Sentences with phrase «much as an atom»

Because neutrinos are so abundant, they could be the dominant dark matter even if each weighed only a tiny fraction as much as an atom.

Not exact matches

«In the last 40 years in the technology world,» as Thiel puts it, «we've had enormous progress in the world of bits, but not as much in the world of atoms.»

But when it came to his start - up venture, as he told Crain's New York Business in 1989, he knew «as much about juice as about making an atom bomb.»

And finally, that no blemish may separate him, by so much as a single atom of himself, from the essential limpidity, he labours unceasingly to purify his affections and to remove even the very faintest opacities which might cloud or impede the light.

In a sense there is just as much discontinuity of patterning between an electron and an atom or an atom and a molecule as there is between a molecule and a living cell.

When he thinks or wills, it is not any one or any number of his cells that thinks his thoughts or wills his purposes, but himself as an irreducible unit, as much as a unit as any cell or any atom or any electron.

Our destiny is determined as much as that of the solar system or the atoms that compose it.

In this sense an atom is more complex than an electron, a molecule more complex than an atom, and a living cell more complex than the highest chemical nuclei of which it is composed, the difference depending (on this I insist) not only on the number and diversity of the elements included in each case, but at least as much on the number and correlative variety of the links formed between these elements.

Hartshorne focuses on atoms and cells as clear instances of individuals.26 He notes that «all individuals apparent to the senses are compounded of numerous much smaller individuals.

Sodium atoms are just as much «conformists» inside the body as outside it, but the pattern of physical feeling to which they conform is different in the body.

, I mean came «into existence» (mysteriously popped out of nowhere); rather, it will challenge intellectual thinkers to look at life as not just a compilation of atoms / cells; rather a universe that is controlled by powers much more awesome than the natural forces we all experience on a daily basis.

The pattern should reveal exactly how much the atoms accelerate under gravity as they orbit Earth.

Measurements of heavy - versus - light variants of elements in the Martian atmosphere indicate that much of Mars» early atmosphere disappeared by processes favoring loss of lighter atoms, such as from the top of the atmosphere.

As atoms are much larger than electrons, they are much easier to observe.

The electric repulsion between electrons surrounding separate atoms in his body and the concrete is so intense that it stops the falling body without so much as denting the concrete.

As these neutrinos pass through the planet, they interact with atoms, creating muons — positive or negative particles with a mass much greater than an electron's.

As recently as the 1960s, most scientists doubted molecules could exist in interstellar space at all — the radiation there was thought to be too harsh for anything much beyond atoms and a few basic free radicals to survivAs recently as the 1960s, most scientists doubted molecules could exist in interstellar space at all — the radiation there was thought to be too harsh for anything much beyond atoms and a few basic free radicals to survivas the 1960s, most scientists doubted molecules could exist in interstellar space at all — the radiation there was thought to be too harsh for anything much beyond atoms and a few basic free radicals to survive.

We know approximately how much of certain atoms must be made in a given type of star, says Mac Low, but lab - based experiments could help nail down exact numbers under various conditions, such as changing temperatures or plasma density.

The particles did not scatter as much as expected, indicating they were hitting an unexpectedly small number of hydrogen atoms.

These big bits of atoms, such as gold or silicon atoms stripped of their electrons, are much more complex than the protons that physicists have been accustomed to studying.

It turns out that the answer lies in the interaction between the bonds that hold the atoms in the water molecule together and the much weaker bonds, known as hydrogen bonds, that are the glue holding groups of water molecules together.

(It is the reason helium ordinarily only occurs as a gas or a liquid: the extremely lightweight atoms jiggle about too much to form a solid.)

By growing iron atoms into incredibly small particles, Zhang increases the number of electrons they release as much as 1,000-fold.

To measure this frequency, fountain clocks toss small clouds of slow - moving cesium atoms a few feet high, much like a pulsed fountain, and measure their oscillations as they pass up, and then down, through a microwave beam.

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.

The trick relies on matching the laser energy to the gap between two of the atom's energy levels — which is much harder with molecules as their energies are more complex.

