Sentences with phrase «mysterious forms of»

Colorful and mysterious forms of marine life cover intertidal rocks and fill tidepools.

The 650 computers in the instrument will track the particles» trajectory, speed, and energy, which the device's designers hope will provide insights into mysterious forms of matter, including antimatter, dark matter, and a hypothetical family of particles called strangelets.

Appropriately, this mysterious form of energy has been named dark energy, and it may make up nearly 75 percent of the universe!

In the past decade, we learned something even more astounding: that the overriding gravitational influence in the universe comes not from matter but from a mysterious form of energy that suffuses the emptiness of space.

The discovery of a mysterious form of radiation 100 years ago led to a revolution in our understanding of the subatomic world

Space - time can tremble like the surface of a pond and it seems to be full of a mysterious form of energy that is pushing it apart.

Aside from the superconducting phase, these materials exhibit another mysterious form of electronic order, dubbed the «pseudogap» phase.

This and several other lines of evidence point to the existence of a mysterious form of invisible matter that exerts a gravitational influence on other matter and outweighs ordinary matter by a factor of about 6 to 1.

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[5][6] The theory could potentially explain why a mysterious repulsive form of energy known as the «cosmological constant», and which is accelerating the expansion of the universe, is several orders of magnitude smaller than predicted by the standard Big Bang model.»

If all those who suffer in the world were to unite their sufferings so that the pain of the world should become one single grand act of consciousness, of sublimation, of unification, would not this be one of the most exalted forms in which the mysterious work of creation could be manifested to our eyes?

(See George Foot Moore: «Sacrifice,» in Encyclopædia Biblica, edited by T.K. Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black) In these offerings of slain beasts, whatever form they took, the mysterious efficacy of the blood was assumed.

The paradoxical unities which such combinations made possible were so many and profound that, even to Chaplin, the tramp was a mysterious, fully formed being that seemed to have been revealed to him, a character that he would have to spend much of the rest of his career exploring.

Given that the large - scale structure of the universe is dominated by the presence of still mysterious Dark Matter, and that on the smallest scales empty space sustains quantum oscillations whose energy density dwarfs that of all known forms of matter, we should hesitate to imply that the physical and spiritual realms can not be even partially consubstantial.

In this form of fantasy the powers are always mysterious, but by certain rites, incantations or motions they can be drawn upon by humans and used to human ends.

We can not remain mere dualists, for that means giving up the hope of universal explanatory principles; and we can not agree upon the materialistic form of monism, not only because it is an attempt to explain away mind, but also because it leaves «matter» essentially mysterious.

Pentecostals and charismatics tend to overplay Spirit - generated prayer in the form of mysterious language.

I could stare at this set of photos for hours on end, mesmerised and intrigued by the mysterious ingredients and the form...

I could stare at this set of photos for hours on end, mesmerised and intrigued by the mysterious ingredients and the form they take.

I've kept a sketchbook for years now (Art students, I know your teacher always says you should keep one, they're right), I store my ideas in them in the form of drawings, collected ephemera (clippings from magazine, vintage tickets, found photos, single mysterious jigsaw pieces I find on the pavement) and hastily scribbled notes.

Another form of matter, dark matter, exists in a very different and mysterious form, announcing its presence indirectly only through its gravitational effects.

In a sense, the ultimate key question is how the brain conducts the mysterious process by which it absorbs information in the form of lights and colors, sounds, smells and tactile inputs and transforms them into physical actions — ideally behaviors that are appropriate responses to the inputs.

The universe was cold and black — a sea of hydrogen and helium atoms mixed with a mysterious dark form of matter making its presence known only by its gravity.

WHODUNIT Called fairy circles, the mysterious patches of bare soil in the Namib Desert may form thanks to a mix of fighting termites and competing plants, scientists propose.

Dark matter is a mysterious substance composing most of the material universe, now widely thought to be some form of massive exotic particle.

Over the last few billion years, a mysterious kind of «galactic warming» has caused many galaxies to change from a lively place where new stars formed every now and then to a quiet place devoid of fresh young stars.

