Sentences with phrase «bigger than protons»

When we cover the sizes of atomic particles, I build in a review of negative exponents and powers of ten so that no student believes that electrons, at about 10 - 27 grams, are bigger than protons, at about 10 - 24 grams.

Not exact matches

What we think of as the Big Bang, they contend, was the result of a collision between our three - dimensional world and another three - dimensional world less than the width of a proton away from ours — right next to us, and yet displaced in a way that renders it invisible.

But rather than a knight getting «un-horsed,» this high - speed collision melts the protons and neutrons of the ions, freeing the quarks and other particles to disperse in an explosion very like that of the Big Bang.

This huge machine, more than five miles in diameter, is capable of blasting protons together with a colossal energy of 14 trillion electron volts; it will be able to probe distances 1/10, 000 the size of a proton, perhaps creating a zoo of exotic particles not seen since the Big Bang.

These big bits of atoms, such as gold or silicon atoms stripped of their electrons, are much more complex than the protons that physicists have been accustomed to studying.

They should help us to hone descriptions of how, after the big bang, the universe grew from smaller than a proton into a vast expanse in less than a trillionth of a trillionth of a second.

These neutrino cousins, 100 trillion times more massive than a proton, formed in the tremendous heat that existed right after the Big Bang.

However the big - bang theory claims that all matter in the universe came from a primordial «egg» one hundred billion times smaller than a proton.7 With a radius of almost zero, that «egg's» angular momentum would be almost zero — even if its surface had been spinning at the maximum possible speed — the speed of light.