Sentences with phrase «photons for astronomers»
Not exact matches
By the time the astronomers decide which measurement to make — whether to pin down the photon to one definite route or to have it follow both paths simultaneously — the photon could have already journeyed for billions of years, long before life appeared on Earth.
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In doing so, as the CMB photons traveled through this hydrogen gas, it absorbed a particular frequency — so rather than look for a specific emission, astronomers have been looking for a specific type of absorption, or a certain frequency of CMB radiation that was missing.