Sentences with phrase «faster than a clock»

At a peak altitude of 6,200 miles, a clock aboard Gravity Probe A ran ever so slightly faster than a clock on the ground.

Not exact matches

And the clock is ticking, faster than for its public - sector rivals.

With a huge investment, the clock starts ticking and VCs are looking to make a return on their investment, which means a startup may have to advance faster than they want or are prepared to do.

That's faster than the overall online shaving category's sales, which clocked in 42 percent growth over the period, according to Ken Cassar, principal analyst at e-commerce research firm Slice Intelligence.

The result is that their lower resource levels give startups faster clock speeds than big companies.

Out - of - touch executives don't realize that engaged employees can create better work at a faster rate than those who watch the clock.

Tony Robbins life coaching services will help you develop and learn faster than your competition — even when your competition is just the clock!

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.

The mood at the Arsenal camp is swinging faster than a pendulum on a clock.

As for beating Jones, Miller has work to do in the 100 (in which Jones has 11 clockings faster than Miller's personal best).

SWIMMING — JOSE FIOLO, Brazil's 17 - year - old Pan-American Games champion, broke the world 100 - meter breaststroke record in Rio de Janeiro with a 1:06.4 clocking,.3 second faster than the mark set by Vladimir Kosinsky at Leningrad last November.

Imagine a basketball team with 5 elite athletes that are bigger, stronger, faster and more athletic than their opponents, but their coach has them walk the ball up the court and milk the shot clock on nearly every possession — ignoring most opportunities for quick, fast - break baskets.

The 25 - year old forward said, «'' I've been clocked faster than I was before when I was fit.

If someone told me all that stood between me and a halfway decent night's sleep was $ 300, I would have pounced on it faster than I grab my wine when the clock strikes 5.

In government departments, the clocks run faster than ordinary ones and endless decisions are required - with little opportunity for discussion - all the time.

Some women's biological clocks tick faster than others, and now, researchers have uncovered the first genetic evidence to explain differences in the length of women's fertile lives.

Raising one clock by just 33 centimetres made it run slightly faster — by 4 parts in 100 million billion — than a fixed reference clock.

Such clocks should be easy to fashion; optical light «ticks» a thousand times faster than lower frequency microwaves.

Because they are far from Earth's center, they experience weaker gravity than we do on the ground, so their clocks run just a bit faster.

The higher frequencies mean that optical clocks «tick» faster than microwave atomic clocks and could thus provide time - stamps that are 100 to 1,000 times more accurate, greatly improving the precision of GPS.

These rubidium atoms in conjunction with the lasers provide an «optical atomic clock» that works according to a different physical principle that the quartz clock and «ticks» about ten million times faster than the quartz unit.

A test last year in Washington, D.C., by the U.S. Naval Observatory, the division responsible for maintaining the GPS master clock, found that Locata's web of signals synced up within 200 trillionths of a second, more than 50 times faster than GPS.

They found that altering the activity of a gene called Cdk5 appeared to make the clocks run faster than normal, and the flies older than their chronological age.

Clocks, for instance, run faster on mountain peaks than they do at sea level, and more slowly at our feet than they do by our heads.

Clocking the process with a high - speed camera showed just how quickly: up to 125,000 revolutions per minute — faster than many commercial centrifuges.

To complicate matters, the theory of special relativity, which preceded general relativity by a decade, predicts a similar effect for clocks in motion — a stationary clock will tick faster than a moving clock.

Compared with Ye's previous 1 - D clocks, the new 3 - D quantum gas clock can reach the same level of precision more than 20 times faster due to the large number of atoms and longer coherence times.

(The frequencies of such waves, which oscillate tens of billions of times faster than the petahertz laser in an aluminum clock, are simply too high to monitor and count.)

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that clocks at different gravitational potentials will tick at different rates — a clock at higher elevation will tick faster than will a clock closer to Earth's center.

They found that rather than run fast or slow, plants treated with salicylic acid activated both their «morning» clock genes and their «evening» clock genes more strongly.

For instance, a clock aboard an orbiting satellite advances slightly faster than a counterpart on Earth's surface.

On the other hand, flying east (e.g. from Asia to America), which fast - forwards the circadian clock, forces people to wake up earlier than usual and tends to cause severe jet lag symptoms, such as fatigue and insomnia.

Observation: a) Clocks on planes high above the ground run faster than those on the ground.

Try this workout again 3 - 4 days later to see how you do — your body will get stronger fast, and pushing against the clock will help you get more out of it than you think you can.

One more examine tracked 11 ladies with 72 hour fasts (once more, longer than we'd advocate) and it discovered that «Fasting in ladies elicited anticipated metabolic responses — included elevated cortisol (a stress hormone)-- and apparently superior the central circadian clock (which might throw off sleeping patterns).

