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A dialogue with nature; The physics of mass.(The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 9/6/2008; 700+ words
; ...fill it up, most famously with ether as a hypothetical medium, have...a fascinating twist, modern physics challenges the ancient dichotomy...turns out to be a new kind of ether, a patchwork of quantum fields...Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether and the Unification of Forces...
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New macromolecular physics study findings have been reported by H. Nakajima and colleagues.
Newspaper article from: Physics Week; 5/19/2009; 563 words
; ...homogeneously with diphenyl ether (DE) at high temperature in...Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics (Formation of Crystallosolvates...L-lactide) and Diphenyl Ether. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 2009;210(6):440-446...
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CHINA INDUSTRIALIZES DIMETHYL ETHER/METHANOL TO OLEFIN TECH.
News Wire article from: AsiaPulse News; 10/10/2007; 700+ words
; ...Pulse - Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences hast...equipped by self-developed dimethyl ether methanol to olefin (DMTO) technology. Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics set up a special research team to develop...
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Extreme measures: Atom interferometry's precision could make it the Swiss Army knife of physics.
Magazine article from: Science News; 2/16/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...becoming the Swiss Army knife of physics. It has the potential to steer...to detect the "luminiferous ether," then thought to occupy all...supposedly a vibration of the ether, scientists thought. If so...Earth's motion through the ether would alter the velocities of...
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Today's physics questions evoke 1904's lessons.
Newspaper article from: Dallas Morning News; 8/30/2004; 700+ words
; ...future. Several speakers in the physics and mathematics sections identified...gravity and the properties of the ether, the supposed medium whose...attraction should involve the ether also, but nobody knew how...third mode of activity of the ether, whose connection with the...
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Today's physics questions evoke 1904's lessons.(The Dallas Morning News)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 8/31/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...future. Several speakers in the physics and mathematics sections identified...gravity and the properties of the ether, the supposed medium whose...attraction should involve the ether also, but nobody knew how...third mode of activity of the ether, whose connection with the...
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New chemical physics study results reported from Aarhus University.
Newspaper article from: Physics Week; 1/13/2009; 700+ words
; ...complex with 18-crown-6-ether (CE) after photoexcitation...find that attachment of crown ether significantly alters the dissociation...study in the Journal of Chemical Physics (Photodissociation of protonated...pathways by complexation with crown ether. Journal of Chemical Physics...
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Study findings on chemical physics are outlined in reports from M.L. Senent and colleagues.
Newspaper article from: Physics Week; 3/31/2009; 646 words
; ...published in the Journal of Chemical Physics, "Band positions and intensities...infrared bands of ethyl methyl ether are variationally determined...study in the Journal of Chemical Physics (CCSD(T) study of the far...infrared spectrum of ethyl methyl ether. Journal of Chemical Physics...
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New chemical physics research from University of Colorado described.(Report)
Newspaper article from: Physics Week; 12/1/2009; 700+ words
; ...the Journal of Chemical Physics report. "In this paper...cavities in a series of ether solvents: THF, diethyl ether, 1,2-dimethoxyethane...the entire series of ethers contains pre-existing...cavities in the different ethers. We find that the cavities...same energy in all four ether ...
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Investigators at University of Leicester zero in on chemical physics.
Newspaper article from: Physics Week; 2/10/2009; 700+ words
; ...Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (Viscoelastic characterization of benzo-crown ether functionalized electroactive...Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2009;11(2):268...Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics is: Royal Society Chemistry...
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ether
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
ether In physics, hypothetical medium that was supposed to fill all space and offer no resistance to motion. It was postulated as a medium to support the propagation of electromagnetic radiations, but was disproved.
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Ether
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...bubbles — not of the ether — matter was said...combined to form each objects. Ether became the subject of one of the more famous experiments in physics, by Albert Abraham Michelson...manner that the presence of ether would slow one of the waves...
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aether
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
aether see ether , in physics and astronomy.
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Physics
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
PHYSICS PHYSICS This entry includes 4 subentries: Overview High-Energy Physics Nuclear Physics Solid-State Physics...Michelson interferometer during his famed ether drift experiment in 1881. During the...
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Bjerrum, Niels Janniksen
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...30 September 1958) chemistry, physics, history of science . Bjerrum...of light, relativity and the physics of the ether, and the structure of the atom...s contributions to chemical physics, an outgrowth of his work with...
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