Sentences with phrase «powerful light beams»

The function performed by the imagined structures is to move alien vehicles using light sails, in which powerful light beams propel a reflective surface in the vacuum of space.

A powerful light beam moved toward us.

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Accion Systems is developing revolutionary ion beam propulsion technologies for satellites, that are light, powerful, and affordable.

Three T6 LEDs provide a powerful beam of light that can reach up to 300 feet in total darkness.

Devices like this superconducting radio frequency cavity accelerate electron beams in the world's most powerful particle colliders and X-ray sources to nearly the speed of light.

As they fall deeper into the dark between the stars, the light sails would attempt to transmit their precious findings back to Earth using laser beams no more powerful than the signal from a typical cell phone.

In addition, two Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) systems use powerful laser beams to observe the distance to satellites that reflect the laser light.

The world's most powerful x-ray laser, known as the Linac Coherent Light Source, sits at the end of a linear particle accelerator and converts the particle beam into an x-ray beam.

Trying to make physical sense of these abstract conceptual insights, Hamilton discovered that the inner horizon acts as an astonishingly powerful particle accelerator, shooting the ingoing and outgoing beams past each other at nearly the speed of light.

When I was a student at the Bronx High School of Science in New York City, our principal, Dr. Morris Meister, had an image for scientific endeavor and the enlightenment it brings: «Think of science as a powerful searchlight continuously widening its beam and bringing more of the universe into the light,» he said.

The University of Portsmouth and NREL collaborated with scientists at the Diamond Light Source in the United Kingdom, a synchrotron that uses intense beams of X-rays 10 billion times brighter than the sun to act as a microscope powerful enough to see individual atoms.

The researchers shined a very powerful X-ray beam — using a particle accelerator at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — onto the surface of the material then monitored the electrons as they were knocked out of the interior.

Unlike synchrotron light sources, which may have dozens of X-ray beamlines and many experiments going on simultaneously, the current version of LCLS has just one powerful beam, a billion times brighter than any available before, whose pulses arrive up to 120 times per second.

As they rotate, an outside observer with an X-ray telescope, situated at the right angle, would see flashes of powerful light as the beam swept periodically across the observer's field of view, like a lighthouse beacon.

But with our most powerful technology, she says, we could theoretically pack all the internet's contents into a message sent tens of thousands of light - years away through a laser beam — which means another civilization could do the same

Pulsars, those spinning, superdense neutron stars that send powerful lighthouse beams of radio waves and light flashing through the Universe, have been lying about their ages.

Pulsars, those spinning, superdense neutron stars that send powerful «lighthouse beams» of radio waves and light flashing through the Universe, have been «lying about their ages,» leading astronomers, and possibly particle physicists, to erroneous conclusions for the past 30 years, according to researchers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope.

With 16 LED bulbs providing powerful, natural light for enhanced luminosity, the beams, which adjust to follow the bends in the road, shimmer beneath crystal clear lenses that pull back deeply into the front fenders.

A laser is a device that produces an extremely powerful and concentrated beam of light.

A laser is a device that produces a powerful beam of light.

Defeat him in a similar tactic as before, but do not rely on the light beam as much because this cause the King to use a powerful attack.

He is armed with the Blaster Goggles that fire powerful beams of light known as the Pheromone Shot, while Patako and Ekoro help him traverse this virtual world with their Doki Doki Mode and Angelic Guidance abilities.

In one room, it consists of a black super-directional parabolic loudspeaker that projects a pure wave of sound into the white space; in the other room, a powerful searchlight projects a beam of white light into the black space.

The former equips light poles and other «street furniture» with powerful antennas designed to cloak an entire city in WiFi, while the latter is designed to beam this signal for increased coverage.

Bulbs diffuse their light in every direction, like audio, but a flashlight directs a more powerful beam in a more focused channel.