Sentences with phrase «by known particles»

Now researchers led by Franz Pröbst and Jens Schmaler of the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, Germany, say the experiment detected around 20 collisions between June 2009 and last April that may not have been caused by known particles.

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Gravity isn't even represented by any of the particles that we know about.
Laplace claimed that if he knew the position and velocity of every particle in the universe, he could in principle predict all their future positions and hence all future events, governed by inexorable causal laws.
so by knowing that God has sacrificed His Only SON, and (you particularly), or a person, should «choose» NOT to accept God's invitation to «eternal» life, through His Beloved Son, you think He «s being «particle `... huh... is that what you're saying?
In 2012 the lines between the sacred and the profane will get even more blurry: Scientists will religiously maintain their search for the elusive God particle (they won't find it); evangelical sports superhero and Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow will continue to be both an inspiration to the faithful and an object of scorn to skeptics (he will be watching, not playing in, the Super Bowl); at least one well - known religious leader or leading religious politician will be brought down by a sex scandal (let's hope all our leaders have learned a lesson from former Rep. Anthony Weiner and stay away from sexting); and the «nones» - those who don't identify with one religion - will grow even more numerous and find religious meanings in unexpected places (what TV show will become this season's «Lost»?)
When science has gained a more perfect picture of the spatio - temporal patterns exhibited by the life and adventures of a particle, including perhaps the evolution of the cosmos from a stage in which it did not contain this particle, and into one in which it will no longer contain it, then perhaps speculation as to an inner life of the particle.
Physics says that the two particles know what is happening to the other, even if they are separated by large distances.
Leon Lederman, the well - know physicist in his book on the history of particle physics, The God Particle, (GP 175) expresses the unavoidable finitude as a limit of knowledge expressed by what Max Planck called the «quantum of action,» now known as Planck's Constant: «Heisenberg announced that our simultaneous knowledge of a particle's location and its motion is limited and the combined uncertainty of these two properties must exceed... nothing other than Planck's constaparticle physics, The God Particle, (GP 175) expresses the unavoidable finitude as a limit of knowledge expressed by what Max Planck called the «quantum of action,» now known as Planck's Constant: «Heisenberg announced that our simultaneous knowledge of a particle's location and its motion is limited and the combined uncertainty of these two properties must exceed... nothing other than Planck's constaParticle, (GP 175) expresses the unavoidable finitude as a limit of knowledge expressed by what Max Planck called the «quantum of action,» now known as Planck's Constant: «Heisenberg announced that our simultaneous knowledge of a particle's location and its motion is limited and the combined uncertainty of these two properties must exceed... nothing other than Planck's constaparticle's location and its motion is limited and the combined uncertainty of these two properties must exceed... nothing other than Planck's constant, b...
Henry studies glasslike particles, known as phytoliths, from plants eaten by hominins and sealed in their teeth tartar.
The standard model of particle physics would be completed by finding the Higgs boson, but has a number of problems that would be solved if all known elementary particles had a heavier «superpartner».
A new particle, announced by an international team of researchers in June, calls into question what we know about the composition of matter.
Most carbon emissions linked to human activity are in the form of carbon dioxide gas (CO2), but other forms of carbon include the methane gas (CH4) and the particles generated by such fires — the tiny bits of soot, called black carbon, and motes of associated substances known as brown carbon.
Soot, also known as black carbon, is made of fine, carbon - based particles that are given off by car and truck tailpipes and wood stoves.
Some physicists worry that by fixating on it and other «known unknowns», such as supersymmetry, the LHC might be missing other, more interesting, particles (see «Is the LHC throwing away too much data?»).
Many young stars known to host planets also possess disks containing dust and icy grains, particles produced by collisions among asteroids and comets also orbiting the star.
Astronomers think these motions are guided by filaments of dark matter, exotic particles whose presence is known only by their gravitational pull.
And though we now know more about the particles of matter that make up our universe, as well as the many different types of matter created by our universe, I look forward to learning «what matters» next.
This technique also depends on analyzing scattered light particles that are intentionally ignored by guidance systems currently in cars — known as LIDAR systems.
B mesons belong to class of subatomic particles that are bound states of quarks and they feel the so - called strong interactions, also known by the colorful name Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD).
Clouds of electrons created by ionised gas in the beam chamber and microscopic dust particles — playfully known as unidentified falling objects, or UFOs — are interrupting the beams and making it harder to get the LHC running consistently.
In the field of astrophysics, the University of Cambridge physicist is also known for his work on gravity and black holes, including his 1974 postulation of the eponymous Hawking radiation, a phenomenon by which a black hole should give off a stream of particles from its outer boundary.
Einstein explained the so - called photoelectric effect by asserting that light, which was known to flow in continuous waves, could also be regarded as sputtering along in discrete particles, or quanta.
