Sentences with phrase «like tuning forks»

Weber argued that those ripples — gravitational waves — would stretch his cylinders and make them vibrate like tuning forks.

«That shifter is like a tuning fork and it just snaps it right on top of the transmission,» Earnhardt said.

Well, good for you for sticking to your guns, but prepare to be furious when your child comes home on the last day before the winter break vibrating like a tuning fork from all of the «holiday» (read «Christmas») treats that well meaning parents send for the traditional pre-break party that happens in virtually every public school classroom on the last school day of the calendar year.

The hammer acts almost like a tuning fork and dispels the vibrations faster than other hammers.

The experimental physicist used an aluminum bar like a tuning fork and then waited for it to move, staring at the noise for much of a decade.

In 1936 Hubble put these groups onto a two - pronged sequence that looks like a tuning fork because he thought that the galaxies started out as ellipticals, then changed to spirals and then to irregulars.

The saloons make quite a sight, as the man who walks into a signpost and leaves it oscillating like a tuning fork will surely testify.

I left there like a tuning fork that couldn't be tuned because I loved them both equally.

Not exact matches

The mushy ground sings harmony and tall buildings hum like so many tuning forks.

The resulting disk has a series of vibrational «modes,» rather like resonances in a tuning fork, that might be excited by small disturbances — think of a planet - forming stellar disk nudged by a passing star or of a black hole accretion disk in which material is falling into the center unevenly.

Like a musical tuning fork, the resonant bar and the resonant cone needed to vibrate at certain frequencies to apply the right amount of energy to the test object, Barnes said.

The research involves tiny, flexible bars called cantilevers that vibrate up and down like the prongs of a tuning fork when they receive an input of energy.

An integral Fusion Facial from sought - after New York aesthetician and skin care therapist, Julia March incorporates not only phenomenal organic botanicals and fancy - sounding high - tech procedures (micro-current healing LED lights, FAR Infrared technology, and ultrasound) but also includes a generous side of energy work like Vortex healing ®, color therapy, Reiki, and tuning forks.

The Mandarin Oriental's Journey Into Stillness treatment uses tuning forks and acupressure points to energetically balance the body, and the encouraged digital detox makes the spa, which overlooks the bustling Strip, feel like a bastion of serenity.

At the centre is the marvel that is Daniel Day - Lewis, whose performance is like a conductor's baton to all the other actors; David Strathairn has said the cast used Lewis's Lincoln as its collective emotional tuning fork.

However, this car's dampers haven't stood the test of time as well as some of the others here (having said that, it has covered 109,000 miles) and the constant jiggling and occasional crash sets the whole structure on edge, like a huge tuning - fork.

This is like saying you have found a 440 Hz tuning fork because you can fit 2nd and 3rd harmonics but the fundamental has got «totally» damped.

The Spurious Dragon fork addresses less important security measures like further tuning operation code pricing to stop DoS - like attacks from happening again.