Sentences with phrase «slowly than a light one»

(A heavy atom moves more slowly than a light one, as does one with a small charge, which receives a smaller kick from the electric pulse.)

Not exact matches

The lights slowly turning out one after another, showing the darkness of the decision that they made to murder the thing inside the moon rather than run the risk of what could be.

The scientists chose them as detectors precisely because light moves more slowly in water than it does in air.

Turning off the engine when idling, making sure tires are properly inflated, coasting to red lights rather than slamming on the brakes and slowly accelerating from a stop — all can boost fuel efficiency as evidenced by hypermilers, those who have mastered the art of traveling hundreds of miles on a few gallons of gas.

Short electron pulses are, however, difficult to generate, because electrons carry a charge and move more slowly than the speed of light.

The recent blockbuster Interstellar is based on premises that Einstein made technically plausible, if not (yet) technologically feasible: that by travelling close to the speed of light, or moving in an intense gravitational field such as that of a black hole, we age more slowly than those we leave behind on Earth (see diagram).

Light travels more slowly through the silicone than in the fog, resulting in a conical shock wave trailing behind the head of the pulse.

They placed the cloak in a tank of water tainted with enough white paint to make light diffuse through it more slowly than through the polymer.

Only when we look at galaxies billions of light - years away, collecting the light they emitted billions of years ago, can we see that the most distant galaxies are moving more slowly than we would expect from observations of nearby galaxies, an indication that the universe has since sped up.

Putting force into a light object to move it quickly feels dramatically different than putting force into a heavy object to move it slowly.

I was slowly being consumed rather than being the light and encouragement I know God called me to be.

So if you're reading in the dark, you'll need a brighter light at first than you will after reading for 30 minutes, so the light will slowly turn down over time.

For instance, when you're reading in the dark, you'll need a brighter light at first than you will after reading for 30 minutes, so the front light will slowly lower over time.

Send Wall - E up there with a shovel, and you can just keep reusing the same dust as it falls back down (slowly)... A potential problem, though, is forward scattering — in particular, if the dust cloud is large enough to extend significantly beyond the disk of the sun as seen from Earth, it might «focus» light on the Earth more than block it (of course it doesn't focus light, it would just seem like it from Earth).