Sentences with phrase «number of particles»

An important clue emerges from the complex interactions of large numbers of particles.

It may be that the theory, expressed simply, gives rise to huge numbers of particle types.

With decreasing numbers of particles at increasing energies, the cosmic ray spectrum vaguely resembles the profile of a human leg.

And because this approach becomes more accurate for bigger numbers of particles, the researchers hope that their findings take us a key step closer to solving the certification problem.

This would be an equal number of particles at every point on the landscape.

In general, physicists prefer to study processes involving larger numbers of particles, since the added complexity assists in searches for physical effects that aren't described by today's best theories.

Such molecular dynamics simulations lend themselves to being run in parallel on a huge number of particles.

The graphics have had a complete overhaul and the game even managed to get a large number of particle effects outputted on the PS2; this was and is probably the best looking PS2 game ever produced.

While observing a beam of muon neutrinos generated by one of Fermilab's particle accelerators, the MiniBooNE researchers found that an unexpectedly high number of the particles in the low - energy range (below 475 million electron volts) had transformed into electron neutrinos.

Physicists say proton collisions can result in a large number of particles containing strange quarks — findings that challenge current theoretical models.

The practical ability of man to change and even to transmute elements by the separation or addition of a given particle or number of particles demonstrates forcibly enough how law governs the constitution of matter, and how the law of the synthesis of at least non-living matter, contains implicitly also the finalism by which the substance is defined as «this element» with «these fixed properties».

«If you have an abstract model where a certain number of particles are interacting with each other in a certain way, the question is why don't we just sit down at a computer and simulate it that way?»

The RWMAC points out that the UKAEA only began to discover significant numbers of particles on the Dounreay site recently — after the RWMAC had begun to investigate the problem.

21 SOLAR SHUTDOWN Back in the 1970s, when it seemed that the sun was not emitting the expected number of particles known as neutrinos, some solar physicists proposed that our star might go through million - year stretches of reduced activity, during which time its brightness could drop by perhaps 40 percent.

These are subatomic particles such as protons, neutrons, and electrons that have half - integer spins (1/2, 3/2, etc) and atoms comprised of odd numbers of the particles.

THE sheer number of particles in urban air pollution may be the critical factor that pushes up death rates from heart and lung problems when cities are hit by smog, according to Anthony Seaton, professor of environmental and occupational medicine at the University of Aberdeen.

Normally, immune cells in the lungs known as macrophages destroy invaders, but large numbers of particles overwhelm them, says Seaton.

At very high energies, two particles that smash together do not bounce off each other but create a vast number of particles.

This island is predicted by current theory, which says that the protons and neutrons in the nuclei of atoms fall into discrete energy levels or «shells», each of which can hold a maximum number of particles.

«This area of physics deals with the aspects of systems of large number of particles where particular details regarding individual particles become unimportant.

It is possible at high energies, like those generated at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, to end up with a different number of particles than you started with, because the famous equation e = mc2 allows mass to be created from energy when the energy is extremely large.

And by means of symmetries and conservation laws involving the quantum numbers of the particles, we can describe their interactions.

A 2012 report on particulates from gasoline vehicles by the European Joint Research Commission found that gasoline direct injection (GDI) vehicles consistently emit a very high number of particles, with the actual emission levels even approaching those of conventional diesels in some cases.

Moving beyond this initial work meant developing a more complete computational model, one that tracked large numbers of particles as they gathered near a spinning black hole and interacted among themselves.

This entangling procedure can, in principle, operate on larger numbers of particles, opening new perspectives for fundamental tests of quantum theory.

But a software glitch caused the analyser to crash after researchers attempted to reprogram the device to boost the number of particles it could detect.

There's no way theorists can possibly examine all of them; 10500 dwarfs the number of particles in the observable universe!

The measuring system gives the mass of the particulate matter as well as the number of particles emitted per liter of fuel.

The number of particles in the pre-industrial atmosphere is now estimated to be far greater through the additional process than was shown in earlier calculations.

If you add to the number of particles that are being studied, eventually there will be enough particles that they no longer act quantum mechanically and must be identified as classical, just like our everyday world.

Specifically, the team was interested in strong coupling in light - matter interactions where there are a large number of particles that make up the matter.

«The same amount of water coalesces on a much larger number of particles,» Rosenberg says, «and so the drops are smaller.»

There are on the order of at least 10500 different pages now [a number that dwarfs the number of particles in the universe], and when you're faced with a book of that many pages, some people throw up their hands in disgust.

«The number of particles increases dramatically during the simulations,» Arefiev said.

According to Hawking's work, it radiates a large number of particles in all directions with very high energies.

In addition, the RWMAC says there are «a much larger number of particles» contaminating the ground around the top of the shaft.

So when the number of particles coming from the sun changes — usually as a result of its 11 - year activity cycle — it takes years before that's reflected in the amount of neutral atoms shooting back into the solar system.

The number of particles spawned by a collision of two atomic nuclei of gold is larger than what one would get by smashing together the individual particles that make up those nuclei.

They found that the length scale over which softness was correlated was identical to the size of rearrangements, or the number of particles that move when failure occurs.

Computer simulations were created and analyzed to visualize flow patterns through the adjustment of two parameters, the density of the fluid space, dependent on the number of particles or agents in the mixture and the strength of the self - motile agents to propel themselves.

The team ran simulations to gauge the effect of midair collisions on a storm's strength, which they measure as flux, the number of particles passing through a given volume of air in a given amount of time.