Sentences with phrase «only weak gravity»

Not exact matches

If the clusters contained only the stars and gas we observe, their gravity should be much weaker, leading scientists to assume there is some sort of matter hidden there that we can't see.

Those particles interact only through gravity and the Weak Force!

If any of those laws were adjusted only slightly (such as the law of gravity being slightly stronger or weaker) we could not have the UNIVERSE we currently have, let alone the life we enjoy on this planet.

In 1999 University of Washington physicist Eric Adelberger heard a lecturer offer an intriguing explanation: Perhaps gravity only appears weak, because it operates in additional spatial dimensions beyond length, width, and height.

But because gravity is weak, only the most colossal cosmic events are likely to make waves that we can detect.

Gravity is the weakest of the four fundamental forces, so only the most extreme events — black holes colliding, neutron stars twirling, a supernova erupting — would produce detectable waves.

Generations of physicists have remained stumped by the utter strangeness of gravity: Not only is it the weakest of the four natural forces, but it is also the only one that appears to be directly related to the nature of space and time.

Because gravity is relatively weak, only the most extreme cosmic events — supernovas, spinning neutron stars, colliding black holes — generate waves LIGO can detect.

Neutrinos, electrically neutral particles that sense only gravity and the weak nuclear force, interact so feebly with matter that 100 trillion zip unimpeded through your body every second.

If the planet is only one Earth mass, Jenkins says, any life there might be near its end; the world would be on the verge of a runaway greenhouse effect, with gravity too weak to prevent its life - giving water from boiling off into space due to rising surface temperatures.

They feel only the weak force responsible for radioactive decay and the weaker force of gravity, so they can begin to cluster under the action of gravity earlier than ordinary matter.

In addition to producing gravity, WIMPs would interact with other matter and themselves only through the weak nuclear force.

The observations support our current understanding that the upper atmosphere of Mars, when compared to Venus and Earth, is only tenuously bound by the Red Planet's weak gravity.»