The four - legged ones walked in much the same way, moving first the atoms on one side, then the atoms on the other — a gait known as pacing.

In an age when there were no microscopes to penetrate living cells and no understanding of the nature of atoms and molecules, the alchemists were not misguided so much as misinformed, doing their best to make sense of a world they could not see.

As Jennifer Ouellette reported in Quanta in 2013, Turing «proposed that patterns such as spots form as a result of the interactions between two chemicals that spread throughout a system much like gas atoms in a box do, with one crucial differencAs Jennifer Ouellette reported in Quanta in 2013, Turing «proposed that patterns such as spots form as a result of the interactions between two chemicals that spread throughout a system much like gas atoms in a box do, with one crucial differencas spots form as a result of the interactions between two chemicals that spread throughout a system much like gas atoms in a box do, with one crucial differencas a result of the interactions between two chemicals that spread throughout a system much like gas atoms in a box do, with one crucial difference.

When DNA molecules are exposed to too much ultraviolet radiation, their atoms can become over-excited, and accidentally bond in ways that result in molecular injuries known as dimers.

Instead of water, liquid sodium is typically used as a coolant because the sodium atoms are so much larger and heavier than neutrons that when they collide the neutrons simply ricochet off the sodium atom - much a like a small bullet ricocheting off a thick plate metal.

A molecule containing three oxygen atoms, computer models suggest that ozone on Venus is formed when sunlight breaks up carbon dioxide molecules and releases oxygen atoms, which are swept around to the planet's nightside by winds where they can then combine to form unstable, three - atom ozone molecules, as well as much more stable, two - atom molecules essential for animals.

Earth's much thicker layer of low - level ozone, however, has a much larger contribution from the build - up of molecular oxygen beginning some 2.4 billion years ago from photosynthetic microbes excreting oxygen as a waste gas, which now along with plant life is constantly replenishing Earth's two - atom as well as three - stom ozone oxygen molecules.

Much of my most important work such as fleshing out the details of polarization gradient cooling, the demonstration of the atomic fountain clock, and the development of atom interferometers and a new method of laser cooling based on Raman pulses was done at Stanford with my students as collaborators.

With the slim Atom looking like he has as much of a chance against Zeus as Pee - wee Herman would against the Rock, it's hard not to engage with the momentum as it swings wildly from one extreme to the other.

When it comes to performance, the Atom in the DV8P is the same as previous iterations in name only, as the Z3740D Bay Trail chip provides much better performance than the previous generation Clover Trail and makes using the Dell a smoother experience over Windows 8 launch devices.

The processor is an Intel Atom Z3735F, which is a Bay Trail - generation quad - core part running at between 1.33 and 1.88 GHz with integrated basic Intel HD graphics - pretty much the same as what we've seen in the other 2 - in - 1s at this price level.

The Iconia W4 (starting at $ 299, $ 349 as configured) looks to up the ante by offering a much - improved IPS display and Intel's latest quad - core Atom processor in a sleeker design.

Other Atom - based Windows tablets such as the HP Envy x2 (306) and ASUS VivoTab Smart (292 lux) also were much brighter.

Loaded with a quad - core Intel Atom Z3580 CPU, 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of eMMC storage, you don't get quite as much performance or storage space for your money from the Venue 10 7000 as you do from competing tablets.

He found that gases and vapors whose molecules had three or more atoms, such as water vapor and CO2, absorbed much more of the thermal radiation passing through the tube than did two - atom molecules such as oxygen and nitrogen.

When petroleum is burned, some energy is required to separate the molecules into individual atoms, but much more energy is given back as the carbon and hydrogen atoms combine with oxygen to give carbon dioxide and water vapor.

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..

Just a month after a science fiction writer speculated on storage devices the size of a grain of sand comes news from the magazine Science of developments in magnetic anisotropy that could eventually be used to store information in individual atoms, paving the way to pack as much as 150 trillion bits of data per square inch, 1,000 times more than current data storage densities.

In other words, it has much the same appeal as an Atom - powered Microsoft Surface, but with a better keyboard and (at least in my case) a much lower price.