Sentences with phrase «nuclear force which»

If the strong nuclear force which glues atomic nuclei together were only a few per cent stronger than it is, stars like the sun would exhaust their hydrogen fuel in less than a second.

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Russia has said it plans to add several subs to its Black Sea fleet, which is a point of focus for Moscow — along with the Northern fleet, which has Russia's sea - based nuclear forces and is based close to NATO territory in Norway.

In the US, for instance, a proposal to force California's two nuclear power plants — which generate 16 percent of the state's electricity — to shut down immediately when the Nuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in Nonuclear power plants — which generate 16 percent of the state's electricity — to shut down immediately when the Nuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in NoNuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in November.

Despite the slogan («Peace Is Our Profession») of the Strategic Air Command of the U.S. Air Force, which has been in charge of strategic nuclear weapons as well as the high altitude bombing of Vietnam, having more and fancier weapons will not make us more safe, and these weapons will not prevent war or save lives.

Thanks to the mechanical devices which we increasingly charge with the burden not only of production but also of calculation, the quantity of unused human energy is growing at a disturbing rate both within us and around us; and this phenomenon will reach its climax in the near future, when nuclear forces have been harnessed to useful work.

To pick an example from the cosmology chapter, if the strong nuclear force, one of the four fundamental forces recognised by modern physics, and which controls amongst other things the burning of the Sun, were slightly larger or slightly smaller, we could not exist.

If our concern is peacemaking — particularly the special urgency given that task by the nuclear threat — then we shall have to come to grips with those portions of the biblical witness in which the community of faith has been forced to deal with the violence and pain of conflict between peoples.

Popper points out that nuclear forces are thus potentialities and become operative only under conditions which are extremely rare, namely tremendous temperatures and pressures.

But I continue to believe, if anything more strongly, in the hidden existence and eventual release of forces of attraction between men which are as powerful in their own way as nuclear energy appears to be, at the other end of the spectrum of complexity.

Our «science» is simply a way for us to explain the world around us... nobody has ever seen a graviton but we know it warps space / time and that it interacts across vast distances but in a much smaller way than the strong nuclear force for example (which again is a made up force on our part to just understand our universe)

And there has been a significant change in recent years that limits even the Legislature's capability of delay — Paterson's «nuclear option,» in which unpalatable policy proposals are placed into extender bills, forcing the Legislature to choose between accepting the governor's ideas and shutting down the government.

The Air Force has announced contracts for nuclear cruise and ground - based missiles, even as some experts call the programs, which Trump has embraced, unnecessary and dangerous.

If Iran acquires a nuclear arsenal, which seems increasingly likely, other regional powers including Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey could be forced to follow suit.

These included a «continuous - at - sea - deterrence - capable» submarine force which could credibly reconstitute the nuclear deterrent if needed.

She argued that the agreement, which Secretary of State John Kerry helped broker, would force Iran to shut down its nuclear program and prevent it from becoming an atomic power.

«But what did they expect running a candidate from Brooklyn whose views on everything from raising taxes, to forcing hardworking families to pay for campaign ads, to giving billions of dollars to Iran to build nuclear weapons with which to threaten Israel are miles outside the political mainstream?

The Cuomo administration estimates the Clean Energy Standard, chiefly its nuclear subsidies, will add an average of $ 2 to residential electric bills, although the Empire Center calculated the standard would hike the average residential bill by more than $ 2.09 in 2018 and by $ 3.40 in 2021 from added supply costs alone; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind turbines.

Prof Chalmers suggests a «CASD - capable» submarine force which could credibly reconstitute the nuclear deterrent if needed, or a «dual - capable» submarine force which could be used either for conventional or deterrent purposes, as alternative options to be considered.

In a recent experiment performed at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory at RIKEN, an international collaboration with scientists from eleven countries, led by scientists of the Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC (Spain) and the RIKEN Nishina Center (Japan), made a very surprising observation: High - energy gamma rays — which are mediated by the electromagnetic force — are emitted in the decay of a certain excited nucleus — tin 133, in competition with neutron emission, the decay mode mediated by the strong nuclear force.

Strings can account for all the known physical forces: gravity, electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces, which cause radioactive decay.

One is the existence of a new force, called technicolour, which would act like an extra strong version of the strong nuclear force, binding quarks together in the nuclei of atoms.

A decade later, physicists devised a theory for the strong nuclear force, which binds protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus.

Or the strong nuclear force, which binds the insides of protons and neutrons.

Such particles are expected to exist according to the theory of the strong nuclear force, which bundles quarks together into larger particles.

The first was that he had insufficient knowledge about nuclear forces, which are essential ingredients of modern unified theories.

