Sentences with phrase «long as these particles»

«Molecules and small particles scatter the same way as long as the particle is sufficiently small,» Bohren says.

As to LDL, the level means nothing as long as the particle size is large / fluffy.

Not exact matches

But in the context of the universe, time will never be up as long as there are any moving particles left, and even then its debatable.

Therefore, we no longer reduce the world to particles, but we regard it as a state of the whole.

Physicists and some process thinkers, such as the physicist and process theologian Ian G. Barbour, are cautious about making the long jump from indeterminacy in sub-atomic particles to human freedom and purpose,

I've long been fascinated by cosmology, although my deficiencies as a mathematician preclude my really following the arguments of astrophysicists, high - energy particle physicists, and others exploring the origins of the universe.

The Aristotelian theory maintained that a mass - particle continued in motion only so long as a moving - agent was in contact with the mass - particle and was imparting motion to it at every moment.

When science has gained a more perfect picture of the spatio - temporal patterns exhibited by the life and adventures of a particle, including perhaps the evolution of the cosmos from a stage in which it did not contain this particle, and into one in which it will no longer contain it, then perhaps speculation as to an inner life of the particle.

In quantum mechanics the exact spatial location of sub-atomic particles (e.g., an electron) is no longer viewed as a meaningful concept.

Their method of preserving the meat is to cut it into long strings, or immense flakes, and after carefully removing every particle of fat — which becomes rancid — they hang it on lines in the sun and wind, without even salting it, until it is as dry and as hard as sole - leather.

However, as comparable numbers of positively and negatively charged particles are present in the exhaust beam the neutralizer is no longer needed.

The tracks were 100 to 1,000 times as long as the widths of the particles, and they looked like arrows pointing to the flecks at the end.

If you add to the number of particles that are being studied, eventually there will be enough particles that they no longer act quantum mechanically and must be identified as classical, just like our everyday world.

As the EPR authors put it, «since at the time of measurement the two systems [particles A and B] no longer interact, no real change can take place in the second system in consequence of anything that may be done to the first system.»

The break, known as LS1 for «long stop one», is needed to correct several flaws in the original design of the collider, which is located underground at CERN, Europe's particle - physics laboratory near Geneva in Switzerland.

The particle looks an awful lot like the long - sought, and long - hypothetical, Higgs boson, most famous for explaining why elementary particles, such as quarks, have mass.

DUNE will be constructed by a new international collaboration hosted at the Long - Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) as the centerpiece of the particle physics program in the U.S.

Researchers will also try to further nail down its mass and behavior to see whether it is really the long - sought particle, or something else masquerading as a Higgs boson.

Exposure to these particles can lead to a range of potential central nervous system complications that can occur during and persist long after actual space travel — such as various performance decrements, memory deficits, anxiety, depression and impaired decision - making.

Over long periods of time, footballers playing a match change direction by the same amount as particles in churning fluid

Elsewhere in the issue, you can see how science is working on new breeding and distribution techniques to save the coral reefs; a way to gain a better understanding of dark matter through the search for whether axion particles exist; a probe into the cause and solutions for the toxic condition of social disconnection, also known as loneliness; and even how to elucidate the long - sought origins of how snakes got their slither.

The particles could serve as a powerful active ingredient in a topically - applied vaginal cream that provides immediate protection against herpes virus infection while simultaneously helping stimulate immunity to the virus for long - term protection, explained Shukla.

But this summer, at the Snowmass meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota — where hundreds of particle physicists assembled to dream up machines for their field's long - term future — the VLHC concept stood out as a favorite.

«By looking at these long sequences of images taken by different instruments, we can discover where the aurora heats the atmosphere as the particles dive into it and how long the cooking occurs.»

As charged particles stream in from the sun, explains Jim Spann, a physicist at nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Earth's magnetic field deflects them into a long tail that trails behind the planet.

«The density in the crystal is now high enough to introduce long - range order, so the molecules behave as an interconnected system instead of just a collection of isolated particles,» JILA / NIST Fellow Jun Ye says.

