Sentences with phrase «particle zipping around»

Another possibility, appealing to many theorists, is the existence of a new particle, perhaps a fourth neutrino or some other relativistic (moving very rapidly) particle zipping around in the early universe.

It will carry heavy radiation shielding to protect it from the dangerous particles zipping around Jupiter's powerful magnetic field.

Not exact matches

Solar wind creates a huge magnetic bubble, known as the heliosphere, that protects Earth and the other planets from energetic subatomic particles that constantly zip around in deep space.

For the first time, Cristian Armendáriz - Picón and Jayanth Neelakanta of Syracuse University in New York have calculated how fast the particles would zip around randomly in space.

LHC@home What it is: When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) switches on this year, it will be the most powerful particle accelerator ever built — protons will zip around its 27 - kilomter - long tunnel and smash into one another with an energy of 14 teraelectron volts (that is, rather a lot).

Comprising tiny rolled sheets of graphene oxide, these structures can zip around easily through both oil and water, picking up any oil particles they encounter and transporting them as cargo for later release.