Another appliance-related challenge cropped up the night before the party, when I tried to bend the laws of physics and stuff food, raw and prepped, for 9.5 people into the refrigerator and freezer.
Since starting in January 2008, "I've worked with electrical engineering, chemistry, physics--stuff that I really hadn't encountered before," Leonard says. . Researchers accustomed to working intensely on a single project for months or years need to adapt to different time frames when they move into technology transfer.
We think about, say, physics, as being stuff that takes place in black holes, and then at the atomic level.
I know you didn't click through looking for a lecture on physics, but this stuff is crazy enough to warrant your attention.
Hard-science degrees (biology, physics, the tough stuff) have been stuck at 12% of college degrees over the last 20 years, with engineering currently representing 5% of degrees, down from 11%.
Now, some viewers — kids under twenty, and professors of quantum physics — will eat this stuff for breakfast, relishing each spicy counterfactual twist.
It was only a matter of time before creative programmers were developing programs to showcase the laws of physics (and other scientific stuff).
Computers also allow Reznor to invent imaginary instruments, such as ones with "impossibly long strings and neck lengths, stuff that physics wouldn't allow us to do," he said.
Einstein and Infeld, on the other hand, in places seem to argue that we can infer that the fundamental stuff of physics is fields.
Zahar argues that mass-energy equivalence entails that the fundamental stuff of physics is a sort of "I-know-not-what" that can manifest itself as either matter or field.
