Sentences with phrase «subatomic particles moving»

Giant jets of subatomic particles moving at nearly the speed of light have been found coming from thousands of galaxies across the Universe, but always from elliptical galaxies or galaxies in the process of merging — until now.

A neutrino walks into a bar...» As reports spread of subatomic particles moving faster than light and potentially travelling through time, such gags were born.

Not exact matches

Inside an 18 - foot - high, 1,200 - ton particle detector, matter and antimatter moving at nearly the speed of light smash into each other billions of times a second, shattering into subatomic debris that hasn't existed for about 14 billion years.

In theory, gravity travels through space in the form of subatomic particles called gravitons, which move at the speed of light.

Long the world's most powerful accelerator, the machine smashes together streams of protons and antiprotons moving at near — light speed so researchers can study the subatomic debris for new particles.

radiation Energy, emitted by a source, that travels through space in waves or as moving subatomic particles.

That is quite a trick, because the expanding gas / plasma moves radially outward, steadily increasing the distances between most of its atomic and subatomic particles.

In stereotactic radiotherapy, stereotactic radiation devices deliver radiation with beams of fast - moving subatomic particles.

It's important to recognize that facts that we now consider obvious — the Earth moves around the Sun, matter consists of invisible subatomic particles, men and women are equal, to name just three — were all considered ridiculous.