Sentences with phrase «in nuclear matter»

In nuclear matters, though, the contradictions are deemed permissible because the stakes are judged to be so high.

Not exact matches

«I want to tell all those who have fueled the arms race over the last 15 years, sought to win unilateral advantages over Russia, introduced unlawful sanctions aimed to contain our country's development... you have failed to contain Russia,» Putin said, later adding that «any use of nuclear weapons against Russia or its allies... any kind of attack... will be regarded as a nuclear attack against Russia and in response we will take action instantaneously no matter what the consequences are.

The Wall Street Journal in August spoke with a South Korean trader who provided perhaps the best insight into why: «If war breaks out with North Korea and they fire a nuclear weapon, it becomes a matter of life or death, and at that point, what happens in the stock market is meaningless.»

Why this matters: Code governing control systems at industrial sites has already been the target of attacks, and US officials recently warned Russian hackers are probing for security holes in software controlling critical infrastructure like nuclear facilities and dams.

Matter can be «destroyed» in a nuclear reaction.

And have we not reason to hope that in the end we shall be able to arrange every kind of matter, following the results we have obtained in the nuclear field?

weak nuclear force constant if larger: too much hydrogen would convert to helium in big bang; hence, stars would convert too much matter into heavy elements making life chemistry impossible if smaller: too little helium would be produced from big bang; hence, stars would convert too little matter into heavy elements making life chemistry impossible

«From the fact that quantum theory agrees with experiment in so wide a domain..., it is evident that the indeterministic features of quantum mechanics are in some way a reflection of the real behaviour of matter in the atomic and nuclear domains, but here the question arises as to just how to interpret this indeterminism» (p. 86).

Trident involves a nuclear priesthood with an archaic language and doctrine stuck in a past conflict that matters little to most of the electorate, protected from the ravages of austerity by a political class out of touch.

He says the NRC is considering how the baffle bolt issue could be impacting other nuclear plants and has been in discussion with plant owners on the matter.

If this happens in a national crisis (say a nuclear warhead took out a large portion of the chain of command quickly) and has not been resolved previously, this debate might not matter and the ex-president will likely take over quickly but temporarily.

«Of course, we should involve the House fully in a decision as important as the renewal of our nuclear deterrent, and in practical terms it is inevitable that there will therefore be a chance for the House to express its view on that important matter in a vote,» he added.

The chance to chew the fat over nuclear matters is arguably Nick Clegg's biggest achievement in defence matters to date.

«No matter what, this fund is to only be used in the event the plant is actually shut down, a process closely monitored by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission,» said spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

These particles are one of the most pervasive forms of matter in the Universe: they are created in the Sun and in supernovas, by cosmic rays crashing into the upper atmosphere, and they are even made on Earth, streaming out from nuclear reactors and radioactive rocks.

Because the cross section in weak nuclear interactions is very small, neutrinos can pass through matter almost unhindered.

The nuclear phase diagram: RHIC sits in the energy «sweet spot» for exploring the transition between ordinary matter made of hadrons and the early universe matter known as quark - gluon plasma.

In the new research, he and his colleagues simulated how matter was created in the Big Bang and then condensed into stars, but without the effects of the weak nuclear forcIn the new research, he and his colleagues simulated how matter was created in the Big Bang and then condensed into stars, but without the effects of the weak nuclear forcin the Big Bang and then condensed into stars, but without the effects of the weak nuclear force.

«The US industry is proposing to purchase lots of commercial - grade emergency equipment and distribute it in many different places, with the hope that there will be something left no matter what happens,» says Edwin Lyman, a nuclear industry analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

It's a truth universally acknowledged that a strong safety culture — something the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission defines as combining «the necessary full attention to safety matters» and the «personal dedication and accountability of all individuals engaged in any activity which has a bearing on safety» — plays a vital role in doing science safely.

Any nuclear war, no matter how small, would result in a nuclear famine.

Unlike other exotic particle candidates, his and Britton's do not contain ordinary nuclear matter (i.e., quarks found in protons and neutrons).

Kharzeev had explored similar behavior of subatomic particles in the magnetic fields created in collisions at the Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, https://www.bnl.gov/rhic/), a DOE Office of Science User Facility where nuclear physicists explore the fundamental building blocks of matter.

As the universe expands, the average density of matter decreases; therefore, the density was much higher in the past, in particular exceeding nuclear levels within the first microsecond of the big bang.

The hot, dense plasma produced is also the state of matter created in a nuclear explosion, hence the importance of this field to understanding nuclear bombs in the absence of explosive testing.

