Sentences with phrase «splitting atoms»

Nuclear ramps up and down well in countries with high levels of nuclear, like France, which gets over three - quarters of its electricity from splitting atoms.

Nuclear power plants, however, heat the water using fission reactions, splitting atoms of uranium or plutonium and producing no carbon emissions.

Dubbed the compact fusion reactor (CFR), the device is conceptually safer, cleaner and more powerful than much larger, current nuclear systems that rely on fission, the process of splitting atoms to release energy.

Concrete, pumps, pipes and wiring face a daily load of some combination of high temperatures and pressures, vibration and — unique to nuclear infrastructure — bombardment with the neutrons thrown off by splitting atoms.

Ever since physicists invented particle accelerators, nearly 80 years ago, they have used them for such exotic tasks as splitting atoms, transmuting elements, producing antimatter and creating particles not previously observed in nature.

To get closer to the true, quantum nature of matter, physicist David Pritchard has been splitting atoms down the middle, fiddling with the halves, and then putting them back together.

Even today, when many people have at least a rudimentary understanding of atomic bombs and know that the source of their vast energy is the splitting of atoms, few have any idea what heavy water is or its role in splitting those atoms.

Now scientists have succeeded in splitting the atoms apart.

Clean renewable technologies will take years to reach the scale needed to replace the power we get from splitting atoms.

The next danger to avoid is radioactive fallout, a mixture of fission products (or radioisotopes) that a nuclear explosion creates by splitting atoms.

Then we figured out how to split the atom and even more terrifying questions emerged.

«We did not reach the moon or split the atom or find treatments and cures for countless diseases by under - investing in basic research,» Pritzker said.

C'm on we've split the atom and flown to outer space, we're smarter than that.

Just because man is able to split the atom in half and go to the moon, swim in water when man is made for land (boats), travel faster on land (car, train) than walking, and fly when man naturally does not fly (plane)-- all that is not enough to establish that man has the capacity to understand the evidence of God's existence.

Why should we tolerate bondage to our frail flesh when we can split atoms and destroy cities?

It's like wishing we had never split the Atom so that the world would be a less scary place.

Knowledge of how to split the atom was the inevitable consequence of advances in physics, perhaps, but nuclear weapons were also the product of cultures that had reduced all of nature to a morally neutral technology.

Some of these D - I coaches, occasionally you'll get guys who come in and act like they've been splitting the atom.

«Who split the atom in Cambridge?

Since neutrons traveling through heavy water split atoms more efficiently, less uranium should be needed to achieve a critical mass; that's the minimum amount of uranium required to start a spontaneous chain reaction of atoms splitting in rapid succession.

Graham Farmelo: Well so John Cockcroft, one of the two guys who first artificially split the atom took him to this neutron scattering experiment and Churchill was being briefed by Cockcroft and others.

He wrote that listening to the radio is a leisure activity, and for leisure people read books and listen to music; they don't spend their weekends splitting the atom at the bottom of the garden.

An atom interferometer splits an atom into two waves separated in space.

We're smart enough to get PhD's, split atoms, build silicon microprocessors, and put a man on the moon, yet the vast majority of 1st world individuals can't figure out how to get at least lean & healthy enough to get their doctors off their ass?

I am often seen splitting the atom, leaping moving vehicles in a single bound, and compressing air.

That organism is potentially the greatest breakthrough in weapons research since man split the atom.

Options comes with its own vernacular — covered calls, selling puts, the strike price, iron condors, etc. — and that requires some getting used to, but it's not like learning how to split the atom.

Take Einstein — because of him, how many average Joes are out in their garages right now trying to split the atom, or create a wormhole?!

Captain Atom, for example, can shrink down to the size of an atom or split atoms, the resulting force causing his opponent to be knocked out, but not a nuclear bomb.

Yes, drift2boat... same out come... because OUR FATE WAS SEALED, once we split the atom... and it was on it's way to being sealed before that... when we began to burn fossil fuel for an industrial society.

Not exact matches

They don't take the sugar compound from their placebo, randomly switch out one carbon atom for a hydrogen atom, run a split test, and hope for the best.

The nuclear power plants in use around the world today use fission, or the splitting of heavy atoms such as uranium, to release energy for electricity.

It is like the splitting of the atom.

(see Ex 6:3 in the KJV) And he changed energy into matter, which Albert Einstein established with his famous equation of E = mc2 or the amount of energy released when an atom is split equals the loss of its mass times the speed of light squared.

Yet the capacity to split genes and atoms, and to effect the environment on a new scale and in grave ways, is only one reason human power — and its relation to divine power — has become a theological preoccupation.

And the same is going to be true now as public interest shifts from nuclear physics to molecular biology, from the splitting of atoms to the splicing of genes.

It ought to come as a surprise to no one, therefore, that from the time of the first splitting of the atom down through the destruction of Hiroshima and on to current controversies about nuclear weapons and power plants, Christian people have been involved individually and corporately at every level of the debate, not incidentally but specifically because of their Christian commitment.

Second of all for those of you science people who don't believe a god magically appeared a created everything i pose this question to you... where did the atom that origianlley split and spewed out the everexpanding cosmos come from?

Oh and while you're at it, look up atomic theory, you know the thing that lead to splitting of the atom; but hey that's just a theory right?

And here are the physicists, splitting up the molecule into atoms and now picking away at the atom itself, peering down into the deep abyss in which the constituent elements of all chemical things are the same; yet never a word have they to tell us about where «form» ends and «matter» begins!»

there's really no room for the concept of an independent entity possessed of «will» in a worldview shaped by cause and effect; the only place for «will» to retreat to is the zone of true randomness, of complete uncertainty, which means that truly free will as such must be completely inscrutible [sic]... Statistical laws govern the decay of a block of uranium, but whether or not this atom of uranium chooses to fission in this instant is a completely unpredictable event — fundamentally unpredictable, something which simply can not be known — which is equally good evidence for the proposition that it's God's (or the atom's) will whether it splits or remains whole, as for the proposition that it's random chance.

«The atom he split,» though, «was... not physical but psychic,» for Ockham shattered our concept of the human soul and thereby created a new, atomized vision of the human person and, ultimately, of society.

Such a break from Lib Dem traditional values was this that The Independent's sketchwriter Donald Macintyre called the abandonment of its opposition to nuclear power — «a policy it had held to pretty well since before the atom was split» — a «Clause IV moment!»

How can you split yourself in so many atoms to take care of your basic needs.»

Thanks to the weirdness of quantum theory, that splitting means that each atom in the BEC literally takes both paths at once.

The researchers split pulses from a single fibre laser between two sets of fibres containing atoms of erbium, which amplified the light waves.

This is important because slowly moving neutrons are more efficient at splitting uranium atoms than fast moving neutrons.

When fast neutrons released by the splitting of atoms (that is, nuclear fission) pass through heavy water, interactions with the heavy water molecules cause those neutrons to slow down, or moderate.

Every time an incoming neutron bombards one of the uranium atoms, the atom splits in two, expelling energy and releasing more neutrons, which in turn collide with other atoms and establish a chain reaction.

Using an interferometer, the team split a beam of caesium atoms into two.