7 sentences with 'physicists'
Example sentences and phrases with the word physicists and other words derived from it.
• « Some physicists have hypothesized that lightning may have contributed to the creation of life. »
• « As noted above, the word "philosophy" literally means "love of knowledge", and Greek philosophers did much more than contemplate the meaning of life; they were often mathematicians, physicists and literary critics, as well as "philosophers" in the sense in which that word is used today. »
• « Quantum theory, developed by physicists in the 1920s, further challenges the Newtonian concept of the predictable universe, arguing that the subatomic particles of matter behave unpredictably, so that the universe, at its deepest level, operates in an indeterminate way. »
• « After concluding that he was not going to die as soon as the doctors had predicted, and because he was one of the few physicists who believed that the universe really was born out of a singularity, Stephen Hawking joined forces with Roger Penrose to investigate black holes, a study that would eventually lead to the first partial marriage of quantum theory and relativity theory. »
• « Believe it or not, it is still difficult - even for the most experienced physicists - to define precisely what electrical energy is. »
• « While searching for the unifying theory of the laws of the universe, physicists realised - hypothetically - that the quarks inside the proton sometimes transform into leptons, causing the proton to disintegrate. But then this should have been going on for billions of years, and since matter is still abundant - although it is not known for sure if it is as abundant as it was then - the theory would be wrong. »
• « No, say theoretical physicists, what happens is that protons decay very slowly, almost undetectably by measuring devices. These little guys would live a whopping 10 to 29 years. Thank God they are in no hurry to immolate themselves. »