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In any case, general relativity directly contradicts quantum mechanics, the other great physical theory of the 20th century, so more and more precise tests need to be carried out to find out what cracks might exist in either theory.
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The idea has been debated in the scientific literature, but presentations at the American Physical Society meeting put the theory on firmer footing.
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This research, published recently in Physical Review Letters, supports a theory put forward several years ago by John Abrahamson, a chemical engineer from the University of Canterbury, in New Zealand.
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Ginzburg was the former head of the theory group at the PN Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow.
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They think, for instance, that deputies threatened with imprisonment two were recently sentenced to jail terms, in apparent violation of their immunity should in fact, as well as in theory, be able to take physical refuge in the parliament building.
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That string theory may someday explain everything about the physical universe.
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He wrote two scientific papers on his theory and was eventually published in the Physical Review Letters journal, sparking a 40-year hunt for the Higgs boson.
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In 2008, Dr Cummer first described the theory of acoustic cloaking in an article in Physical Review Letters, and earlier this year a group from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign demonstrated the first practical use of the theory in an article in the same journal.
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