Sentences with phrase «just as an atom»

Just as an atom with a full outer electron shell is a peculiarly unreactive noble gas, an outer shell with the right number of protons and neutrons makes a nucleus magically stable.

Just as the atoms in familiar crystals are resilient to changes in space, time crystals seem to steadfastly hold their set pulse.

Just as the atoms in a molecule can be arranged in a left - or right - handed manner, the field in a beam of light can circulate like a left - or right - handed corkscrew.

Not exact matches

Fusion power — pressing atoms together until they fuse into heavier elements and release energy, just like they do inside the sun's core — is an old dream, and for just as long, a scientific bugbear.

In a sense there is just as much discontinuity of patterning between an electron and an atom or an atom and a molecule as there is between a molecule and a living cell.

Referring to Plato's depiction of a «world soul» in the Timaeus, Hartshorne posits that just as people have a mutual relationship of response and reaction between the cells of their body and themselves, there is a similar mutual relationship of feeling between God and cell - like elements within the world: atoms, cells, people.

Evolution is a scientific theory, just as gravity and atoms are.

The Cartesian idea of an animal as just a machine insults not only you and me, it insults the merest fly or plant cell.8 It even insults Epicurus» atoms.

The atom is not just inaccessible to direct observation and unimaginable in terms of sensory qualities; it can not even be described coherently in terms of classical concepts such as space, time and causality.

«Nevertheless, just as I believe that the Book of Scripture illumines the pathway to God, so I believe that the Book of Nature, with its astonishing details — the blade of grass, the Conus cedonulli, or the resonance levels of the carbon atom — also suggest a God of purpose and a God of design.

We presume that some of the subsocieties of the body, such as cells and atoms, attain moments of individuality just as the whole animal does.

Just as substances like chairs and tables can be analyzed into component substances such as atoms; so also events like wars and conversations can be analyzed into the component events that make them up.

Just as physics generalizes variables of movement so that they can apply not only to a human hunter and his fleeing prey, but also to stars, planets, atoms, and photons, so psychics needs to generalize such ideas as feeling, perceiving, remembering, anticipating, intending, liking and disliking, so that they can apply not only to animals, but even to the real individual constituents of the vegetable and mineral portions of nature.

Just as the discovery that sodium chloride has properties not exhibited by sodium and chlorine in isolation tells us something about the nature of sodium and chlorine which we could not otherwise know, so too the existence of subjectivity in combinations of atoms that make human brains tells us something about the nature of those atoms that make those brains.

Sodium atoms are just as much «conformists» inside the body as outside it, but the pattern of physical feeling to which they conform is different in the body.

Yet the atom in the living body is just as «law - abiding,» just as dominated by «physical purposes, as one we might study outside the body in a crystal.

You are just trolling me, I guess, or you are completely clueless as to nuclear physics and how atoms are formed.

, I mean came «into existence» (mysteriously popped out of nowhere); rather, it will challenge intellectual thinkers to look at life as not just a compilation of atoms / cells; rather a universe that is controlled by powers much more awesome than the natural forces we all experience on a daily basis.

Lewontin, Rose and Kamin discuss the different levels at which atoms assemble to make molecules, molecules assemble to make cells and so on: «as one moves up a level the properties of each larger whole are given not merely by the units of which it is composed but of the organizing relations between them... these organizing relationships mean that the properties of matter relevant at one level are just inapplicable at other levels» (NG 278).

Atoms that are present when she looks into deep space, to regions seen as they were just a billion or so years after the big bang, and which should still be in our cosmic neighbourhood today.

Ordinary matter, which makes up the atoms of familiar objects as well as stars and the visible portions of galaxies, accounts for just 4 percent of the cosmos.

And these principles apply not just to graphene but also to other two - dimensional materials, such as molybdenum disulfide, boron nitride, or other single - atom or single - molecule - thick materials.

«Two - dimensional materials such as graphene, which are just one atom thick, can have their electrical properties externally modified,» Professor Dean said.

