Sentences with phrase «described as a particle»

Light described as a particle means nothing, if it has no mass since it would be impossible to distinguish from nothing because no mass means void of substance.

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).

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And yet, many decades later, quaternions were put to use to describe properties of subatomic particles such as the spin of electrons as well as the relation between neutrons and protons.

Instead of using classical concepts of precisely defined x and p we will now say that the wave function describes the state of the particle as accurately as possible.

Not even in the examples you cited: «quantum phenomena... Radioactive decay, formation of particle pairs in a vacuum, etc.» can be described as «having the quality of being within themselves.»

Some scientists believe that an electrical apocalypse could really occur, in the event of an electromagnetic pulse attack, described in one 2008 white paper as «a high - intensity burst of electromagnetic energy caused by the rapid acceleration of charged particles.»

Every year we read more of the unimaginably minute particles such as electrons, protons, positrons, mesons, and others named and described in quick succession as science advances, which form the outer particles and the inner nuclei of the atom.

It is highly improbable that laws describing the behavior of the particles within this structure and information about spatial relations could ever explain the behavior of the structure as a whole.

But, as Bohm points out, such a position can not stand up to critical analysis, for the molecules studied by biologists in living organisms are constituted of electrons, protons and other such particles, from which it must follow that they too are capable of behaving in ways that can not be described in terms of mechanical concepts.

One is string theory, which describes the fundamental constituents of matter not as point - like particles but as microscopic vibrating strings.

In fact, he succeeded in creating a noncommutative space that contains all the abstract algebras (known as symmetry groups) that describe the properties of elementary particles in the Standard Model.

As Rovelli explains it, in quantum mechanics all particles of matter and energy can also be described as waveAs Rovelli explains it, in quantum mechanics all particles of matter and energy can also be described as waveas waves.

It takes a huge amount of data to describe a star, the precursor of a black hole — from macroscopic properties such as its size and temperature down to the microscopic properties of its constituent particles.

Devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1925, it describes subatomic particles and how they may display wavelike properties such as interference.

In that limit he found the equation describing the system is the same as Schrödinger's, with the disk itself being described by the analog of the wave function that defines the distribution of possible positions of a quantum particle.

The EPR authors described a source, such as a radioactive nucleus, that shot out pairs of particles with the same speed but in opposite directions.

Eric Swanson of the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, who was not involved in the new research, describes the hunt to find particles made of ever more quarks as looking for a horse with more than four legs.

It describes all known particles, as well as three of the four forces that act on them: electromagnetism and the weak and strong nuclear forces.

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.

Here they used the UK - developed EPOCH «particle - in - cell» code, where particles are modeled as «chunks» that describe the bigger reality of the dynamics of the plasma system.

The mathematical symmetries of the resulting equations predict three families of particles, as described by the standard model of physics, though the third family would behave a bit differently.

In a study published in The Astrophysical Journal on June 23, Schnittman describes the results of a computer simulation he developed to follow the orbits of hundreds of millions of dark matter particles, as well as the gamma rays produced when they collide, in the vicinity of a black hole.

Physicists describe light as both a particle and a wave.

The discrepancy has consequences for equations such as those that describe the motion of particles or the propagation of waves.

Your look at the black hole firewall paradox described Hawking radiation as the escape of one of a pair of virtual particles that pop into existence at the event horizon while the other falls into the black hole (6 April, p 38).

The discovery has «filled a big hole» in the theory that describes how matter is built up from the fundamental particles known as quarks, says Guy Wilkinson, a spokesman at LHCb, one of the four main detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which was behind the find.

Now, a group at the JILA research institute in Boulder, Colorado, has demonstrated what it describes as a «radically different» approach that probes electrons inside larger charged particles.

In high cirrus clouds, which consist purely of ice crystals, the researchers, however, came across a surprisingly strong reaction to laser irradiation: As described in PNAS, the laser pulses increase the number of ice particles by up to a factor of 100 within only a few seconds.

In 1996 Andrew Strominger and Cumrun Vafa of Harvard University were working on the mathematics of string theory, a physics model that describes all fundamental particles as vibrating strands of energy, when they realized that a key property of certain black holes can be predicted by string equations.

