Sentences with phrase «scientists created waves»

By vibrating a channel of water, the scientists created waves reminiscent of the frothing vacuum that begets particles and antiparticles.

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If an object is massive enough, it can actually create detectable gravitational waves, or ripples in space - time, which scientists saw for the first time earlier this year.

Secondary waves, or S - waves, pull rocks apart as they undulate through the planet, creating what scientists call shear forces.

But atmospheric scientists know that, like ripples in a pond, tropical weather creates powerful waves in the atmosphere that travel all the way to North America and have major impacts on weather in the U.S.

For the first time, scientists worldwide and at Penn State University have detected both gravitational waves and light shooting toward our planet from one massively powerful event in space — the birth of a new black hole created by the merger of two neutron stars.

A computer simulation of two black holes merging into one created recently by scientists at the University of Texas and the Theoretical Astrophysics Centre in Copenhagen should provide them with a detailed idea of what type of gravity waves to expect.

«Originally, we created these as an educational tool for visualizing concepts and ideas — in place of a blackboard and hand waving — to help people see things they never did before,» says Thomas DeFanti, a research scientist at UC San Diego's California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and a pioneer of virtual reality systems.

She says that Cassini scientists can now look for evidence that the waves, now or in the past, have eroded into the jagged, frozen shorelines and created long, straight beaches — features that have been mostly lacking in Cassini data.

Now scientists from Germany and the United States have created a new type of spiral wave in the lab.

«When scientists designed the mission and the instrumentation on the probes, they looked at the scientific unknowns and said, «This is a great chance to unlock some fundamental knowledge about how particles are accelerated,»» said Nicola J. Fox, deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «With five identical suites of instruments on board twin spacecraft — each with a broad range of particle and field and wave detection — we have the best platform ever created to better understand this critical region of space above Earth.»

With a single chirp, scientists confirmed the existence of gravitational waves created by the collision of two black holes.

Now, a pair of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich have proposed the first solution to such subatomic stoppage: a novel way to create a more robust electron wave by binding together the electron's direction of movement and its spin.

For the first time, scientists have imaged thunder, visually capturing the sound waves created by artificially triggered lightning.

For instance, the computer model produced both the «shock waves» of congestion that travel backwards down motorways and create traffic jams where there is no obvious obstruction («When shock waves hit traffic», New Scientist, 25 June 1994), and the «slow fast - lane» effect, in which so many drivers move into the overtaking lane in frustration at the middle lane's lower speed that the middle lane becomes the fastest - moving.

«To make this fantastic milestone possible took a global collaboration of scientists — laser and suspension technology developed for our GEO600 detector was used to help make Advanced LIGO the most sophisticated gravitational wave detector ever created,» says Sheila Rowan, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Glasgow.

The ability to detect these waves, created by violent cosmic collisions, excites scientists because it provides a new way to observe the universe, to «hear» a previously undetectable soundtrack of the cosmos.

«Any noise in the system — pressure created by solar radiation, thermal, magnetic and gravitational effects — could perturb the gravitational wave,» ESA project scientist Paul McNamara explained via a Skype call last week.