-According to a model based on " loop quantum gravity " theory, a parent universe that existed before ours may have left an imprint ( New Scientist, 10 April 2008 )

In 2008, Kaku hosted the three-hour BBC-TV documentary Visions of the Future, on the future of computers, medicine, and quantum physics, and he appeared in several episodes of the History Channel's Universe series.

The implications Hawking had opined led to the Susskind-Hawking battle, where Leonard Susskind and Gerard't Hooft publicly ' declared war ' on Hawking's solution, with Susskind publishing a popular book about the debate in 2008 ( The Black Hole War: My battle with Stephen Hawking to make the world safe for quantum mechanics, ISBN 978-0-316-01640-7 ).

In physics, the Lamb shift, named after Willis Lamb ( 1913 – 2008 ), is a small difference in energy between two energy levels and ( in term symbol notation ) of the hydrogen atom in quantum electrodynamics ( QED ).

Long and David Sedley ( 1987 ), the philosopher Alfred Mele ( 1995 ), the astrophysicist and philosopher Bob Doyle ( inventor ) ( 2008 ), and most recently, the neurogeneticist and biologist Martin Heisenberg ( 2009 ), son of the physicist Werner Heisenberg, whose quantum indeterminacy principle lies at the foundation of indeterministic physics.

" Paul Alivisatos has been a world leader in the synthesis of artificial nanostructures and quantum dot technology, and one of the principal scientific drivers behind the use of nanoscience technologies to create a new generation of solar photovoltaic cells ," Steve Chu said when he named Alivisatos as Berkeley Lab ’ s deputy director in 2008.

* A. Friedenauer, H. Schmitz, J. T. Glueckert, D. Porras, and T. Schaetz, " Simulating a quantum magnet with trapped ions " Nature Physics 4, 757-761 ( 2008 ).

Frederick Seitz ( July 4, 1911 – March 2, 2008 ) was an American physicist and a pioneer of solid state physics.

* S. Esposito, Ettore Majorana and his heritage seventy years later, arxiv: physics. hist-ph / 0803. 3602 ( 2008 ).

Birmingham was ranked 12th in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise with 16 percent of the university's research regarded as ' world-leading ' and a further 41 percent as ' internationally excellent ', with particular strengths in the fields of music, physics, biosciences, computer science, mechanical engineering, political science, international relations and law.

The name was again changed in 2008 to the " Research School of Physics and Engineering " to coincide with the merger with ANU's undergraduate physics teaching department. For much of the early years the focus of a large part of the school was designing, re-designing and building a cyclo-synchrotron that in its final intended form was to produce a beam of 10. 6 GeV protons for nuclear physics research.

On October 7, 2008, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics to three scientists for their work in subatomic physics symmetry breaking.

In 2008 he received an Honorary Fellowship from Swansea University for his work in particle physics.

* Tokuo Yamamoto, professor of applied marine physics at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami ; recipient of the 2008 Alan Berman Research Publication Award

They were essential in establishing the foundations of the Standard Model of particle physics, such as the quark model of hadrons and the theory of quark mixing ( the latter was acknowledged by a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 ).

In 2008, The Board of Regents of the University of Michigan approved a posthumous Bachelor of Science degree with a concentration in physics for Radulovich.

He is principally known as the author of three highly regarded textbooks for undergraduate physics students: Introduction to Elementary Particles ( published in 1987, second edition published 2008 ), Introduction to Quantum Mechanics ( published in 1995, second edition published 2004 ), and Introduction to Electrodynamics ( published in 1981, third edition published in 1999 ).

They include computations in biology and biochemical systems ( e. g. Egri-Nagy & Nehaniv 2008 ), artificial intelligence, finite-state physics, psychology, and game theory ( see, for example, Rhodes 2009 ).

* Kalil T. Swain Oldham, The doctrine of description: Gustav Kirchhoff, classical physics, and the " purpose of all science " in 19th-century Germany, ProQuest, 2008, ISBN 0-549-83131-2.

He was awarded the 2008 TED Prize for his work in mathematical physics and in establishing the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Muizenberg.

In 2008, Havok was honored at the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for advancing the development of physics engines in electronic entertainment.

In August 2008 he joined the faculty at Arizona State University as Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the department of physics in the college of liberal arts and sciences, and director of a university initiative, the Origins Project.

Known for his contributions to the field of theoretical physics, he was awarded a one-half share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.

He was awarded one-half of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics " for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics ".

Bill Thomlinson retired in 2008, and in May of that year physics professor Josef Hormes of the University of Bonn, former director of the CAMD synchrotron at Louisiana State University was announced as the new director.

For his contributions to particle and solid state physics he was awarded the Max Born prize 2008 with Medal.

* Chip Kidd's 2008 novel The Learners is about the Milgram experiment, and features Stanley Milgram as a character.

In 2008, folk musician Dar Williams released a song called " Buzzer ", in which the narrator participated in the Milgram experiment.

The 2008 episode " Authority " of Law and Order: SVU has Detective Munch mentioning Milgram's experiment in reference to corporate training at HappiBurger ( a McDonalds-like restaurant ).

* 2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

This phase of the experiment collected data from October 2006 till August 2008.

By the end of the year, they extended the experiment in to 2008.

Many other states ( such as New Jersey ) have some form of limited financial assistance for candidates, but New Jersey's experiment with Clean Elections was ended in 2008, in part due to a sense that the program failed to accomplish its goals.

It was announced on September 3, 2008 that a new particle, the bottom Omega baryon () was discovered at the DØ experiment of Fermilab.

The GSI repeated the experiment with higher sensitivity in three separate runs from April – May 2007, Jan – March 2008, and Sept – Oct 2008, all with negative results and providing a cross section limit of 90 fb.

# Research on extraterrestrial HF radar echos: the Lunar Echo experiment ( 2008 ).

The band's recent albums, i ( 2004 ) and Distortion ( 2008 ), both followed the album theme structure of 69 Love Songs: The song titles on i begin with the letter ( or, in the case of half the songs ' titles, the pronoun ) " I ", whilst Distortion was an experiment in combining noise music with their typically unconventional musical approach.

On March 29, 2008, six Liquid Tension Experiment tour dates in June 2008 were announced to celebrate the bands 10 year anniversary as well to create a " whole new musical experiment ".

In the 2008 experiment, researchers were able to extract gas by lowering the pressure, without heating, requiring significantly less energy.

* In an October 2008 episode of the NBC television show Life, Detectives Crews and Reese investigated a murder that took place at a prison experiment loosely modeled on the Stanford Prison Experiment.

The experiment was originally scheduled for early in 2008 but was postponed because it would have impinged on the birds ' breeding season.

In April 2008, Wilson made a special appearance on 20 / 20 to participate in a social experiment involving pedestrians reacting to a young woman ( Ambre Anderson ) singing " Stop!

Weingarten won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for his article on the experiment.

The first experience of using Internet technologies in Russian elections was an experiment using discs for electronic voting during municipal elections in Novomoskovsk ( Tula oblast ) in October 2008.

In 2008 Ramachandran conducted an experiment in which several phantom arm patients reported feeling touch signals on their phantom arms when they observed the arm of a student being touched.

In 2008 Oberman, Ramachandran and Pineda conducted an experiment in which children with ASD showed both normal and abnormal EEG responses depending on their familiarity with people whose actions they were observing.

McKinstry, along with Dale and Spivey, designed an experiment that has now been published in Psychological Science in its January, 2008 issue.

In 2008, the BBC's Horizon science program performed a somewhat related experiment over two episodes entitled " How Mad Are You ?".