2010-10-06T10:43:00Z Demonstrating the structure to publishers, Pears explained that the novel was inspired by quantum physics, and written in "nodes" which had been mapped on to a graph constructed after consultation with an Oxford mathematics professor. Next-generation ebooks introduced at London Book Fair 2013-04-17T10:55:36Z She stirred Voltaire’s interest in science, but he couldn’t follow her into the depths of Newtonian physics, lacking her prodigious mathematical skills. Critic?s Notebook: A Mistress of Voltaire, Set to Video 2011-06-05T22:05:53Z Prizes are given for physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry, economic science, literature and peace work. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z There’s another idea called libertarian free will, which says that human beings are a law unto themselves, not governed by the laws of physics. ‘Westworld’ and ‘Devs’ Asked Big Questions. A Physicist Responds. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z There’s another way of talking about the laws of physics being deterministic and so forth. ‘Westworld’ and ‘Devs’ Asked Big Questions. A Physicist Responds. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z At the University of California, Berkeley, Tom studied physics and then literature, graduating with a B.A. in English. Tom Luddy, a Behind-the-Scenes Force in Cinema, Dies at 79 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z “It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is,” Bohr said. What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z The professor will be answering your questions about astronomy, particle physics and the Wonders of the Universe between 1 and 2pm on Thursday. Brian Cox answers your questions about life, the universe and everything 2011-03-24T07:45:00Z Peralta, a polymath who got his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wales, is the son of the Filipino anthropologist/playwright Jesus T. Peralta and the abstract artist Rosario Bitanga-Peralta. A Time Capsule of Human Creativity, Stored in the Sky 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z A Future With Swords, Not iPhones Armageddon comes in every shade of black: nuclear war, global warming, pandemic, alien invasion, zombie takeover or, even in some cases, a quirk of physics. Television Review: ‘Revolution,’ From J. J. Abrams and Eric Kripke, on NBC 2012-09-16T22:07:53Z On both shows, the laws of physics are used to reframe the idea of morality. ‘Westworld’ and ‘Devs’ Asked Big Questions. A Physicist Responds. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Any movie based on comic book has the right — even the obligation — to play fast and loose with mortality, whether by way of supernatural powers, time travel or the quantum physics of brand extension. Perspective | In an era of never-ending stories, ‘Avengers: Endgame’ is teaching us how to say goodbye 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z |
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