Sentences with phrase «speed of the light waves»

By scattering light, the material slows down the effective propagation speed of the light waves through the medium.

If we introduce new constants of length and time for weather forecast and economy with base other than speed of light all waves in economy and air will change.

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This is the first time in history they detect what they believe are the theorized Gravitational Waves that are proof of faster than the speed of light expansion of the universe.

In other words, with this discovery of Gravitational Waves for the first time in history, which Albert Einstein theorized about back in 1916, it is a clear indication that the universe had a beginning and expanded at a rate faster than the speed of light, right at that beginning, hence Creation Ex Nihilo.

It also confirms more than any other evidence that the universe had a beginning and expanded at a rate faster than the speed of light within less than a trillion of a trillion of a trillion of a second — less than 10 ^ -35 of a second — of the Big Bang by detecting the miniscule «light polarizations» called B - Modes caused by the Gravitational Waves — which were theorized in 1916 by Albert Einstein in his Theory of General Relativity but never detected before — of the Inflation of the Big Bang which are embedded in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation — CMB or CMBR that was discovered by American scientists back in 1964.

With this discovery of Gravitational Waves for the first time in history, which Albert Einstein theorized about back in 1916, it is a clear indication that the universe had a beginning and expanded at a rate faster than the speed of light, right at that beginning, hence Creation Ex Nihilo.

Also, Einstein felt that light was inherently dynamic; yet at the speed of light you would see a static wave.

The significance of this discovery — existence of Gravitational Waves — in relation to God is that it confirms amongst other evidence that the universe had a «beginning» AND that the universe «expanded at a rate faster than the speed of light, right at the Big Bang.»

This discovery is superior to the current redshift — hence the Doppler Effect — approach of detecting the expansion of the universe, since some scientists speculate that other unknown reasons can cause the redshift while Gravitational Waves are unique to the Inflation of the Universe — expansion at faster than the speed of light at the beginning.

The waves travel through this space at roughly the speed of light.

The latest LIGO signal proves that gravitational waves travel at the speed of light, ruling out a swath of cosmological theories in the process.

Thus, light - sheet systems have become the next wave in live - cell imaging for many scientists interested in high - speed cellular activities, such as the firing of neurons or the flowing of blood cells.

Unlike more familiar kinds of waves, these gravitational ripples don't travel «through» space; they are vibrations of spacetime itself, propagating outward in all directions at the speed of light.

Inflation theory posits that the entire mass of the universe accelerated to many times the speed of light in a fraction of a second and should have set the entire cosmos ringing with gravity waves.

The researchers» calculations show that if gravitational waves are found to travel at the speed of light, this would rule out alternative gravity theories, with no dark energy, in support of Einstein's Cosmological Constant.

The ripples spreading out below the pulsar like waves on a lake show where streams of electrons and positrons, shooting away from the pulsar at nearly the speed of light, begin to bunch up along the pulsar's changing magnetic field.

Theorists believe the initial explosion powers an expanding spherical shock wave that crashes into the surrounding gas at nearly the speed of light.

In the case of Tycho's supernova remnant, astronomers have discovered that a reverse shock wave racing inward at Mach 1000 (1000 times the speed of sound) is heating the remnant and causing it to emit X-ray light.

Emitted in a distant galaxy when multicellular life was just beginning to populate Earth, the waves traveled at the speed of light for more than a billion years to at last wash over our planet last September, taking just seven milliseconds to traverse the distance between LIGO's twin listening stations in Louisiana and Washington State.

About 150 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell devised a set of equations that predicted the existence of electromagnetic waves propagating at the speed of light.

The shock waves created by a supernova explosion, astronomers theorized, could generate enormous magnetic fields capable of accelerating electrons, protons, and other ions to nearly the speed of light.

What's in these waves that are coming across 1.3 billion light years of space at the speed of light?

Our observations of GW150914 did not allow us to put tight constraints on the speed of the gravitational waves, but the time delay between the arrival of the signal at the two LIGO detectors is consistent with them travelling at the speed of light.

Metamaterials can change the speed and direction of the waves in bizarre ways, and researchers have used them to funnel light around objects in the first generation of invisibility cloaks.

It predicts that gravitational waves should travel at the speed of light.

Similarly if a cosmic string gets plucked, oscillations travel along it at very high speed — at the speed of light — and they produce gravitational waves as they travel.

