Sentences with phrase «as wimps»

They are known as WIMPs (for weakly interacting massive particles), and if they exist, these particles have masses tens or hundreds of times greater than that of a proton but interact so weakly with ordinary matter that they're difficult to detect.

The LUX - ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, which will be built nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, S.D., is considered one of the best bets yet to determine whether theorized dark matter particles known as WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) actually exist.

LZ's approach posits that dark matter may be composed of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles — known as WIMPs — which pass through ordinary matter virtually undetected.

As WIMPs pass through the tank, they should, on very rare occasions, bump into the nucleus of a xenon atom.

As WIMPs stream through the solar system, the sun's gravity bends their trajectories, focusing the streaming particles on a particular location in Earth's orbit.

So they plump for a model in which the brown dwarfs revealed by microlensing are part of the relatively small but heavy spheroid, while the even heavier extended dark halo is made up of the more exotic particles variously known as WIMPs or cold dark matter.

There might be a reason men come across as wimps.

Theory points to dark matter being made of so - far - unseen weakly interacting massive particles, known as WIMPs.

Their relative obscurity, some experts say, is partly due to the fact that they are not as phenomenologically rich as the WIMP hypothesis, offering fewer enticing signals and interesting questions for experimentalists and theorists to seek and study.

When a particle (such as a WIMP) collides with the detector, it creates crystal lattice vibrations (phonons) and releases electrons.

The agreement became known as the WIMP miracle.

Not exact matches

You don't want to be known as the hothead of the office, but it's no better to be the wimp.

The main contender for the substance is a type of hypothetical particle known as a «weakly interacting massive particle» (WIMP).

I cut my Negotiating for Wimps post in half when I edited it, and as I re-read it I think it's still a little wordy.

In effect, Carney called out the country's business leaders as a bunch of wimps.

Describing himself as a «recovering prayer wimp», Max Lucado's latest book, Before Amen, provides a simple yet effective approach to prayer.

Further, if abortion is outlawed have the guts to prosecute not just the doctor but the mother also for 1st Degree Murder and the father if he gave consent as an Accessory to Murder — don't just wimp out and prosecute only the doctor.

Describing himself as a «recovering prayer wimp», Max Lucado's latest book, Before Amen, provides a simple... More

(UPDATED) Robert Jeffress referred to Tebow as «wimping out» on First Baptist Church of Dallas» grand opening.

In a blog he wrote for The Huffington Post's religion section, he says: «Old age has its challenges and is not for wimps, but God wants us to embrace it as part of his plan for our lives, and to look for the Lord's purpose in every circumstance and in every face or voice we encounter daily.

A con would not have shown the apostles as frighten wimps or Jesus coming first to a women.

I didn't add too much siracha as my girls are wimps.

As for the added jalapeno in this stew — I'm a wimp when it comest to heat, so I only add a little (about 1/2 a teaspoon), but if you like things a little spicer, then by all means add more jalapeno to your liking.

Even his height is no longer an advantage as he seems to wimp out against the likes of Andy Carrol and Peter Crouch.

On the one hand, I applaud players that go in manfully for 50/50 challenges and despise those that wimp out however there are those, like Jack Wilshere, who habitually get caught and as a result are injured.

Early last year at a windsurfing / kiteboarding event in Leucate, France, he took exception to a windsurfer's description of kiteboarders as «wimps» and attempted to ride in hurricane - force gusts.

Jack Wilshere is the only REAL MAN currently at Arsenal and it is quite consistent that Wenger should not try to keep him, as Wenger collects wimps, gutless half tryers and coasting long term time servers like Walcott.

Most amazing, both those defeats occurred at their respective Old Kentucky Homes, where, as Alabama coach Wimp Sanderson says about UK, «It's against the rules» for them to lose.

When Arsenal started building the stadium and Chelsea was bought by Roman Abramovic the haters got their pound of flesh by labelling Arsenal and its manager all sorts of names such as weak - kneed, wimps, bottlers etc..

In fact, it's only one more than Liverpool and they're being slammed as the biggest home - sick wimps in the land.

Some of the same studies suggest that athletes may be more likely to self - report if they feel safe in self - reporting, in other words, when they don't fear adverse repercussions if they report in terms of decreased playing time, losing their starting positions, or being embarrassed by the coach in front of their teammates for their lack of toughness, such as, for example, by being labeled a «wimp» (or worse).

Even though I'm a bit of a wimp most of the time, other comfort measures can be as effective as drugs.

I was in constant, horrific pain, and my midwife treated me as if I were being a wimp.

As a complete pain - wimp, I had no doubt in my mind that I would opt for an epidural as soon as I got to the hospital (if not soonerAs a complete pain - wimp, I had no doubt in my mind that I would opt for an epidural as soon as I got to the hospital (if not sooneras soon as I got to the hospital (if not sooneras I got to the hospital (if not sooner.)

Paladino also dismissed Paterson as a «wimp» and «pathetic», which caused the governor to give back as good as he got.

Schreibman, previously seen as something of a wimp in some quarters, came out swinging (like Joe Biden a week later) against the highly decorated retired paratrooper colonel.

Faso has allowed opponents to define him as a lily - livered wimp afraid to confront his constituents face to face.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday he is once again willing to consider a cap on for - hire vehicles such as Uber — three years after wimping out on the move...

As the universe expanded, such collisions would become ever rarer and, given the strength of the weak force, just enough WIMPs would survive to provide the right amount of dark matter today — about five times that of ordinary matter.

In fact, a particle with some properties opposite to those of physicists» current favorite dark matter candidate — the weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP — would do just as good a job at explaining the stuff, a quartet of theorists says.

An international team of physicists is preparing XENON100, a simple experiment with a huge ambition: to record the moment when a bit of dark matter — known as a weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP — smacks into the nucleus of an atom of liquid xenon, triggering a flash of light and an electric charge.

The surprising findings come as physicists wrestle with conflicting results from experiments designed to detect dark matter directly on Earth (see «The ongoing WIMP war»).

Most past searches for dark matter particles have focused on a different candidate particle, known as a weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP.

In any given second as many as 100,000 invisible WIMPs should be piercing your thumbnail.

But, as with the preference for WIMPs over axions and sterile neutrinos, some physicists suspect the widespread distaste for modified gravity is at least partially due to the sociology of scientists rather than the scientific process itself.

Most of the WIMPs would collide with and annihilate one another at relativistic speeds, producing ordinary particles as a result.

«WIMPs emerged as a simple, elegant, compelling explanation for a complex phenomenon,» Kolb says.

Edward «Rocky» Kolb, a cosmologist now at the University of Chicago who in the 1970s helped lay the foundations for the generations of WIMP hunts to come, declared the 2010s «the decade of the WIMP» but now admits the search has not gone as planned.

But alternative explanations have not been ruled out, and other detection techniques have yet to pan out — like waiting for a WIMP to smack into an underground detector such as LUX in South Dakota (pictured above) or creating one at a particle accelerator, for example.

This process would weaken as the universe expanded and cooled, leaving a «relic» population of cold, slow WIMPs behind.