Sentences with phrase «largest scales of the universe»

It's actual laughable when you think about all the danger in the universe, the high speeds, the intense gravity the large scale of the universe, who could have guessed that all of this is happening above us all the time.

However, gravity on the largest scales of the universe can have peculiar effects.

Not exact matches

If the scale of different universes in the multiverse is large or infinite, the theory can't be tested.»

There are four types of evil of which the modern age is particularly aware: the loneliness of modern man before an unfriendly universe and before men whom he associates with but does not meet; the increasing tendency for scientific instruments and techniques to outrun man's ability to integrate those techniques into his life in some meaningful and constructive way; the inner duality of which modern man has become aware through the writings of Dostoievsky and Freud and the development of psychoanalysis; and the deliberate and large - scale degradation of human life within the totalitarian state.

Given that the large - scale structure of the universe is dominated by the presence of still mysterious Dark Matter, and that on the smallest scales empty space sustains quantum oscillations whose energy density dwarfs that of all known forms of matter, we should hesitate to imply that the physical and spiritual realms can not be even partially consubstantial.

Research scientist Matthew Graham of the Center for Advanced Computing Research at Caltech recalls trying to identify a few hundred quasars in 1996 for his doctoral thesis on large - scale structures in the distant universe.

This assumption is justified by the observations that, while the universe is «weakly» inhomogeneous and anisotropic (see the large - scale structure of the cosmos), it is on average homogeneous and isotropic.

Researchers use the large - scale facilities at DESY to explore the microcosm in all its variety — ranging from the interaction of tiny elementary particles to the behaviour of innovative nanomaterials and the vital processes that take place between biomolecules to the great mysteries of the universe.

As a postdoc, I also began to investigate the evolution of large - scale structure in the universe.

And what sends them toward Earth is a kind of dark matter, that invisible substance that makes up some 85 percent of the mass in the universe, controlling gravity on the largest scale.

Simulations of how large - scale cosmic structures form suggest that galaxies are connected by a vast network of dark matter, the evasive substance that makes up most of the universe's matter but interacts with regular matter only via gravity (SN Online: 10/11/17).

Early on, the universe was much denser than it is today, and the attractive force of gravity was winning the battle, on scales both large and small.

If Susskind and Maldacena are right, it would mean that quantum mechanics determines not only the behavior of particles at very small scales but also the large - scale structure of the universe.

That's something that we currently can't distinguish very well with the experimental evidence, but it has an enormous effect on the large - scale structure of the universe and what the world will look like in the far future.

And on much larger scales, we see the effect of dark energy ripping the universe apart.»

Meanwhile the light - subtracting techniques may improve measurements of other phenomena, such as large - scale galaxy motions and the expansion of the universe.

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This «stochastic gravitational wave background» would contain crucial information about the universe's very first moments and its mysterious era of inflation, when it seems to have almost instantaneously ballooned from proton - to grapefruit - sized, amplifying quantum - scale density fluctuations along the way that shaped the first large - scale cosmic structures.

Einstein's theory of general relativity explains almost everything large scale in the universe very well, but starts to unravel when examining its origins and mechanisms at quantum level.

(When they try to knit together large - scale and small - scale forces, such as gravity and those that hold atoms together, the assumption of space - time leads to mathematical inconsistencies, a clue that something's amiss with current assumptions about the universe.)

The scaffolding that holds the large - scale structure of the universe constitutes galaxies, dark matter and gas (from which stars are forming), organized in complex networks known as the cosmic web.

One hundred years ago a Scientific American article about the history and large - scale structure of the universe would have been almost completely wrong.

Large - scale flows in the early universe should have polarized the last round of scattered radiation, causing the waves preferentially to line up.

If so, large - scale supernova surveys could turn up more of these invisible lenses, helping astronomers find and put limits on the number of dark - matter dwarfs in the universe, Quimby and colleagues conclude.

That cross-correlation confirms that the radio emissions do in fact trace the large - scale structure of the universe, Chang says.

Such studies of large - scale structure are helping cosmologists refine their picture of the early universe and its origin.

Krauss: Yes, and what is certainly true is that all of the observations in cosmology from the fundamental CMB measurements to the measurements of large - scale structure to the measurements of dark, the amount of mass in the universe, all seem to be converging on a single picture.

The group is roughly one - twentieth the diameter of the observable universe — big enough to challenge a principle dating back to Einstein, that, on large scales, the universe looks the same in every direction.

The large - scale structure seen today has its origins in the turbulent infancy of the universe.

On the largest of scales, scientists feel they are closer than ever before to understanding how the universe began and how it will end (page 36).

He says any theory must also explain the development of large - scale structures in the universe, and most importantly, the afterglow of the big bang.

And because these smaller clouds are much more common, they can be used to trace the large - scale structure of the early universe.

Governing the universe on the largest scales, general relativity stands with quantum mechanics, which reigns on the smallest scales, as a foundation stone of modern physics.

Both the COBE ripples and the large - scale clustering of galaxies can be explained by a CDM universe in which 80 per cent of the present mass density is contributed by a cosmological constant, though some cosmologists argue that such theories may not explain the motions of galaxies.

Many researchers argue that ever more evidence from clusters of galaxies, the largest scale structure of the universe, and the afterglow of the big bang points to the existence of dark matter.

On the largest scale, everything is flying apart, a cosmic divorce dictated by the expansion of the universe in all directions.

In a 2013 observational study, University of Wisconsin - Madison astronomer Amy Barger and her then - student Ryan Keenan showed that our galaxy, in the context of the large - scale structure of the universe, resides in an enormous void — a region of space containing far fewer galaxies, stars and planets than expected.

Lead scientist Professor Tim Gershon, from The University of Warwick's Department of Physics, explains: «Gravity describes the universe on a large scale from galaxies to Newton's falling apple, whilst the electromagnetic interaction is responsible for binding molecules together and also for holding electrons in orbit around an atom's nucleus.

But if string theory is correct, then the interaction of all those strings can lead to phenomena at very large scales, including multiple universes — a separate theoretical reason to think our universe is not the only one.

Astronomers have long known that at the largest scale, the universe looks like sea - foam: clusters of galaxies surrounding large, empty bubbles.

The study enriches scientists» understanding of the universe on the largest scale.

According to that theory, the researchers say, the universe's large - scale structures — in this case, clumps of objects such as quasars — shouldn't be larger than 1.2 billion light - years across.

Cosmologists typically focus on the large - scale properties of the universe as a whole, such as galaxies and intergalactic medium; while astrophysicists are more interested in testing physical theories of small - to medium - sized objects, such as stars, supernovae and interstellar medium.

A group of theoretical astrophysicists from the LMU led by Klaus Dolag has now, as part of the Magneticum Pathfinder project, performed a new, unique hydrodynamic simulation of the large - scale distribution of the universe's visible matter.

A new computer model now shows how these gravity monsters influence the large - scale structure of our universe.

The cosmic web — the distribution of matter on the largest scales in the universe — has usually been defined through the distribution of galaxies.

Up until recently, those seeking the exotica of the universe — dark matter as well as dark energy — focused on the very largest scales (galaxy clusters and up) and on comparatively small ones (a single galaxy).

At larger scales, however, Planck reveals that one half of the universe has bigger variations than the other.

The currently favored cosmological galaxy models are based on the idea of hierarchical structure formation: that structures in the universe such as galaxies develop from small «overdensities» to become large - scale objects.

From galaxy distances, you are also able to answer some cosmological questions like the large - scale geometry of space, the density of the universe needed to stop the expansion (called W [«Omega»]-RRB-, age of the universe, and whether or not the universe will keep expanding.