Sentences with phrase «like subatomic particles»

In the past few years, physicists have investigated ways to produce energy from qubits, or quantum - mechanical systems like subatomic particles.

«The greatest city on earth, a great jiving funkapolitan melting - pot... And that's why we lead in all those creative and cultural sectors and that's why we have the best universities, because the best minds from across the world are meeting in some of the best pubs and bars and nightclubs like subatomic particles colliding in a cyclotron.»

At most simple levels of material synthesis, individual nodes of organization like subatomic particles are only determinate as functions within a bigger framework, so it is perhaps not surprising that their behaviour can only be expressed in terms of statistical probability.

She traces those anomalies back to a fraction of a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, when our universe was so small that it behaved like a subatomic particle, dominated by quantum physics.

Not exact matches

The theory of societies, like modern general systems theory, pictures a world made up of societies within societies (systems within systems) That is, societies do not just line up side by side like mosaics — they form «nested hierarchies» that go from subatomic particles through cells to animal bodies, or through stars to galaxies.

If you can't like the man, at least say a few nice words about his subatomic particles.

It may be possible, therefore, to understand the particle - and wave - like characteristics of the subatomic world without resorting to conceptual contradictions.

Maybe we have been misinterpreting data all along and it actually is a very even flowing steady state universe with super novas black holes and galaxies coming and going, extending like this throughout all infinity, basically just trading off between nothingness and somethingness with oddly behaving subatomic particles.

That is, societies do not just line up side by side like mosaics — they form «nested hierarchies» that go from subatomic particles through cells to animal bodies, or through stars to galaxies.

In a nutshell, the Higgs field is what makes some particles (like protons and neutrons) relatively heavy, others (like electrons) subatomic lightweights, and still others (like photons) utterly massless.

Physics deals with both the origins and the fate of the universe, and with its most basic building blocks: nuclear forces, subatomic particles and the like.

Many models have suggested that the flow of particles from these subatomic fireworks produced in high - energy nuclear collisions should behave like a gas and not a liquid.

The theory that governs the workings of subatomic particles and forces is notoriously inscrutable — but what principles make it look like it does?

Hameroff suggests the most meaningful action happens at the impossibly small quantum level, where subatomic particles like photons and electrons exhibit bizarre behavior.

In 1995 her colleagues showed that thousands of cold subatomic particles can behave like a single enormous atom, a state called a Bose - Einstein condensate.

In the world of subatomic particles, finding a 9 percent mass discrepancy is like seeing an elephant do a disappearing act.

Quantum teleportation is the process of making a subatomic particle's physical state vanish from one place and appear in another, a little like Captain Kirk's transporter.

They really have a strong reluctance to mingle with other particles, which makes them antisocial and difficult to pin down, but they are connected to such a wide range of phenomenon from the subatomic to the cosmic that they could tell us a lot about many different things, many different mysteries about the nature of matter, about what triggers exploding stars, to what's going on in the heart of the sun, to what the universe might have been like, the conditions within seconds after the big bang.

Neutrinos, like other subatomic particles, sometimes behave like waves.

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.

Particle physicists were discovering a zoo of subatomic particles and the intricacies of the forces acting on them, yet they could not explain why some particles have mass and others, like photons, do not.

Quantum spin is one of the most fundamental properties defining the physical state of an atom or a subatomic particle, and also one of the most mysterious: Although it has mathematical similarities to spinning in the familiar sense, it is an oddly abstract attribute, and it does not mean that particles actually rotate like little tops.

Many subatomic particles act like tiny magnets, with their strength dubbed their «g - factor».

Big bang theorists believe the universe was full of subatomic particles like neutrinos, particles with no mass, or quarks, elementary particles that bond together to create larger particles like protons or neutrons.

One of these non-intuitive behaviors is that subatomic particles actually behave more like waves than like discrete particles — a phenomenon called wave - particle duality.

Ganymede has a weak magnetic field, and, like on Earth, this generates an aurora - the glow created when high - speed subatomic particles slam into the extremely thin atmosphere.

(Or, you know, throw your hands in the air and keep each account as an undifferentiated copy of the whole, like a perfect atom because you're not going to mess around with the subatomic physics nonsense that this involves: particle accelerators are for nerds and supervillains).

The Long Goodbye is an ongoing series of notable sky objects like the Sagittarius Star Cloud and the Orion Nebula represented by subatomic decay patterns - or scientific play - by - plays of unstable particles morphing into stable ones.

As I understand it, the basic theory is that incoming charged particles provide additional cloud condensation nucleii (like the cloud chambers used as detectors in early subatomic physics), that the rate of incoming particles is modulated by the magnetic fields of the sun and earth, and that therefore the amount of cloud cover varies with the particle flux, which in turn drives climate, so we can stop worrying about CO2.