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Discover LudwigThe phrase "abstract physicist" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a physicist who focuses on theoretical concepts and models rather than experimental work.
Example: "The abstract physicist spent years developing a new theory to explain the fundamental forces of nature."
Alternatives: "theoretical physicist" or "conceptual physicist".
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And there will be a new continuum from the abstract physicist to the engineering people who are actually going to build devices".
The late abstract physicist David Bohm liked to talk about the "unfolding of everything," a Hindu-sounding phrase to do with links between living and non-living things.
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While that distinction may sound abstract, it lets physicists account for all known matter in the universe.
By joining decades of experimental data with an abstract conceptual framework, physicists have developed a theory called the Standard Model that successfully describes the known properties of all matter in the universe.
He gave me several papers to read, and I have to admit that I felt stranded at first--the mathematics was hard and abstract, even for a theoretical physicist.
Although the original Church-Turing thesis involved the abstract mathematical notion of computability, physicists as well as computer scientists often interpret it as saying something about the scope and limitations of physical computing machines.
Alas, their advice is "too abstract and difficult to understand", scoffs one physicist.
Physicists uncomfortable with Heisenberg's abstract mathematics took up with a friendlier version of quantum mechanics based on the familiar mathematics of waves.
"Science and Religion Share Fascination in Things Unseen" (Essay, Nov. 8) speculates on an evolutionary basis for both the abstract theories embedded in religious belief and physicists' faith in their abstract theories.
What physicists and chemists do is abstract away from such differences, treating any instance like any other.
Like many number lovers who don't want to do pure, abstract math, James decided to be an academic physicist.
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