Sentences with phrase «fast moving particles»

These lobes, the scientists think, are produced when the fast moving particles in the jet, created from the accretion disk, collide with the surrounding interstellar material caught in the flow.

Astronomers have found that galaxy clusters have a lot of very hot gas (i.e., gas made of very fast moving particles) in them with about two - thirds of it in between the galaxy members of the cluster.

When spacecraft and satellites travel through space they encounter tiny, fast moving particles of space dust and debris.

Not exact matches

you mention that particles can move faster than the speed of light, but it was an admitted computer error that made these scientists think this.

Science can not prove intuition, yet we believe it exists, science can not explain why we yawn, yet we do everyday, Einsteins theory of relativity says we can not travel than the speed of light, yet we have already clocked a particle moving faster than 186,282 miles per hour.

Light travels at 186,282 miles per second and so the «particle moving faster than 186,282 miles per hour» is not such a big surprise.

beyond our reach besides saying particles move faster.

Another is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which asserts that it is not possible to know both where a particle is and how fast it is moving.

Drawing on their work with fast - moving charged particles and materials such as silicon, they performed experiments that showed that charged water particles could slam into rust or sand grains and generate O2.

One group consists of relatively fast - moving, or «hot,» particles.

The area within is like the space around Earth and the other planets: a region flooded by the solar wind, a fast - moving outward stream of particles from the sun.

So a gas of slow particles is colder than a gas of fast - moving ones, and absolute zero corresponds to the point at which particles stop moving completely, which is why nothing can be colder.

The probe counted the number of fast - moving atoms that are thought to be kicked inward from the edge of the solar system when they collide with charged particles from the sun.

Similar but larger particles are known to play a role in feeding powerful, fast - moving updrafts of air from the land surface to the atmosphere, creating the clouds that play a central role in the formation of water droplets that fall as rain.

On the kelvin scale, temperature is determined by the kinetic energy of particles, so a gas of slow particles is colder than a gas of fast - moving ones.

Some of these particles are pinged back in toward the inner solar system as fast - moving neutral atoms, which can be measured by Cassini.

Variations in the wind speed and the weight of the particles caused some parts of the cloud to travel faster or slower than others, and so the cloud spread as it moved around Earth, until it covered the equator with an almost imperceptible veil of dust and sulfurous particles.

The faster the streams move, the more energy there is; the more energy there is, the more gravity there is, and the faster the particles accelerate.

«You'll see the CME in one frame, and by the time you get the next frame — which contains the information we need to tell how fast it's moving — the energetic particles have already arrived.»

Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere protect us on the ground from most of the harmful effects of space weather, but astronauts in low - Earth orbit — or even, one day, in interplanetary space — are more exposed to space weather, including bursts of fast - moving particles called solar energetic particles, or SEPs.

Lawrence and his team looked at MESSENGER data from June 4 and 5, 2011, corresponding to solar flares that were accompanied by fast - moving, energetic charged particles.

The radioactive decay of radon gas produces alpha particles (consisting of two protons and two neutrons, an alpha particle is just the bare nucleus of a helium atom), beta particles (which are actually fast - moving electrons), and gamma rays (very energetic photons).

By moving the trapped particle fast enough, the researchers were able to trace out patterns in the air that, to an observer, appeared as a single image.

Mass varies depending on how fast particles move; protons zipping along at close to the speed of light, like those in the LHC, weigh more than protons at rest.

Fast - moving particles of hot dark matter are supposed to have «smeared out» the matter in the young Universe, making such giant clusters possible.

For instance, it is impossible to measure both where the particle is and how fast it is moving; the more accurately you determine one aspect, the less precisely you can measure the other.

Scientists observed that the quasar is shooting out highly energetic particles and fast - moving gas in the direction of the galaxy.

Warm Dark Matter Model An alternative to CDM, with faster - moving particles.

Alternative «warm dark matter» models of cosmic structure — in which galaxy formation was seeded by lighter, faster - moving particles that would not have clumped together as readily as cold dark matter — could eliminate the need for the missing galaxies.

The answer is that the gravitons are virtual particles, which can move faster than the speed of light and thus can escape from the black hole.

The positron moves so fast that it emits light called Cherenkov radiation, the optical equivalent of a sonic boom produced when a charged particle moves faster than the speed of light through some substance.

A neutrino walks into a bar...» As reports spread of subatomic particles moving faster than light and potentially travelling through time, such gags were born.

For now, Smalley's team can only make simple outlines about a centimetre across — the particle can't move fast enough to trick our eyes into seeing a persistent image larger than that.

Daniel Smalley at Brigham Young University in Utah and his colleagues have found a way to form a 3D image using a single fast - moving particle of cellulose, trapped inside a laser beam invisible to the human eye.

Slow - moving particles from the sun's equator flow from one flank across to the other, and fast, higher - energy particles from the poles flow through the top and bottom.

If the particles were moving any faster, the bond would break.

According to astronomer and team leader William Keel of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, the presence of these young stars indicates that jets of fast - moving particles — which are ejected by quasars — bombarded the gas cloud.

Such instabilities can cause quickly moving charged particles called «fast ions» to escape from the core of the plasma, which is corralled within machines known as tokamaks.

He and colleagues are discussing the need for a somewhat lighter, faster - moving particle: «warm» dark matter.

These explosions throw out fast - moving magnetic fields which reflect charged particles.

An air shower occurs when a fast - moving cosmic ray particle strikes an air molecule high in the atmosphere, creating a violent collision.

Researchers hope the probe will help them find out more about various particles, such as fast - moving electrons, in the region.

A popular theoretical model says that magnetic - field lines in the spinning disk are twisted tightly together and confine the fast - moving particles into narrow «jets» streaming from the poles of the disk.

In stereotactic radiotherapy, stereotactic radiation devices deliver radiation with beams of fast - moving subatomic particles.

In a fusion reaction, two atomic nuclei fuse and produce very fast - moving particles.

New details from the study show interactions between fast - moving particles and magnetic fields similar to structures seen on the Sun, other features seen to appear at multiple wavelengths, and structures that may indicate features near the star before it exploded.

Astronomers, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, have spotted a fast - moving pulsar escaping from a supernova remnant while firing off a record - breaking jet of high - energy particles — the longest of any object in the Milky Way galaxy.