It was based, like much of Einstein's work, on a thought experiment: If you could travel at the speed of light, what would a light wave look like?

In 1928 English physicist Paul Dirac did that with his equation describing an electron in terms of both its wave function (ψ)-- the quantum probability of its being in a particular place — and its mass times the speed of light squared (mc2), a relativistic interpretation of its energy.

The new type of accelerator, known as a laser - plasma accelerator, uses pulses of laser light that blast through a soup of charged particles known as a plasma; the resulting plasma motion, which resemble waves in water, accelerates electrons riding atop the waves to high speeds.

And even if you don't have dark energy, there are regions of the universe that are moving away from us now faster than the speed of light and what happens when that's the case is they carry objects with them like a surfer on a wave and the light from those objects can not reach [us] so eventually the universe will disappear [from] before our eyes in that sense.

Einstein then calculated that a barbell - shaped distribution of mass whirling end - to - end like a baton should radiate ripples in spacetime that zip along at light speed — gravitational waves.

The vibration of strings in that early era should have created ripples in gravity, or gravitational waves, that resonated across the universe at the speed of light.

Instead, the invisible violence of the pair's final moments and ultimate merging was so great that it shook the fabric of reality itself, sending gravitational waves — ripples in spacetime — propagating outward at the speed of light.

But it is possible that gravitons have a slight mass, which would mean that gravitational waves would travel at less than the speed of light.

The observations supported a 25 - year - old conjecture that neutron star mergers produce short gamma - ray bursts, and confirmed that gravitational waves travel at the same speed of light, ruling out some speculative alternatives to Einstein's theory of gravity and general relativity.

Our work highlights that, even in free space, the invariance of the speed of light only applies to plane waves.

Traveling at light - speed, the waves first perturbed LIGO mirrors set up in Hanford, Wash., before passing through a second set of mirrors in Livingston, La., some three milliseconds later.

If, like photons, these particles have no mass, then gravitational waves would travel at the speed of light, matching the prediction of the speed of gravitational waves in classical general relativity.

This spiraling collision was so violent that it shook the fabric of spacetime, sending perturbations — gravitational waves — rippling outward through the cosmos at the speed of light.

So for years, physicists have chased an elusive dream: replacing the physical kilogram with a standard inherent in properties of nature such as the speed of light, the wavelength of photons and the Planck constant (also called h - bar), which links the energy a wave carries with its frequency of oscillation.

In a clever tabletop experiment, the researchers sent a pulse of light through a single optical fiber doped with erbium, a metal that alters the speed at which light waves move through the fiber.

Toward that end, a team of researchers from Duke University and University of Rochester's Institute of Optics recently reported in Science that it successfully transferred encoded information from a laser beam to sound waves and back to light waves, a breakthrough that could speed development of faster optical communication networks.

The planet's shock wave would be pushed in front of it as it orbits at supersonic speeds, and the wave would absorb some of the UV light emitted from the star.

BANG, FLASH Light waves and gravitational waves from a pair of colliding neutron stars reached Earth at almost the same time, ruling out theories about the universe based on predictions that the two kinds of waves might travel at different speeds.

The radio waves provide evidence that the explosion either produced a jet of particles moving at nearly the speed of light or a «cocoon» of material from the explosion exists and is expanding more slowly.

The aftermath of the neutron star collision detected in August included the gravitational waves spotted by LIGO and VIRGO (pale arcs); a near - light - speed jet that produced gamma rays (magenta); expanding debris from a kilonova — an explosion similar to a supernova, but smaller — that produced ultraviolet (violet), optical and infrared (blue - white to red) emission; and X-rays (blue).

The result is ripples in space - time that spread out at the speed of light, just as electromagnetic waves generated by accelerating electric charges spread.

Based on the strengths of those forces he calculated that the waves would travel at the fantastic speed of 310 million meters per second, suspiciously close to the best recent measurements of the speed of light (those measurements ranged from 298 million to 315 million meters per second).

These plasma waves in turn generate strong electric fields that trap electrons and can accelerate them to energy levels on the order of one billion electron volts, which means the electrons are zipping by at around 99.99999 percent the speed of light.

Gravity waves, emitted by black holes that collided far away and in the distant past, are now reaching Earth.29 From their beginning, they orbited their mutual center of gravity, each sending out — at the speed of light — one gravity wave per orbit.