Word: physicists
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...deeds of the perfidious Klaus Fuchs, the German emigre who furnished the Russians with not only a hand-drawn model of the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki but also the theoretical plans for making the H-bomb. As scientist Hans Bethe remarked later, Fuchs was "the only physicist I know who truly changed history"--but he changed it by passing on nature's secrets, not discovering them...
...personal tragedy that brought Pagels to reflect on Satan. In 1987 her six-year-old son Mark died of a respiratory illness. Fifteen months later, her husband Heinz, a physicist, fell to his death while hiking in Colorado. Eventually, Pagels found herself reflecting on the ways in which an invisible presence, like her missing loved ones, holds power over the living. In that frame of mind she turned to the early church and its invisible enemy...
When Cornell and fellow physicists at the JILA laboratory (formerly the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics) in Boulder, Colorado, announced their achievement in Science last week, their colleagues around the world were quick to cheer. "The term Holy Grail seems quite appropriate, given the singular importance of this discovery," wrote Oxford physicist Keith Burnett in a commentary that accompanied the report...
...physicists' excitement comes partly from the intellectual pleasure of seeing an important scientific loose end tied up at last. When Einstein first suggested the idea of BEC back in the 1920s, building on the work of the Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose, quantum mechanics was a new and controversial field. Among its stranger assertions -- long since confirmed -- was that atoms and other elementary particles can also be thought of as waves. The waves are really waves of probability, which describe where an atom is most likely to be at a given moment (Heisenberg's uncertainty principle dictates that...
...believes the journey has barely begun and that there are bound to be surprises in store. Certainly, science has finally started to shed light on a puzzle that is not just abstract and philosophical, but intimately familiar to anyone who gives it a moment's thought. But as physicist Penrose has suggested, the notion that the human mind can ever fully comprehend the human mind could well be folly. It may be that scientists will eventually have to acknowledge the existence of something beyond their ken-something that might be described as the soul...