Sentences with phrase «less than an atom»

«With a few simple precautions, the travellers would be almost exactly the same, with less than an atom of difference.»

Not exact matches

And not an atom's weight in the earth or in the sky escapeth your Lord, nor what is less than that or greater than that, but it is (written) in a clear Book.

Real Christians Hate Religion... Real Christians Hate Hypocrites... Real Christians should be more like Christ... How could you claim to be a Christian if you don't even know your Christ... The reason why doomed people would never understand Christ is because they never tried to search for the Truth... They only listen to such rubbish things rather than the Truth... Read and do more and Talk less... It doesn't take a genius to know that Someone created you rather than you coming to life with just atoms randomly hitting each other... If you're really smart, think about it... Stop the non-sense talk about God and Science and find it out for yourself...

The extreme view that a person is «just a collection of atoms» is less persuasive in the light of tracer studies showing that the atoms in our bodies are replaced every few years; 6 the self that continues must be constituted by the relationships and patterns among atoms, rather than by the atoms in themselves.

The intricacy and unity of the human situation before God is not less dynamic and complex than the one we encounter in nature when we explore the energetic world of the atom or of a sidereal system.

If, for any reason, the distance between the two iodine - atom nuclei should be less than that distance, there will be an unbalanced force (mainly arising from interactions of the filled shells) which will tend to increase the distance between the atomic centers.

No wonder unprotected boilermaking was a problem: The human ear can perceive sound waves that move the eardrum less than the width of an atom.

Only a few atoms of the synthetic element have ever been created, each of which survived for less than a...

The device is less precise than existing atom interferometers, but the team plan to improve precision markedly (arxiv.org/abs/0911.0203).

Although the atoms of an unfolded protein are less densely packed than a folded one, the complex shape retains some voids and cavities, so a 30 percent decrease in volume is unrealistic.

They can therefore be employed to observe particles with dimensions of less than 1 nanometer, such as atoms.

Both atoms were cooled to less than one ten - thousandth of a degree above absolute zero.

Intergalactic space (the space between galaxies) is filled with a tenuous gas of an average density less than one atom per cubic metre.

However, the distance between atoms is very small, at about 100 picometer, and the bonding is completed very quickly, taking less than one picosecond (ps).

Ps lives less than a microsecond after it is formed, but that is a long enough for it to demonstrate the distinctive properties of an atom.

We now know that the atoms making up everything visible in the cosmos — from galaxies to planets to clouds of interstellar gas and dust — represent less than about 20 per cent of the total matter out there.

Modern particle physics research is focused on subatomic particles, which have less structure than atoms.

In technical terms, the spiking energy is less than 1 attojoule, lower than the background energy at room temperature and on a par with the chemical energy bonding two atoms in a molecule.

It's not easy to bounce a single particle of light off a single atom that is less than a billionth of a metre wide.

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new device that measures the motion of super-tiny particles traversing distances almost unimaginably small — shorter than the diameter of a hydrogen atom, or less than one - millionth the width of a human hair.

By means of standing X-ray wave fields, they were able to scan both graphene and substrate at a precision of a few millionths of a micrometre — less than a tenth of the radius of an atom.

In the new study, researchers placed tiny particles of silicon carbide (one represented by the group of tan molecules in this artist's concept) covered with graphite (hexagonal networks of gray atoms) in a vacuum chamber that duplicated the deep - space conditions surrounding many stars (temperatures between 900 and 1500 kelvins and pressures less than one - billionth that found at Earth's surface).

The ILC's collision point will be will be less than 10 nanometers — about a hundred atoms wide.

After removing one of the atom's electrons, researchers trapped the atom using electric fields and cooled it to less than a thousandth of a degree above absolute zero -LRB--- 273.15 ° Celsius) by hitting it with laser light.

Now Hulet and his colleagues cooled both lithium - 6 and lithium - 7 atoms to temperatures around 240 nanokelvins, less than one fourth of a millionth of a degree above absolute zero.

