Sentences with phrase «than electrons»

One interesting thing about this particle is that it would only be about 30 times heavier than an electron, which is extraordinarily light by today's physics standards.

As atoms are much larger than electrons, they are much easier to observe.

«A spin wave travels at a slower rate than an electron wave,» he notes.

These are bigger and easier to control than electrons themselves, so are ideal for experiments that yield new insights.

The neutrons interact with the nuclei rather than the electrons in the skull, as X-rays do, and thus have different elemental sensitivity.

«At high pressure, the electrons in nickel tend to scatter much more than the electrons in iron.

Such «evaporation» produces fewer antiprotons than electron cooling alone, so it is still not clear whether it is the best way to produce antihydrogen for study.

This shift is sensitive to the proton's radius, and muons — which some 200 times more massive than electrons — make it millions of times easier to measure.

«This quantum bit is more versatile and more long - lived than the electron alone, and will allow us to build more reliable quantum computers.»

There was a time when science held that the earth was flat, that women only needed to incubate a baby which was implanted by men, that women were less capable than men, that there was nothing smaller than an electron.

And he does say that atoms and molecules are «organisms» of a higher type than electrons (ibid) Furthermore, he refers to molecules as enduring objects, and he speaks of molecular as well as of electronic and protonic actual occasions (PR 114, 123, 124, 139, 141).

As these neutrinos pass through the planet, they interact with atoms, creating muons — positive or negative particles with a mass much greater than an electron's.

Dubbing these pseudo-relativistic particles «massless Dirac fermions,» the researchers also proved that they travel far faster than electrons in other semiconductors.

Silicon photonics, in which light rather than electrons carry information, could be involved in future chips.

Neutrons can be packed much closer together than electrons so even though a neutron star is more massive than a white dwarf, it is only about the size of a city.

When the sample was hit with electricity, an electron preferably occupied one of the two layers, and exhibited much greater «pseudospin» magnetism than electrons in typical semiconductors.

The particles in question are called Muons, and they're like relatives of electrons if electrons really let themselves go; a muon has about 200 times more mass than an electron.

The metamaterial represented a new method to manipulate light and was an important step forward for integrated photonic circuits, which use light rather than electrons to perform a wide variety of functions.

Such a chip needs no moving parts larger than an electron to read and write bits, boosting speed and reliability, Stuart Parkin, an IBM fellow and manager of IBM Research — Almaden's Magnetoelectronics Group, wrote in the June 2009 Scientific American article «Data in the Fast Lanes of Racetrack Memory.»

Unlike conventional transistors, thermal transistors would not require the use of silicon, are based on phonons rather than electrons and might make use of the large amount of waste heat that is already generated in most practical electronics, said Chen.

Now a transistor that controls the flow of atoms, rather than electrons, could be used as a model to probe the mysterious electrical property of superconductivity.

Using circuits that control photons rather than electrons, individual components can be made far smaller and support immense information bandwidths.

The reason is that the three neutrinos are partnered by the electron, muon and tau particle, with the tau being very much heavier than the muon, and the muon very much heavier than the electron.

Photons are faster and cooler than electrons, but no one has been able to bend useful frequencies of light around the tight corners needed to navigate the million turns on a computer chip the size of a postage stamp.

«A muon is a cousin of the electron, a couple of hundred times heavier than the electron — they penetrate hundreds of meters of rock,» Melott said.

«The very idea of using protons rather than electrons to move charge encounters intuitive resistance,» says John Roberts, an electrical engineer at Cambridge University in the U.K. «People know how to control electrons.

Specifically, Nambu's work describes how these fundamental forces can be so different, and how elementary particles, including the particles that mediate those forces, can have such disparate masses — according to the Nobel committee, the top quark is more than 300,000 times heavier than the electron, whereas the photon has no mass at all.

Why are protons 2,000 times heavier than electrons, yet their charges are simply equal and opposite?

Muons are about 200 times heavier than electrons, making them more sensitive to the proton's size.

Materials chemists have been trying for years to make a new type of battery that can store solar or other light - sourced energy in chemical bonds rather than electrons, one that will release the energy on demand as heat instead of electricity — addressing the need for long - term, stable, efficient storage of solar power.

Johnson hoped the numbers could tell them something about how the individual particles — in this case, insurgents rather than electrons — functioned when put together in large groups.

In particular, their theory involves dark matter particles which are extremely light — almost one hundred times lighter than electrons, in stark contrast to many conventional models that involve very heavy dark matter particles instead.

AMHERST, Mass. — Materials chemists have been trying for years to make a new type of battery that can store solar or other light - sourced energy in chemical bonds rather than electrons, one that will release the energy on demand as heat instead of electricity — addressing the need for long - term, stable, efficient storage of solar power.