Sentences with phrase «called light wave»

With so - called light wave electronics, one would be able to compute data at light wave frequency (about 1015 cycles per second): 100,000 times faster than currently possible.

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It also confirms more than any other evidence that the universe had a beginning and expanded at a rate faster than the speed of light within less than a trillion of a trillion of a trillion of a second — less than 10 ^ -35 of a second — of the Big Bang by detecting the miniscule «light polarizations» called B - Modes caused by the Gravitational Waves — which were theorized in 1916 by Albert Einstein in his Theory of General Relativity but never detected before — of the Inflation of the Big Bang which are embedded in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation — CMB or CMBR that was discovered by American scientists back in 1964.

In light of a recent wave of media coverage related to a report stating that «alarming» levels of arsenic, lead and cadmium were found in baby food, we called a pediatric nutrition expert to help us navigate this news cycle.

They would need someone to lift the nation's spirits, someone to make Britain feel proud about itself, someone who could bring a bit of light to the gloom and do the patriotic, flag - waving — albeit a newly drawn up flag — and chest - beating turn that people up and down the land would be calling out for.

That will cause some of the light to warble out through an exit called a dark port in synchrony with undulations of the wave.

The existing theory of light as waves failed to explain the effect, but Einstein provided a neat solution by suggesting light came in discrete packages of energy called photons — a brain wave that won him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921.

The gravitational waves produced a characteristic swirly pattern in polarized light, called «B - mode» polarization.

This is the basis of linear optics: it is called «linear» because the division of electric charges that occurs when light passes through a medium is linearly dependent on the intensity of the fields in the light wave itself.

Waves of light or sound fired at an object tend to bounce off its surface like raindrops on an umbrella, collectively exerting a subtle nudge called radiation pressure that pushes the object away.

As the shock wave — pushed air cools, the temperature at the wave front drops and the light dissipates to its darkest point — called the minimum, or T Min — when the temperature has reached 3,300 kelvins.

The insight that light sometimes needs to be treated as an electromagnetic wave and sometimes as a stream of energy quanta called photons is as old as quantum physics.

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.

Physicists realized that light is not a wave exactly but rather a wavelike particle called a photon.

The new technique builds on a different method: creating flat structures with light - wave - scale subdivisions by hardening special resins, called photoresists, with light.

The Duke cloak, constructed from a synthetic structure called a metamaterial, prevented those disturbances by bending light waves around the object, allowing them to continue flowing like water in a stream around a rock (concept shown at right).

But quantum theory says that light is simultaneously a wave and a stream of particles called photons.

Bersten and her colleagues analyzed the light from the supernova and found that it matches models of the first phase of a supernova called the shock breakout phase, in which a shock wave from a massive star's collapse ricochets back from the star's core and pushes stellar material outward.

In the 19th century scientists decided that light must be a wave, but after witnessing light demonstrating particlelike behavior, Albert Einstein proposed that light can indeed be described as a particle (called a photon).

The novel lenses are made from so - called metamaterials, engineered to control the way in which light waves interact (above).

The quantum description of what happens to light going through a polarizing film sounds only slightly different: The light is made up of individual particles called photons, and like a wave, the photons can each have a direction of oscillation.

In the respective gap, the light beams of the waveguides initiate electromagnetic surface waves, the so - called surface plasmons.

To make their measurements as sensitive as possible, LIGO physicists have to ensure that the positions of the peaks and troughs in each light wave — its so - called phase — remain steady and stable.

Light waves travelling between galaxies, for instance, get stretched out by the expansion of the Universe, which increases their wavelength — a phenomenon called red shift.

Physicists have found a long - predicted twist in light from the big bang that represents the first image of ripples in the universe called gravitational waves, researchers announced today.

So for years, physicists have chased an elusive dream: replacing the physical kilogram with a standard inherent in properties of nature such as the speed of light, the wavelength of photons and the Planck constant (also called h - bar), which links the energy a wave carries with its frequency of oscillation.

