Sentences with phrase «small fraction of a second»

«This happens so quickly — just a small fraction of a second — that what we see can sometimes dominate what we know.»

The fashion is string theory; the fantasy has to do with various cosmological schemes, mainly inflationary cosmology [which suggests that the universe inflated exponentially within a small fraction of a second after the Big Bang].

A computational theory published Feb. 24 in the journal Physical Review Letters demonstrates that any two systems can be made to look alike, even if just for the smallest fraction of a second.

I've used GameStream for years on Nvidia's Shield Portable and first - generation Shield TV, and while the experience is passable overall, it does introduce a small fraction of a second of input lag, even under the best network conditions.

«A timestamp is a sequence of characters or encoded information identifying when a certain event occurred, usually giving date and time of day, sometimes accurate to a small fraction of a second.»

Not exact matches

Essentially, even a small task like cutting off the engines a fraction of a second too late can make the missile go miles off course.

You see this most forcibly if you make the stage very small — a fraction of a second.

At the outset we noted that the nineteen and a half centuries we have covered are only a small fragment of the course of Homo sapiens and even of what we call civilization; when viewed against cosmic time they constitute only a fraction of a second and embrace a small planet which is a mere speck in the vast universe.

Second, the entire dividend is financed by only a small fraction of Alaska's resource wealth.

Within fractions of a second, the structure can snap from its mostly flat conformation to one that can grip a small object and hold it without constant external force.

She traces those anomalies back to a fraction of a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, when our universe was so small that it behaved like a subatomic particle, dominated by quantum physics.

This allowed them to see the small diamonds that form in fractions of a second with a technique called femtosecond X-ray diffraction.

Depending on the mass of the black holes, they could have anywhere from a fraction of a second together (for a black hole the mass of a planet or star) to days or even weeks (for a black hole with the mass of a small galaxy or more).

In early 2010, when physicists announced the creation of the superheavy element ununseptium, even the handful of atoms that were made decayed into smaller ones in a fraction of a second.

Rather, the work of folding is done by much smaller water molecules, which surround proteins and push and pull at them to make them fold a certain way in fractions of a second, like scores of tiny origami artists folding a giant sheet of paper at blazingly fast speeds.

The current experiments use such a small number of photons that it would take a standard laptop a fraction of a second to make the same calculation.

Only a small fraction of those would be exciting enough to warrant a second date, and then I would be faced with the real work of determining compatibility, life goals and values.

Artists have teamed up with engineers to find the right folds for an airbag to be stored in a small space, so that it can be deployed in a fraction of a second.

The system not only generates a precious extra 0.2 to 0.4 g within fractions of a second, it also suppresses understeer by permitting smaller steering angles.

The amount of radiation used is very small, and exposure lasts for a fraction of a second.

For a small fraction more cash, you get everything in the Special Edition, plus badges, bottle opener, collectible coin, in - game vest, and a cool Delsin Jacket game case for your copy of inFAMOUS: Second Son.

It was an almost 90 - minute ride in a small boat to reach Ngamba, and after all that time, you have covered only the smallest fraction of Lake Victoria, the world's second largest lake.

While renewables made up a small fraction of the country's total electricity generation, China was the world's leading producer of hydroelectric power in 2010, and the second - largest producer of electricity from wind power.

Second, Antarctica is a small fraction of Earths 29 % landmass.

But with the right ignition and some compression, say from a small shock wave, hit it with a hammer, say, and you'd get a pretty good explosion along the length of the cord in a fraction of a second.