If confirmed, the findings could lead to a conceptual breakthrough in physics.
But we need a fairly major breakthrough in physics before we'll be able to progress any further.
The assertion — based on the premise that he had discovered a way to easily split the oxygen and hydrogen atoms in water molecules with almost no energy — would, if proven, represent a stunning breakthrough for physics and a near-magical solution to Pakistan's desperate power crisis.
A team of physicists based at the University of Rome has generated both intense excitement and profound skepticism among scientists around the world by presenting evidence that they may have detected a heavy particle that could solve a 70-year-old mystery in astronomy and lead to a conceptual breakthrough in physics.
Of course whether or not my art is predicting the next major breakthrough in physics remains to be seen.
So how is it that folks in Chicago have to stay up until (or wake up at) 2 a.m. on our national day of independence to bear witness to the most colossal breakthrough in physics the post-Boomer generation will have known?
Dr. Newman argues that Sir Isaac's alchemical investigations helped yield one of his fundamental breakthroughs in physics: his discovery that white light is a mixture of colored rays, and that a sunbeam prismatically fractured into the familiar rainbow suite called Roy G. Biv can with a lens be resolved to tidy white sunbeam once again.
Though he was involved in numerous breakthroughs in physics research and accelerator design, perhaps his crowning achievement came when he led the design and construction of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in what was then farmland west of Chicago.
They say corporations focus largely on near-term goals -- projects that can be expected to turn into moneymakers in relatively short order -- rather than the long-range, blue sky research that has produced some of the most important breakthroughs in physics, medicine, energy and understanding the universe.
Since many of the fundamental breakthroughs in physics have presumably already been made, perhaps the Nobel Committee will continue this trend in the future.
