Sentences with phrase «small beams of»

But I'm seeing (and hopefully not being too optimistic here) a small beam of reason beginning to shine through the cloudy chaos drummed up by the noise machine.

Not exact matches

With fewer than 20 employees, Miller Value Partners is a small fraction of what Miller once ruled at Legg Mason, but he beams with pride as he shows a visitor the view of Baltimore's skyline from one window.

3Why do you stare from without at the very small particle that is in your brother's eye but do not become aware of and consider the beam of timber that is in your own eye?

Now, having seen the beaming smile and buddy - movie embrace of David Cameron and Nick Clegg on the doorstep of No 10, a new, mischievous thought dawns: maybe a Con - Lib Dem coalition is precisely what Cameron, and a small circle around him, wanted all along.

Dr Sarri explains: «We thought that the best way to work out how gamma ray bursts are produced would be to mimic them in small - scale reproductions in the laboratory — reproducing a little source of these beams and look at how they evolve when left on their own.

The particle simulations show the best beam quality that can be expected at the extreme «accelerating gradient» — or rate of energy input — of up to 1.13 GV / m, while causing only a very small deterioration in quality of 3.6 %.

This small light packs in a lot of features, including high, low, and medium beam settings, an «SOS» flashing white light, a red flashing light, and a steady red beam.

The smallest cough or twitch can undermine the precision; moving even a centimeter can undo weeks of a radiation oncologist's preparations and calculations, dispatching the beam in the wrong direction.

A cantilevered beam is anchored at only one end; a fractal is a shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a smaller, though sometimes not exact, copy of the larger structure.

Unlike other techniques that depend on the ability to calculate the nuclear structure from the original data, which works best for small molecules, we only need to know the properties of our electron beam and experimental setup.»

Such beams could provide new ways of manipulating matter on small scales.

An optical lens can deflect a light beam into a much smaller area of space; a time lens deflects a section of a light beam into a smaller chunk of time.

The gold particles on the plate act as nano - optics and make it possible to focus a beam of light below the diffraction limit so as to precisely measure something that is very small — right down to 20 nanometres.

To do so they made the atoms in the sample vibrate by shining a laser beam through a small hole in the photodetector, which was placed right on top of the sample.

The researchers focused the smaller laser beams through the cloud of ultracold atoms and found that each beam's focus — the point at which the beam's intensity was highest — attracted a single atom, essentially picking it out from the cloud and holding it in place.

They then directed a second laser beam through an instrument that splits the laser beam into many smaller beams, the number and angle of which depend on the radio frequency applied to the deflector.

As you head to the kitchen for your coffee, pause for a moment and contemplate the smoke detector operating silently overhead, a small quantity of the radioactive substance americium - 241 pouring out energy to create a thin beam of charged particles.

What they call «optical molasses» slows atoms to a crawl by focusing three pairs of laser beams on a small volume of space that also contains a magnetic field.

«We could make a very small version of SPS - Alpha and slightly modify the transmitter before launch to send radio signals rather than a microwave beam.

A beam of electrons fired at a lump of lead makes small particles of lead evaporate and recondense elsewhere in the chamber.

But the manipulation and mounting of crystals in the beam has traditionally been done by hand under a microscope with small needle - like cryoloops.

A device for precisely positioning small objects using acoustic waves has now been used to position fragile protein crystals a few micrometers or less in size in the path of a crystallography X-ray beam.

After being hit with laser beams, a small plastic pellet (sunlike object) emits x-rays, some of which bombard a pellet of silicon (blue and purple).

The laser beam the groups have dreamed up could drag an object the size of only a grain of salt or smaller, but experts say it could provide a new tool for manipulating tiny objects such as cells.

It uses a laser beam to excite molecules to glow, and a second beam to cancel out all fluorescence except that in a small nanometer - scale (billionths of a meter) volume.

By using as sources supersonic jets of hydrogen or helium containing small concentrations of heavier molecules we have been able to obtain molecular beams with kinetic energies of the heavy molecules well into the range above I electron volt.

