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By multiplying with a reference signal and then integrating, this astronomer developed a device to detect signals in high noise environments called a lock-in amplifier. An optical cavity coupled to a set of two level systems is this physicist’s namesake model that first predicted superradiance. Using Dirac’s large numbers hypothesis, this physicist first argued for the anthropic principle, and he also allegedly coined the name of black holes (-5[1])based on the Black Hole of Calcutta. This scientist learned via (*) phone call that he had been “scooped” in his discovery of the CMBR. Doppler broadening is reduced by frequent collisions in a “narrowing” named for this man. This physicist is the second namesake of a scalar field theory which replaces one over big G with a varying scalar field. For 10 points, identify this American physicist who co-names an alternative to GR with Carl Brans. ■END■ (0[6])

ANSWER: Robert H. Dicke [accept Dicke model; accept Dicke effect; accept Dicke narrowing; accept Brans–Dicke theory]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Colin VeeversCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit67-5
Caleb OttTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha1440
Elijah Mandelbaumas rational as the square root of two power bottomsShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere1440
Raymond ChenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfereas rational as the square root of two power bottoms1440
Jananan ArulseelanThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up 1440
Michael DuYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country1440
Kane NguyenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange1440

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