The new research analyzes the plasma surrounding the pulsar by coupling Einstein's theory of relativity with quantum mechanics, which describes the motion of subatomic particles such as the atomic nuclei — or ions — and electrons in plasma.

As far back as 1867, physicist James Clerk Maxwell described a hypothetical way to violate the Second Law: if a small theoretical being sat at the door between the hot and cold rooms and only let through particles traveling at a certain speeAs far back as 1867, physicist James Clerk Maxwell described a hypothetical way to violate the Second Law: if a small theoretical being sat at the door between the hot and cold rooms and only let through particles traveling at a certain speeas 1867, physicist James Clerk Maxwell described a hypothetical way to violate the Second Law: if a small theoretical being sat at the door between the hot and cold rooms and only let through particles traveling at a certain speed.

For decades scientists have been convinced that the laws of quantum physics — which describe how atomic particles can exist in two states at once, such as spinning backward and forward — could be harnessed to create a supercomputer capable of solving certain computational problems with unprecedented speed.

In fact, Tavani describes a storm hurling photons into AGILE's detectors as basically a giant particle accelerator in the sky.

The standard model of particle theory successfully describes every fundamental particle and force observed in laboratories, yet fails to explain properties of the universe such as the existence of dark matter, the amount of dark energy, and the preponderance of matter over antimatter.

String theory purports to describe all the elementary components of matter and energy not as particles but as vanishingly small vibrating strings.

When we science writers describe string theory, we usually trot out something like this: The theory defines the fundamental constituents of physical reality not as minuscule particles but as shimmying strands of energy less than a trillionth of a trillionth the size of an atom.

In fact, he reported that the new data is forcing the authors of the competing model — color glass condensate, which attributes the particle correlations to the internal gluon structure of the protons themselves — to incorporate hydrodynamic effects, meaning that it is also describing the phenomenon as liquid droplets.

The research, described in a paper to be published as an Editor's Suggestion in Physical Review Letters, is only possible at RHIC, a 2.4 - mile circular particle collider that operates as a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility for nuclear physics research at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratorys particle physicists have created an accessible, entertaining primer on, as they describe it, what the world is made of and what holds it together.

Ever since the new particle was reported last July, officials at the home of the LHC — the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland — have taken great care to describe the new thing as a «Higgs - like particle.»

Just as light can be described in some cases as a particle and a wave, so too can these SPPs, which is why scientists refer to them as quasiparticles.

The universe described by quantum field theory is subject to the stringent constraint of a certain rule - set, or symmetry, known as Lorentz symmetry, which is characteristic of high - energy particles.

Particles for peace Gianotti also stressed what she described as the laboratory's impact beyond science.

Two entangled particles share a single quantum state: they behave as one and can not be described individually.

Scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's NOvA experiment — a collaboration of 180 scientists from 28 institutions — have now announced their first evidence of oscillating neutrinos, describing it as a «major leap» toward understanding these ghostly particles and their interactions.

His research summary report outlined the research he had conducted and, as Lovell later described in his autobiography Astronomer by Chance, «by an analysis and argument that now seems tortuous» Lovell remained convinced that the echoes he was receiving on his radar equipment might be caused by high - energy cosmic ray particles.

Scientists at Fermilab's NOvA experiment — a collaboration of 180 scientists from 28 institutions — have announced their first evidence of oscillating neutrinos, describing it as a «major leap» toward understanding these ghostly particles and their interactions.

The fourth vaccine (the VLP vaccine) was a virus - like particle vaccine prepared by us as described previously; it contained the SARS - CoV spike protein (S) and the Nucleocapsid (N), envelope (E) and membrane (M) proteins from mouse hepatitis coronavirus (MHV)[20].

As described in a paper posted online and submitted to Physical Review Letters (PRL), * researchers from NIST and several other institutions created pairs of identical light particles, or photons, and sent them to two different locations to be measured.

Currently, the universe we live in obeys two seemingly incompatible laws — quantum mechanics, which governs the behavior of subatomic particles; and relativity, which describes how clumps of atoms, such as humans, stars and galaxies, behave.