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a person who studies physics or whose job is connected with physics commencer à apprendre
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physicists dreamed of a final theory of fundamental physics,
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a mathematical statement in which you show that two amounts are equal using mathematical symbols: commencer à apprendre
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a perfect set of equations
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a situation that has no hope of making progress: commencer à apprendre
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Negotiators have reached a dead end in their attempts to find a peaceful solution. all attempts at a deeper understanding of nature are dead ends.
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to go past something by being a greater amount or degree: commencer à apprendre
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Our US sales have now overtaken our sales in Europe. Today that dream is being overtaken by the suspicion that there is no such thing.
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to support someone or something: commencer à apprendre
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I have lent my support to his plan for a private referendum. This will lend support to those who have long claimed that research into fundamental physics is a waste of time and money
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not clear and difficult to understand or see: commencer à apprendre
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Official policy has changed, for reasons that remain obscure. at best it provides answers to obscure questions which few people understand or care about.
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a doubt or feeling of not being able to agree with or accept something completely: commencer à apprendre
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Workers and employees shared deep reservations about the wisdom of the government's plans for the industry. do these reservations undermine pure physics as a scientific pursuit?
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to make someone less confident, less powerful, or less likely to succeed, or to make something weaker, often gradually: commencer à apprendre
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Criticism just undermines their confidence. these reservations undermine pure physics as a scientific pursuit?
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to be the main or most important result of something: commencer à apprendre
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What it all boils down to is a lack of communication. What it boils down to is whether we think the search for fundamental truths is important.
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a product that develops from another more important product: commencer à apprendre
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The research has had spin-offs in the development of medical equipment. There have been plenty of technological spin-offs from the space race and other experiments.
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a long search for something that is difficult to find, or an attempt to achieve something difficult: commencer à apprendre
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Nothing will stop them in their quest for truth This quest for knowledge is a defining human quality
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unusual and strange, sometimes in an unpleasant way: commencer à apprendre
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It's peculiar that they didn't tell us they were going away. The trouble with family-known-things is that they always seem peculiar
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a person who lives alone and apart from society commencer à apprendre
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I've probably made us sound like hostile hermits
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very thin, or easily broken or destroyed: commencer à apprendre
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thin. You won't be warm enough in that flimsy dress She'd enclosed a piece of flimsy paper
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suddenly filled with strong feelings of shock and worry: commencer à apprendre
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Mum and Dad had looked aghast.
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