Then in 1991, while studying the unique atomic structures called buckyballs, which are created by electrically charging carbon soot, Sumio Iijima of Meijo University in Nagoya, Japan, discovered the first nanotubes — fantastically strong cylindrical carbon - atom constructions less than two nanometers wide and of varying lengths.

Positronium «atoms» survive less than a millionth of a second before the electron and positron annihilate in a burst of gamma rays.

A silver nanoparticle is a small cluster of silver atoms less than 100 nanometers, or 100 billionths of a meter, wide.

Cells shuttle all sorts of materials through these channels, which consist of proteins packed around a tiny opening that is often less than a few atoms across.

The researchers found that atom collisions were reduced such that their contribution to frequency shifts in the clock was much less than in previous experiments.

When we science writers describe string theory, we usually trot out something like this: The theory defines the fundamental constituents of physical reality not as minuscule particles but as shimmying strands of energy less than a trillionth of a trillionth the size of an atom.

«Even so, the probability that this nonlinear interaction occurs on any given atom is less than winning the lottery.»

Unlike fountain clocks, which shoot atoms more than a meter upwards in order to measure a single second, the team's apparatus measures time in intervals of 10 milliseconds — an approach that is less accurate than fountain clocks, but much more compact.

The formation, isotope ratio and size of the clumps — less than 50 atoms in diameter — become, in effect, a clock, says Valley, and verify that existing geochronology methods provide reliable and accurate estimates of the sample's age.

At this very small scale (less than 10 atoms), the silver clusters act very differently and can even emit light.

Yablonovitch and his colleagues estimated that there was less than one such active trap per 40 million surface atoms.

In less than a trillionth of a second, atoms can collide, interact and give birth to molecules.

Iron atoms, which have a nucleus with smaller positive charge than copper, exert less pull on the circulating electrons.

Less well known are other higher titanium oxides — those with a higher number of titanium and oxygen atoms than TiO — that are now the subject of intensifying research due to their potential use in next - generation electronic devices.

When a Type Ib, Type Ic or Type II supernova results from a star with an inner core of less than 3 solar masses, it creates a neutron star with a core about as dense as an atom's nucleus and a powerful magnetic field.

The standard model assumes that the universe consists of roughly 69 % Dark Energy, 26 % Dark Matter, and less than 5 % atoms — that ultimately provide for stars, galaxies, the earth, humans and everything we know.

Researchers could see structural details down to hundredths of a nanometer — less than the diameter of some atoms.

Fatty acids can be put into three categories based on the molecular length of carbon atoms connected to hydrogen atoms: short - chain that have less than 6 carbon atoms, medium - chain that have between 6 - 12 carbon atoms and long - chain that have between 13 - 21 carbon atoms.

The Silvonic Pro produces a colloidal solution with around 85 % silver ions, single atoms minus an electron, less than 0.0003 microns in diameter (1 micron = 0.001 millimeters).

It was 1954 when Gojira first hit the big screen in Ishiro Honda's now iconic monster movie, made as a reply to the USA dropping two atom - bombs on Japan less than a decade earlier.

With its largely open «body», the Atom is even less practical in a real - world sense than the Seven, so really is just a weekend toy.

I didn't venture far but the combination of little steering lock, a very firm ride, the sheer noise of the engine and «box and the centrifugal clutch's quite abrupt take - up made it feel less resolved than, say, an Atom 3.5 R or Radical RXC Turbo would do.

Think of DC Competition's Talisman track car as a credible alternative to an Ariel Atom 3 at less than half the price.

I've tested hundreds of Intel Atom based PCs and full - HD video playback rarely uses less than 5W of battery power.

On PCMark 7, a synthetic benchmark that measures overall performance, the Tablet 2 scored a modest 1,428, less than half the tablet category average of 3,488, but on par with other Atom - powered Windows 8 tablets such as the HP Envy x2 (1,428), the Dell Latitude 10 (1,440) and the Acer Iconia W510 (1,305).