Sentences with phrase «from subatomic particles»

Johnson, who specializes in the study of complexity, is one of a new breed of physicists turning their analytical acumen away from subatomic particles and toward a bewildering array of more immediate human problems, from traffic management to urban planning.

Will we one day have a complete theory that will explain everything from subatomic particles, atoms and supernovae to the big bang?

That is, societies do not just line up side by side like mosaics — they form «nested hierarchies» that go from subatomic particles through cells to animal bodies, or through stars to galaxies.

To talk about the leap from subatomic particles and probabilities to objects as we know them, and to talk about the leap from chemistry to consciousness, is in a very real sense to engage in metaphysics.

The theory of societies, like modern general systems theory, pictures a world made up of societies within societies (systems within systems) That is, societies do not just line up side by side like mosaics — they form «nested hierarchies» that go from subatomic particles through cells to animal bodies, or through stars to galaxies.

Not exact matches

There is absolutely no evidence anywhere in the known univers, from the tiniest subatomic particle to the structure of the universe as a whole, that even remotely implies the faintest possibility thata deity exists.

All knowledge, including scientific knowledge, comes ultimately from personal experience (though scientists can not, for example, directly observe the subatomic particles whose existence they infer from their experiments).

Physics has already learned that it can not understand its subatomic particles by categories drawn from the visual world.

Given his panpsychism or «psychicalism,» Hartshorne holds that the ultimate units of reality are, in the broadest sense, feelings, or that feeling is a «cosmic variable» which can range from the most primitive, unconscious aesthetic reactions of subatomic particles to their environment to the most elaborate conscious experiences of God's.

«The greatest city on earth, a great jiving funkapolitan melting - pot... And that's why we lead in all those creative and cultural sectors and that's why we have the best universities, because the best minds from across the world are meeting in some of the best pubs and bars and nightclubs like subatomic particles colliding in a cyclotron.»

In fact, just before posting this Top Pictures list, a NASA press release came out saying the Fermi satellite has seen gamma rays from this object, which is another very strong piece of evidence for this; gamma rays are the very highest energy form of light, and should be made when subatomic particles bounce around in supernova shock waves.

These Chandra observations showed that expanding debris from a supernova can accelerate subatomic particles faster than previously thought, and in fact can account for the highest - energy protons that come from outer space and are seen hitting the Earth's upper atmosphere.

Solar wind creates a huge magnetic bubble, known as the heliosphere, that protects Earth and the other planets from energetic subatomic particles that constantly zip around in deep space.

The ghostly subatomic particles seem to have zipped faster than light from the particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, to a detector in Italy.

When it comes to the highest energy cosmic rays — subatomic particles raining in from space — the sky is lopsided: More come from one direction than the other, according to a new study.

On August 25, 2012, the scientists say, Voyager 1 exited a giant invisible bubble called the heliosphere that is inflated by a torrent of subatomic particles spewing from the sun.

A fresh analysis of data from the particle collider that delivered the Higgs boson has dashed physicists» sliver of hope that another new particle had emerged from the subatomic shrapnel.

Short films about exploding stars and subatomic particles top the list of prizewinners from the annual Quantum Shorts contest

That's where the Superconducting Supercollider, a 54 - mile - long underground circular particle accelerator, was supposed to smash protons together and glean vital clues from the subatomic wreckage.

Many models have suggested that the flow of particles from these subatomic fireworks produced in high - energy nuclear collisions should behave like a gas and not a liquid.

Giorgio Gratta, a physicist at Stanford University, is going fishing for high - energy neutrinos, ghostly subatomic particles that bombard Earth from unknown objects in deep space.

A breed of subatomic particle made from nothing has huge implications for technology — and shows how tenuous reality itself is

Well, the magnetic field deflects particle storms and cosmic rays from the sun, as well as even more energetic subatomic particles from deep space.

Ulysses» passage over the Sun's far north may also confirm another of last year's discoveries: the finding that cosmic rays — high - energy subatomic particles from deep space — do not seem to penetrate to the Sun's poles easily.

