Sentences with phrase «subatomic space»

I always felt held in - between the infinite smallness of subatomic space and the infinite largeness of the cosmos.

In this action - loaded arcade game you play the role of Fermi, a particle on a terrific trip through subatomic space.

Spend a little time in Hawking's world and you, too, will be able to sketch the effects of a black hole on the structure of subatomic space.

Not exact matches

Explaining Bohm's work, Timothy Ferris suggests that «the universe began as a hyperdimensional bubble of space, all but four of the dimensions of which compacted to form what we today call subatomic particles.

Matter is no longer an ultimate concept; the hierarchy of macroscopic, molecular, atomic, subatomic levels trails away without hitting rock - bottom until matter dissolves into patterns of energy - concentration, and then perhaps into tensions in space.

Complicated cascades of subatomic reactions in the atmosphere triggered by high - energy cosmic rays from outer space.

These Chandra observations showed that expanding debris from a supernova can accelerate subatomic particles faster than previously thought, and in fact can account for the highest - energy protons that come from outer space and are seen hitting the Earth's upper atmosphere.

Beginning with a subatomic speck of a novel, hard - to - dilute substance, it predicted that this stuff would repeatedly double during a split second to create our big bang and our nearly uniform, flat space.

That didn't mean the branes were voids: Quantum theory asserts that even the total vacuum of empty space is seething with «virtual» subatomic particles that constantly wink in and out of existence.

Solar wind creates a huge magnetic bubble, known as the heliosphere, that protects Earth and the other planets from energetic subatomic particles that constantly zip around in deep space.

When it comes to the highest energy cosmic rays — subatomic particles raining in from space — the sky is lopsided: More come from one direction than the other, according to a new study.

The theory that describes it, general relativity, assumes that space and time are smooth and continuous, whereas the underlying quantum physics that governs subatomic particles and forces is inherently discontinuous and jumpy.

Giorgio Gratta, a physicist at Stanford University, is going fishing for high - energy neutrinos, ghostly subatomic particles that bombard Earth from unknown objects in deep space.

Well, the magnetic field deflects particle storms and cosmic rays from the sun, as well as even more energetic subatomic particles from deep space.

Ulysses» passage over the Sun's far north may also confirm another of last year's discoveries: the finding that cosmic rays — high - energy subatomic particles from deep space — do not seem to penetrate to the Sun's poles easily.

AMONG the hail of subatomic particles hitting the Earth from space are a few monsters: single particles with incredibly high energies of around 1020 electronvolts, 100,000 billion times as much as typical particles emitted through radioactivity.

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

It is so fast that in a fraction of a second a tiny subatomic speck of space is blown to dimensions much greater than the entire currently observable region.

Each second, the AMS will encounter 25,000 cosmic rays — high - speed atomic and subatomic particles (some from the sun, some from deep space), the most energetic of which pack hundreds of times as much energy as anything a scientist can whip up in an Earth - based particle accelerator.

The most energetic particles that strike us from space, which include neutrinos as well as gamma - ray photons and various other bits of subatomic shrapnel, are called cosmic rays.

He believes that cosmic rays — energetic subatomic particles from outer space — help seed cloud - forming water droplets in the lower atmosphere.

The journey of light through space is illuminated in the water and gold dust, moving slowly with convection currents from heated elements beneath the tank, alluding to the similar structure of macro and microworlds: stars in the cosmos and micro-particles in the subatomic scale.

Every once in a while, a cosmic ray — a subatomic particle from outer space — strikes the atmosphere with an energy 10 million times higher than a humanmade particle accelerator has ever achieved.

Cosmic rays are subatomic particles that tear through space.

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.

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.

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

In the everyday macroscopic world we inhabit, the exact position a thing occupies in space can be estimated with remarkable accuracy but, in the subatomic world, this reality begins to unravel, giving way to what's commonly called «quantum weirdness» by befuddled scientists.

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.

Supermassive black holes can be relatively tranquil or they can flare up and drive incredibly powerful jets of subatomic particles deep into intergalactic space; quasars seen in the very early Universe are an extreme example.

For example, Splendor (2001), evokes a sense of glimpsing the cross section of dozens of crushed stones and gems packed tightly together, the universe shortly after the Big Bang, a picture of dark matter moving across time and space, a light - sensitive view of a subatomic world, dozens of different pigments suspended in a translucent material, rivulets of calligraphically inflected color swirling slowly.

To do so, he had to pull the viewer into a world smaller than herself, into a simulacrum of the subatomic, into the visceral, into what he called «articulated space».

They are energetic charged subatomic particles, originating from outer space.