It is the intellectual equivalent of a nuclear chain reaction, which might very well be the most powerful force most of us will ever experience.

Subsequent testing has shown that not to be the case, at least in the opinion of many physicists — many highly respected physicists — and so the supporters of the RRW have moved onto other rationales for why we would need these including margin, which is your, I guess, confidence, that a nuclear weapon will explode as it is intended to; it will deliver exactly, say ten kilotons of destructive force or one megaton or whatever the desired explosive force is.

Now these fundamental matter particles interact by means of forces and within quantum mechanics we believe that these forces are mediated by quantum, by particles, and so we have the electromagnetic force mediated by photons which are massless; we have the weak nuclei force mediated by massive particles which are called W and Z and we have the strong nuclear force mediated by massless gluons.

The strong nuclear force and the electrostatic force — which don't encounter each other at human scales — fight over the packed protons and neutrons and drive them into strange configurations, collectively dubbed «nuclear pasta ``.

The Stony Brook team hopes to use its small francium stockpile to study the weak nuclear force, which is responsible for radioactive decay.

First, if a star grows massive enough, its nuclear fires can no longer overcome the crushing force of its gravity, in which case it runs out of fuel and collapses.

Ordinarily protons, which carry the same electric charge, would repel each other, but when they are close enough, those forces become less important than the strong nuclear force, which binds the antiprotons together, just as it does for ordinary protons.

This model describes three types of forces: electromagnetic interactions, which cause all phenomena associated with electric and magnetic fields and the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation; strong interactions, which bind atomic nuclei; and the weak nuclear force, which governs beta decay — a form of natural radioactivity — and hydrogen fusion, the source of the sun's energy.

Landsat 6, which cost $ 220 million, was launched on a refurbished Titan 2 nuclear missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

A second way would be to find a new kind of force, unrelated to either the electromagnetic or nuclear forces known to science, which would provide repulsion on human scales.

One of STEREO's most important tasks will be tracking solar flares and coronal mass ejections, which pack the force of a billion - megaton nuclear bomb and are the most powerful explosions in the solar system.

Then the task force followed with a dozen major recommendations, some of which would order nuclear plant operators to strengthen defenses against extreme flooding or earthquakes when necessary and to harden vents that would carry away explosive hydrogen gas from damaged reactor cores in the two types of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

There are also particles called «bluons,» which transmit the strong nuclear force, which holds the quarks together inside the neutron and proton, which are inside atomic nuclei.

This theory posits a particle made of two «exotic» quarks — which are not currently part of the standard model — held together by a force similar to the strong nuclear force, says co-author Kohsaku Tobioka of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, and Tel - Aviv University.

Britain and the US, with the support of their wartime allies prevented West Germany from developing a nuclear arsenal so its only route to recognition was via a multilateral nuclear force, in which the control of nuclear weapons was shared.

There are several ways to produce them, as predicted by the theoretical framework known as the Standard Model, and the most common one was the first one discovered: a collision in which the strong nuclear force creates a pair consisting of a top quark and its antimatter cousin, the anti-top quark.

The forces between these particles are transmitted, first of all by photons which carry the electromagnetic force, and much heavier particles called W and Z, which transmit a related force, a very closely related force, called the weak nuclear force.

Currently, the hypothetical Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, which are believed to interact with normal matter through gravity and the weak nuclear force, are the leading candidates to explain the composition of dark matter, but what class of particles these WIMPs belong to is not yet known.

The existence of the Higgs boson goes a long way towards confirming the Standard Model of particle physics, which accurately describes three of the four known forces of nature: electromagnetism, strong nuclear force, and weak nuclear force.

Unbeknownst to even NASA, the Air Force had conducted a high - altitude nuclear test, which created a radiation belt around Earth for a bit of time [source: Nelson].

As to the light nuclei — The forces which hold all nuclear particles together are attractive.

The nuclear reactions themselves provide the energy necessary to keep the matter hot; and it is kept from expanding and cooling by the enormous gravitational forces of attraction which hold the sun together and provide a sort of container in which this temperature and pressure can be maintained.

When you're facing the imminent arrival of an asteroid which will hit the Earth with the force of «10,000 nuclear weapons» you're going to have to look at seriously modifying your workout because your usual pilates and hot yoga session just isn't going to cut it.

These replicants are the same in every way to their human counterparts save one thing: they have a bomb in their hearts which has the force of nuclear proportions.

First there's the dark humor which clashes»50s apple - pie Americana with the nuclear apocalypse, casting you as a resident of Vault 101 in the year 2277, forced to search a ravaged Washington DC for your father who is Liam Neeson.