Back then, all stars needed to form was a primordial soup of mostly hydrogen and some helium atoms, perturbed by the effects of gravity on minuscule differences in the density of the gases, and the mysterious substance known as dark matter.

The results may reveal something profound about how galaxies form — or even about the very nature of the mysterious substance known as dark matter.

Most astronomers think the universe started forming its recognizable structure around clumps of dark matter, the mysterious substance that collectively weighs six times more than all the visible matter and so far has eluded all attempts to detect it directly (ScienceNOW, 13 September).

We know them in their swimming medusa form, but they live as much or more of their lives as a mysterious tiny tube called a polyp, planted on the underside of a rock.

Tests have shown that a new form of hantavirus caused at least 26 deaths in the US this year from a mysterious flu - like illness.

This task is far more complicated than just taking a picture and counting all the bright things out there, because 90 percent of the material in the universe is in the form of mysterious dark matter that does not shine.

The size and spacing of the harmonics indicate that 30 percent of the mass of the universe is made up of mysterious dark matter, and another 65 percent is in the form of dark energy.

The Native American tale of how the canyon formed is apparently an attempt to make sense of mysterious landforms.

Most of this matter is in a mysterious form, the so - called «dark matter.»

Now, a journal has published four of them, forming a condensed guide to what has become a zoo of possible explanations for a mysterious anomaly in the data collected by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

A mysterious cold spot lurked in the southern sky; fluctuations between large areas of the sky were even smaller than expected; and fluctuations at some scales seemed to align along a preferred direction, forming what has been dubbed an «axis of evil».

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In the search for the mysterious dark matter, physicists have used elaborate computer calculations to come up with an outline of the particles of this unknown form of matter.

«Some imaging studies using mouse models of Alzheimer's disease had revealed the presence in these mice's brains of tiny, mysterious black dots that could signal the presence of iron, an element that shows up dark under MRI and, in certain chemical forms, can be highly reactive and inflammation - inducing,» Rutt said.

January 23, 1997 How cells prevent suicide Researchers have shown that a mysterious protein, crucial to the survival of cells throughout the body, is able to form a channel through the internal membranes of cells, and thus may perform the vital function of selectively passing atoms or electrically charged ions between the cell's compartments.

If they existed, axions — one of the candidates for particles of the mysterious dark matter — could interact with the matter forming our world, but they would have to do this to a much, much weaker extent than it has seemed up to now.

Although the analogy is scientifically incorrect and flawed, it is easy to imagine why it originated and continues to persist — these mysterious bodies, formed as a result of a massive star collapsing in on itself, are so dense, that nothing, not even light can escape their gravitational pull.

These forms of energy healing rely as much on the therapist's touch as on a slightly mysterious transmission of energy from practitioner to subject.

The body has been delivered to her by an equally mysterious alien in male form who rides around the Scottish highlands on a motorcycle, cleaning up messes after the abductions but also keeping an eye on his comely partner for any signs of faithlessness to their cruel agenda.

Set on a mighty river in rural Arkansas, Mud tells the story of teenage boys Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone (Jacob Lofland) forming an unlikely bond with a mysterious fugitive called, Mud (Matthew McConaughey).

A disturbed woman is receiving a radical form of psychotherapy at a remote, mysterious institute.

Covered in dark colors and a creepy atmosphere, Twilight Town was the home to a mysterious group of people that quietly inhabited the area in their shadowy forms.

2: The Daddy Issues Mixtape picks up months after the first movie ends and follows three ultimately intertwining threads: The arrival of Peter Quill's mysterious, long - lost father, Ego (played by Kurt Russell), a rift within the Ravagers faction and the rise of a rival leader, Taserface, and a new villain in the form of the gilded Sovereign high priestess, Ayesha (who, mercifully, has no schemes to destroy entire planets.

The movie adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's billion - dollar stage play follows a mysterious ghostly form (Gerald Butler) that haunts a Paris opera house and secretly mentors a beautiful young soprano (Emmy Rossum).

At the stroke of midnight on a mysterious cobbled corner of Paris, self - described «Hollywood hack» screenwriter Gil (Owen Wilson) enters a phantom carriage in the form of a vintage 1920s automobile.