Sentences with phrase «as water waves»

That was just as expected if light passing through the two holes interfered just as water waves do, canceling out when crest met trough or enhancing when crests met «in phase.»

Truly giant waves, such as water waves rolling across the ocean, can bend around an entire island and magically reappear behind it.

Before the 1970s, researchers believed that a crack could only move as fast as a water wave — like ripple called a transverse wave, which clocks out at the so - called shear speed of three kilometers (1.9 miles) a second.

Not exact matches

25 The priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman's hand, and he shall wave the grain offering before the Lord and bring it to the altar; 26 and the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering as its memorial offering and offer it up in smoke on the altar, and afterward he shall make the woman drink the water.

Alternately it speaks of «waves», although the idea of a wave implies a substantial medium, such as water or air, and it has long been established that no such substantial medium underlies quantum phenomena.

History, whether interpreted as the realm of determinism or of chance, moves on its way like a tide carrying individual drops and waves of water to melt into the sands or to disappear on the horizon.

25 Then the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman's hand, shall wave the offering before the Lord, and bring it to the altar; 26 and the priest shall take a handful of the offering, as its memorial portion, burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water.

So the alarmist community has reacted predictably by issuing ever more apocalyptic statements, like the federal report» Global Change Impacts in the United States» issued last week which predicts more frequent heat waves, rising water temperatures, more wildfires, rising disease levels, and rising sea levels — headlined, in a paper I read, as «Getting Warmer.»

The fact is, of course, that whether by wind and tide, or by giant walls of water which formed between a dry pathway through the midst of the sea, what is affirmed is the Lord's Power over all power - human power as represented by Pharaoh's host, and natural power as represented by the wind and waves (see Matt.

At Halle on his way to Eisleben, he was held up by floods which he personified in a letter to Katie of 25 January as a «huge she - Anabaptist» which «met us with waves of water and great floating pieces of ice; she threatened to baptise us again and has covered the countryside.»

Aside from the grim image of every living thing on earth gasping for breath and choking on water as they sink beneath the waves, the flood story also paints a troubling portrait of a God who seems incompetent because He regrets that He made mankind (Didn't He know this would happen?)

At the same time my arms are waving about rather haphazardly as I try to balance 2 bottle of water in my hands.

Scholz was early to have a covered dam — effectively an enormous bladder, the biggest water bed you've ever seen — as vines have to have water during heat waves and even then growers lose tonnes and quality by the day.

Surfing is an extreme water sport in which the wave rider, referred to as a «surfer», rides on the forward face of a moving wave which is usually carrying the surfer towards the shore.

«Charlie's got ta ride this wave for as long as he can and then get the fuck off, because they're real sharks in the water out in the depths.

HOT SPOT 2 Banzai Pipeline With waves two stories high crashing into water as shallow as two feet, the Banzai Pipeline is the most infamous break on the North Shore of Oahu; it's also the site of the season - ending men's event of the Association of Surfing Professionals World Tour.

My point of contention with the football outsiders article was their use of a rested defense as a gauge to winning but then muddying the waters with meta data analysis that in my mind results in smothering / soothing any waves.

I stood at the water's edge and watched as he gleefully threw his bread into the cresting waves.

In Chicago, the Park District will use a new high - tech system that uses computer software to give real - time predictions of bacteria counts based on such factors as water temperature, modeling of the lake bottom and wave action monitored by buoys.

But your reality show will probably be a little different, first, because fewer than 15 percent of women experience a rupture of the membranes before labor begins, and second, because if your water does break in public, it's less likely to come as a torrential tidal wave and more likely to come as a slow leak, trickle or small gush.

Sara White had been walking across the road with her son in his stroller when a rogue wave came out of nowhere and crashed into them, dragging them across the road as water continued to flood their way.

Imagine the bath water as waves in an ocean and use this visual to help quiet your mind.

The state can not wave a magic wand and generate the water, food, and raw materials necessary for providing what you've defined as basic necessities.

