How to Use field theory in a Sentence
field theory
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In fact, most of us were outsiders to cosmology, doing our main work in the fields of particle physics and quantum-field theory.
—Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
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The first is conformal field theory or CFT which describes particle physics on the smallest quantum scales.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2022
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Fischler called him the father of effective field theory.
—BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021
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The second reason has to do with Weinberg’s effective field theory.
—WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
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On the first day (yesterday, by now), my favorite talk was by Leonardo Senatore on the effective field theory of inflation.
—Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2011
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In this system, the entire region of spacetime is built out of interactions between the components of the quantum system in the conformal field theory.
—Adam Becker, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2022
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But the conformal field theory that linked the monster group to the j-function was just one example of an infinite number of conformal field theories.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
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The documentary posits a unified field theory of fin de siècle snark, where the nascent internet and the cynical sarcasm of David Letterman combined to form a bitter brew.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022
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Nothing thereafter came close, and his lifelong ambition, a unified field theory, escaped him.
—The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2019
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Kaku, a physicist at the City University of New York and a leading proponent of string field theory, traces the effort to merge relativity and quantum theory, uniting the laws that govern the very large and the very small.
—New York Times, 6 Apr. 2021
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Adding gravity to the act, the issue featured an essay by Einstein that propounded a comprehensive field theory that would hold physics together.
—Alfred W. McCoy, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
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Conformal field theory, geometric entities, before and after that exist only in the head—and, in this despotic head, a big muddle and great confusion.
—Claudio Magris, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
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Effective field theory fixes the problem by accounting for the interplay between scales only down to a few times the distance between galaxies.
—Quanta Magazine, 12 Feb. 2014
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The couple, working with Luftwerk, a Chicago studio that does large-scale projects for public buildings, added a huge interior light installation inspired by Netsch’s field theory.
—J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021
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His textbooks on quantum field theory were a godsend, and his perspectives on the inevitability of quantum field theory and on effective field theory formed the foundation of my picture of the world.
—Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2021
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My contribution was — along with professor Keiji Kikkawa — to create string field theory, which can summarize string theory in an equation about 1-inch long.
—Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2021
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Quantum field theory, which had been used successfully to explain electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force, wasn’t cutting it, so physicists were eager for something new.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2023
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But, strangely, the calculation that came closest used an oversimplified model of the nuclear force—not the chiral effective field theory.
—WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
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Maldacena looked at the conformal field theory describing D-branes without gravity on the one hand and an AdS theory with one more dimension of space, but with gravity, on the other.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2022
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Her controversial work with patients with dissociative identity disorder led her to develop a field theory of what makes a killer.
—Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2020
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Maldacena looked at the conformal field theory describing D-branes without gravity on the one hand and an AdS theory with one more dimension of space and including gravity on the other.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
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Quantum field theory depicts discrete particles as excitations in continuous fields that stretch across space and time.
—Thomas Lewton, Wired, 1 Aug. 2021
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An effective field theory is a way of using symmetries to sum up the effects of many unknown high-energy effects in a relatively simple low-energy description.
—Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2011
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And so physicists have continued to study conformal field theories by looking at their associated modular forms.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
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Quantum field theory describes particles as excitations in underlying fields, like ripples in a pond.
—Quanta Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
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This is consistent too with the argument that locality must be fundamentally lost: the dual picture is holographic, formulated in terms of field theory degrees of freedom that are projected on the boundary of the space rather than living inside it.
—Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2012
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Photograph: Angelika Stehle In 2013, Bacca used this effective field theory to predict how much an excited helium nucleus would swell.
—WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
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Conformal field theory is a type of quantum field theory that has certain special mathematical properties.
—Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2023
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