Sentences with phrase «detect flashes of light»

They rarely interact with ordinary matter, but massive experiments have been set up to detect the flashes of light produced when they do.

People can detect flashes of light as feeble as a single photon, an experiment has demonstrated — a finding that seems to conclude a 70 - year quest to test the limits of human vision.

They can't be observed directly from Earth because they are blocked by the atmosphere, but Cherenkov telescopes spot them by detecting the flash of light caused by their collision with atoms in the upper atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Lots of baby monitors have a light display on the parent unit that flashes when sound is detected.

The Venus Express spacecraft, which orbited Venus from 2006 until earlier this year, detected flashes of infrared light coming from the planet's surface.

NOT MORDOR Flashes of infrared light detected by the Venus Express spacecraft could be signs of active volcanoes (illustrated) on Venus.

It is no good having a technology that tells you that a neuron has fired by giving off a flash of light, if you can not detect that light.

Even a modest telescope can detect millions of stars, which means it could also pick up any flashes of light that outshine those stars.

With their long strings of light - detecting devices, lowered into deep water or ice to wait for the telltale flashes that signal a neutrino, none of them looks remotely like a conventional telescope.

«The eye can actually detect single photons, but the signals that light sends to the brain are suppressed unless there are about seven — otherwise you would see flashes of light all the time — even in complete darkness,» explains quantum physicist Seth Lloyd of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

If she has her way, in a few years many of them will be retrofitted with about $ 5,000 worth of light sensors and electronics designed to detect minute flashes of light, like the Auger tanks.

Like existing ground - based gamma - ray observatories, the telescopes wouldn't detect gamma rays directly but would instead pick up the flashes of light given off when gamma radiation interacts with atoms in the upper atmosphere.

When a low - energy neutrino or antineutrino from a supernova collides with a water molecule in the tank, the resulting light signal is recorded by about 100 of 13,000 photomultipliers, ultrasensitive light - detecting devices that turn a tiny flash of light into a larger recordable burst of electricity.

When a collision happens, a xenon atom will recoil and emit a tiny flash of light, which is detected by LUX's light sensors.

When neutrinos interact with electrons or nuclei of those water or oil molecules, they give off a flash of light that sensors can detect.

«Once these elements had been extracted, intense flashes of light were detected in the image sequences.

The modeling showed that basketball - sized eyes could detect whales amid flashes of light from more than 120 meters away — giving the squid enough of an edge to make a quick exit.

The flash of light from lightning within clouds is hard to detect and most monitoring stations are located on land.

During its mission, the robotic spacecraft detected flashes of infrared light coming from the planet's surface.

Flashes of infrared light detected by the Venus Express spacecraft could be signs of active volcanoes (illustrated) on Venus.

About two seconds after the gravitational waves ended, a bright flash of light, in the form of gamma rays, was detected by NASA's Fermi space telescope.

The standard Audi Pre-Sense system can warn the driver, tension the seatbelts and close the windows if a potential collision is detected, while Pre-Sense Rear flashes the brake lights as a warning to rearward traffic if you're in danger of being rear - ended.

Works like a charm and together with rear radar and surrounding sodar you have a car that can detect obstacles, read signs, see the road, partly drive by itself, keep cruise control distance, warn rear driver if they don't see you are at standstill in a queue (the car then flashes the lights to wake them up) and to protect you (if they still doesn't react and my car thinks this will not end well, it pretensions seat belts, apply full brake if you are at stand still, to prevent you from bouncing further, and precharge the airbag safety system - if nothing happens, it releases the belts and so on), and it can find parking spot that fits and help you park there and of course help you with obstacles around the car when parking by yourself.

If the light illuminates without ever flashing, then the TPMS has detected that one of your tires is not inflated to the proper pressure.