Sentences with phrase «at light speed from»

Radiation at light speed from the Sun to Earth is not tripped up on it's path in the same way outward bound IR from Earth's surface is.

Moody though incoherent, boldly cynical if hampered by extraordinarily poor editing (it appears as though characters are able to travel at light speed from location to location — the budget probably couldn't support transitional coverage), The Calling is so earnestly bad that I really got a kick out of it.

Not exact matches

For example, what math was used to calculate the capability of dragline silk from an orb weaver spider that is lighter than cotton, yet ounce for ounce stronger than steel, tougher than kevlar (used in bullet - proof vests), that if the silk were 0.4 inch thick with strands 1.6 inches apart and enlarged the size of a football field, could stop a jumbo jet in flight, that is flying at an average speed of about 600 mph?

For what you said to make sense, god would have to be traveling away from us at the speed of light.

I'm no astrophysicist so when the experts say the Earth is 150 million km from the sun and that the speed of light is 299792.458 km / s, I take them at their word.

Apparently, if you are fortunate enough to be around at that time, the galaxy you are in will seem to be the only galaxy in the universe as the other galaxies will be receding away from your galaxy faster than the speed of light.

If we now consider the number of the stars (15,000 x 106 visible to the optical telescope alone) you will understand how it is possible to say, cosmically speaking, that we are enveloped in a sort of monstrous gas formed of molecules as heavy as the Sun moving at distances from each other so great that they have to be reckoned in light - years (bearing in mind that light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second, and that we are only 8 light - minutes distant from the sun)-- a gas made of stars!

These observations help clarify the origin of the powerful jet of gas streaming from the galaxy's center at a high fraction of the speed of light: it is likely driven by the swirling matter near the black hole's boundary.»

Within black holes there may well be a gravimetric consistency whereby atomic particles release energy via electron dispersal ratios giving rise to atoms flying apart at near light speeds from said release of electrons energy dispersal rates and not via «anti-particles» as Steve Hawking suggests.

There in front of the station a car had crashed into a light post — and, to judge from the condition of the car's front end, had done so at a significant rate of speed.

My favorite scene of the day was of two elderly deaf ladies, seated across from one another on the uptown 6, silently gabbing at the speed of light.

Directions: Beat eggs / Add sugar & oil and mix on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes / Mix in dry ingredients & blend well, but briefly / Finally, add apples and mix thoroughly, but, briefly / Bake at 325º for about an hour in a greased & floured Bundt pan / Let it cool for fifteen minutes / Carefully remove from the pan, loosening it all around with a flexible knife or spatula if needed.

they are also capable of transitioning from defence to attack at the speed of light.

He was obstructed by a slight pull on his arm in front of the goal with reasonable chance of nutmeging the keeper YES it seams light but in real speed he was obstructed and that's what the ref / linesman saw, if it was the EPL unless your Delle Alli its defenetly no penalty but some leagues they give free kicks for just about everything, if you look at stats in every country how long a game is played without interruption (game stoping) I think EPL has the longest time in play, not quite shore about Sweeden where the ref is from

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We are 16 short days away from the 2018 NFL Draft, which means more information, good and bad, will be coming out at light speed.

As I stood there staring through tears at the tail lights speeding away, I realized that if I'd just witnessed a man doing that to his wife I could call the police who would intervene immediately because there are laws to protect adults from domestic violence, but there are no such laws protecting children in the US.

Your child will go from play to sleep at light speed!

Stringer's report revealed that from January 2016 to February 2018, 121,851 vehicles in the city received at least five tickets for speeding near schools, for running red lights or for both.

The on topic Q&A included redesign plans for other streets, especially Queens Boulevard, why the administration attributes the reduction in pedestrian fatalities to Vision Zero and not to regular year - to - year variances, how the administration actually knows that driving speeds are reduced, why so few street redesign projects have been done on Staten Island, data for any changes in safety at this E.Tremont / Silver Street intersection, why Commissioner Bratton did not attend, why there are few speeding and failure to yield tickets issued in this (45th) precinct, the negative effect of speed bumps on emergency response vehicles, plans for marking and painting of roads, whether the mayor will seek additional red light camera authorizations from the state legislature, the paucity of criminal prosecutions against drivers who kill pedestrians and an estimate of money received from speed camera tickets.

Bright wisps are moving outward from the neutron star at half the speed of light to form an expanding ring.

Light moves at a finite speed (299,792 kilometers per second, to be precise), so the journey from star to star is a very long one even...

A new observatory called ABISS that can transmit video and long - term chemical measurements at broadband speeds from the seafloor using a system of flashing lights instead of a traditional tether.

ANOTHER LOOKING GLASS In science fiction movies like Stargate and Contact, wormholes connect distant points in the universe, allowing people to travel from one spot to another in far less time than the hundreds or millions of years required to make the trip at the speed of light, the greatest conventional velocity.

