Sentences with phrase «along at light speed»

Einstein then calculated that a barbell - shaped distribution of mass whirling end - to - end like a baton should radiate ripples in spacetime that zip along at light speed — gravitational waves.

Anything that ventures closer than a certain distance from the black hole falls in to it, even photons zipping along at light speed.

Not exact matches

Someday, cars will not only drive us home as we take a nap, they will find the fastest route home, queue up our favorite music, and dim the lights so we can sleep as they speed along at insanely high speeds using a dedicated autonomous car lane.

The ripples spreading out below the pulsar like waves on a lake show where streams of electrons and positrons, shooting away from the pulsar at nearly the speed of light, begin to bunch up along the pulsar's changing magnetic field.

As matter falls toward the supermassive black hole at the galaxy's center, some of it is accelerated outward at nearly the speed of light along jets pointed in opposite directions.

To mimic the conditions of the early universe, researchers sent electrically charged gold atoms racing along the collider's 2.4 - mile - long tunnel at near light speed, producing a fireball 150,000 times as hot as the center of the sun.

A gamma ray burst is thought to emerge when jets of hot matter moving at near — light - speed shoot out along the rotational axis of the newborn black hole, beaming radiation into space like a lighthouse.

Similarly if a cosmic string gets plucked, oscillations travel along it at very high speed — at the speed of light — and they produce gravitational waves as they travel.

OPERA detected neutrinos fired from CERN, about 730 kilometres away in Geneva, Switzerland, and found they arrived 60 nanoseconds earlier than expected, implying they zipped along at one part in 40,000 faster than the speed of light.

3 Light moves along at full «light speed» — 186,282.4 miles per second — only in a vaLight moves along at full «light speed» — 186,282.4 miles per second — only in a valight speed» — 186,282.4 miles per second — only in a vacuum.

Scientists believe that the combination of this metallic hydrogen along with Jupiter's fast rotation — one day on Jupiter is only 10 hours long — generates a powerful magnetic field that surrounds the planet with electrons, protons and ions traveling at nearly the speed of light.

Marscher says the researchers detected BL Lac's twisted magnetic fields by analyzing a «flare» of visible light, x-rays, and gamma rays from an explosion they watched shoot along the jet's path at near - light speed.

With no way in, the now - energized stuff ricochets back into space at nearly the speed of light, forming extended, luminous jets aligned along the black hole's powerful magnetic fields.

And those early anti-atoms, produced at CERN and at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the U.S., were «hot,» zipping along near the speed of light.

Mass varies depending on how fast particles move; protons zipping along at close to the speed of light, like those in the LHC, weigh more than protons at rest.

In addition to accretion disks, black holes also have winds and incredibly bright jets erupting from them along their rotation axis, shooting out matter and radiation at nearly the speed of light.

A woman, in her forties, was driving alone along a country road one night when she witnessed a bright light in the sky overtaking her car at high speed and disappearing behind trees.

But tomorrow a transporter will take apart all my particles, turn them into information bits, shoot them along at the speed of light, and reassemble them at the destination of my choice, right?

To avoid violating the rule from relativity that neither energy nor information can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, that hurrying along can work at only one frequency.

Hardly interacting with other matter, neutrinos come in the three different types — electron, muon, and tau — and the winners of this year's prize showed that the three types can morph into one another as the particles zip along at near - light speed.

They come in three different types or «flavors» that can morph into one another as they zip along at near - light speed barely interacting with anything else.

Since 1998, physicists have also known that neutrinos can change type as they zing along at near light - speed, so that a muon neutrino can become an electron neutrino, and so on.

«The most exciting thing we now see in the new observations is the head of the cloud coming back towards us at more than 10 million km / h along the orbit — about 1 % of the speed of light,» adds Reinhard Genzel, leader of the research group that has been studied this region for nearly twenty years.

Where else can you catch three bands — two highly regarded, one ascending at light speed — for a cool $ 12 in a cozy little open - air venue along an urban creek in February?

Shot in one continuous take through an early morning streets of Berlin, director Sebastian Schipper's film is digital veritie at its absolute best; an exquisite endurance test for the mind, body and soul, ticking along at not the speed of light, but at the speed of life.

I flick on the surround view camera and creep along, thankful for the light - effort steering at low speeds.

Combined with steering that is either a shade too light (in Comfort) or way too heavy (in Dynamic) and you end up with a car that can be coaxed along at a crazy speed but also one that feels flat - footed at times and never really settles into a rhythm.

Powered by Mercedes» 3.5 - liter V6 rated at 302 hp and 276 lb - ft of torque, coupled with a seven - speed automatic and weighing in at 3,792 lbs, is, along with the E350, the lightest and most agile of our samplers.

At the nerve center of the Typhoon is the Intel Atom N455 processor with a clock speed of 1.66 GHz, which along with a 2 GB DDR3 RAM is supposed to make light work of anything that's thrown at iAt the nerve center of the Typhoon is the Intel Atom N455 processor with a clock speed of 1.66 GHz, which along with a 2 GB DDR3 RAM is supposed to make light work of anything that's thrown at iat it.

You decide to take the drop, comitting yourself, and paddle into either a pleasant little wave or perhaps a thick, heart - pounding giant, fly along at an easy speed or a breakneck pace, enter the blue and white darkness and get fired back out into bright light, (getting tubed), give it one more big move, and then at the end, either gently cruise out the back for another one, or wipeout!..

There are times when you'll need to launch yourself through lighting rods, bounce on moving platforms, and slide along rails that move you at a high rate of speed.

You've just been pulled over for speeding on I - 95, got snapped by a Red Light Camera in Coral Springs or are looking at a texting ticket to go along with the illegal lane change citation you received in Miami.