Sentences with phrase «generate flashes of light»

Only if the muon antineutrinos change into electron antineutrinos in flight will they interact with protons in the oil, and the subnuclear shrapnel generate flashes of light.

Bubbly Gone Flat Water bubbles created by ultrasonic waves can collapse fast enough to generate a flash of light [see «Sonoluminescence: Sound into Light»; SciAm, February 1995].

Not exact matches

Such cataclysms are expected to generate a high - energy flash of light, called a gamma - ray burst (yellow jets).

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.

Researchers have found a way to generate the shortest - ever flash of light — 80 attoseconds (billionths of a billionth of a second) long.

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

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.

They also have a randomly - generated set of parameters, dubbed «genomes» that define the way they move, process sensory information, and how they flash their own blue lights.

Within only a few years, titanium - sapphire lasers were routinely generating pulses shorter than 10 femtoseconds, corresponding to only three cycles of light [see «Ultrashort - Pulse Lasers: Big Payoffs in a Flash,» by John - Mark Hopkins and Wilson Sibbett; Scientific American, September 2000].

But only a «yes» answer generates a response intense enough to stimulate the visual cortex and cause the inquirer to see a flash of light known as a «phosphene.»

X-ray free - electron lasers generate flashes of X-ray light short and intense enough to make movies of chemical reactions and other ultrafast phenomena, but the electrons must have a very tight energy spread to generate the coherent X-rays necessary for a clear picture.

For example the «risetime» is measured: this is the time that it takes for the light generated to go from 10 % to 50 % of the total in the overall Cherenkov flash.

EIROforum organisations are in the midst of developing some of the most sophisticated machines ever conceived — just two examples are the European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope, the largest optical telescope in the world, and the European XFEL, a light source that will generate ultrashort X-ray flashes up to one billion times brighter than current X-ray sources.

«The lights flash powerfully with twin LED's using the power generated by magnets attached to the spokes of your bicycle.

Property values are significantly negatively impacted, as are peoples» personal health and quality of life by the noise (ie: infrasound), resonant ground vibrations, flashing red lights, shadow flicker, TV interference, etc., that is generated by these giant bird - and - bat - chopping machines.