Sentences with phrase «flash of light at»

Quite often I'll play with the lights out to better highlight the on - screen action, so every time I moved one of the analogue sticks, and let's face it, that's quite a lot, I'd get a flash of light at the bottom of my eyes.

Strobe lighting uses a flash of light at the moment your camera shutter opens to illuminate your subject.

Firing up the lasers When researchers attempt ignition, a bank of capacitors charges up and triggers a flash of light at the master oscillator that generates 192 laser beams.

The team dissected the grapefruit - size eyes of 10 swordfish and then tested the response of their retinas to flashes of light at various temperatures.

Not exact matches

Police with flashing lights escorted the buses to a cross-border rally at a Pacific Ocean beach, with supporters gathering on both sides of security fencing.

It demoed at CES recently, where attendees couldn't help but be drawn in by the sounds of an electric guitar and the product's colorful flashing lights.

Momentary flashes of light are better than no light at all, but they serve more as a warning of the traveler's predicament than as a useful guide out of it.

It was identified that the Shroud of Turin's image was created by an extremely powerful flash of light, so powerful that Luigi Garlaschelli, a professor of chemistry at Pavia University, described it as unearthly, «The implications are... that the image was formed by a burst of UV energy so intense it could only have been supernatural.»

The moon stood still in its exalted place, at the light of your arrows speeding by, at the gleam of your flashing spear.

At this level, Whitehead writes, «human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.»

Look at the beautiful work of art you created and, if the lighting is right, take a picture for Instagram (remember not to use the flash!).

At night the lights that normally illuminate this structure, which rests against one of the foothills of the Wasatch Range, flash to signal a Ute victory.

At 2 a.m., when a light flashed across one of his portholes, he suddenly realized he was not alone.

While he was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania in 1978, his perusal of an issue of Human Power caused a light bulb to flash on over his head.

You can not sing to your baby, dangle toys and flash lights, and even if you can do all that, it can be very tiring at the end of it because you will have to do it for long periods.

A lot of parents would prefer a walker which has increased functionality and safety over others at the sacrifice of the flashing lights, music, and toys.

Flashing lights alerted Ulrich while everyone at the bar whipped out their phones to snap pictures of the duo.

Also at noon, Sen. Tim Kennedy and Assembly members Sean Ryan and Monica Wallace will announce the implementation of a new law which expands New York's «Move Over» Law to cover volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers whose vehicles have flashing blue or green lights, Doyle Fire Company # 2, 100 Willowlawn Pkwy., Cheektowaga.

On his occasional use of flashing red lights, Freilich said: «I have the permission — only thing I go on calls is when I show up at MVAs (motor vehicle accidents) and deaths... kidnappings or negotiations.

A new observatory called ABISS that can transmit video and long - term chemical measurements at broadband speeds from the seafloor using a system of flashing lights instead of a traditional tether.

It isn't possible to speed up the flashes of light that stream through the global network of optical fibres at around 200 million metres per second.

Strogatz explores dozens of strange synchronous phenomena, from hands clapping in unison to the rhythmic flashing of fireflies to laser beams produced by trillions of atoms emitting light waves in phase at the same frequency.

He's done so by precisely focusing infrared laser light to selectively ionize, or steal the electrons from, air molecules at the beam's focal point, generating a flash of bluish - white plasma.

FLASH OF LIGHT Type 1a supernovas, such as the one seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image, can be triggered in at least two different ways, new research shows.

If that jet is aimed directly at Earth, telescopes can see it as an ephemeral flash of light called a short gamma - ray burst, or GRB.

A quick flash of laser light aimed at the well generates pairs of electrons and positively charged «holes» in the middle layer.

Scientists at Northwestern University announced in April that they had recorded flashes of light from human eggs that may be an indicator of egg quality.

A head - mounted LED light flashed red every three to five seconds at the edge of a driver's left eye.

One day that may be all it takes: Townes, a Nobel laureate at UC Berkeley, notes that flashes of light from planets around stars within 50 light - years could even grow bright enough for the naked eye to see.

Imagine sending a pulse of light flashing out into space, and measuring its distance d at a time t.

Researchers will use it to study the flashes of light given out when black holes, including the giant ones at the centers of galaxies, consume stars and other material.

For instance, an hour of light 1000 lux has the same effect as ten hours at 100 lux or two flashes.

After firing flashes at samples of paper painted with water colours, Saunders found that the light from flashguns is no more harmful than the soft, controlled light of most galleries.

Huge colonies of marine invertebrates known as pyrosomes may coordinate their jet - like propulsion system by flashing lights at each other

At about 4 A.M. local time, the main pumps feeding cooling water into Unit 2 failed and, due to confusion amidst the klaxon of alarms and flashing warning lights, the men operating the reactor made the situation worse when they mistakenly thought there was too much water in the core and shut off emergency pumps, thereby reducing further the amount of coolant reaching the reactor.

BANG, FLASH Light waves and gravitational waves from a pair of colliding neutron stars reached Earth at almost the same time, ruling out theories about the universe based on predictions that the two kinds of waves might travel at different speeds.

The temperature at that central point skyrockets above 10,000 degrees Celsius, the pressure zooms to 10,000 atmospheres and a flash of light emerges for just a few picoseconds.

As they rotate, an outside observer with an X-ray telescope, situated at the right angle, would see flashes of powerful light as the beam swept periodically across the observer's field of view, like a lighthouse beacon.

«Unlike other technologies, that record one data bit at a time, holography allows a million bits of data to be written and read in parallel with a single flash of light,» says Liz Murphy, of InPhase Technologies.

Hundreds of photomultiplier tubes watch for the flashes of Cherenkov light at the bottom of Lake Baikal.

In the journal Optical Materials Express, from The Optical Society (OSA), the researchers reported that graphene oxide sheets treated with brief exposure to bright light in the form of a camera flash exhibited reversible bending at angles from zero to 85 degrees in response to switching the relative humidity between 33 and 86 percent.

In 1991 Aomar Halimaoui at France's National Telecommunications Research Centre in Grenoble and collaborators from Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble began to suspect that the flash of red - orange light he had noticed in earlier studies of the electrochemical oxidation of porous silicon by hydrochloric acid was a form of electroluminescence.

But when the scientists took another took a look at the Galileo images, they saw something Sagan and his colleagues apparently missed — bright flashes of light over land as well.

At the base of each fiber a diode can produce an intense flash of light.

«While the flashing lights are signals that we're putting into the brain, those parts of the brain are doing a million other things at any given time too,» Prat said.

Eighteen years ago, a blind patient saw a similar flash of light when Mark Humayun, an ophthalmologist and biomedical engineer at the University of Southern California's Doheny Eye Institute, placed an electrode directly on the person's retina during surgery.

Mounted on the ceiling above was a projector capable of flashing bursts of light onto the screen, at the same spots where the speakers were located.

Because the speed of light was a million times greater than it is today, those initial flashes were spaced a million times farther apart than they would have been at today's slower speed of light.

Recently, they have been studying whether a certain protein involved in cell movement acted at the leading edge of the traveling cell, and they had heard about a cutting edge technique that uses flashes of light to tether proteins to other proteins or fixed locations.

The circuit board, known as an Arduino, runs simple software programs, like the one Cooper wrote to flash short bursts of blue light at dishes of cells.