Sentences with phrase «first fractions of a second»

Gravitational waves result from «inflation» of the early universe, an exponential expansion of space in the first fraction of a second of the Big Bang, 14 billion years ago.

According to theory, tiny quantum fluctuations were blown up to cosmic proportions within the first fraction of a second after the birth of the universe, creating lumps that seeded today's galaxies and galaxy clusters.

«The failure to find them has led to renewed interest in studying how well primordial black holes — black holes formed in the universe's first fraction of a second — could work as dark matter.»

In this model, our universe expanded extremely rapidly during the first fraction of a second of its existence.

Back then the cosmos was a hot, dense sea of particles, laced with density variations that arose during the very first fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

Amazingly, only the description of the first fraction of a second of cosmic history has changed significantly.

And what was the Universe like in the first fraction of a second of its life, before matter started to cool down into the form it has today.

«We think that these large bubbles, which were formed in the first fraction of a second as the star collapsed, have been preserved for hundreds of years like a fossil record in the radioactive ash of the explosion,» Grefenstette said, referring to the titanium cloud.

The turbo shouldn't have any effect here after the first fraction of a second - a turbo runs off exhaust gases so with your foot off the accelerator it will spin down, and thus giving no forced induction.

That first impression, that first fraction of a second in which a visitor makes a judgement of your site, is too valuable to dedicate to a random journal entry.

Not exact matches

In the first fleeting fraction of a second, the universe expanded exponentially, stretching far beyond the view of our best telescopes.

The first number is going to have to be a Joe McCarthy - like guess (that unfairly counts mixed - motive cases and «subconscious - motive» cases in its column), and the second number is zero, or some fraction of causal responsibility very near zero.

But that is inconsistent with the theory itself which says that physical laws were beginning to be established AFTER the first unit of Planck time (a minuscule fraction of a second AFTER the big bang).

Physicists concluded that the first detected gravitational waves, in September 2015, were produced during the final fraction of a second of the merger of two black holes to produce a single, more massive spinning black hole.

Ultimately, the most ambitious gravitational wave observatories astronomers can presently conceive might someday record the hiss of waves emitted in the first fractions of a trillionth of a second after the big bang.

In the first fleeting fraction of a second, the universe expanded exponentially, stretching far beyond the view of our best telescopes.

For the first time, theoretical physicists from the University of Basel have calculated the signal of specific gravitational wave sources that emerged fractions of a second after the Big Bang.

These waves are direct evidence that the currently observable universe expanded rapidly from a subatomic volume in the first tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

And because the window for creating them lasts only a tiny fraction of the first second, scientists expect primordial black holes would exhibit a narrow range of masses.

His team was able to get about half the pulse to stop on the first try — the other half escaped in the fraction of a second before measurements could be made.

Because antiprotons annihilate when they hit anything made of ordinary matter, within a fraction of a second, they usually hit the sides of the chamber that contains the collision of the gold nuclei that created them in the first place, and turn into gamma radiation.

The first direct detection of gravitational waves occurred in mid-September 2015 (but announced February 11, 2016) with twin LIGO detectors in Hanford, WA and Livingston, LA (both USA) when ripples of spacetime from the last fraction of a second of the merger of two black holes with masses 29 and 36 solar masses combined to form a 62 - solar mass black hole with 3 solar masses of energy radiated away as gravitational waves in that last fraction of a second.

My second scarf was completed in a fraction of the time as my first.

As a unit of time, the minute is equal to 1 ⁄ 60 (the first sexagesimal fraction) of an hour, or 60 seconds.

We measured expansion of charters across districts: first, by whether the district had at least one operating charter school in the 2003 — 04 school year and, second, by the fraction of public school students enrolled in charter schools during the 2003 — 04 school year.

So, the «assigned» school was the first choice for the vast majority of applicants and at least the first or second choice for all but a fraction of students.

The sound traveling through your bones gets there first, and the sound traveling through the air gets there a fraction of a second later.

Second: one - time «snapshot» data of a single cohort of kids, which is all that NAEP can supply the first time around, tell you nothing about the academic achievement of children before they entered their charter schools — and just about everyone knows that a big fraction of the youngsters enrolling in charters were already behind the education eight - ball as a result of dismal performance in previous schools.

(Translation: keep the first fraction as it is, change the division sign to multiplication, and flip the numerator and denominator of the second fraction.)

When driving, though, this disengagement and anti-lag spooling can at first be disconcerting: You watch the tachometer needle fall to almost zero rpm when you lift your foot off the gas, then jump back up to 2,000 - 3,500 rpm in a fraction of a second when you get back on it.

Also included is a limited slip rear differential, although for the first time one of the firm's cars it's an electronically controlled until that can run from fully open to 100 percent locked in fraction of a second.

Even if your second income is only a fraction of your primary income, if you were to lose that first income, your second income could help you survive by paying for the essentials.

We only see Carter's image for a fraction of second; first we are startled and objectified by the unexpected flashing of multiple cameras installed next to the screen, before it appears.

So what I think I'm trying to say is that when a mole absorps radiation in the IR in translate to the first excited level and falls back to the ground state within a fraction of a second.

The first is the heat death of the universe due to the second law of thermodynamics; hot flows to cold until the entire universe is just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero.

I've used GameStream for years on Nvidia's Shield Portable and first - generation Shield TV, and while the experience is passable overall, it does introduce a small fraction of a second of input lag, even under the best network conditions.

In May of 2017, Litecoin became the first major cryptocurrency to use the Lightning Network (which relies on Segregated Witness) for a transaction sending 0.00000001 Litecoin to San Francisco from Zurich in a fraction of a second.

Occupied with a pile of resumes to trim down to shortlist, an employer will spend undoubtedly not more than fraction of seconds exploring at each single CV in the first glance.

Lines break up a page and stop the eye from reading further momentarily, allowing the brain to process the just read information for a fraction of a second longer should there have never existed a break line in the first place.