Sentences with phrase «smaller subatomic particles»

Astronomers classify all of this stuff as baryonic matter, and they (and we) know its most fundamental unit as the atom, which itself is composed of even smaller subatomic particles, such as protons, neutrons and electrons.

Protons are essentially accumulations of even smaller subatomic particles called quarks and gluons, which are bound together by interactions known in physics parlance as the strong force.

a very small subatomic particle called NEUTRINOS have rendered radiometric dating useless.

What physicists learn from these collisions may help us understand more about why the physical world works the way it does, from the smallest subatomic particles, to the largest stars.

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Theorists had predicted that neutrinos, nearly massless subatomic particles that barely interact with matter, should be released during the core collapse, and in no small quantity.

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.

Hameroff suggests the most meaningful action happens at the impossibly small quantum level, where subatomic particles like photons and electrons exhibit bizarre behavior.

Our current theory of gravity — Einstein's general theory of relativity — and our current theory of the behavior of atoms and subatomic particles — quantum mechanics — both work fantastically well in their respective domains: general relativity for big things, quantum mechanics for small things.

Astrophysical giants several times the mass of the sun and midget black holes smaller than a subatomic particle could provide glimpses of an extra-dimensional existence.

For decades, physicists thought that the subatomic particles called neutrinos were, in fact, the massless particles that Weyl had predicted — a possibility that was ultimately eliminated by the 1998 discovery that neutrinos do have a small mass.

The latter explains the world of the very small, the microscopic realm of atoms and subatomic particles.

According to the big bang theory, one of the main contenders vying to explain how the universe came to be, all the matter in the cosmos — all of space itself — existed in a form smaller than a subatomic particle.

baryons Subatomic particles made from three smaller units called quarks.