An «ocean» composed of a single layer of molecules; an intricate depiction of an HIV particle as a study in orange and gray; a phantasmagoria of fungi; a video tracing the long - distance travels of items dumped in the trash in Seattle: The four first - place winners in this year's International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge grab your attention and draw you into unseen worlds in very different ways.

As physicists in Europe prep for a major announcement about the long - sought Higgs particle, U.S. scientists are not going gentle into that good night.

Shellfish and other bottom feeders would be the ones most likely to suffer long - term contamination as radioactive particles settle on the sediment.

«When a rearrangement happens, the softnesses of the nearby particles all change,» Durian said, «but, due to long - range elastic couplings, so can the softnesses of particles even quite far away, as illustrated by this data.

When the glacier starts to retreat, the frontal moraines are no longer protected by the ice, and a sort of «geological chronometer» is triggered, as the rocks begin to accumulate beryllium - 10 and helium - 3 produced by particles resulting from cosmic rays.

The new work explores particle shape as a means of controlling the directionality of these interactions to achieve long - range order in large - scale assemblies and clusters.

Collisions between gold nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) on Long Island, New York, have yielded heavy isotopes of antihydrogen that include a subatomic particle known as an antistrange quark, which is heavier than less unusual up or down quarks.

The assaults that this most fundamental theory of reality makes on our intuition are legion: particles that exist as probabilistic wave functions in «superpositions» of multiple states or places, or at least seem to as long you don't look at them; «entangled» particles that influence each other over vast distances of space when you measure one of them.

Although the seven - year data record is too short to make conclusions about long - term trends, it is an important step toward understanding how dust and other windborne particles, or aerosols, behave as they move across the ocean.

«These new results imply the current - day impact rates for small particles at Saturn are about the same as those at Earth — two very different neighborhoods in our solar system — and this is exciting to see,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «It took Saturn's rings acting like a giant meteoroid detector — 100 times the surface area of the Earth — and Cassini's long - term tour of the Saturn system to address this question.»

The apparent bagging of the Higgs boson — the long - sought «God» particle that endows all matter with mass, as well as its hypothesizers with a Nobel prize — topped Discover's 2012 Year in Science list.

A pale beige polypropylene plastic embedded with 25 - micrometer particles of the resin is inserted into the tube in the form of a long - haired shag carpet sample and, almost immediately, CO2 levels inside the greenhouse begin a steady march downward as the resin binds CO2 to form bicarbonate, a kind of salt produced.

After 14 years, CERN, the European particle physics lab near Geneva, is getting ready to switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), designed to seek out new particles including the long - awaited Higgs boson and the possible source of dark matter as well as study the differences between matter and antimatter.

Since late 2009, when the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, started up outside Geneva and quickly became the most powerful collider in history, particle physicists» eyes have been wandering steadily toward Europe and away from the U.S., where the Tevatron in Illinois had long held sway as the world's best.

While the charge and spin properties of electrons are widely utilized in modern day technologies such as transistors and memories, another aspect of the subatomic particle has long remained uncharted.

«It could also improve entanglement between quantum bits, as incoming waves of light are effectively spread out and infinitely long, enabling even distant particles to be entangled.»

Neutrinos have long perplexed physicists with their uncanny ability to evade detection, with as many as two - thirds of the ghostly particles apparently going missing en route from the Sun to Earth.

The new particles are about 200 microns long and include several stripes of different colored nanocrystals, known as «rare earth upconverting nanocrystals.»

One high - profile target, he says, should be reducing emissions of tiny soot particles, known as black carbon, that don't last long in the atmosphere but have an outsize impact on warming.

The research, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS), indicates that rod - shaped particles (150 nanometers in diameter by 450 nanometers long) penetrated human cells about four times faster and traveled farther into the cells than particles with more balanced dimensions (such as 200 nanometers by 200 nanometers).

Where fine particle counts dropped even more — by 13 to 14 micrograms, such as in New York City, Buffalo and Pittsburgh — people lived some 43 weeks longer on average.

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A second attempt to detect long - sought Majorana fermions, particles that can act as their own antiparticle, has come up positive, suggesting the strange particles are real.

Big Science has long been the norm in physics, where probing nature's frontiers requires massive particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva.