Sentences with phrase «just as protons»

A popular plan B is that the Higgs boson is not an elementary particle but a composite of other particles, just as protons are composites of quarks.

And just as protons, neutrons and electrons combine to form atoms and matter, antiprotons, antineutrons and anti-electrons (called positrons) combine to form anti-atoms and antimatter.

Not exact matches

Just as my internal relations with my world, which constitute all my feelings, are what I am in myself to myself, so too something analogous applies to the proton and other such entities.

She argues that it has been a serious mistake for interpreters of Whitehead «to limit the application of his basic ontological category of existence — his actual entity — to just two kinds of existents: subatomic entities, such as electrons, protons, photons...

She argues that it has been a serious mistake for interpreters of Whitehead «to limit the application of his basic ontological category of existence — his actual entity — to just two kinds of existents: subatomic entities, such as electrons, protons, photons and the like, and human percipient experience.»

As these wind - borne particles — mostly electrons and protons — breach Earth's atmosphere, they work just like Vegas - style neon lights.

Proton pump inhibitors, or PPIs, work just as their name implies: they block an enzyme system in the stomach's cells essential for pumping out acid.

«To our great excitement, experiments showed that Rocker did indeed transport zinc and protons and it did, in fact, rock between two states just as designed,» says co-lead author Gevorg Grigoryan, an assistant professor of computer science at Dartmouth.

Just after the big bang, our universe was so hot and dense that protons and neutrons couldn't form, and the particles that make them up — quarks and gluons — floated in a soup known as the quark - gluon plasma.

Just as an atom with a full outer electron shell is a peculiarly unreactive noble gas, an outer shell with the right number of protons and neutrons makes a nucleus magically stable.

The difference in the concentration of protons across these two environments enabled protons to flow into the cell, driving the production of a molecule called adenosine triphosphate (ATP) which powered the growth of cells, just as it does today.

The scientists used a chemical detection device called a proton - transfer reaction mass spectrometer to, for the first time, track the odors emitted by flowers in the wild just as moths might encounter them.

Ordinarily protons, which carry the same electric charge, would repel each other, but when they are close enough, those forces become less important than the strong nuclear force, which binds the antiprotons together, just as it does for ordinary protons.

Then, 50 trillionths of a trillionth of a second later, the fireball cools, just as the infant universe did as it expanded, and the quarks and gluons merge once again to form protons and neutrons.

Just as Darwin explained how single - celled creatures could evolve into species after species, so B2FH explained how single - proton atoms could eventually form everything in the universe.