Sentences with phrase «apparent speed»

«We typically see apparent speeds in blazar jets that are about five times the speed of light, and that corresponds to a true speed of more than 98 percent of light speed,» Piner said.

Their measurements showed that features in the blazar jets were moving at apparent speeds more than 25 times greater than that of light.

«Now, based on independent confirmation by two groups of astronomers, we see these three blazars with apparent speeds greater than 25 times that of light,» Piner added.

Researchers have wondered how dolphins manage to swim so fast at least since the 1930s, when British zoologist James Gray marveled at reports of one dolphin's apparent speed as it outraced a boat.

One problem is that the CERN result busts the apparent speed limit of neutrinos seen when radiation from a supernova explosion reached Earth in February 1987.

A facinating aspect of the Cambrian Explosion is its apparent speed over some 10 million years.

That apparent speed, the scientists said, corresponds to a true speed of greater than 99.9 percent of light speed, which is 186,282 miles per second.

While we students complained to one another about the amount of work and the apparent speed with which we were moving through the curriculum, we were not only mastering the material but, most important, learning how to transfer our learning to other subjects as well as life.

Blame all that noise dampening for muting the car's apparent speed.

Courts will also consider the distance and apparent speed of the approaching vehicle.

Tweaking some of your video settings can also improve your virtual machine's apparent speed.