Einstein's realization that energy and matter are interchangeable helped usher in the nuclear age.

Paul Dirac first theorized antimatter's existence in 1928, and since then researchers have studied antimatter particles created by nuclear decays and high - energy collisions of normal matter.

«If we're really going to have an impact as to a reduction in the stockpile, we have to address the whole stockpile,» Steve Henry, deputy assistant to the secretary of defense for nuclear matters, said at a press conference announcing the design winner.

From a broader perspective, this failure means that the US will cede its leadership on nuclear matters to other nations, limiting its ability to exert influence in key areas such as safety and non-proliferation as well.»

(The nation's last collider, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, studies an exotic type of nuclear matter called a quark - gluon plasma.)

The CTBT would prohibit the U.S. and every other signatory from conducting test explosions, no matter how small, of nuclear weapons underground, in space or anywhere else.

We think we understand a lot about plasmas and nuclear matter, but in reality, we don't.

At the same time, these nuclear reactions change the composition of the matter in the stellar interior.

• While the text in our «Instant expert» pull - out guide to dark matter (5 February) said that the Z boson transmits the weak nuclear force, the caption on p iv said otherwise.

In low energy RHIC collisions, scientists suspect that while the change in phase from QGP to ordinary protons / neutrons occurs, both distinct states (QGP and ordinary nuclear matter) coexist — just like bubbles of steam and liquid water coexist at the same temperature in a pot of boiling wateIn low energy RHIC collisions, scientists suspect that while the change in phase from QGP to ordinary protons / neutrons occurs, both distinct states (QGP and ordinary nuclear matter) coexist — just like bubbles of steam and liquid water coexist at the same temperature in a pot of boiling watein phase from QGP to ordinary protons / neutrons occurs, both distinct states (QGP and ordinary nuclear matter) coexist — just like bubbles of steam and liquid water coexist at the same temperature in a pot of boiling watein a pot of boiling water.

Thanks to a new development in nuclear physics theory, scientists exploring expanding fireballs that mimic the early universe have new signs to look for as they map out the transition from primordial plasma to matter as we know it.

In addition to producing gravity, WIMPs would interact with other matter and themselves only through the weak nuclear force.

The theory work, described in a paper recently published as an Editor's Suggestion in Physical Review Letters (PRL), identifies key patterns that would be proof of the existence of a so - called «critical point» in the transition among different phases of nuclear matter.

The U.S. agreement with Korea that governs nuclear materials including spent fuel, for example, stipulates that the United States will «consult with the Government of the Republic of Korea in the matter of health and safety.»

A recent analysis of the only known natural nuclear reactor, which was active nearly 2 billion years ago at what is now Oklo in Gabon, also suggests something about light's interaction with matter has changed.

The department has about 35 faculty who teach and carry out research in the fields of: astrophysics, condensed matter physics, high energy nuclear physics, high energy particle physics, and atomic, molecular, and optical physics.

Connecting the Laboratoryâ $ ™ s expertise and research of its past to the expertise and research of its future, Aronson focuses on the Laboratoryâ $ ™ s work in nuclear and particle physics, condensed matter physics, life sciences, environmental sciences, and the chain of activities from discovery to deployment.

Having so much mass packed within a ball on the order of 20 km (12 miles) in diameter, a neutron star has a density that can reach that of nuclear values, which is roughly 100 trillion (1014) times the average density of solar matter or of water.

Why It Matters: The behavior and speciation of electrolytes influences everything from their use as battery electrolytes to their behavior in complex nuclear waste.

«It will be one of the hardest forms of damage to repair via rejuvenation biotechnology; the only one that springs to mind as likely being even more difficult is the matter of damaged nuclear pore proteins in long - lived cells»

Crossing the huge distance between the Sun and Alpha Centauri using current spacecraft technologies would take several millennia, though the possibility of nuclear pulse propulsion or laser light sail technology, as considered in the Breakthrough Starshot program, could reduce the journey time to a matter of decades.

It will be one of the hardest forms of damage to repair via rejuvenation biotechnology; the only one that springs to mind as likely being even more difficult is the matter of damaged nuclear pore proteins in long - lived cells, single molecules that might be as old as you are, doing the same job for an entire human life span.

Why It Matters: Oxygen's interactions can extensively corrode materials, whether it is a car in a field or a fuel canister in a nuclear reactor.

In 2011, Dragan Hajdukovic at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) proposed that empty space is filled with particles of matter and antimatter that are not only electrical opposites, but also gravitational opposites.

Warm dense matter exists in the cores of gas giant planets and the preliminary stages of nuclear fusion, among other inaccessible places.