And as medical treatment becomes increasingly personalised, the medical physicist should be aware of at least some of the impact that the genomic profile of an individual has in determining the true phenotyping of their condition and how this affects any imaging probe being used for diagnosis, staging or monitoring therapy response.
Physicists should be able to predict all the parameters of nature, Dr. Gross said, adding, "They're not adjustable".
By examining the oscillations, to learn of these differences, physicists should be able to ascertain whether neutrinos resemble other sub-atomic species, such as quarks and charged leptons (a family which includes the electron), or are a category apart.
B.F.: Given the number of physicists that were involved in the design of structured financial products and so on, I think it's only fair that a physicist should contribute some effort to straightening out the mess.
While federal judges feuded over whether jailed nuclear physicist Wen Ho Lee should be released to home detention before his trial in November, the country's scientific establishment attacked Attorney General Janet Reno over the way Lee is being treated.
They explained that the talents of a trained physicist should not be wasted on artistic "trivia".
That would knock the problem of stiction firmly on the head and, according to Dr Capasso, would open up the possibility of making things like frictionless ball-bearings.According to calculations made several decades ago by Evgeny Lifshitz, a Russian physicist, Casimir repulsion should be possible but you have to replace the vacuum with a fluid.
The collider, today hailed as a triumph of science and engineering, was almost cancelled on several occasions, a point that should be noted by those physicists who are now dreaming of a successor.
Some years ago it was decided that a European curriculum should be developed for medical physicists professionally engaged in the support of clinical diagnostic imaging departments.
