Sentences with phrase «own weak gravity»

Each weighed more than 180 lbs on Earth, but just one - sixth as much in the moon's weaker gravity field.

Galaxies with less dark matter than those found to date would have weaker gravity, allowing their stars to spread out more.

When the astronauts go to the comet, they can't land on it due to its weak gravity, so instead they tether themselves to it (I literally cheered when I saw that scene in the theater).

But in the inner disk, warm gas would fight against the planet's weak gravity, so the cold and dense gas of the outer disk is the more likely womb.

But with Titan's weaker gravity, the drops might grow larger and fall more slowly.

Because they are far from Earth's center, they experience weaker gravity than we do on the ground, so their clocks run just a bit faster.

Titan's weaker gravity lets its atmosphere extend far higher than on the Earth, with the stratosphere starting at 40 kilometres and reaching up to a few hundred kilometres.

Five gaping holes, created by giant impacts, dominate one side of Mathilde, and the asteroid is so lightweight, says Bell, that it must be either full of ice (but there's no sign of water) or a loosely packed pile of rocks held together by their own weak gravity.

Because, uniquely, gravity is not yet described by a quantum theory, it's not easy to quantify the problem's size, but one measure is the Planck mass, a quantity that gets bigger the weaker gravity is.

Charon, with its weaker gravity, has lost the substances that can turn to vapour and escape more easily, and is mostly water - ice tainted by ammonia.

The cluster may have originally circled the nearby Small Magellanic Cloud, whose weaker gravity didn't have the same effect.

In the weak gravity, it reached a height of a kilometer and may have flown laterally another kilometer.

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.»

The extreme dryness of the rock and the moon's weak gravity meant tubes a kilometre or more in diameter could remain stable,...

To learn more, researchers in Japan examined cucumber seedlings germinated under the very weak gravity — or microgravity — conditions of the International Space Station.

Researchers in Japan have examined cucumber seedlings germinated under the very weak gravity — or microgravity — conditions of the International Space Station.

Because of this weak gravity they do not have enough force to pull themselves into a round shape.

We know that it exerts some weak gravity on normal matter.

in the midst of all of the terrestrial «noise» such as seismic events, sound waves, random laser fluctuations, and thermal effects of the materials used that can easily overwhelm the very weak gravity wave ripples of spacetime.

Thanks to its weak gravity, if you stepped off one of its nine - mile - high cliffs, you wouldn't reach the ground until half an hour later.

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.

If you don't believe in an afterlife, or God for that matter, well then it's just a function of gravity and weak interfactions so there's nothing to worry about.

gravity, magnetism, the nuclear weak force and the nuclear strong force.

Anti-falling physicists have been theorizing for decades about the «electromagnetic force,» the «weak nuclear force,» the «strong nuclear force,» and so - called «force of gravity and they tilt their findings toward trying to unite them into one force.

The laws of physic requires that there be forces and objects that interact with each other, such as the four forces now known, of gravity, electro - magnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces (and now there is possibly dark energy) that is interwoven within matter.

Gravity is the weakest of the 4 forces, but it is still stronger than any «god» you can conjure up.

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.

to close and we fry, to far and our sun would be dead from old age 6 - of the 3 forces (weak nuclear forces, strong nuclear forces and gravity) scientist are stumped why gravity was not evenly split like the other 2.

Had gravity been to weak nothing would have formed, it would have flown apart.

That Whitehead excludes the weak and strong nuclear forces is understandable — these were not identified until the 1930s — but why is gravity omitted?

I believe that the acceleration due to gravity is proportional to one over the distance squared in weak gravitational fields, because it has been measured literally millions of time and not violated.

Writers of science fiction have field days imagining how universes with stronger and weaker forces of gravity or different ratios of weights of protons and neutrons could lead to forms of intelligent life.

If anything, all subatomic particles follow the same basic laws, whether it is electromagnitism or the strong force, or weak force, or gravity which means they're going to act according to these laws meaning that their movements are predetermined by these basic laws.

Joeseph... Well neither does anybody else, but in the future men will understand the strong force, the weak force and some day gravity.

Gravity = weak force compared to force of the uterine muscle.

Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said: «This is an entirely weak and inadequate response by David Cameron to the gravity of the situation in Birmingham.

But gravity is also one of the universe's four fundamental forces (the others being electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces).

Some researchers believe there must be some cut - off point where classical physics takes over, such as the point where the weak pull of gravity overwhelms other forces (in fact, gravity's effect on neutrons was recently measured).

Here, Earth's gravity is too weak for atmospheric gases to linger, but the absolute emptiness of outer space has not yet quite begun.

That could slam the door on answering mysteries such as why gravity is so weak, or how mysterious dark energy is apparently accelerating our universe's expansion.

Gravity grows weaker as you move away from a planet or star, but it never fades completely.

Gravity is actually a very weak force compared with the others, but because it interacts with everything, it builds up when you have a really massive object.

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.

Why is gravity so pathetically weak compared to other forces?

However, MOND is not widely accepted because it is not clear why gravity's pull should change in weaker fields.

Its results mesh with what physicists know about gravity from Einstein, and when gravity is very weak, it reduces to the behavior Milgrom envisioned in his first MOND papers.

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

Decades in the making, GP - B was launched in April 2004 to sensitively measure two properties of spacetime: the geodetic effect, a 2.8 - centimeter (1.1 - inch) contraction in the circumference of Earth under its own gravity; and frame dragging — the weaker of the two and GP - B's main quarry — in which Earth twists spacetime like a ball rotating in honey.

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