Hungering for that subatomic particle, they exhibit a propensity for stealing an electron from any nearby molecule.

AMONG the hail of subatomic particles hitting the Earth from space are a few monsters: single particles with incredibly high energies of around 1020 electronvolts, 100,000 billion times as much as typical particles emitted through radioactivity.

Borrowing a page from astrophysics, they are using the curious subatomic particles known as neutrinos.

But in July, Takashi Nakano of Osaka University reported that he had detected a pentaquark, a bizarre subatomic particle built from five quarks: two ups, two downs, and an antiquark.

Observations from the Ulysses spacecraft, which launched in 1990 show the stream of charged subatomic particles emitted from the Sun's upper atmosphere has dropped 20 % since the mid-1990s.

Each second, the AMS will encounter 25,000 cosmic rays — high - speed atomic and subatomic particles (some from the sun, some from deep space), the most energetic of which pack hundreds of times as much energy as anything a scientist can whip up in an Earth - based particle accelerator.

A year and half ago, physicists working with the massive IceCube particle detector — a 3D array of 5160 light sensors buried kilometers deep in ice at the South Pole — spotted ghostly subatomic particles called neutrinos from beyond our galaxy.

Quantum teleportation is the process of making a subatomic particle's physical state vanish from one place and appear in another, a little like Captain Kirk's transporter.

The most energetic particles that strike us from space, which include neutrinos as well as gamma - ray photons and various other bits of subatomic shrapnel, are called cosmic rays.

Astrophysicists are gearing up to haul in neutrinos from an exploding star in our own galaxy in hopes that the subatomic particles will provide unparalleled insights into the physics of star death

He believes that cosmic rays — energetic subatomic particles from outer space — help seed cloud - forming water droplets in the lower atmosphere.

They really have a strong reluctance to mingle with other particles, which makes them antisocial and difficult to pin down, but they are connected to such a wide range of phenomenon from the subatomic to the cosmic that they could tell us a lot about many different things, many different mysteries about the nature of matter, about what triggers exploding stars, to what's going on in the heart of the sun, to what the universe might have been like, the conditions within seconds after the big bang.

Most of this is thought to be made of cold dark matter, consisting of exotic subatomic particles, and hot dark matter, which may be made from neutrinos (New Scientist, Science, 11 February).

Even if you do nt know your bottom quark from your tau neutrino (those are two subatomic particles discovered at the Lab, in case you forgot), youll still be stunned by the breadth of research proffered on this site.

Every once in a while, a cosmic ray — a subatomic particle from outer space — strikes the atmosphere with an energy 10 million times higher than a humanmade particle accelerator has ever achieved.

And unlike many other subatomic particles, neutrinos have no charge, so they travel in a straight line from their source without being deflected by the magnetic fields around stars.

In the past few years, physicists have investigated ways to produce energy from qubits, or quantum - mechanical systems like subatomic particles.

Subatomic particles called neutrinos, on the other hand, flood out from deep in the Sun's core where they are generated in nuclear reactions.

Now, using subatomic particles raining down from the heavens, a team of physicists has found a previously unknown cavity within Khufu's great monument.

When a high - energy gamma ray from a blazar strikes air molecules in the upper regions of Earth's atmosphere, it produces a cascade of charged subatomic particles.

«Open - access collider data confirm subatomic particle patterns: CERN Open Data Portal results reveal predictable patterns from colliding high - energy protons.»

What physicists learn from these collisions may help us understand more about why the physical world works the way it does, from the smallest subatomic particles, to the largest stars.

The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory is netting signals from the most energetic particles in the universe: ultrahigh - energy cosmic rays, which slam into the atmosphere at speeds no accelerator can match, sparking air showers of subatomic particles and ultraviolet light.

In less than a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the universe popped into existence, the newborn cosmos expanded from the size of a tiny subatomic particle to roughly the size of a basketball.

When close subatomic particles become entangled, they become linked forever — even if they're taken very far apart from each other.

One of the potentially lethal menaces of space travel comes from being bombarded with energized subatomic particles, expelled from solar flares and events such as supernovas.