That burst, called inflation, should have triggered gravitational waves that would have scattered the photons of the CMB in preferred directions, creating patterns of orientation in the light that are an imprint of the relic waves.

The researchers tested their metamaterial using a technique called four - wave mixing, in which three beams of light mix in a non-linear medium to create a fourth.

How much the crests of a light wave are condensed is expressed as a ratio called the refractive index — the higher the index, the more squished the wavelength.

The researchers then visualized the velocity of the two liquids using a technique called Laser Doppler Velocimetry, which detects changes in the frequency of light waves when a laser beam hits them.

When the shock wave reaches the surface of the star, a bright flash of light, called a «shock breakout,» is predicted.

In 1983, an orbiting satellite called IRAS discovered far more infrared radiation — which has waves longer than red light — coming from the Vega than expected for small interstellar dust grains found around young, early - type stars (Harvey et al, 1984).

It's called optical SETI, and its instruments are focused on a different band of the light spectrum than radio astronomy, looking instead at the same waves our eyes take in, along with infrared frequencies, which are just a smidge longer.

Light waves from the precise location of a star, collected separately by the twin 10 - meter Keck Observatory telescopes, are combined and canceled out in a process called nulling.

Previously, all astronomy observations have relied on light — which includes X-rays, radio waves, and other types of electromagnetic radiation emanating from objects in space — or on very - high - energy particles called neutrinos and cosmic rays.

Using the millimeter - wave interferometer at Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory, the astronomers combined 15 smaller images into a single mosaic to produce an image showing the location of Carbon Monoxide (CO) gas throughout a galaxy called IC 10, some 2.5 million light - years away.

In an assumed ideal free space (without intrusion from other fields or forces of any kind, devoid of matter, and, thus, in effect without any intrusions, demarcations, or boundaries), such waves propagate with the speed of light in the so - called transverse electromagnetic mode — one...

These gravitational waves had traveled 1.8 billion light - years to reach us and, like the three confirmed detections that came before it, this signal — called GW170814 — was caused by two stellar black holes colliding and merging as one.

These advanced gravitational wave observatories detected a very strange, weak signal emanating from a galaxy called NGC 4993, 130 million light - years away.

These gravitational waves would have stamped a swirl pattern, called «B - mode» polarization, in the cosmic microwave background, the oldest light now detectable in the sky.

Now researchers are narrowing down a specific eye protein called Cry4 that appears to allow birds to sense magnetic waves in the presence of blue light.

«Through an effect called «Brillouin scattering,» an intense laser beam passing through a transparent medium can produce sound waves as well as new colors of light,» Behunin said.

As you sit watching TV, not only are there visible light waves from the TV striking your eyes, but also radio waves, transmitting from a nearby station, and microwaves carrying cellphone calls and text messages, and waves from your neighbor's WiFi, and GPS units in the cars driving by.

Thus, stage 1 (i.e., drowsy sleep) has the lowest arousal threshold; stage 2 (i.e., light sleep) is intermediate; and stages 3 and 4 (i.e., deep sleep), which collectively are also called slow - wave sleep (SWS), have the highest arousal threshold.

Emma Thompson is the latest celebrity calling out Harvey Weinstein after a wave of sexual harassment allegations have come to light over the past week.

Ellure is not designed to hide its «sedan - ness,» as some so - called 4 - door coupes do, but to honor the form with the way light transitions like a ribbon or wave from the bold front grille and lights, through the sculpted shoulder lines and on to the full glass roof and strong rear end.

This is called a photo - acoustic wave since the light induced the sound wave.

Intermediate and advance groups went to east coast Bali which was the break call Srilangka were rewarded with excellent condition and great waves, swell size smaller than yesterday, sunny light offshore winds.

Our G - Land Surf Report was calling in more perfect waves coming through on Kongs and Moneytree's in the head to double head high range, surfing conditions clean and tidy with a light off shore wind.

Ketut has since phoned back in calling wave height to be pushing the double head high plus plus class and still with a light and clean off shore wind.

Ketut has phoned through from over on the East Coast calling in wave height in the 3 - 5ft + range with a light off shore wind at the time.