Sentences with phrase «atoms jiggling»

But if we were shown a movie depicting atoms jiggling around, until recently we could be reasonably sure we were looking at a cartoon, an artist's impression or a simulation of some sort.

Turin's more controversial theory, put forth in 1996 and now the subject of two popular books, holds instead that odorant receptors sense the way a molecule's atoms jiggle.

(It is the reason helium ordinarily only occurs as a gas or a liquid: the extremely lightweight atoms jiggle about too much to form a solid.)

Not exact matches

«The atoms are arranged in a regular periodic grid and are not jiggling around, as in a liquid,» says Coh.

Normally, you only see quantum - mechanical jiggling when you look at objects the size of atoms and molecules, but we are moving into a domain where we see the centers of mass of these big mirrors jiggle quantum - mechanically.

(Einstein's 1905 model of the erratic jiggling of microscopic particles was used to prove the existence of atoms.)

For the first time, new research from the University of Bristol, UK and the University of Waikoto, New Zealand explains how this «wiggling and jiggling» of the atoms in enzymes — the proteins that make biological reactions happen — is «choreographed» to make them work at a particular temperature.

Instead, the deformation produced a decrease in the oscillation frequency at higher temperatures — so high that the jiggling of atoms would be expected to destroy any quantum effect such as supersolidity.

At high temperatures, the jiggling atoms point in random directions and their magnetic fields cancel one another.

A characteristic of helium would tend to promote such an exchange — namely, its large zero - point motion, which is the inherent jiggling of atoms that represents a minimum amount of movement required by quantum uncertainty.

Typically, MRI detects the jiggling of hydrogen atoms perturbed by strong magnets.

In contrast, a tiny machine unveiled this year jiggles in ways explicable only by the weird rules of quantum mechanics, which ordinarily govern molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles.

The challenge is being able to detect such minute variations while screening out far larger sources of background noise, such as vibrations caused by earthquakes or the thermal jiggling of atoms.

The atom feels that jiggle and can transfer the jiggle into a light signal we can pick up.