Sentences with phrase «light behaved like»

It made sense only if light behaved like a particle.

Türeci said that scientists have explored the nature of light for centuries; discovering that sometimes light behaves like a wave and other times like a particle.

To see a dramatic and mind - bending example of how light behaves like a wave, all you need is three pieces of mechanical pencil lead, a laser pointer and a dark room.

Sometimes light behaves like a compact particle, a photon; sometimes it seems to behave like a wave spread out in space, just like the ripples in a pond.

Without the spatial confinement, the electric field associated with circularly polarized light behaves like the propeller of an aircraft whose axis is parallel to the direction of propagation.

Not exact matches

We can approach things from both angles and capture a more whole view of a great mystery, rather like light behaving as waves and particles.

In any case, one can not really affirm that light is a wave, since it also behaves like a particle.

Light is two - faced: Sometimes it behaves like a wave, sometimes like a particle.

That bulk would make them behave a bit like heavy pebbles outpacing fine silt to the watery bottom of a well, jostling through the lighter surrounding stars to reach stable orbits very close to the Milky Way's core.

It was a huge moment, he says, recalling the cells» behaving like fluorescent green Christmas lights.

Unlike metallic / dielectric hyperbolic metamaterials, hBN also provides the additional functionality of both types of hyperbolicity, allowing both the in - plane and out - of - plane crystal axes to behave metallic -(reflective) or dielectric - like (transparent) simply by changing the wavelength of the exciting light.

Otherwise, the laser material behaves just like any other material — it absorbs part of the incident light.

While the light is trapped, it behaves like the electrons in a quantum Hall material.

«Here we set up a situation where light effectively behaves like a particle in the sense that two photons can interact very strongly,» he said.

Now scientists have captured a molecular switch in mid-flip, and it behaves something like a light switch that constantly jiggles by itself.

Precision engineering on microscopic scales even lets us devise metamaterials that behave in ways that nature can't match — like those that manipulate light to make much - celebrated «invisibility cloaks».

Albrecht - Schmitt and a team of researchers have been studying plutonium — Pu on the Periodic Table of Elements — for almost two decades to understand how it behaves chemically, and how it differs from lighter elements like iron or nickel.

To Albrecht - Schmitt's surprise, a plutonium - organic hybrid compound that his team assembled in the lab behaved much like compounds made with lighter elements.

The quantum behavior in this new class of materials has led them to be called «topological Dirac semi-metals» in reference to English quantum physicist and 1933 Nobel Prize winner Paul Dirac, who noted that electrons could behave like light.

Chemically, muonium behaves like a hydrogen isotope, but it's nine times as light as hydrogen.

Each waveguide is essentially a tube, which behaves like a wire for light, inscribed through high - quality glass using a powerful laser.

A handful of species behave more like strobe lights that can light up a forest when they flash in unison.

Each waveguide is essentially a tube, which behaves like a wire for light.

At first glance, black holes — extremely dense, gravitationally intense objects that pull in surrounding matter and light — may not appear to behave like a fluid.

The first is a particle called the unparticle, which behaves like photons (light particles) in some ways, and like particles of matter in others.

When someone watches a subatomic particle or a bit of light pass through the slits, the particle behaves like a bullet, passing through one hole or the other.

Scientists thought particle accelerators might be repurposed to churn out X-rays in a way that would behave like a laser — a light beam made by exciting atoms.

Photons of light behave not only like particles but also like waves, producing interference patterns when sent through gratings.

This «Inner - net» or gut behaves like a supercomputer linking your DNA to your cellular body and electromagnetically to your environment through air, light, water and food.

But as to detail, white creates the impression of volume, but it behaves like any other color that reflects light, if placed in croiuri linear, with vertical seams and certain textures.

Despite having all - wheel drive, the Golf R behaves like a front - wheel - drive car because it doesn't direct more torque to the rear wheels; under light loads and when coasting, the rear wheels are decoupled from the driveshaft to improve gas mileage.

Out on the road, the 2015 Ford Transit behaves more like a car or light truck than a delivery van.

The aim with this is to make what is essentially quite a heavy lump (it weighs 1,725 kg) behave like a much lighter, more nimble sportscar.

It takes bends with precision and behaves like a car that's much lighter than the near 4,400 - pound curb weight listed on the spec sheet.

Hence Mario Merz's attachment to Fibonacci's invention of a numerical system that behaves like self - generating patterns in nature (the breeding of rabbits and the structure of shells, for example) and his fondness for the brilliant gaseous light neon gives off once excited by electrons.

which is trivially true, but only if we presume that the act of answering behaves like an on / off light switch with no dimmer.

Thedevice in question was behaving differently from the rest of the review units: it was actually waking up thousands of times a day, flashing its lights and even attempting to answer random queries (like movie dialogues, videos, and even background noise), saying it «did not understand».