DARPA is looking at more efficient technologies, like fiber lasers and liquid lasers, which could lead to smaller, more compact devices, while the Navy is researching a Free Electron Laser, an experimental technology that uses high - speed electrons to generate an extremely powerful focused beam of radiation.

Researchers placed a speck of iron between two small conical diamonds and applied laser - beam heat and 200 gigapascals of pressure.

To peer inside the kerogen, they used small - angle neutron scattering, shooting a beam of subatomic neutrons through a substance and collecting information on the neutrons» behavior to determine the properties of the pores.

Now, a team of engineers has come one step closer to the ideal by exploiting the phenomenon of photophoresis, in which small, airborne particles can be manipulated with an intense beam of light.

«But a linear collider gives you only one shot, and to get decent data, you have to squeeze the beam down to an incredibly small size so the probability of a collision between an electron and positron becomes high.»

Although SIM and other superresolution techniques are pushing to spatial resolutions as high as 20 nanometers, they do not have the field of view of a technique like Bessel beam microscopy; they can only see a very small area, and imaging a larger area with those techniques takes a long time.

The signal the researchers are trying to detect is very small so it must be amplified by spatially overlapping a reference laser beam that doesn't contain the signal of interest, which is a process called heterodyne amplification.

To steer the beam it relies on wave interactions among signals from a multitude of small antenna elements

Specifically, they measured hydrogen and its isotope, deuterium (hydrogen with an extra neutron in its nucleus) with ion microprobes, which use a focused beam of ions to sputter ions from a small rock sample into a mass spectrometer.

But by squeezing the light into a smaller beam, more dots, or bits of information, can be stored.

By achieving this goal, the cold - atom clock could also match the performance of commercial cesium - beam atomic clocks, common laboratory instruments, but in a smaller package.

The accelerator produces a small, intensely concentrated beam of electrons called a pencil beam.

The actuator — comprising soft rubber or «elastomeric» beams — is filled with small, hollow chambers of air like a honeycomb.

To avoid those problems, critics have noted that small black holes could appear very bright in x-rays by channeling all of their energy into narrow beams.

Laser - powered fusion, sometimes called inertial confinement fusion, is produced by focusing an array of powerful laser beams on a small pellet of hydrogen fuel.

The great advantage of using a single beam is that it can be used as an optical tweezers to manipulate small particles.

To measure this frequency, fountain clocks toss small clouds of slow - moving cesium atoms a few feet high, much like a pulsed fountain, and measure their oscillations as they pass up, and then down, through a microwave beam.

Ideas abounded: using ion engines to ferry up the components of a moon base; beaming power to robotic rovers on the Martian moon Phobos; attaching high - power Hall effect thrusters to the International Space Station (ISS) and putting it on a Mars cycler orbit; preplacing chemical rocket boosters along an interplanetary trajectory in advance so astronauts could pick them up along the way; using exploration pods like those in 2001: A Space Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space station.

One of the most promising methods is laser vibrometry, which involves bouncing a laser beam off the rock to measure very small movements.

Next year, SuperKEKB will accelerate the two beams simultaneously, compress them into a smaller area than any other accelerator on Earth, then smash them together to produce copious quantities of B mesons and tau leptons — heavy particles whose decays can reveal new physics.

So far, Davidson has experimented with small arrays of gold nano - spirals on a glass substrate made using scanning electron - beam lithography.

This tight synchronization of the beams at different energies implies that the bright radiation observed in the multi-wavelength spectrum is produced altogether in a rather small region.

With much shorter wavelengths than photons of visible light, electron beams can be used to observe objects hundreds of times smaller than those that can be resolved with an optical microscope.

Trained as a quantum mechanic, Gerry was lured to the SETI Institute by the intriguing possibilities of using the multiple antennas of the Allen Telescope Array to generate images of the sky with thousands of beams smaller than any single antenna could produce.