Your molecular clock is ticking faster 22.11.2009 High vitamin D level lengthens life expectancy of elderly Dutch 21.11.2009 Constant fight against appetite reduces life expectancy 09.11.2009 Stress reduces life expectancy at molecular level 07.11.2009 Animal study: melatonin extends lifespan 25.10.2009 Fish fatty acids reduce age - related physical performance decline 24.10.2009 Old muscles weaker, but tire less quickly than young ones 23.10.2009 How creatine lengthens your lifespan 20.10.2009 Melatonin keeps brain cells young 03.10.2009 Long marriage adds years to your life 18.09.2009 Drink three cups of tea a day and add five years to your life 11.09.2009 Life extending bacteria found in gut of Chinese centenarians 08.08.2009 Your initials determine how old you get 30.07.2009 Lecithin anti-aging supplement keeps hearing sharp 18.06.2009 Live ten years longer with just one multivitamin pill per day 06.06.2009 Life - extending effect of virgin olive oil shown in fat rats 22.05.2009 Daily dose of Echinacea lengthens life expectancy 24.04.2009 The less you sit, the older you'll get 21.04.2009 Animal study: nori contains life prolonging substance 06.04.2009 Vegetarianism is healthy, but not because of lack of animal protein 27.03.2009 Meditation lengthens lifespan 20.02.2009 Live longer with healthy fats 30.12.2008 Vitamin D delays aging at genetic level 28.12.2008 Physical exercise delays molecular aging by ten years 25.12.2008 How a low - carb diet helps against aging 23.12.2008 Vitamin D extends your life expectancy 22.12.2008 Too much growth hormone reduces life expectancy 07.11.2008 S - Words extend lifespan of writers and psychologists 11.10.2008 Creatine extends lifespan of mice 08.10.2008 Slim - waisted rats live longer 23.09.2008 Gingko lengthens rats» lifespan 12.09.2008 Strong men live longer 31.08.2008 Male orgasm prolongs life 23.08.2008 Ginkgo prolongs life 17.08.2008 Ginkgo protects the elderly against the first signs of Alzheimer's 16.08.2008

Add the time limits and you've got missions ranging from an enjoyable romp in the dirt, to fast - paced, «no time for thinking» races against the clock more than anything else

«Kong: Skull Island» clocks in at 115 minutes, a rarity in an era in which filmmakers seem to think longer is always better (the upcoming «The Fate of the Furious,» aka «Fast and Furious 8,» runs a whopping two hours and 40 minutes, which is longer than «2001: A Space Odyssey,» and that was a movie about the evolution of mankind from apes to space travelers).

One thing we are already aware of, and are trying to alleviate as fast as we can, is the unanticipated additional pressure on the servers due to a significantly higher number of players than we were anticipating at this point — we are working around the clock to buy and add more servers, but this increased scale is only going to make the first few days even more temperamental than such things usually are.

For a normal sports car, less than eight minutes is fast, but clocking in at only 7:38 is momentously fast for a sedan.

20,054 miles It's not hard to like the 1 - series - great chassis, solid as a brick with more than 20,000 miles on the clock, and a straight six strong enough to make a big car fast, much less this smallest of the BMWs.

Now, the new F12berlinetta, which replaces the 599, can haul its screaming self from start to finish in one minute, twenty - three seconds — a clock tick faster than the GTO.

The Nissan GT - R registered the World's fastest ever laptime for a mass - produced supercar at the Nrburgring circuit, less than 7 minutes 30 seconds (clocked as on April 2009).

Chevrolet claims that it's currently clocking faster lap times than the outgoing Corvette ZR1, indicating that it's a seriously capable car.

The PDK is, without a doubt, faster than the manual clocking in a 0 - 100 km / h time of 4.3 seconds.

From a standstill to 60 mph, the Camry clocked a best time of 6.22 seconds, 0.33 faster than the Aura's 6.55, no doubt hampered by its extra 164 pounds of mass.

The company says that the sporty FWD vehicle stopped the clock at Nurburgring at 8 minutes and 23 seconds, faster than the Lotus Exige S, BMW 335i Coupe, Jaguar XKR, Audi RS4, and many others.

The new Nexus 7 with its Qualcomm S4 Pro chip is much faster because it features a new CPU architecture that's more modern and faster than the Cortex A9 inside the Tegra 3, and also it has a higher clock speed of +300 Mhz.

The Tegra 3 chip, which runs at a clock speed of 1.3 GHz, is five times faster than its predecessor, the dual - core Tegra 2, Nvidia said.

In addition to the new look and feel, loading the app is also opening faster than ever (down to about 2 seconds from the old clock time of 5.3 seconds).