Sentences with phrase «bumping into other particles»

Before that time, the universe was an opaque fog, so hot and dense that photons could not travel very far before bumping into other particles and changing direction.

Not exact matches

Through a process known as «squeeze expulsion,» particles big (you and your pack) and small (rocks, chunks of snow) knock into each other at the bottom of the avalanche, where the most impacts occur, and eventually get bumped up to the top.

Deep underground, uranium atoms in rocks undergo radioactive decay, sending off alpha particles — two protons and two neutrons — that can bump into other molecules and change them.

Schrödinger discovered it through his newly formed quantum theory, when he examined the mathematical descriptions of two quantum particles that bump into one other.

The gravity of the galaxy clusters also gathers up gas and the gas heats up from the friction of the intergalactic gas particles bumping into each other.

But the particles will bump into each other and the rotational energy will kick the molecules around until the energy is evenly distributed in the 5 degrees of freedom.