Sentences with phrase «nearly speed of light»

Cover the stairs with mylar and let them sweep from right to left at nearly the speed of light.

Given the dimensions involved (surface to TOA times the speed of light = a few (or possibly tens of) milliseconds) this delay as the energy flows through the system multiple times at nearly the speed of light does not emulate the effects of a thermal insulator which actually slows the velocity (rate of forward progress, distance travelled per unit time, etc.).

Hedge funds can invest in foreign and domestic markets and they can shift billions of dollars a day from one country to another at nearly the speed of light.

There, a particle accelerator will hurl out neutrinos at nearly the speed of light towards the gigantic underground liquid argon tanks in South Dakota.

synchrotron radiation The term given to the high - energy radiation emitted as charged particles, such as electrons, accelerate to nearly the speed of light while traveling in a curved path.

Many of these same objects act as super-powerful particle accelerators to eject «jets» of subatomic particles at nearly the speed of light.

That energy is released in two forms — a burst of gamma - rays and X-rays and an ejection of subatomic particles at nearly the speed of light.

«This emission comes from particles ejected at nearly the speed of light from the surface of the neutron star interacting with the extremely powerful magnetic field,» said Kulkarni.

The charged particles travel at nearly the speed of light, making them very dangerous for any spacecraft.

The 27 - kilometre rings of the LHC will circulate two counter-rotating beams of protons at nearly the speed of light (300,000 kilometres or 186,000 miles per second) while maintaining the protons precisely at the centre of the beam pipe containing them.

From the uranium inside a North Korean nuclear bomb to the gold on your grandfather's watch, heavy elements were likely once produced by two neutron stars smashing into each other at nearly the speed of light.

They release radio energy in a nearly flat spectrum because of the emission of radiation by charged particles moving spirally at nearly the speed of light in a magnetic field enmeshed in the gaseous remnant.

Giant jets of subatomic particles moving at nearly the speed of light have been found coming from thousands of galaxies across the Universe, but always from elliptical galaxies or galaxies in the process of merging — until now.

Traveling through space at nearly the speed of light, theis radiation would bombard a spacecraft and its astronauts.

The black hole shoots jets of particles through the star at nearly the speed of light and astronomers believe they create the gamma - ray bursts.

This phenomenon, called superluminal motion, is not real, but rather is an illusion caused by the fact that the material in the jet is moving at nearly the speed of light almost directly toward the observer.

Before crossing the point of no return (the event horizon), this material generates huge amounts of electromagnetic radiation and, in the case of quasars, blasts out two jets of subatomic particles that travel in opposite directions at nearly the speed of light.

The disk becomes so hot it emits X-rays, and also spits out «jets» of subatomic particles at nearly the speed of light.

Astronomers using a world - wide collection of radio telescopes, including the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), have made a dramatic «movie» of a voracious, superdense neutron star repeatedly spitting out subatomic particles at nearly the speed of light into two narrow jets as it pulls material from a companion star.

Cosmic ray particles travel at nearly the speed of light, which means they have very high energy.

When the NSLS - II is running, electrons traveling at nearly the speed of light and forced by magnets around a circular storage ring will produce energy in the form of light known as synchrotron radiation.

It does this by slamming the nuclei of heavy atoms such as gold into one another at nearly the speed of light.

Traveling at nearly the speed of light, the charged particles produced by the nuclear reactions would fly out of the back end of the craft, propelling it beyond the solar system.

GRBs occur when massive, spinning stars collapse to form black holes and spew out jets of gas at nearly the speed of light.

It could also help shed light on the origin of mysterious ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays, charged particles arriving on Earth at nearly the speed of light.

The radio waves provide evidence that the explosion either produced a jet of particles moving at nearly the speed of light or a «cocoon» of material from the explosion exists and is expanding more slowly.

As some of this matter falls toward the black hole, it heats up and emits synchrotron radiation, which is characteristic of electrons whirling at nearly the speed of light around a magnetic field.

Two beams of protons travelling at nearly the speed of light crashed together on Monday at 1322 GMT inside the ATLAS detector, one of the giant measuring devices the LHC will use to probe shrapnel from the collisions, according to CERN's announcement.

He imagines a train running at nearly the speed of light to ferry time travelers into the future.

In addition to accretion disks, black holes also have winds and incredibly bright jets erupting from them along their rotation axis, shooting out matter and radiation at nearly the speed of light.

To measure antiproton interactions, the scientists fired gold nuclei at each other at nearly the speed of light.

As an alien cosmos came crashing into ours, its outer boundary would look like a wall racing forward at nearly the speed of light; behind that wall would lie a set of physical laws totally different from ours that would wreck everything they touched in our universe.

Ray Jayawardhana: We can't really capture them because they zip right by at nearly the speed of light.

If the electric field within the storm is abnormally strong, large cascades of negatively charged electrons can be accelerated to nearly the speed of light.

With no way in, the now - energized stuff ricochets back into space at nearly the speed of light, forming extended, luminous jets aligned along the black hole's powerful magnetic fields.

Scientists believe that the combination of this metallic hydrogen along with Jupiter's fast rotation — one day on Jupiter is only 10 hours long — generates a powerful magnetic field that surrounds the planet with electrons, protons and ions traveling at nearly the speed of light.

The energy is focused into two jets of particles, travelling in opposite directions at nearly the speed of light.

At the heart of the new machine is a phenomenal 17 - mile circular tunnel where particles will smash together at nearly the speed of light, producing temperatures 100,000 times hotter than the core of the sun.

The effect only works when the mirror is moving through a vacuum at nearly the speed of light — which is almost impossible for everyday mechanical devices.

As the universe expands and cools, tiny bubbles of this new kind of vacuum might appear and spread at nearly the speed of light.

Trying to make physical sense of these abstract conceptual insights, Hamilton discovered that the inner horizon acts as an astonishingly powerful particle accelerator, shooting the ingoing and outgoing beams past each other at nearly the speed of light.

Like the existing facility, LCLS - II will use electrons accelerated to nearly the speed of light to generate beams of extremely bright X-ray laser light.

The shock waves created by a supernova explosion, astronomers theorized, could generate enormous magnetic fields capable of accelerating electrons, protons, and other ions to nearly the speed of light.

The experiments, in which protons traveling at nearly the speed of light collide head - on, can not directly detect the Higgs, because the boson would decay within a fraction of a nanosecond into other particles.

DISCOVER asked David Bodanis — a former Oxford University lecturer, trend consultant for BMW, author of E = mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation, and motormouth who talks at nearly the speed of light — to investigate the pace of innovation these days in America.

Theorists believe the initial explosion powers an expanding spherical shock wave that crashes into the surrounding gas at nearly the speed of light.

When the light plowed through the plasma, its intense electric fields accelerated the electrons to nearly the speed of light.

As material in the disk falls toward the black hole, some of it forms dual jets that blast subatomic particles straight out of the disk in opposite directions at nearly the speed of light.

Explosive geysers of material that shoot away from black holes at nearly the speed of light seem to form more often in galaxies that are the product of two galaxies merging together

Inside an 18 - foot - high, 1,200 - ton particle detector, matter and antimatter moving at nearly the speed of light smash into each other billions of times a second, shattering into subatomic debris that hasn't existed for about 14 billion years.