Sentences with phrase «acted as a particle»

You can play your little games with it, but any way you cut the pie, if you observe something it acts as a particle, and if you don't it acts as a wave.

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This is certain, that it must proceed from a cause that penetrates to the very centres of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force; that operates not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes use to do), but according to the quantity of the solid matter which they contain, and propagates its virtue on all sides to immense distances, decreasing always as the inverse square of the distances....

The steam vacuum acts as a pump to the liquid part of the product but allows the larger particles to pass through undamaged.

The kit's silicone diaphragm acts as an impenetrable barrier preventing viruses, smoke and airborne particles from coming into contact with collected breastmilk.

The tracks visible in these clouds off the coasts of France and Spain form when small, airborne sulfate particles emitted by ships and airplanes act as cloud condensation nuclei, or «seeds.»

The phrase «topological materials» refers to those materials where the current carrying electrons act as if they have no mass, similar to the properties of photons, the particles that make up light.

Aerosol particles act as seeds, around which water vapour condenses into cloud droplets.

It's well known that particles in the atmosphere such as mineral dust, pollen, heavy metals and even bacteria can act as seeds for the nucleation of ice crystals.

DO THE WAVE Quantum matter acts like both a particle and a wave, as demonstrated by the famous double - slit experiment (illustrated above).

Sulfate particles, on the other hand, reflect solar radiation and act as seeds for cloud droplet formation, cooling the climate as a result,» says Juan Acosta Navarro, PhD student at the Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES) and the Bolin Center for Climate Research, Stockholm University, and co-author of the study.

As an upgraded LHC begins collecting data from high - speed proton collisions on June 3 after a two - plus - year hiatus, physicists are anxiously wondering whether the machine's second act will lead to discoveries of new particles and forces that add pages to the catalog.

Heat travels through a material via phonons, quantized units of vibration that act as heat - carrying particles.

Likewise, if black holes act like information mirrors, as Hayden and Preskill suggested, a particle falling into a black hole would be followed by an antiparticle coming out — a partner with the opposite electric charge — which would carry the information contained in the spin of the original particle.

In 2004, Frank Wilczek, David Gross and David Politzer won the physics Nobel prize for showing that particles which are acted upon by the strong force will feel it weaken as they get very close together.

The gold particles on the plate act as nano - optics and make it possible to focus a beam of light below the diffraction limit so as to precisely measure something that is very small — right down to 20 nanometres.

If you add to the number of particles that are being studied, eventually there will be enough particles that they no longer act quantum mechanically and must be identified as classical, just like our everyday world.

Aerosol particles influence Earth's climate through cloud formation: Clouds can only form if so - called cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) are present, which act as seeds for condensing water molecules.

Here, cloud formation depends partly on trace gases condensing to form particles just 1 nanometre across, which can then grow large enough to act as CCNs.

There is still good reason to think undiscovered fundamental particles act as gravitational glue for galaxies.

It describes all known particles, as well as three of the four forces that act on them: electromagnetism and the weak and strong nuclear forces.

Thanks to subtle quantum mechanical effects, a lightweight Higgs needs a heavier companion particle «acting as a sort of bodyguard», Tonelli says.

So that you know, these are little combustible particles in soot etcetera, into the atmosphere and these particles act as nucleation for clouds and the clouds are reflective.

The atom is then transferred into an environment of a light field in which the light - absorption and light - emission of the atoms act as collisions with other particles.

Trying to make physical sense of these abstract conceptual insights, Hamilton discovered that the inner horizon acts as an astonishingly powerful particle accelerator, shooting the ingoing and outgoing beams past each other at nearly the speed of light.

When the conversation turned to Youngís famous double slit experiment, performed with a beam so feeble that only one particle passes through the apparatus at a time but acts as if it is going through both slits simultaneously, Hurst mumbled: «I just donít understand that!»

