Sentences with phrase «of wimps»

(Yes, I'm a bit of a wimp when it comes to heat in a dish.

He had destroyed his legacy with decade long fourth - placing = Champions ambition and created a whole bunch of wimps who will be keeping the new Manager busy.

It's finally gotten REALLY cold here in New England and I'm being kind of a wimp about it.

STFU already... quit complaining and STOP playing the victim card... wah wah wah, we ARE a nation of wimps.

Go back to Seattle Cy, you're too much of a wimp for NY.

The conventional view is that dark matter is monolithic, made of one type of WIMP with a mass of 100 GeV.

The putative mass of the WIMP particles that CoGeNT possibly has detected ranges from six to 10 billion electron volts, or approximately seven times the mass of a proton.

(CDEX, CDMS, CoGeNT, COUPP and CRESST are just the most notable examples that start with the letter C.) The delicate work of detecting any weak, rare and fleeting interactions of WIMPs with atoms requires isolation and solitude, confining most detectors to caverns, abandoned mines and other outlier subterranean spaces.

So far, I've given this one a miss because I'm kind of a wimp when it comes to horror.

On one hand, their new constraints on the plausible masses and interactions of WIMPs are priming plans for next - generation detectors that could offer better chances of success.

Try to find enough courage to take on the challenge instead of wimping out again.

We are creating generations of wimps.

Whereas physicists are now searching for signs of WIMPs colliding with massive atomic nuclei, researchers would probably have to look for SIMPs smacking into lighter electrons because the bantamweight particles would not pack enough punch to send a nucleus flying.

LUX's lack of detection doesn't mean that dark matter is not made of WIMPs, but it does suggest that dark matter WIMPs can not have a mass or effect on ordinary matter within a certain range.

I'm kind of a wimp about the cold.

I'm sort of a wimp when it comes to chiles, but don't tell Clint I said so.

Even though I'm a bit of a wimp most of the time, other comfort measures can be as effective as drugs.

Schreibman, previously seen as something of a wimp in some quarters, came out swinging (like Joe Biden a week later) against the highly decorated retired paratrooper colonel.

Ben Barnes does a nice job as Caspian, who came off as whiny and a bit of a wimp in the book but comes across as a bit naive but brave here.

Earlier this year, two such instruments in Minnesota reported hints of WIMPs with a mass of between 1 and 10 gigaelectronvolts.

Edward «Rocky» Kolb, a cosmologist now at the University of Chicago who in the 1970s helped to lay the foundation for WIMP hunts, has declared the 2010s «the Decade of the WIMP» but now admits the search hasn't gone as planned.

In 2011, this detector caught whiffs of a WIMP weighing 7 gigaelectronvolts (GeV), but the signal was inconclusive.

No experiment has yet conclusively detected WIMPs, but CDMS has set the most stringent limits of any experiment on the strength of WIMP interactions with ordinary matter.

The infant universe would have produced a huge number of WIMPs as subatomic particles crashed into one another.

The new XENON100 report has found no evidence of WIMPs scattering off electrons.

The world is becoming a world of wimps offended and scared of anything and anyone that they don't agree with or isn't like them.

If these efforts succeed, we can measure the properties of wimps and then play the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis game all over again, this time with dark matter.

The new analysis «has the flavor of the WIMP miracle, which is nice,» says Jonathan Feng, a theorist at UC Irvine who was not involved in the work.

Dark matter is not necessarily composed of WIMPs — theorists have identified a host of other possible dark - matter particles — but they are the leading candidates because their presence would close a loophole in the reigning theory of particle physics, called the standard model.

Incidentally, the same principle applies to the slowdown of WIMPs.

In 1998, scientists at the DAMA experiment buried deep in Italy's Gran Sasso mountain claimed to have bagged dark matter in the form of a WIMP or a weakly interacting massive particle weighing around 10 gigaelectronvolts (GeV).

With classical WIMPs in a bind, theorists have started expanding their descriptions of the particle, creating a sprawling landscape of WIMP - like alternatives.

The trouble is that background noise can prevent usnoticing the impact of a WIMP.

In the absence of WIMPs, the runners - up are axions, which behave more like an all - encompassing field than single particles.

In theory, millions of WIMPs pass through the detector stacks every second.

Even with just a few detection events — «maybe five,» Sadoulet suggests — CDMS should be able to make a lower limit estimate of WIMP mass and get an idea of the interaction rate, giving us a first glimpse at the properties of the cosmic dark stuff.

Some models predict that EGB gamma rays could arise from distant interactions of dark matter particles, such as the annihilation or decay of WIMPs.

While there are lots of WIMP hunters, only one group is seriously looking for axions, the other main dark matter candidate.

After each non-detection, McGaugh says, theorists continually redefine the interaction cross-section of WIMPs to safely undetectable levels.

This removes some of the difficulties with introducing a new dark force while preserving the benefit of a «boost factor» in the rate of WIMP annihilation — via the 15 per cent of self - interacting WIMPs.

If 3C 58 is as close as Kothes thinks, then the 1181 blast was even more of a wimp than astronomers believed.

Therefore, most detectors have been built to detect particles the size of WIMPs, thought to weigh more than 100 times the mass of a proton.

GAPS would search for antideuterons, which are produced in the annihilation of neutralinos, a type of WIMP predicted by supersymmetric theories.

Similarly as Kat's idea of a wimp, Brock literally slumps his shoulders, hands hanging aloof at his sides, his every sentence exuding the cluelessness of a man trying to make sense of the marriage that's crumbling in front of him and a daughter he holds little connection to.

Some diehards, we suspect, will accuse Nissan of wimping out.

It just goes to further reinforce how big of wimps cubicle dwellers in the modern workforce are.

It may breed even wussier gamers and thus make future games easier as developers feel the need to cater to a market of wimps.

Full disclosure, I am somewhat of a wimp when it comes to horror games (I can't handle the stress); however, there was something about my playthroughs of F.E.A.R that compelled me to keep going, even after screaming when something killed me from behind and the ensuing wiping off the embarrassing amount of sweat from my forehead.