Just talk a little bit about how this particular carbon atom that you've named Dave travels around the globe and what kind of adventures it has as a member of the biosphere, or, you know, occasionally not in the biosphere.

Then molecule curls around the palladium atom, displacing its phosphines, in just such a way as to bring the two loose ends of the molecule together.

For about 150 million years after the Big Bang, the Universe was a «dark» place, made of just hydrogen and helium atoms, as the first stars had yet to be formed.

They found that just a few hundred fs after the initial ionization, the Ne atom that had absorbed the x-ray, as well as two neighboring Kr atoms, were all in an ionized, positively charged state.

But when a heavy ion collides with an atom of lead, it dislodges charged particles that can be just as destructive as the original heavy ion.

Strikingly, they saw that even when a monolayer of hBN was used as a spacer, the plasmons were still excited, and could propagate freely while being confined to a channel of just one atom thick.

Just as the quartz crystal in a Swiss watch keeps time by vibrating at a steady frequency (about 32,000 cycles per second), the maser coaxes a supply of specially selected hydrogen atoms to emit radio waves at an unwavering 1.42 billion cycles per second.

As such, quantum dots exhibit similar characteristics to atoms, and - just like atoms - they can be stimulated with light to reach higher energy levels.

She says that there may be practical applications in the future — a commentary accompanying the paper suggests that the method could aid in the development of technologies such as molecular wires, atom - thick conductors that could help shrink electronic devices — but that their result concerns «extremely fundamental» physics that might be just as valuable for developing quantum intuition in the next generation of physicists.

And just as protons, neutrons and electrons combine to form atoms and matter, antiprotons, antineutrons and anti-electrons (called positrons) combine to form anti-atoms and antimatter.

This is unusual, as manganese atoms typically are known to give up two or more electrons, or no electrons, in chemical reactions, but not just one.

Every atom in Captain Kirk's body is a set of data (type of atom, location, energy state and so on); the captain as a whole is just an enormous collection of those data sets.

However, the ligand in the OIST - synthesized molecules is not rigid and has two cyclic - bonded atom structure, referred to as rings, stacked on top of one another that can interact just like in the aggregation system, but within a single molecule.

Oganesson's electron configuration could also let atoms of the element stick together, instead of just bouncing off one another as gas atoms typically do.

A new generation of atomic tickers, known as optical clocks, have just wrested the record for accuracy from the ensembles of oscillating caesium atoms that held it for half a century.

But it took until the eclipses of 1868 and 1869, when the spectral signatures of atoms in the corona were first discovered, for us to start understanding it as an actual astrophysical place instead of just a shining mirage.

Odorants such as acetophenone and deuterated acetophenone, for example, have the same molecular structure; one is just built from a slightly heavier hydrogen atom, known as deuterium.

Such a laser might be just as stable as the atoms used in the most advanced clocks.

The atom will thus be attracted to the local maximum in the field, just as the charged particle was drawn toward the rod.

The intense electric field at the center of a focused laser beam polarizes the particle, just as it would polarize an atom.

The sensor itself is just slightly larger than a nitrogen atom, with a synthetic diamond to act as a substrate.

The presence of the sugar molecules jostling the atom have the effect of «observing» it, they argue, forcing the hydrogen to snap into one position, just as measuring the state of any quantum particle will fix it to one set location.

Just short of physically shaking the system, the group «created a displacement between the atoms and the laser beam,» moving the laser beam from side to side as it probed the cloud of atoms.

But according to quantum theory it can be viewed as both wave and particle, just as light can — and at the scale of atoms it is the particle representation that works best.

Creating a voltage between them allowed current to flow between the two perpendicular electrodes — separated from each other by just 20 nanometres, through the single phosphorus atom, which acted as a transistor.

It would imply that anti-stars are cooking up anti-atoms through nuclear fusion, just as regular stars fuse normal atoms.

Tosi said the design sidesteps a challenge that all spin - based silicon qubits were expected to face as teams begin building larger and larger arrays of qubits: the need to space them at a distance of only 10 - 20 nanometres, or just 50 atoms apart.