Sentences with phrase «energy packets»

This was the paper in which he proposed that light is concentrated in traveling energy packets, which later came to be called photons.

Thermal disturbances at such low temperatures are so weak that the research team could detect energy packets of only a single zeptojoule.

Using a specially built microscope capable of imaging matter at the atomic scale, the researchers were able to visualize traps, which can adversely affect the flow of electrons and elementary energy packets called excitons.

I quickly set up my gear beneath my bike — socks, shoes, sunglasses, helmet, belt with official race bib attached, Gu Energy packets, and a bottle of water and towel to rinse and wipe myself off after the swim — before grabbing my wetsuit, goggles, and swim cap and following the crowds one mile upriver to the swim start.

Its more than 300 water tanks can detect cascades of particles initiated by high - energy packets of light called gamma rays.

If the Earth were a hundred billion years old, or if the universe were that old, all the nebulae would be out of range of our telescopes and all the radium would be exhausted... The universe is a great number of energy packets that continuously divided themselves.

More than 300 massive water tanks sit waiting at the site for cascades of particles initiated by high - energy packets of light called gamma rays — many of which have more than a million times the energy of a dental X-ray.

Einstein struggled to reconcile the fact that tiny things at the quantum level (energy packets and matter smaller than an atom) do not behave the same as larger things like desks and planets.

The second key development concerns the amplification of the signal arising from the tiny the energy packets.