Sentences with phrase «near the speed of light»

To this end, he developed a means of describing the behavior of several interacting quantum particles, such as electrons, moving at near the speed of light.

What is important to know is that they were believed to travel at a speed near the speed of light.

The equation explains how things both very small and very fast — in this case, electrons near the speed of light — behave.

So they're going to near the speed of light by the time it's loud enough to be heard.

Images produced by the Planck satellite have revealed an enormous cloud of electrons traveling near the speed of light in the heart of our Galaxy, the Milky Way.

Lorentz symmetry is the foundation of Einstein's special theory of relativity, which details the physics of observers zipping along near the speed of light.

lionlylamb wrote on December 11, 2012 at 1:41 pm, stating, «Black holes are found to be discharging elements at opposing angles, like sprung leaks of particle atomization being spewed nearing the speed of light.

In thinking about particle and anti-particles, I can envision such a thing being possible at the central core of a black hole giving rise to said jet streams reaching near speed of light velocities.

This past week, on Feb. 26, scientists there succeeded in circulating a beam of electrons moving near the speed of light in the opposite direction.

4 And there is the relativistic motion of objects moving near the speed of light (wavelength shifts red as its, let's say rate of time, diminishes) and this is not dependent on direction as the Doppler effect is.

Isn't it true at speeds nearing the speed of light Newton's laws start to fall apart?

THE protons that smack into Earth's atmosphere at near the speed of light get their energies from exploding stars.

The device is a synchrotron, a circular particle accelerator, and by shooting electrons around its ring near the speed of light, it generates X-rays and ultraviolet rays that are a billion times brighter than the sun.

It makes new particles — most famously the Higgs boson — by hurling protons traveling at near the speed of light toward each other.

The machines can accelerate electrons to near the speed of light using a fraction of the distance required by conventional particle accelerators.

The field heats the disk material to such high temperatures that it creates a fireball of gamma rays and plasma and squirts out bi-polar jets of material near the speed of light along the rotational axis.

[Considering that it's possible -LCB- very, very low chance -RCB- they could hit by a atom traveling near the speed of light, the individuals aren't constrained].

Soon, a sphere of trillions of robot probes would be expanding near the speed of light and colonizing the entire galaxy.

Black holes are found to be discharging elements at opposing angles, like sprung leaks of particle atomization being spewed nearing the speed of light.

And those early anti-atoms, produced at CERN and at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the U.S., were «hot,» zipping along near the speed of light.

They're common in galaxies like the Milky Way because cosmic rays, particles moving near the speed of light, produce gamma rays when they interact with interstellar gas clouds and starlight.

The key insight comes from quantum field theory, which describes charged particles that are relativistic, meaning that they travel at near the speed of light.

Now, let's apply that to my earlier comment: If God is infinite, it is also likely that He can move at or near the speed of light - a power that Man may never possess.

The secular founding fathers of the United States are rolling in their graves at near the speed of light.

RELATIVITY»S effects on time don't just show themselves near the speed of light or close to black holes.

If one end of the tunnel is sped up to near the speed of light, it experiences time differently to the other end.

A pair of dead stars give off bizarre radio signals, which could be the calling card of ultra-dense companions orbiting them at near the speed of light

If you were in a train that neared the speed of light, would you perceive time and space differently?

As a train accelerates to near the speed of light, time on the train will seem to slow down to someone not moving with it, and the train will seem to get shorter and heavier.

Cosmic rays are high - energy particles that travel throughout the galaxy at velocities near the speed of light.

Atom - size, it would be able to travel near the speed of light and land on a distant moon that is stable and full of valuable minerals.

To track down the Higgs, high - energy physicists have built the LHC — a 27 - kilometre ring housed at CERN, the European particle - physics laboratory near Geneva, that accelerates protons to near the speed of light and then smashes them together.

Anthony Readhead of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory at Caltech and colleagues caught two small, hot bursts traveling away from a bright galaxy called J1415 +1320 at near the speed of light.

The U-shaped features in the data appeared when the black hole emitted clumps of matter that sped away at near the speed of light, and passed behind this lens from the perspective of Earth, the team says.

Theory suggests that matter takes on this guise when it is travelling near the speed of light — relativistic speeds — but the effect has not yet been officially observed.

Solar flares take place in the solar corona and chromosphere, heating plasma to tens of millions of kelvins and accelerating the resulting electrons, protons and heavier ions to near the speed of light.

This rate of x-ray flares boosted protons and other particles to near the speed of light, Feigelson says, searing our solar system with a flux of high - energy cosmic rays 100,000 times greater than today.

We seem to be making progress toward building space probes that can travel near the speed of light and reach...

By stark contrast, grand breakthrough discoveries happen when you are, for instance, a penniless patent clerk in Switzerland, daydreaming about elevators moving near the speed of light.

«These are galaxies that host a supermassive black hole, and this black hole — in some way — is able to accelerate particles to near the speed of light and keep them collimated in narrow beams, called jets, which become very bright sources of light when they are pointing toward us.»

Jets of particles are propelled away from black holes at near the speed of light.

The accelerator «pushes protons or ions to near the speed of light,» according to a CERN fact sheet.

Such jets, consisting of subatomic particles moving near the speed of light, are seen in many quasars and active galaxies throughout the universe.

The lasers generate plasmas that shed light on cosmic bursts of subatomic particles that give rise to solar eruptions and solar flares and accelerate cosmic rays to near the speed of light.

Their nuclei emit jets of high - velocity gas (near the speed of light) above and below the galaxy — the jets interact with magnetic fields and emit radio signals.

This ultra-powerful field becomes better organized and forms two outwardly directed funnels along the new black hole's rotational axis, which then creates the two bi-polar jets of particles moving near the speed of light that are detected as a short GRB (NASA news release; Seil Collins, New Scientist, April 13, 2011; and Rezzolla et al, 2011; and more discussion and images from Bruno Giacomazzo's presentation).