"This is the start of a new story of physics, " said Tony Weidberg, Oxford University physicist and a collaborator on the Atlas experiment.
"I don't see it as a new theory, I don't even see it as a new philosophy, " says Arthur Zajonc, a physicist at Amherst University, who says that many of Lanza's arguments have been made by others over the last century.
Bill Barnes, a physicist at the University of Exeter, in England, is trying to do just that.
Govindasamy Bala is a physicist at the University of California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and specializes in climate change.
One of the leading proponents of the liquid-mirror approach is Ermanno Borra, a physicist at Laval University in Quebec.
But in 1985, David Deutsch, a physicist at Oxford University, came up with a thought experiment that might do this.
Simon Fiorucci, 31, a physicist from Brown University, says working underground isn't that different from being in any other windowless lab.
Dr Jamal Ghabboun, a Palestinian physicist from Bethlehem University, said he had never imagined that he could collaborate in this way.
Fred Adams, a physicist at the University of Michigan, has proposed a novel way in which the earth might escape this fate.
In the 1970s, however, Dr Hawking, a physicist at Cambridge University, used quantum mechanics to predict that black holes are not, in fact, completely black.
But according to Daniel Gauthier, a physicist at Duke University in North Carolina, if cardiac fibrillation is chaotic, it is not the usual kind of chaos.
"We've never seen an elementary particle with spin zero, " said Tony Weidberg, a particle physicist at the University of Oxford who is also involved in the CERN experiments.
However Chunqi Jiang, a physicist at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and her colleagues have come up with a possible alternative: a dental plasma torch.
John Hannay, a theoretical physicist at Bristol University, believes he has come up with a three-line proof which shows beyond doubt that Dr Ardavan's mathematics must be flawed.
As if that were not bad enough, Tsuyoshi Hondou, a physicist at Tohoku University in Japan, published a paper in 2002 that gave commuters yet another reason to feel uncomfortable.
Then, in 1999, Achim Wixforth, a physicist at the University of Augsburg, in Germany, discovered that when small quantities of liquid were placed in their path, they caused it to stir.
"When you have such a big mass in such a small space you have extremely high gravity, " said Charles Wang, a theoretical physicist at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, who wasn't involved in the study.
"The scientists are right to be extremely cautious about interpreting these findings, " said Jim Al-Khalili, a physicist from the University of Surrey, who suggested that a simple error in the measurement is probably the source of all the fuss.
Experiments currently being undertaken at Stanford, and also by John Price, a physicist at the University of Colorado, will measure the force of gravity over a distance of less than a millimetre (the size of loop expected if there are only two extra gravity-swallowing dimensions).
Irritated by the waffle that often surrounds discussions of energy and climate change, Mr MacKay, a physicist at Cambridge University, has chosen to illustrate the challenge of breaking our fossil-fuel addiction armed only with the laws of physics, reams of publicly available information and the back of an envelope.
Taha Yasseri, a physicist at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, created a mathematical model that takes into account data such as the number of readers and editors for the Wikipedia page.
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Andrew Kent, a physicist at New York University, spends most days running electricity through a magnet smaller in diameter than a single cell, trying to determine the lowest current at which an electron's spin changes orientation.
Chu, a 60-year-old Nobel prize winning physicist from Stanford University, came to Washington with a mandate from the president to increase the nation's production of clean, renewable power, make the electric grid more intelligent and improve overall energy efficiency.
Mr. Beckers, a 39-year-old physicist from France, graduated from Stanford University with a master's of business degree in 2011 and set out to build software that could decipher heart defects from MRI readings.
In the spring of 2010, a theoretical physicist called Stephen Hsu from the University of Oregon visited BGI.
In came Mitsuo Ohtsuki, a no-nonsense physicist trained at the University of Chicago.
She grew up in the shadow of Harvard University, the daughter of a painter and a physicist.
Prof Athene Donald, a physicist and gender equality champion at the University of Cambridge also feels a lack of role models is partly to blame.
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Sudarshan, is a prominent physicist, author, and professor at The University of Texas at Austin.
The documents were rooted out by a Russian physicist, Andrey Zayakin, who works at a university in Spain.
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