While the discovered particles may have properties typical to Majoranas, the most exciting proof could be obtained by allowing two Majorana particles to exchange places, or «braid» as it is scientifically known.
With great precision, it describes all known matter — all the subatomic particles such as quarks and leptons — as well as the forces by which those particles interact with one another.
So they plump for a model in which the brown dwarfs revealed by microlensing are part of the relatively small but heavy spheroid, while the even heavier extended dark halo is made up of the more exotic particles variously known as WIMPs or cold dark matter.
Earth's dual radiation belts, known as the Van Allen belts, are layers of energetic particles held in place by the planet's magnetic field.
21 SOLAR SHUTDOWN Back in the 1970s, when it seemed that the sun was not emitting the expected number of particles known as neutrinos, some solar physicists proposed that our star might go through million - year stretches of reduced activity, during which time its brightness could drop by perhaps 40 percent.
Soot particles, also known as black carbon aerosols, affect climate by absorbing sunlight, which warms the surrounding air and limits the amount of solar radiation that reaches the ground.
«Quarks» may be source of quasars» energy — The mysterious nuclear particles called «quarks,» which have not yet been detected but might nevertheless be basic building blocks of the atom's core, could be the source of the tremendous energy generated by the puzzling star - like objects known as quasars....
The bulk, or interior, acts as an insulator, which means it prohibits the travel of electrons, but the surface of the material is conducting, allowing electrons to travel through a set of channels created by particles known as Dirac fermions.
By their very nature, these dark - matter particles barely interact with ordinary matter, but in some rare instances one should collide in just the right way to make its presence known.
In his 1905 PhD thesis, Albert Einstein derived a formula, known as the Stokes - Einstein equation, that makes it possible to calculate a material's mechanical properties by observing and measuring the movement of particles in that material.
Planetary scientists expect that mixtures of dust and ice turn black after billions of years of irradiation by photons and high - energy particles from the sun, but they don't yet know the details of that composition.
Knowing the difference in particle shape reduces the guesswork required by a forecaster to identify features in the radar scans.
Though the viruses under study are too dangerous to manipulate in the Penn Vet lab, Harty's team was nonetheless able to examine the interactions between host and viral proteins by looking at what are known as virus - like particles, or VLPs, produced using the virus» matrix protein, of which PTAP is a part.
When the glacier starts to retreat, the frontal moraines are no longer protected by the ice, and a sort of «geological chronometer» is triggered, as the rocks begin to accumulate beryllium - 10 and helium - 3 produced by particles resulting from cosmic rays.
There is believed to be about five times more dark matter than all the other particles understood by science, but nobody knows what it is.
In case you missed the news, a team of physicists reported in September that the tiny subatomic particles known as neutrinos could violate the cosmic speed limit set by Einstein's special theory of relativity.
Physicists have gone through three generations of particle accelerators searching for new particles, posited by a theory called supersymmetry, that would drive the Higgs mass down exactly as much as the known particles drive it up.
Cosmologists believe that more than 90 percent of the universe consists of dark matter — invisible subatomic particles that make themselves known only by their gravity.
«Pluto is the first planetary body we know of where the atmospheric energy budget is dominated by solid - phase haze particles instead of by gases.»
In quantum theory, interactions among particles create fascinating correlations known as entanglement that can not be explained by any means known to the classical world.
By this thinking, if we knew the properties of every particle on the planet we could, in principle, calculate any person's fate; we could even calculate all the thoughts in his or her head.
Such particles could be the «superpartners» of existing particles, as predicted by a theory known as supersymmetry, which seeks to unite all of the fundamental forces of physics, except gravity.
New studies suggest that such diseases should be classified among disorders caused by the infectious particles known as prions.
Even if you do nt know your bottom quark from your tau neutrino (those are two subatomic particles discovered at the Lab, in case you forgot), youll still be stunned by the breadth of research proffered on this site.
And this is something that physicists have been arguing about for a very, very long time, but what the authors of this article point out is that the work by John Bell, but also some more recent experimental work, seems to indicate that in fact there really is a deep nonlocality to the universe; that there really is someway in which there is not some sort of missing x-factor that if we just knew what it was that would explain everything; that we would see the dominos connecting, those invisible tiny dominos connecting those different particles and set up the effect of going one to the other.
The measurements were made by teams working independently with two massive particle detectors fed by the LHC, which are known as ATLAS and CMS.
The researchers knew that this analysis could be influenced by another well - known phenomenon, the production of particle jets.
The researchers, who include Alessandro Bruno of the University of Bari in Italy and the INFN in Bari, focused on a region known as the South Atlantic Anomaly, where Earth's inner Van Allen radiation belt comes closest to the planet's surface and the density of particles encountered by the craft would likely be the highest.
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