Sentences with phrase «subatomic particles traveling»

Experiments using particle colliders allow investigation of the interactions of subatomic particles traveling at very great speeds.

Physicists are gearing up to send a re-engineered science instrument originally designed for lofty balloon flights high in Earth's atmosphere to the International Space Station next week to broaden their knowledge of cosmic rays, subatomic particles traveling on intergalactic routes that could hold the key to unlocking mysteries about supernovas, black holes, pulsars and dark matter.

A CERN result suggesting that subatomic particles travel faster than the speed of light may not be what it seems

Not exact matches

Instead, I could join Hawking on fantastical adventures to the edges of black holes and inside time - traveling spacecraft; shrink down to the infinitesimal scale of subatomic particles; and journey to the birth and eventual death of the universe.

Another idea is that the cosmos contained a new subatomic particle in its early history that traveled close to the speed of light.

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

And unlike many other subatomic particles, neutrinos have no charge, so they travel in a straight line from their source without being deflected by the magnetic fields around stars.

Just months earlier, he had suggested that neutrinos — those ghostly subatomic particles that flit through the Earth as easily as raindrops through a spring sky — might have the ability to travel through time.

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.

SWIFTER than a speeding neutrino they were not, but explanations for the news that subatomic particles apparently travelled faster than light have still arrived remarkably fast.

One of the potentially lethal menaces of space travel comes from being bombarded with energized subatomic particles, expelled from solar flares and events such as supernovas.

Before crossing the point of no return (the event horizon), this material generates huge amounts of electromagnetic radiation and, in the case of quasars, blasts out two jets of subatomic particles that travel in opposite directions at nearly the speed of light.

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

«Kysa Johnson tracks the travel paths of subatomic particles in swirling colored lines — there's no Lonely Planet accompanying her map, either.»