Sentences with word «nanosecond»

The proposed Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, or eLISA, is designed to detect gravitational waves produced by the merger of massive black holes, while other groups are looking for evidence of gravitational waves from massive black hole mergers in nanosecond glitches in the precisely timed flashes of millisecond pulsars.

However MD simulations using Cartesian dynamics model is limited by the total simulation time scale being in tens of nanoseconds for large proteins.

And other groups are turning modest - sized optical telescopes to searching for nanosecond flashes from alien lasers.

To make their discovery, Fletcher and colleagues treated a group of individuals with intermediate AMD in one eye with a single session of nanosecond laser treatment.

The final unified theory, in turn, would gratify most physicists» deep belief that the four forces really were equivalent once, in the first nanosecond after the Big Bang.

Or maybe we said «Okay» first, we're not exactly sure, since both happened within nanoseconds of each other.

Under the machine's strong magnetic field, the protons left over from the neutron - stripped deuterium spiral backwards, landing nanoseconds later on a rod of silicon that will run along the centre of the chamber (see diagram).

His hands are so quick he can / should take that extra nanosecond before committing.

They use their piezoceramic properties to change their crystal structure — and therefore their thickness — in a matter of nanoseconds when electrical voltage is applied.

Finally, the researchers melt the surface of the alloy with nanosecond laser pulses, which pulls carbon to the surface.

The paper, «Diamagnetic to ferromagnetic switching in VO2 epitaxial thin films by nanosecond excimer laser treatment,» is published online in Applied Physics Letters.

«The direct observation of how energetic plasma species behave on nanosecond timescales in the Neptune beam will help us to better control the processes that underpin neutralization,» Dedrick said.

OPERA detected neutrinos fired from CERN, about 730 kilometres away in Geneva, Switzerland, and found they arrived 60 nanoseconds earlier than expected, implying they zipped along at one part in 40,000 faster than the speed of light.

This too shall pass... in the form of dung, gas, sands through the hourglass, but Beck and those who make a buck off someone else's fear, faith, lack of fear, lack of faith, etc. will be with us to the last nanosecond of time, because what God in His or Her right omnipotent mind would want to listen to a ponitificating brat like Beck banging his gums in the back seat ad nauseum ad infinitum?

These materials are made up of quantum wires that are between 2 and 3 nanometres wide, and because the width of the wires has an important effect on the time it takes luminescence to decay, wires thinner than 1.5 nanometres will be needed before nanosecond times are possible.

Thus airplane passengers, flying where Earth's pull is weaker, age a few extra nanoseconds each flight.

Those laws govern the something - from - nothing moment of creation that gives rise to our universe, and they also govern eternal inflation, which takes over in the first nanosecond of time.

You're thirty seven, you've got three kids, you've got a big house to pay for, your wife would leave you within nanoseconds if the cashflow ever dried up, and it's been well over over a decade since a cute, random girl in the street looked at you with anything even faintly resembling a sparkle in her eye.

And sometimes when the three of us get together, inspiring discussions occur, hours whiz by like nanoseconds, and in this case, text messages get sent to Rhoda - a.k.a the head Haven Maven.

The neutrinos, generated by an accelerator on the Swiss - French border, were showing up at a detector in Italy 60 nanoseconds sooner than expected.

Materials researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technique that allows them to integrate graphene, graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) onto silicon substrates at room temperature by using nanosecond pulsed laser annealing.

But two years ago, members of the research team found a sort of «loophole» in the law when they devised a new way to push part of the leading edge of a pulse of light a few nanoseconds faster than it would travel normally.

The new tests, completed 6 November, did away with the statistical analysis by splitting each pulse into bunches just 1 - to 2 - nanoseconds long, allowing each neutrino detected at Gran Sasso to be tied to a particular bunch produced at CERN.

There's a perfect nanosecond delay between pushing the shutter button and the image being captured, just enough time to steady the phone to ensure a clean shot.

Researchers have shown they can write information into quantum dot memory in just nanoseconds.

Some oh his passes come at exactly the correct nanosecond.

(Your watch falls about 177 nanoseconds behind on a cross-country flight.)

«It is hoped that this study will provide a basis for the clinical use of the low energy nanosecond laser in those with early stage age - related macular degeneration and that such a treatment will limit the progression of the disease to the advanced, sight - threatening forms,» said Erica L. Fletcher, O.D., Ph.D., FAAO, a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia.

Repeat a famous experiment carried out with atomic clocks and you will age 40 nanoseconds less if you circle the globe eastward, in the direction of Earth's rotation.

A device called the Z machine has led to a new way of triggering controlled fusion with intense nanosecond bursts of x-rays

«The hot electrons gave off their energy after several nanoseconds instead of some hundred femtoseconds.

«It would save precious nanoseconds,» explained Northeastern University assistant professor of physics Swastik Kar.

A light nanosecond — the distance light can travel in a billionth of a second — is about 1 foot (about 30 cm).

We live, my friends, in a world where knowledge is exploding all around us — where trillions of bits of knowledge move in nanoseconds across the World Wide Web.

Blog entries survive for days; newspaper articles forever if they can be preserved and retrieved; radio and television pieces have nanosecond lives and the AGW story changes constantly.

Water molecules typically flow around each other at picosecond speeds, while proteins fold at nanosecond speeds — 1,000 times slower.

Computer simulations at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) helped the researchers visualize what was going on: where the water moved a certain way, the protein folded nanoseconds later, as if the water molecules were nudging the protein into shape.

Highly reactive molecules known as carbenes have gone from unstable intermediates with nanosecond lifetimes to powerful tools in synthetic chemistry.

I have never had a personal blog or spent one nanosecond branding or marketing myself, and I rarely if ever comment on other people's articles or write reviews.

We divided time into nanoseconds based upon certain consistent movements and as long as we remain within the same construct it appears reliable.

But actually measuring those times and distances to the accuracy needed to detect differences of billionths of a second (1 nanosecond = 1 billionth of a second) is no easy task.

The result is conceptually simple: neutrinos travelling from a particle accelerator at CERN in Switzerland arrived 60 nanoseconds too early at a detector in the Gran Sasso cavern in Italy.

A year atop Australia's tallest apartment block will make you 950 nanoseconds older than a bungalow - dweller

By cross-correlating the arrival times of all the different pulses to nanosecond precision across decades, astronomers hope to detect gravitational waves with wavelengths measured in light - months and light - years as their passing periodic ripples distort spacetime around Earth.