Sentence examples for speculative physics from inspiring English sources
Inflation has always involved some highly speculative physics.
Were he to page through the opening sections, he would see that the Hartley wrote for a reader already familiar with technical concepts in, for example, anatomy and physiology, and in the speculative physics in Newton's Opticks.
According to Rees, the Instauratio Magna comprises two branches: (1) Bacon's famous scientific method, and (2) his semi-Paracelsian world system as "a vast, comprehensive system of speculative physics" (Rees 1986, 418).
Nevertheless, given that at least some directions for potential verification have been suggested, a number of influential physicists are convinced that the multiverse hypothesis should be regarded as speculative physics rather than as metaphysics.
And yet in today's climate of harsh realities and impact-obsessed purse-string holders, Higgs would have been unlikely to receive any funding to conduct his research – for he was something of a maverick who worked alone in an unfashionable area of speculative theoretical physics.
This means that with a few assumptions about the mix of W and Z bosons in the data (which implies assuming something about the speculative new physics) the hadronic jet data can be combined with the lepton data, to see what that might tell us.
Others talk of "topological defects"—kinks in the space-time continuum predicted by some speculative theories of physics.
Other theorists pin their hopes on "quintessence," other energy fields predicted by speculative theories of physics, or even interactions with a parallel universe.
Plainly, Hawking can appreciate the ironies implicit in the speculative side of quantum physics.
And given that it's a show about math and particle physics and speculative neuroscience built around interviews with prominent academics, it could also have been as dry and airless as deep space.
Like his contemporaries, he understood the speculative sub-disciplines of physics as an orderly progression of teachings.