Representatives from the OPERA collaboration spoke in a seminar at CERN today, supporting their astonishing claim that neutrinos can travel faster than the speed of light.

5 million mph The approximate speed at which scientists observed a supermassive black hole, roughly 8 billion light - years away from Earth, hurtling through space.

From Earth orbit, each featherweight spacecraft would be boosted toward Alpha Centauri at 20 percent light - speed by a minutes - long pulse from a ground - based, 100 - gigawatt laser arFrom Earth orbit, each featherweight spacecraft would be boosted toward Alpha Centauri at 20 percent light - speed by a minutes - long pulse from a ground - based, 100 - gigawatt laser arfrom a ground - based, 100 - gigawatt laser array.

«The gradual brightening of the radio signal indicates we are seeing a wide - angle outflow of material, traveling at speeds comparable to the speed of light, from the neutron star merger,» said Kunal Mooley, now a National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Jansky Postdoctoral Fellow hosted by Caltech.

Not only does this modification work best with the data, he adds, but the new constant, a0, may be of cosmological significance: Accelerating at this rate will take you from a resting state to the speed of light in the lifetime of the universe.

The ripples spreading out below the pulsar like waves on a lake show where streams of electrons and positrons, shooting away from the pulsar at nearly the speed of light, begin to bunch up along the pulsar's changing magnetic field.

Computerized traffic - light systems will open up green lights for buses and — in answer to my biggest complaint about buses — computerized driving assistants will keep bus drivers from unnecessarily hammering the gas or brakes, swerving in and out of lanes, and taking curves at NASCAR speeds.

Since LRO's launch in 2009, the CRaTER instrument has been measuring energetic charged particles — particles that can travel at nearly the speed of light and may cause detrimental health effects — from galactic cosmic rays and solar particle events.

Ripples from that union, which took place about 3 billion light - years from Earth, zoomed across the cosmos at the speed of light, eventually reaching the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, LIGO, which detected them on January 4.

Explosive geysers of material that shoot away from black holes at nearly the speed of light seem to form more often in galaxies that are the product of two galaxies merging together

But scientists aren't worried about it making contact: It's some 8 billion light - years away from Earth and traveling at less than 1 % the speed of light.

If some clever engineer were ever to extract energy from the vacuum, it could set off a chain reaction that would spread at the speed of light and destroy the universe.

A wind of particles seems to be spreading out from the neutron star's equator like wispy smoke rings, but they are traveling at half the speed of light.

Now readings from ANITA, a balloon - borne neutrino telescope based in Antarctica that can also detect monopoles, suggest that the maximum is just 1/10, 000 th of the Parker bound for monopoles moving close to the speed of light, says David Besson at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and colleagues (arxiv.org/abs/1008.1282).

More wildly, future iterations of Sprites could become Breakthrough's hoped - for «StarChips» — spacecraft integrated with gossamer - thin, meter - wide «lightsails» that would travel at 20 percent the speed of light to Alpha Centauri or other nearby stars, propelled by high - powered pulses of photons from a gargantuan ground - based laser array.

Now the probe was finally checking in, a message sent from so far away that at the speed of light it had taken some four - and - a-half hours to arrive.

Finally they added a fluorescent iron line, amazingly bright and red - shifted so strongly that it had to be coming from iron atoms streaking just over the event horizon at near - light speed.

Jets are narrow streams of gas that emerge from the cores of some galaxies, travel at more than 99 percent the speed of light, and penetrate as much as several million light - years into intergalactic space before fanning out into broad, luminous lobes.

Combined with the fact that bursts seem to evolve from energetic gamma rays to X-rays to visible light, which means they cool off over time, the radio data supported the idea that they are huge fireballs, expanding at near - light - speed and cooling as they go.

Anything that ventures closer than a certain distance from the black hole falls in to it, even photons zipping along at light speed.

Then, suddenly, a narrow jet of radiation, pointed right at us, erupted from the black hole at close to the speed of light.

OPERA detected neutrinos fired from CERN, about 730 kilometres away in Geneva, Switzerland, and found they arrived 60 nanoseconds earlier than expected, implying they zipped along at one part in 40,000 faster than the speed of light.

Anthony Readhead of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory at Caltech and colleagues caught two small, hot bursts traveling away from a bright galaxy called J1415 +1320 at near the speed of light.

The U-shaped features in the data appeared when the black hole emitted clumps of matter that sped away at near the speed of light, and passed behind this lens from the perspective of Earth, the team says.

Using a combination of data gathered from powerful radio telescopes and supercomputer simulations, the teams found that a quasar spits out cold gas at speeds up to 2000 kilometres per second, and across distances of nearly 200,000 light years — much farther than has been observed before.

Their origin is not understood, but they come from every direction in space, traveling at almost the speed of light.