Sentences with phrase «matter ordinary atoms»

23 STRANGE MATTER Ordinary atoms contain particles called quarks, which come in two varieties: up and down.

Not exact matches

To understand the approach they're taking, let's revisit the fiery aftermath of the Big Bang, when most ordinary matter consisted of hydrogen atoms.

Matter (both ordinary atoms and the invisible stuff called dark matter) once dominated the universe, but today it constitutes only a quarter of the content of the cMatter (both ordinary atoms and the invisible stuff called dark matter) once dominated the universe, but today it constitutes only a quarter of the content of the cmatter) once dominated the universe, but today it constitutes only a quarter of the content of the cosmos.

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.

Dark energy accounts for most of its mass, exotic dark matter comes in second place, and ordinary matter — the atoms we are made of — lands in a distant third place, with just 4.4 percent.

Ordinary hidden matter consists of atoms that emit little or no light.

Dark matter, the mystery mass that, according to data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, outweighs ordinary atoms by more than five to one: That was Zwicky's.

In fact, the latest survey of the Big Bang's residual light suggests that more than 84 percent of the matter in the cosmos is of the «dark» variety: exotic particles unlike the ordinary atoms that make up our everyday world and the objects therein.

Dark atoms and molecules could perhaps clump together into galactic disks that overlap with the ordinary matter disks and spiral arms of galaxies such as Andromeda.

It also showed that ordinary matter — the atoms that make up galaxies, planets, and people — accounts for a paltry 4 percent of the universe's contents.

It can not be seen, but if it exists it means that the ordinary matter made of atoms that scientists have been studying for three hundred years is only a very small, unimportant constituent of the Universe.

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS), buried half a mile deep in an old Minnesota iron mine to shield it from cosmic rays, searches for collisions between dark - matter particles called WIMPS and ordinary atoms in 19 hockey - puck - size hunks of germMatter Search (CDMS), buried half a mile deep in an old Minnesota iron mine to shield it from cosmic rays, searches for collisions between dark - matter particles called WIMPS and ordinary atoms in 19 hockey - puck - size hunks of germmatter particles called WIMPS and ordinary atoms in 19 hockey - puck - size hunks of germanium.

However, stars and galaxies account for only about 10 % of the inferred ordinary matter, and all told researchers can not account for up to half of atoms they think should exist.

A dark - matter particle entering a piece of ordinary solid matter might, on rare occasion, hit an atom, make it vibrate, and create a faint sound.

If it all sounds too radical, that may be a good thing: most direct detection experiments, which wait for an ordinary WIMP to collide with the nucleus of a heavy atom like germanium or xenon, have seen nothing (see «Going underground in search of dark matter strikes «-RRB-, for example.

All ordinary matter — atoms, molecules, people, stars, galaxies — are composed of just two types of quarks, and electrons.

Baryons are particles of normal or «ordinary» matter (e.g., such as protons and neutrons) that make up more than 99.9 percent of the mass of atoms found in the cosmos.

Some matter has been missing — the ordinary type that makes up atoms.

1) that everything was made up of smaller indivisible objects (atoms) 2) that the earth went round the sun 3) that life started in the mud around the edges of the waters of the earth 4) that the wind was a thin substance so thin that it was invisible, but still made of ordinary matter just like the earth and the water