Much the way ships form bow waves as they move through water, CMEs set off interplanetary shocks when they erupt from the Sun at extreme speeds, propelling a wave of high - energy particles.

It's very similar to the bow wave you see off the front of a ship as it moves through water... but on a somewhat larger scale.

But understanding what happened below the waves of the English Channel is, as the new Nova episode explains, «like investigating a crime scene spread out over 300 miles and buried under 120 feet of water.»

«As waves break near the shore, water droplets are blown by the wind and freeze onto subfreezing structures,» Gerth says.

(At the surface, physical processes such as evaporation and waves help to eliminate oil from water.)

Their findings shed new light on the physics of black holes with the first laboratory evidence of the phenomenon known as the superradiance, achieved using water and a generator to create waves.

Kadri says the typical water wave equations used to characterize ocean wave interactions do not apply to acoustic - gravity waves, as they do not factor in compressibility and gravity effects.

On the other hand, the fact that water is slightly compressible is what allows pressure waves, such as sound, to travel through, though this property has almost no effect on surface waves.

High - frequency sound can kill microscopic pathogens, but the sound waves normally need to travel through a contact medium such as water or gel, limiting the use of ultrasound as a germicide.

As the wave groups approach shallow areas, they break and transport water onshore.

Sea spray droplets are aerosol water particles that are ejected into the atmosphere as waves break at the ocean surface.

The distinctive waves with capped tops and cloudless troughs are created by what's known as velocity shear, which occurs when a fluid or two different fluids — wind and water, for example — interact at different speeds to create differing pressures at the back and front ends of the wave.

Additionally, light that passes through a transparent object such as air, water or glass can also be refracted, which means the light wave bends when it passes from one transparent substance into another.

With regard to «drinkable» sunscreen — water that claims to be infused with electromagnetic waves as a way of protecting the skin — Dr. Lim is very skeptical.

Such regions include areas where molecules of water and methanol act as natural amplifiers of radio signals — masers, the radio - wave equivalent of lasers for light waves.

Physicists had conceived of the ether as a medium that could transmit light waves, the way air or water transmits sound.

«As such, they are even slower than phonons, the analogue to the water wave in the solid state, and this makes them detectable in our experiment.»

Although winds reach higher velocities, waves tend to be more powerful because water is 832 times as dense as air.

Sensors resting at 60 - and 90 - metre depths in the Gulf of Mexico, off Mississippi, US, measured one wave at 91 feet (28 metres) high and half a dozen waves higher than 50 feet as Ivan passed directly over the waters.

The team discovered that internal waves are generated daily from internal tides, which also occur below the ocean surface, and grow larger as the water is pushed westward through the Luzon Strait into the South China Sea.

One of Osborne's favorite descriptions of a rogue wave is from Virgil's Aeneid: «A squall came howling from the north - east, catching the sail full on, raising the waves to the stars, breaking the oars in a single blow, wrenching the boat around to offer its flank to the waves as a mountain of water rose above them, immense and immeasurable.

If it is smaller than 1 [percent], another might be right, but then just to add and as I often try and do, I muddy the water, we've also argued recently that, unfortunately, there are other mechanisms in the early universe that could also produce a gravitational wave signal that would mimic that due to inflation.

As one marine insurer put it, «If a captain loses a ship or crew in rough waters, they blame it on a rogue wave rather than admit they were out when they shouldn't have been out.»

More recently, seamen and engineers alike have dismissed them as easily explainable: If you know the speed and direction of the wind, if you know the distance over which it has been blowing and the depth of the water, you can predict the height, length, speed, and even the frequency of any wave.

These sound waves can travel for hundreds of miles under water, and can retain an intensity of 140 decibels as far as 300 miles from their source.

The new type of accelerator, known as a laser - plasma accelerator, uses pulses of laser light that blast through a soup of charged particles known as a plasma; the resulting plasma motion, which resemble waves in water, accelerates electrons riding atop the waves to high speeds.

Saturn's moon Enceladus made waves in 2015 with two dramatic liquid - water - related discoveries, establishing the world as a target of great interest in the search for life.