Sentences with phrase «like radio waves»

Like the radio waves from your local Top 40 station, these transmissions can be picked up by anyone within range who has wireless access, including computer hackers.

Microwave photons can be produced with very different distributions, like radio waves can, and can be absorbed just as well as other photons by warm surfaces.

Her efforts seemed to fade like radio waves at the Macon County line.

If you want to determine whether any of your credit cards, though, do permit contactless transactions and do emit RFID signals, check for a symbol on its back that looks like radio waves.

«If the radio waves and X-rays both are coming from an expanding cocoon, we realized that our radio measurements meant that, when NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory could observe once again, it would find the X-rays, like the radio waves, had increased in strength,» Corsi said.

X-rays and gamma rays were soon recognized as different forms of electromagnetic radiation, like radio waves and visible light but more energetic.

Not exact matches

Yeah, Polak is a garbage fire in one of the kitchen and it would be better to not have a garbage fire in one of the kitchen than to have one, but there are some bigger holes like a hepatitis B outbreak aka Andersen not stopping pucks, the first mate has launched a mutiny movement aka out their 2C for a just suspension, 30 foot waves coming in aka lost Komarov to injury, no radio communication aka Zaitsev looks completely lost, the bottom 2 decks are entirely submerged aka they have no answer for the Bruins top line, the life boats are made of cheap dry wall aka the PP and PK are MIA...

Instead, the Bob Marley who surveys his kingdom today is smiling benevolence, a shining sun, a waving palm tree, a string of hits which tumble out of polite radio like candy from a gumball machine.

Like a burst transmission of radio waves his entreaties shot out en masse, with Dietl pulsing with energy as he quickly accelerated to top take - de Blasio - out speed.

Like the tuner on a radio, different detectors (bottom row) pick up different frequencies of gravitational waves.

Just as your eyes can see visible light but not radio waves or x-rays, Webb's vision is tuned for the infrared — a portion of the spectrum ideal for studying ancient stars and galaxies, but where oxygen's barcode - like absorption lines are rather slight and sparse.

The idea is to twist radio waves like corkscrews and create multiple subfrequencies, distinguished by their degree of twistedness.

The team also analyzed the radio waves in a new way, revealing that what looked like individual bursts were actually composed of many smaller sub-bursts, says astronomer Andrew Seymour of the Universities Space Research Association at Arecibo.

At a high enough electron density, each cloud reflects high - frequency radio waves like a mirror.

At its center is a super-dense neutron star, rotating once every 33 milliseconds, shooting out rotating lighthouse - like beams of radio waves and light — a pulsar (the bright dot at image center).

Traditional accelerators, like the Large Hadron Collider where the Higgs boson was recently discovered, rely on high - power radio - frequency waves to energize electrons.

The occasional crackle of wireless interference sounds like a clock - radio alarm picking up the radio waves from a cell phone and leads one to wonder what it would take to crash the Tesla Model S computer — and then the car.

When electrons and protons travel through Jupiter's magnetic field, it makes them spiral like a repetitive roller coaster, which causes them to scream (or, more scientifically, emit radio waves).

Every time they spin, radio waves shine our way, like light from a cosmic lighthouse.

It acted like a funnel for radio waves, collecting them into its wide end and guiding them down into a detector.

Alexander Zink, researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS based in Erlangen, Germany, would like to provide clarification around a common misunderstanding: «Digital radio works the same way as terrestrial FM radio via air waves, but with better quality, more variety and innovative extra features.

Among other achievements, his group has used the response of electrons to measure the electric field of a laser's ultrashort pulses and display the waveform, much like displaying a radio - frequency wave on an oscilloscope.

Optical technologies can finagle light in the shorter - wavelength visible and infrared range, while electromagnetic techniques can manipulate longer - wavelength radiation like microwaves and radio waves.

If molecules were freely floating as gases, Snyder realized, some of them should spin like batons and create a faint radio - wave signal.

Pulsars emit powerful beams of radio waves that sweep across space like a lighthouse, but radio telescopes only notice these if Earth is in their path.

These radio waves use 2.4 ghz or 5ghz and from there the router breaks up this signal into 14 different channels, much like walkie talkies.

A mysterious object that repeatedly bursts with ultra-powerful radio waves must live in an extreme environment — something like the one around a supermassive black hole.

Pulsars twinkle at a set rate that scientists can measure because they emit two jets of radio waves in opposite directions while itself spinning along a different plane, causing the jets to spin like a spotlight.

The balloon - like features have since been observed in X-rays and radio waves.

The light buckets will act like floodlights in reverse, pulling in radio waves from a huge swath of sky.

A dusty disk like that in TW Hydrae tends to emit radio waves with wavelengths similar to the size of the particles in the disk.

Most notably, in mid-February of 1974, the GBI discovered an intense and point - like source of radio waves coming from the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy.

«Normal» ice, such as that found on Earth, is like a sponge that absorbs radio waves, but ice at very low temperatures is a mirror for radio waves.

NASA's newest moon orbiter is beaming data to Earth via a powerful laser beam to test an innovative interplanetary communications systems that doesn't rely on radio waves, and a new photo reveals just what a moon laser signal looks like in infrared.

The radio pulse FRB 150807 The colour shows the frequency of the waves, which is like the colour of light.

At its center is a superdense neutron star, rotating once every 33 milliseconds, shooting out rotating lighthouse - like beams of radio waves and light — a pulsar.

Lights and radio waves emitted by an object 13 billion light years away reach the Earth over a period of 13 billion years, which means the observed image shows what the object was like 13 billion years ago.

When I'm tired my tinnitus is at its worst, like a short wave radio off it's frequency in my head, it's impossible to relax or concentrate.

While this may sound like a crazy talk, centuries ago people didn't know about radio waves, and cell phone communication would seem like witchery.

The lanky woman's face is good for comedy, given her wide mouth and her big clouded brow; anxiety radiates off of her like waves from a radio tower.

transcends verbal discourse and pulses between couples like invisible radio waves.

She also gains the abilities to telekinetically manipulate people and objects as well as control electrical waves like cell phone, television, and radio signals.

Lidar — an alternative take on radar using lasers to analyze light waves instead of radio waves — lacks radar's range and, like cameras, is sensitive to weather conditions.

Though invisible, like radio and cell phone waves, electromagnetic energies have a powerful effect on all living things.

Radar, like lidar, sends out a signal and waits for it to bounce back, but it uses radio waves instead of light.