Sentences with phrase «larger than atoms»

Ordinarily, photons are thousands of times larger than atoms, so they do not have very good conversations.

Initiated in the 15th century, classical physics generally examines and describes systems larger than atoms and molecules.

Not exact matches

Christians have always brushed aside the notion that the world is self - generating, a random concatenation of miscellaneous atoms accidentally thrown together by no one in particular and serving no larger purpose than their own survival.

They say that if all the liquids were eliminated from our physique, and all the atoms collapsed into solid matter, a human body would be no larger than a pinhead.

The atoms on the surface have larger ranges of motion than those in the middle of the cluster.

As expected, the forces varied according to the distance between the two atoms; but, in some cases, the forces were several times larger than theoretically calculated.

As atoms are much larger than electrons, they are much easier to observe.

They show that large - scale alloys behave differently than found by previous studies, which focused on samples of the order of thousands of atoms.

For more than 100 years, researchers have worked under the assumption that smaller crystals melt easily because they have a larger percentage of atoms on the surface, where they're relatively weakly bound to the structure.

And to achieve the desired image clarity — equivalent to reading a stop sign 12 miles away — the mirrors are polished to near perfection, with no bumps larger than six atoms high.

He predicted a «superradiant» state, where, when large numbers of photons or quanta are put into a system with many atoms, the decay becomes much faster than for a single atom in isolation.

That's vastly larger than the number of atoms in our universe.

Intriguingly, the graphene plasmons are bent because the conductivity in the two - atom - thick prism is larger than in the surrounding one - atom - thick layer.

The largest molecule he has imaged is HIV protease, an enzyme containing more than 1500 atoms that is vital for the virus to replicate.

The most energetic have energies more than 10 million times greater than those in the world's most powerful atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider.

If you looked at a metallic glass on a scale larger than a few atomic diameters, you would see tightly packed, jumbled clusters of atoms.

But the small telescope may be better at looking even farther into the past than the larger arrays, allowing it to look at hydrogen atoms heated by the very first stars, Bowman says.

A high temperature gas has atoms with a larger average velocity than a low temperature gas of the same composition.

«Larger than that scale, clusters of atoms are packed randomly and tightly, making a fully dense material, just like a regular metal.

Jena had already been working for more than five years on superhalogens, a class of molecules that mimic the chemistry of halogens but have electron affinities that are much larger than that of the halogen atoms.

«Magnetism has its origins at the atomic scale, but the techniques that we use to measure it usually have spatial resolutions that are way larger than one atom,» Idrobo said.

In these experiments the scientists exploit the extremely enhanced interactions between highly excited gigantic Rydberg atoms that have a diameter a thousand times larger than ground state atoms.

If the probability is larger than the random number, the atom is left unchanged.

Compared with Ye's previous 1 - D clocks, the new 3 - D quantum gas clock can reach the same level of precision more than 20 times faster due to the large number of atoms and longer coherence times.

If atoms are exposed to several laser beams with carefully chosen polarization and frequency values, then they preferentially absorb photons from the forward hemisphere, where the photon angular momentum and the atomic velocity are at an angle larger than 90 degrees.

When the photon momentum and the atomic velocity are at an angle larger than 90 degrees, the atom and the light are counterpropagating and the Doppler shift is an upward shift in frequency.

The sensor itself is just slightly larger than a nitrogen atom, with a synthetic diamond to act as a substrate.

The perplexing thing about this atom: the radius of the orbit, on which the electron moves around the nucleus, is much larger than the typical distance between two atoms in the condensate.

The Rydberg atoms in the PRL study were up to one micron wide, about 1,000 times larger than normal strontium atoms.

While atomic vibrations, or phonons, typically can not transport heat across distances larger than a few atoms, the team found that the atoms» summed electromagnetic force can create a «bridge» for phonons to cross.

In the future, researchers hope that advances in computing and simulation will make a full - particle simulation possible — as first - principles calculations are currently too intensive to solve small - scale magnetism for regions larger than a few thousand atoms.

After refining his method so that he could lift atoms off a surface rather than dragging them with the STM probe tip, he wrote in large bold letters, «I'm really having fun!!»

These tiny clusters would add oxygen atoms more efficiently than larger clusters.

Instead of water, liquid sodium is typically used as a coolant because the sodium atoms are so much larger and heavier than neutrons that when they collide the neutrons simply ricochet off the sodium atom - much a like a small bullet ricocheting off a thick plate metal.

Dubbed the compact fusion reactor (CFR), the device is conceptually safer, cleaner and more powerful than much larger, current nuclear systems that rely on fission, the process of splitting atoms to release energy.

Those looking for a larger display may want to step up to the 11 - inch HP Envy x2 ($ 849), which is also Atom - powered, but is more of a laptop than a tablet because of its size.

Well the interaction time of two atoms or molecules in collision, is very much faster by many orders of magnitude, than the mean time between molecular collisions that result in pressure broadening of molecular absorption lines; and that means that the uncertainties in the emitted photon energies become extremely large.

The latest version of Google Glass, the Enterprise Edition, is a lot more rugged than the original, and reportedly packs a larger display, Intel's low - power Atom processor, external battery packs, and a hinge mechanism that allows it to fold like a normal pair of glasses.