Sentences with phrase «as particle a»

It probably easier to imagine it always as a standard RF wave you will fall into less holes than thinking of it as a particle.

A PhD in another allied field such as particle physics?

It is a point, if treated as a particle.

This is why the overwhelming majority of climatologists are as convinced of the reality of AGW, as particle physicists are similarly convinced of the correctness of the Standard Model.

Remember, matter has the quality of acting either as a particle of wave, and the whole particle theory while intelligently presented, tended to push out the wave theory, and we have been going down that path ever since.

The sciences can be arranged roughly linearly in a hierarchy as particle physics, many body physics, chemistry, molecular biology, cellular biology, physiology, psychology and social sciences.

His sculptures — geometric wall objects, façade - like reliefs, objects and sculptures created from abstract stereometric bodies which take the form of cubes, angles, columns, pedestals, podiums, movable walls and shelving — are made of cheap no - frills materials such as particle board, cardboard, linen, molton, Styrofoam, synthetic resin, emulsion paint, fluorescent tubes and other everyday building materials.

Water was seemingly sacrificed in terms of overall quality, as the particle effects are very substandard, and there is no animation in it at all... only a moving texture adorn's the water's surface, along with basic world reflections.

Particle surface area increases as the particle size decreases.

As to LDL, the level means nothing as long as the particle size is large / fluffy.

As the particle size increases other colors such as red, green, blue, brown or black may be seen.

Apply the main principles to specific areas such as particle physics, astrophysics of stars, planets and galaxies, cosmology and physics beyond the Standard Model.

Pratt and PNNL postdoctoral researcher Dr. Gourihar Kulkarni will study ice formation using an environmental chamber, as well as particle analysis by laser mass spectrometry (PALMS) to measure ice residue chemistry.

Fine - particle TiO2 is manufactured as nanoparticles that are typically 10 — 20 nm in size, and some suppliers promote this as the particle size.

As each particle approaches infinity, its potential energy approaches zero and its velocity steadily decreases and approaches zero.

«We need to systematically change the parameters of the support and the catalyst itself, such as particle size, surface area, and amount of heteropoly acid catalyst,» said Dr. Jun Liu, who is leading PNNL's Transformational Materials Science Initiative.

Writing in Science in 1961, the late Alvin M. Weinberg, director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, pondered whether big - ticket projects such as particle colliders and manned - spaceflight initiatives were «ruining science» or «ruining us financially.»

Which was ironic, because George's father, J.J. Thomson, won the 1906 Nobel for the work that revealed the existence of the electron as a particle.

«Molecules and small particles scatter the same way as long as the particle is sufficiently small,» Bohren says.

Depending on different parameters, such as the particle / wall charge and the extension of the charged regions on the particle surface, our units can form surface layers with different densities (and possibly different responses to external stimuli): sometimes particles assemble into close - packed, hexagonally ordered crystalline aggregates, sometimes they form open, square - like layers, sometimes they do not assemble at all.

But other scientists, such as particle physicist Guido Saracino of the University of Naples Federico II in Italy, are thrilled.

Just as light can be described in some cases as a particle and a wave, so too can these SPPs, which is why scientists refer to them as quasiparticles.

Drell, 55, who came to SLAC as associate director for research in 2002 after working as particle physicist at Cornell University, says she wants to be able to focus once again on a single scientific problem.

Representative Bill Foster (D — IL) holds a physics Ph.D. from Harvard University and spent 22 years as a particle accelerator designer at Fermilab, a Department of Energy national laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.

As particle physicists gather in Kyoto, Japan, next week for their first big conference since July's announcement, they are still asking whether that particle truly is the pièce de résistance of the standard model.

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.

Machines such as particle accelerators can produce X-rays, but only lasers can generate short, intense pulses at these wavelengths.

According to the committee, Leggett's theory has also proved useful in other fields, such as particle physics and cosmology.

The discovery of the Higgs particle through the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC accelerator in CERN in 2012 presented a milestone in physics even as the particle's existence had been predicted nearly 50 years prior to that.

There are some scenarios, however, in which Fermilab — enjoying its continuing status as particle physics top dog while the LHC is sidelined — might win that race.

These appear as particle - rich «fingers» descending from the base of volcanic clouds and have commonly been observed during volcanic explosive eruptions.

Light is describable as an electromagnetic wave and as a particle, a photon.

Foster earned a Ph.D. in physics at Harvard University «and spent 22 years as a particle accelerator designer at Fermilab.»

Physicists describe light as both a particle and a wave.

In the 19th century scientists decided that light must be a wave, but after witnessing light demonstrating particlelike behavior, Albert Einstein proposed that light can indeed be described as a particle (called a photon).

«As each particle rotates, it creates a disturbance in the fluid and that affects the neighbors,» Lushi said.

Using numerical models and computer simulations, the researchers show how spinning particles, pushed about by the fluid flows created as each particle spins, can arrange themselves into an array of emergent macro-scale patterns.

With the arrival of a woman clad in undulating tutu and a blue puff ball sprouting from her crown — suggesting the dual nature of photons as particle and wave — we observers began to register rich emotional resonance.

In a recent research, scientists from HKUST and Harvard University revealed the connection between those two aspects, and argued that our universe could be used as a particle physics «collider» to study the high energy particle physics.

«LFEX laser» enables us to generate high energy pulses of quantum beams with large current, and one can expect such medical applications as particle beam cancer therapy and non-destructive inspection for bridges and etc. (or defect inspection by gamma - ray beam and neutrons).

Waves in superconductors were the inspiration for the Higgs boson, but they had remained almost as elusive as their particle physics equivalent - until now

A reaction that proceeds in one direction (such as particle A transforming into particle B) is just as likely to occur in the reverse direction (particle B transforming into A).

As a particle physicist, my job is to figure out what things are made out of.

One of these is the uncertainty principle, which states that in the quantum world it is impossible to simultaneously know two quantities, such as a particle's location and its momentum, with complete accuracy.

The SESAME synchrotron being built near Amman, Jordan, with a goal of promoting peace between Middle Eastern nations, as well as particle physics, has faced similar bank problems, says Christopher Llewellyn - Smith, director of energy research at the University of Oxford, UK, and president of the SESAME council.

What we interpret as a particle's mass is really the strength of its interaction with the Higgs field.

Similarly, light may appear as a wave or as a particle, depending on the type of question that a scientist asks of it.

The interference that produces colored bands on bubbles can not be explained by a model that depicts light as a particle.

Although different interpretations remain on the table for Geminga's geometry, Posselt said that Chandra's images of the pulsar are helping astrophysicists use pulsars as particle physics laboratories.

The company specializes in applications such as particle characterization for the pharmaceutical industry and contaminant analysis for the packaging industry.