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  2. Beamtimes and Lifetimes - Wikipedia

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    Creating these contacts and networks, that can then be tapped for opportunities, information, and support for ideas, is conceptualized by sociologists as a process of developing and leveraging social capital. [10] In Beamtimes and Lifetimes, Traweek aims to shed light on how high energy physicists create agreement and common understanding. She ...

  3. Anthropic principle - Wikipedia

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    The anthropic principle, also known as the observation selection effect, is the proposition that the range of possible observations that could be made about the universe is limited by the fact that observations are possible only in the type of universe that is capable of developing intelligent life.

  4. List of fictional scientists and engineers - Wikipedia

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    Dr. Samuel Hayden (Doom (franchise)) – Head of the UAC, physicist. Tobias Planck (Pirate Galaxy) – named after Max Planck, he is a theoretical physicist and field scientist with a parietal lobe 15% larger than average; Dr. W.D. Gaster – former royal scientist who speaks in the Wingdings font

  5. Physicists to find out if we are living in a hologram

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    Physicist Max Planck, the father. Government scientists working out of trailer in Illinois are testing out the hypothesis that we're all living in a holographic world. Yes, that means that Albert ...

  6. Physical cosmology - Wikipedia

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    Physical cosmology is a branch of cosmology concerned with the study of cosmological models. A cosmological model, or simply cosmology, provides a description of the largest-scale structures and dynamics of the universe and allows study of fundamental questions about its origin, structure, evolution, and ultimate fate. [1]

  7. Forced perspective - Wikipedia

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    Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera .

  8. How people define beauty in 19 different countries - AOL

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    Ester Honig, a human interest reporter, sent out a photograph of herself to 40 different photo editors in 25 different countries and gave them a single task -- to make her look beautiful.

  9. Physicist - Wikipedia

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    As per the American Institute of Physics, some 20% of new physics Ph.D.s holds jobs in engineering development programs, while 14% turn to computer software and about 11% are in business/education. [12] A majority of physicists employed apply their skills and training to interdisciplinary sectors (e.g. finance [13]). [14]