The bulk, or interior, acts as an insulator, which means it prohibits the travel of electrons, but the surface of the material is conducting, allowing electrons to travel through a set of channels created by particles known as Dirac fermions.

In addition, the team has identified that the superparamagnetic particles not only play the role of biomolecular cargo for transportation, but also act as labels for the sensor to indicate the location of biomolecules.

But a satiated black hole effectively has zero temperature, barring a trickle of particles released by a process called Hawking radiation, meaning it could potentially act as a cold sun, says Opatrný.

«These new results imply the current - day impact rates for small particles at Saturn are about the same as those at Earth — two very different neighborhoods in our solar system — and this is exciting to see,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «It took Saturn's rings acting like a giant meteoroid detector — 100 times the surface area of the Earth — and Cassini's long - term tour of the Saturn system to address this question.»

The blackhole acts like a flywheel: As matter falls into it and increases itsspin, it stores energy; it releases energy again and slows down a bitas the magnetic field lines accelerate charged particles.

According to quantum theory, particles act as waves rather than point masses on very small scales.

Through a phenomenon known as «superposition» a particle can be moving and stationary at the same time — at least until an outside force acts on it.

But in February, scientists discovered that stellar explosions known as supernovae act like particle accelerators, boosting protons» speeds enough to turn them into cosmic rays.

Reisz and his colleagues believe that these hematite particles were derived from the original blood of the dinosaur, and that they acted as the catalyst for preserving the protein in the vascular canals of the bone.

When subjected to a magnetic field, the materials containing the particle act as insulators for current applied in some directions and as conductors for current applied in other directions.

Aerosol particles act as cloud droplets and thus reflect solar radiation back to space cooling down the planet.

In this case, gases are converted into particles that reflect solar radiation or act as nuclei for cloud droplets.

It's a theory of all of the particles we observed, and with the exception of gravitation, all of the forces that act on them; it's a theory that was developed in the 1960s and 1970s and then through a series of experiments in the 1970s and 1980s, it became well established as part of the standard canon of scientific knowledge.

But over the past year, physicists at CERN have found that the Higgs boson is acting exactly as the incomplete standard model of particle physics predicts, leaving us with no clues about how to extend it.

The phrase «topological materials» refers to those materials where the current carrying electrons acts as if they have no mass, similar to the properties of photons, the particles that make up light.

The magnetite particles are thought to act like microscopic compass needles, relaying information to the nervous system by straining or twisting receptors in cells as they attempt to align with the Earth's magnetic field.

A second attempt to detect long - sought Majorana fermions, particles that can act as their own antiparticle, has come up positive, suggesting the strange particles are real.

These aerosol particles act as condensation nuclei and modify cloud formation.

«Plastic particles have the potential to act as vectors for the transport and release of contaminants and additives,» Nerland says.

During ISDAC, they collected an unprecedented level of data and detailed observations on Arctic clouds and aerosols, those tiny particles in the atmosphere that act as seeds for cloud droplets and ice crystals.

I've been experimenting with T10 dextran coated iron oxide nanoparticles, obviously not the same as fullerenes, but still a very interesting tool, I've been testing if the coating is giving the particle antioxidant abilities because of it's the (basically) indigestable sugar chains (glucose) creating a high surface area which are largely made from hydroxyl groups, I hypothesised this act's as a «sink» for reactive oxygen species converting them to water.

One of those complex interactions is aerosols, the microscopic particles of dust, soot, and chemicals dispersed in the atmosphere that scatter or absorb sunlight and act as seeds for cloud formation.

Relatively few of the particles reach the earth's atmosphere, because the earth's magnetic field acts as a barrier.

Their particle acts like a «physical property chameleon,» Wender says, changing its form as it crosses the cell membrane and enters the endosome.

However, in their efforts toward doing so, they have hit a formidable hurdle — under the rules governing quantum particles, the very act of observing a system to check for mistakes is likely to create an error, as it would alter the spin of the entangled particles.