Example sentences for: physicists

How can you use “physicists” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Through diagrams and interviews with physicists, the story describes how separate universes could break away from ours (a bit like a soap bubble dividing in two).

  • Still, they enjoy a brief existence of a sort, and names for them, honoring physicists and the locations of their laboratories, are already queued up awaiting approval by the scientific community at large: Rutherfordium for #104 (Ernest Rutherford), Dubnium for #105 (after the Russian lab at Dubna), Seaborgium for #106 (Glenn Seaborg), Bohrium for #107 (Niels Bohr), Hassium for #108 (Hesse province in Germany, where the Darmstadt lab is located) and—the first element to be named solely for a woman—Meitnerium for #109 (Lise Meitner).

  • Physicists believe the Big Bang should have formed "monopoles," but they can't find or make them.

  • Some physicists assert that there is a tiny but real risk that the machine might create "strangelets," a new type of matter made up of strange quarks, which might start an uncontrollable chain reaction, converting anything they touch into more strange matter.

  • For many years quantum leap (or jump ) belonged exclusively to the physicists, but during the past quarter-century or so it has come to be used metaphorically by speakers and writers who like to flaunt that sort of thing.


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