Sentences with phrase «around an object so»

By tightly controlling the bending, or refraction, of microwaves as they pass through a custom - built material, the Duke researchers could force them to detour around an object so that the microwaves are neither absorbed nor reflected.

The original invisibility cloaks smoothly funnel light or longer wavelength electromagnetic waves around an object so that it can't be seen.

For example, some of these materials can channel light around an object so that it appears invisible at a certain wavelength.

Not exact matches

As our mental fields succeed one another, each has its centre of interest, around which the objects of which we are less and less attentively conscious fade to a margin so faint that its limits are unassignable.

The ecological model makes sense only in so far as these qualitative elements of environment are given a reality as real as the material objects around us.

Let's institute a special rule: The baskets are impervious to high wind and there is a force field around the court so we don't have foreign objects (other than the ball and, uh, Spartans) flying around.

When rolled in the usual way (for a draw shot) the bowl will curve toward its heavier side, more so as it loses momentum, enabling the player, with proper pace and angle, to make it skirt around bowls lying in the way of the «jack» — the smaller object ball — or tap an opponent's bowl out of a cluster around the jack.

You'll notice your child picking up objects between his or her thumb and forefinger around seven months or so

«Once your baby starts to sit up by herself and hold objects, make sure you get active, too — get down on the floor and play with her, chase her around when she gets more mobile, crawl, jump up and down, and so on — you get exercise while teaching her physical tricks.»

Video games are what we call a spatial, medium, so objects are moving around in space.

Never leave heavy or sharp objects loose in the car, put them in the boot, so if you're involved in a collision they won't fly around your vehicle and injure the occupants.

Moreover, there are no sharp object or rough areas around the bottom of the unit so that your baby can still crawl around it when he / she is not in the seat.

You also want to keep the deck area around the pool clear of any toys or objects, so that your child doesn't trip over them and / or accidentally fall into the pool.

A CD player, baby monitor, or flashing toy could catch baby's eye and wake him up, so cover these objects or turn them around.

Your child's hand - eye coordination is developing, so they will be exploring around them, opening cupboards, examining objects or taking their toys apart.

But it does not work well for illumination around transparent objects, like semi-transparent shadows from glass objects, or illumination by specular surfaces (so - called caustics).

But around a supermassive black hole, objects zip around so fast that crashes would happen at up to 1000 kilometres per second, pulverising the colliding objects.

Because they can steer light around objects to hide the objects from view, such materials could be used to create rudimentary versions of invisibility cloaks — though so far all attempts are a far cry from Harry Potter's version.

So far, the search has not identified any dangerous dust bands around Pluto, but it has turned up two newfound moons — a small object called P4 last year, and now P5.

Since the 1980s, scientists have pulled small objects around using so - called optical tweezers, which can grab hold of tiny objects such as cells and pull them around.

«So metamaterials could guide rays of visible light around an object, effectively rendering it invisible,» says Langhals.

But experts broadly agree that it can be done — so a handful of telescopic surveys around the world now monitor hundreds of millions of suns night after night to seek these objects, gradually taking a bulk census of the Milky Way's loneliest worlds from the telltale twinkles of chance cosmic alignments.

Meanwhile, new technologies allow engineers to dream beyond designing glorified mechanical arms: So - called «swarm bots» work together like army ants to move relatively heavy objects; a fire hose — cum - snake robot can slither across the floor before putting out a blaze; and Nissan is developing an avoidance system to prevent car crashes based on bees — which use their compound eyes to see nearly all the way around themselves while buzzing about, changing direction when they sense something in their path.

Gravitational lensing happens when huge collections of matter — such as those found in galaxy clusters — warp the space - time around them so that the light from objects behind the clusters takes a curved path.

(In fact, monster black holes at the centers of galaxies can cause matter around them to radiate so much light that they become some of the brightest objects in the universe.)

«There is still so much to learn about disks around low - mass objects such as these four,» concluded Gagné, who is also a iREx collaborator.

It's so consistent that Type Ia supernovae are also called standard candles: Once astronomers find one in a region of space, they can use it as a baseline with which to compare other objects around it.

«This campaign is a team effort that involves more than a dozen observatories, universities and labs around the globe so we can collectively learn the strengths and limitations of our near - Earth object observation capabilities,» he said.

The comet appears to have undergone visible changes, including the changes in the size and number of surface features such as smooth patches, pits, and craters, and the loss of ice vaporized by the Sun or blasted off its surface by the Solar Wind into its tail as well as failing back on the object like snow, so that it appears to shrink, on average, by 25 to 50 centimeters (9.2 to 19.7 inches) with each orbit around the Sun.

Starting Position: Position a resistance band around a sturdy object so that is about the height of your hand.

Second, everything you do needs to be functional and real - world based, so the means to which we train will always revolve around using our own bodyweight or some sort of external odd objects such as rocks, sandbags, or other strength building tools.

I tell my students that we carry around a snow globe with us all day, shaking it up as we go, and that yoga and meditation helps us to set the snow globe down so the snow can settle and the objects inside can become clear.

So, how do you get started throwing around stupid heavy, moving odd objects?

To get the perfect image I was moving objects around so I could have more to choose from in the end.

You are just so talented to be able to create a big, beautiful heart from found objects around the house.

There are a ton of levels to explore around, so the replay value will be very high along with collecting various objects in each levels.

Refn treats these characters not as people but as pop objects, and what he builds around them isn't a suspense film so much as an anything - goes dream play.

Use transparent tape so students can move the objects around easily in the next section.

There were a range of social effects as well: children were seen to be negotiating items with other children, which is quite a higher order thinking skill; they were modelling behaviour on others, so they could actually see how children were playing with some of the equipment and then being able to join in (so it was a lot more inclusive, they were able to see how some of the children used some of the equipment); and they were really working together, using teamwork skills and creating these different objects and structures and stations to play around in the school playground.

Back seats are dual cut, so you can just put one side down and still travel around with your children, while transporting a larger object.

But it is also not so high that it becomes cumbersome to maneuver around objects that are close to my truck.

All - speed autonomous emergency braking comes standard on all trims, and Nissan's optional Safety Shield package includes its 360 - degree camera system, Around View Monitor with moving object detection, blind - spot monitor, lane departure warning, and so on.

The back - up camera gives me a very wide angle to see around so I do not hit other cars or run over object and people while I am backing up.

It's so easy to be distracted by all the BSO's (Bright Shiny Objects) around the interwebs today.

Those numbers come in handy, and so do the various objects that are scattered around the grid.

Create pet gates so they don't wander into danger when you're not around, and remove objects that may hurt them.

You must control his tendency to chew on objects and to mouth your hands — provide a box filled with toys so he can carry something around in his mouth.

Note that the object might be quite a way back towards the throat, so you might have to hunt around and hook it out with your index finger.

So, when your puppy starts growing, gradually show her what each object around the house does.

The dog protects their own territory, so when a person or an object (like a moving car for example) approaches, and the dog does not know it, it starts growling to warn that there is something wrong around the dog.