«My money is still
on WIMPs.»
This effect can shift the date of the maximum number of collisions by anything from a few days up to several months, depending
on the WIMPs» mass and speed (Physical Review Letters, DOI: 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.112.011301).
Not exact matches
If the
WIMP hypothesis is correct, dark matter particles could be detected through their scattering off atomic nuclei or electrons
on Earth.
Hey — there's a scrum going
on at «If Jesus was a
wimp» — got ta run and read!
(UPDATED) Robert Jeffress referred to Tebow as «
wimping out»
on First Baptist Church of Dallas» grand opening.
But to
wimp out with the «Will jolly, I don't really know for sure because there are all these different views held by different people for different reasons and based
on very different levels of judgment and intelligence, so I don't really know what I personally think about anything.»
And this dish is perfect for me — where I
wimp out
on being vegetarian is ordering fish in restaurants.
I had planned
on going to Cookiebar at lunch one day, but
wimped out because it was so cold out, so I will definetly give these a try to see what I missed.
I'm waaaay too excited about my forthcoming arugula to
wimp out
on this.
I have mentioned a few times
on this blog that embarrassingly I am a bit of a spice
wimp.
On the one hand, I applaud players that go in manfully for 50/50 challenges and despise those that
wimp out however there are those, like Jack Wilshere, who habitually get caught and as a result are injured.
Choosing not to play
on a beautiful day simply because one of 54 holes was considered unplayable gives the impression that the players are
wimps and that the game itself is so precious, so uptight, that it can't be conducted unless it conforms to a set of rules that are often absurd.
Most of todays players, almost everywhere, live either
on Planet
Wimp (eg Walcott) or Planet Who will pay me the most, (eg Ozil).
You often wonder what goes
on in the head of Wenger when he gives interviews and press conferences sometimes... yes, we have come from behind to win the title twice but we did that with group of players who just refuse to lie down and die, unless the present squad populated by nice guys and
wimps who don't need a 2nd invitation to throw in the towel, players who are not in the least ashamed of celebrating mediocrity with silly selfies and garbage sound bites....
They both rank surprisingly well
on this front, though of course there are sadly no recorded stats for «tackles
wimped out of».
On the big night I secretly used scissors to cut the bulb part off of every pacifier in the house (to make sure we didn't
wimp out and give in when it got tough!)
But I have some niggling concerns about JO's War
on Flavored Milk and finally decided I was being a
wimp by remaining silent.
It's one thing for party leadership to
wimp out, but luminaries like Mike Hein, Kevin Cahill, Shayne Gallo and Elliott Auerbach are rarely found
on the sidelines.
Hein was and remains a
wimp and a liar and all the while a perennial smiler — who hides behind the facade of daily press releases which overall amount to very little — and certainly nothing along the lines of political courage
on the entire topic, which he predictably just tries endlessly to milk for pesonal political gain.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday he is once again willing to consider a cap
on for - hire vehicles such as Uber — three years after
wimping out
on the move...
The surprising findings come as physicists wrestle with conflicting results from experiments designed to detect dark matter directly
on Earth (see «The ongoing
WIMP war»).
Most past searches for dark matter particles have focused
on a different candidate particle, known as a weakly interacting massive particle, or
WIMP.
Several experiments are focused
on the search for one likely dark matter candidate: weakly interacting massive particles, or
WIMPs (SN: 11/12/16...
Several experiments are focused
on the search for one likely dark matter candidate: weakly interacting massive particles, or
WIMPs (SN: 11/12/16, p. 14).
On the other, they have ruled out some of the simplest and most cherished
WIMP models, raising fresh fears that the long - postulated particles might be a multidecadal detour in the search for dark matter.
WIMP champions are pinning their hopes
on more sensitive underground detectors that are running or under construction.
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 succes
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 succes
on the plausible masses and interactions of
WIMPs are priming plans for next - generation detectors that could offer better chances of success.
All the experiments rely
on the same principle: detecting
WIMPs on the rare occasions when they collide with an atomic nucleus.
In a paper published in Physical Review D
on March 22, Caputo and her colleagues modeled the dark matter content of the SMC, showing it possessed enough to produce detectable signals for two
WIMP types.
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.
«This information may help us place limits
on how often
WIMP particles collide or decay.»
As
WIMPs stream through the solar system, the sun's gravity bends their trajectories, focusing the streaming particles
on a particular location in Earth's orbit.
As
WIMPs pass through the tank, they should,
on very rare occasions, bump into the nucleus of a xenon atom.
WIMPs are thought to be practically ubiquitous in the universe, but because they interact so rarely with other forms of matter, they generally pass right through Earth and everything
on it without anyone knowing it.
On the other, they have ruled out some of the simplest and most cherished
WIMP models, raising fresh fears that
WIMPs might be a multidecadal detour in the search for dark matter.
Early
on, two teams had spied a telltale anomaly in the subatomic wreckage: an excess of energy from proton collisions that hinted at new physics perhaps produced by
WIMPs (or, to be fair, many additional exotic possibilities).
CDMS - 2, 780 meters below ground in Minnesota's Soudan Underground Laboratory, is
on the lookout for such
WIMPS.
The published results of these studies have set stringent limits
on the mass ranges and interaction rates for many proposed
WIMPs, even eliminating some models.
They homed in
on the weakly interacting massive particle, or
WIMP, a sluggish entity with a mass of around 100 gigaelectronvolts (GeV), or 100 times that of a proton.
WIMPs,
on the other hand, would constitute a radically different form of matter left over from the big bang.
Based
on a number of theoretical studies,
WIMPs were thought to be the likely main constituent of dark matter.
I've seen guys with 6 - pack abs who look like scrawny
wimps when they have a shirt
on.
I am too much of a
wimp to expose large amounts of bare skin directly to the cold and I hate getting shoe bites from close toed shoes
on my bare feet, so going hose-less is not an option.
I've eyed them many times
on the Bauble Bar site but I am a
wimp when it comes to heavy earrings.
I always whine and complain and usually just end up putting
on my coat and gloves because I'm a
wimp when it comes to the cold.
EliteSingles.com boasts of all the
wimps and fancies that users ask for in a dating site that focuses
on bringing together wealthy individuals and their admirers.
Are guys
on this site really such
wimps?
I grew up
on Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Lady and the Tramp (although I always thought Snow White was a
wimp).
Draw parallels, if you will, to the transformation of Sarah Connor from mop - topped
wimp to muscle - bound chick - man in Cameron's «Terminator» movies, and you're
on the right lines.