Sentences with phrase «long as the atom»

The mathematics of quantum theory says that an atom, for example, can be on the left side of a box and the right side of the box at the very same instant, as long as the atom is undisturbed and unobserved.

Not exact matches

Fusion power — pressing atoms together until they fuse into heavier elements and release energy, just like they do inside the sun's core — is an old dream, and for just as long, a scientific bugbear.
As long as your blog has one of the following remote publishing APIs, you can schedule posts for it: Tumblr, WordPress API (wordpress.com and self - hosted), metaWeblog API, Movable Type API, Blogger API, and Atom APAs long as your blog has one of the following remote publishing APIs, you can schedule posts for it: Tumblr, WordPress API (wordpress.com and self - hosted), metaWeblog API, Movable Type API, Blogger API, and Atom APas your blog has one of the following remote publishing APIs, you can schedule posts for it: Tumblr, WordPress API (wordpress.com and self - hosted), metaWeblog API, Movable Type API, Blogger API, and Atom API.
But as long as one is committed to substantialist thinking, one assumes that in the ultimate analysis the event can be understood in terms of matter in motion — atoms moving around in the void.
It is as if we no longer sat in chairs after we learned that furniture is only space and atoms.
To mimic the conditions of the early universe, researchers sent electrically charged gold atoms racing along the collider's 2.4 - mile - long tunnel at near light speed, producing a fireball 150,000 times as hot as the center of the sun.
As long as one hasn't measured the state of the atom, one knows nothing about the poor cat's health either — atom and kitty are intimately «entangled» with each otheAs long as one hasn't measured the state of the atom, one knows nothing about the poor cat's health either — atom and kitty are intimately «entangled» with each otheas one hasn't measured the state of the atom, one knows nothing about the poor cat's health either — atom and kitty are intimately «entangled» with each other.
In the future, Goulielmakis hopes to produce light pulses of 24 attoseconds, the atomic unit of time, defined as how long it takes an electron to travel from one side of a hydrogen atom to the other.
When one mobilized platinum atom finds another, they can form a bond — as long as both of them are being lifted up by carbon monoxide, diminishing the influence of the magnetite below.
As long as the gold atoms, or cations, are stabilized in a single - site form configuration, irrespective of the type of support, the precious metal will be stable and operate for many hours at a range of practical temperatureAs long as the gold atoms, or cations, are stabilized in a single - site form configuration, irrespective of the type of support, the precious metal will be stable and operate for many hours at a range of practical temperatureas the gold atoms, or cations, are stabilized in a single - site form configuration, irrespective of the type of support, the precious metal will be stable and operate for many hours at a range of practical temperatures.
Most light waves, however, are scattered incoherently, that is the wave patterns of the outgoing waves are no longer directly in relation to the incoming waves as the light is reflected from the atoms it touches as fluorescent light.
As long as many of the ingredients of ordinary things were too scarce to be identified by any known method, the notion of a universe composed of atoms was still an abstractioAs long as many of the ingredients of ordinary things were too scarce to be identified by any known method, the notion of a universe composed of atoms was still an abstractioas many of the ingredients of ordinary things were too scarce to be identified by any known method, the notion of a universe composed of atoms was still an abstraction.
The resulting bond is relatively weak, creating what Zwierlein calls a «fluffy» molecule that still vibrates quite a bit, as each atom is bonded over a long, tenuous connection.
The beginnings of modern science are traced back to relatively obscure figures, such as Pierre Gassendi, credited with the first concept of gravity, and early «atomicists», such as the «Mad Duchess», Margaret Cavendish, who believed in four types of atoms — square, long, round and sharp.
But the team calculates that about half the excited positronium atoms can survive for 28 millionths of a second on average, 200 times as long as unexcited ones.
As long as the field changes at a rate slower than the natural oscillation frequencies of the atom, the dipole moment remains aligned with the fielAs long as the field changes at a rate slower than the natural oscillation frequencies of the atom, the dipole moment remains aligned with the fielas the field changes at a rate slower than the natural oscillation frequencies of the atom, the dipole moment remains aligned with the field.
Although not a trap, the atoms were confined in the viscous medium for periods as long as 0.5 second, until eventually they would leak out of the cooling beams.
Scientists have long known that brain cells communicate via electrical missives, created by charged atoms and molecules called ions as they travel across the membranes of those cells.
The amphiphile has been tailor made from «bucky balls» — football - shaped molecules made up of 60 carbon atoms (C60) which are chemically modified by attaching a much longer «tail» made up of chains of carbon atoms, as found in a regular soap.
In both bulk and porous silicon the hydrogen atoms combine with these electrons, with the result that they no longer act as traps — a process called passivation.
But atoms that typically form only two chemical bonds, such as oxygen, don't often make long, polymer - like chains.
He has a weapon known as «Corvus Glaive Blade» which can cut Atoms, he can not die as long as the blade stays with him.
Graphene is an atomic - scale honeycomb lattice consisting entirely of carbon atoms; when used as a membrane in batteries, as studied and developed at UCLA, it promises increased energy density, faster charging, and longer driving range — though the technology is unproven outside of the laboratory as of yet.
They include authors whether living or dead and from any nation, such as Chinua Achebe, with No Longer at Ease (Penguin Classics); Sarah Waters, with Affinity (Virago); Martin Amis, with Dead Babies (Vintage); Umberto Eco, with Foucault's Pendulum (Vintage); Margaret Atwood, with Surfacing (Virago); Jane Austen, with Pride and Prejudice (Wordsworth Classics); Dan Brown, with Angels & Demons (Transworld); Patricia Cornwell, with Body of Evidence (Sphere); and Stephenie Meyer, with Twilight: New Moon (Atom), among others.
It has a 10.8 inch display with a 1920x1280 resolution and runs on a Quad - core Intel Atom x7 processor — not as powerful as the Surface Pro 3's Intel Core processor, but better for longer battery life (up to 10 hours).
It features a built - in 16 GB SSD, giving faster boot - up and read / write times than standard HDDs, as well as an energy - efficient Intel Atom N455 1.66 Ghz processor with 1 GB DDR3 RAM, providing users with longer battery life.
As if to reinforce the importance of considering fully the risks that attend the use of the atom, Japanese residents of a 12 - mile - radius zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex were paying last visits to their neighborhoods before a long - term evacuation order took effect.
It asked whoppers such as, «does the Earth revolve around the sun», «how long does it take the Earth to rotate around the sun», and «are electrons bigger than atoms».
If we let the atom bounce up and down in the tube, and don't allow any energy to be extracted, it will stay in perpetual motion (and gravity will be continuously accelerating it) and will have a lapse rate (as long as the lapse rate isn't measured).
It is not clear that the authors consider how long radioactive atoms remain in our body, since we excrete them along with other atoms; the numbers below may overstate the case as the authors assume a residence time as long as 50 years.
However, my main point was not so much about the «make up» of ozone but more about the possibility that as long as oxygen atoms and molecules absorb enough energy from UV radiation to alter their structure it may be that they also produce an increase in their heat content, which should be greater at any points nearest to the source — i.e..
With the Fujitsu Stylistic Q550 (Intel Atom Z690), the tablet gets an upgraded processor (and a price bump, to $ 990 direct) while retaining all the features we liked about the previous model, such as long battery life and a stylus for pointing precision.
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