Sentences with phrase «than gravity as»

Bees experience forces 30 times greater than gravity as they buzz for pollen — near the limit of human endurance, notes the New York Times in an article about buzz pollination.

At 27 kilometres, he would go supersonic: the first man to exceed the speed of sound with nothing more than gravity as a power source.

Not exact matches

Each weighed more than 180 lbs on Earth, but just one - sixth as much in the moon's weaker gravity field.

«Replay will take on new meaning... as fans watch the games» best players hit towering home runs, make gravity - defying catches or turn acrobatic double plays — all from every conceivable angle, and in more detail than ever before,» Intel Corporation senior vice president Wendell Brooks said in an announcement.

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

Females actually make better wrestlers at that level, as they are generally more flexible and have a lower center of gravity so they can grapple and get out of holds easier than the males of similar weight class.

It's 60 percent larger than Earth, with sunshine, oceans, active volcanoes, twice as much gravity and a 385 - day - long year.

«Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing,»... «Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist.

The secret is: Gravity behaves as a Magnetic Field but instead of a Magnetic Field it behaves as an Energy Field way much more powerfu than Magnetism If we could apply the Maxwell Equations to Gravity we'd have a Beautiful Unified Set of Equations!

It seems to me that if a god wanted all of humanity to worship him he'd just make himself as obvious as gravity, math, or chemistry — all believers USE those facts because they work, but they believe in disparate gods because none work better than any other god..

A belief is something you have come to based on an active search where you you gather evidence and then make a hypothesis changing your view from one of neutral to positive «I believe in gravity after having studied the research that has been done and my personal experience with things falling on my head» which is different than «I disbelieve Leprechauns because there is no evidence one way or the other as to their existence.»

This recipe does call for a spiraliser — I use the Benriner as it allows you to spiralise vertically, working with gravity rather than against it.

Nowhere was the juxtaposition between divertissement and gravity more awkward than at Chelsea Piers, the self - billed «30 - acre sports village» on the West Side waterfront, a six - block - long rec center complete with bowling alley, driving range and rock - climbing walls that serves as one of Manhattan's primary playgrounds.

This is also a very good position to feed babies suffering from excess wind or colic as gravity helps keep the milk they've just swallowed in their stomach rather than coming back up, and helps them release and air they have swallowed

If the voters demanded two incompatible things (like much lower taxes and much higher spending) then no government can deliver both any more than they can define Pi as 3 or abolish the law of gravity.

A Tory majority government could be well beyond Cameron's grasp and the centre of gravity would shift away from the right in a campaign where two progressive parties challenge Cameron's Tories - rather than the two - on - one attack on Labour (on eye - catching issues such as ID cards and Heathrow), which we are currently on course for.

The report outlines a series of first steps, including holding fewer people on bail; expanding diversion programs for drug offenders and those with mental illness; and changing state law to treat some low - level offenses — like fare - beating, marijuana possession in public view, prostitution and possession of so - called gravity knives — as civil rather than criminal matters.

Bizarrely, the supernovae appeared to be farther away from Earth than anybody had anticipated, implying that the cosmos was altogether bigger than astronomers had bargained for, as though gravity's pulling power was somehow being overwhelmed.

Ongoing work includes reworking the calculations of the physics by factoring in smaller influences on a Mars - bound spacecraft than the pull of gravity from Mars itself, such as Jupiter's gravitational pull.

To collapse, dark matter would need a way to lose energy, slowing particles as gravity pulls them into the center of the clump, so they can glom on to one another rather than zipping right through.

As G2 swings closer to the black hole's event horizon — the point past which even light can not escape — gravity has already stretched its leading edge into a ribbon more than 90 billion miles long, pulling it away from the tail, which isn't yet feeling the black hole's full effects.

Titan's atmosphere is far denser than Earth's, its gravity just one - seventh as strong, and its average temperature a chilly — 289 degrees Fahrenheit.

As a result of the thick shell and considerable gravity, Europa's waters are more scientifically interesting as a possible breeding ground for life than a potential commoditAs a result of the thick shell and considerable gravity, Europa's waters are more scientifically interesting as a possible breeding ground for life than a potential commoditas a possible breeding ground for life than a potential commodity.

CENTRIFUGE A device that rotates its contents — in this case, astronauts in training — to subject them to forces stronger than Earth's gravity, such as those experienced during a rocket launch.

Under such low gravity, astronauts find it hard to keep their feet on the ground as they move, making controlling their movement difficult — in other words, walking becomes harder than running.

Stars in galaxies move faster than expected, not because of gravity from invisible matter but from the extra oomph they get as described by Milgrom's law.

In every single galaxy ever studied, the stars and gas move faster than Newton's laws say they should, as if gravity from a hidden mass in or around the galaxy were yanking them along, boosting their speed.

Physicists have calculated that the centre of the Earth is two - and - a-half years younger than its surface, thanks to the effects of gravity as described by general relativity.

As proof, the researchers cite tiny variations in the earth's rotation and gravity field, as well as deflections of continental regions like southern Africanow one kilometer higher than northern AfricAs proof, the researchers cite tiny variations in the earth's rotation and gravity field, as well as deflections of continental regions like southern Africanow one kilometer higher than northern Africas well as deflections of continental regions like southern Africanow one kilometer higher than northern Africas deflections of continental regions like southern Africanow one kilometer higher than northern Africa.

Users «sit» in a saddle connected to their shoes by leglike armatures, and the unit maintains a constant upward force toward the wearer's center of gravity, making it feel as if the user is lighter than he or she actually is.

But, as with the preference for WIMPs over axions and sterile neutrinos, some physicists suspect the widespread distaste for modified gravity is at least partially due to the sociology of scientists rather than the scientific process itself.

The heavy elements, or metals, were surprising because white dwarfs contain about as much mass as the Sun squeezed into bodies the size of the Earth, giving them surface gravities 10,000 times stronger than the Sun's.

But gravity is much weaker than other forces, such as electromagnetism.

Most applications of the theory of gravity depend only on relative values, such as the ratio of the acceleration of the moon to that of an apple, which can be determined with much greater precision than the absolute value of G.

The gravity exerted by the clumps bends the paths of light rays and distorts the images of the galaxies, so rather than appearing as randomly oriented ellipses on the sky, neighboring galaxies align a bit like fish in a school.

Fisher's pen makes up for a lack of gravity by storing ink in a cartridge pressurized with nitrogen at 35 pounds per square inch — more than twice as much force as sea - level atmospheric pressure on Earth.

Oils such as pentane have a low surface tension — 15mN / m — so they sag under gravity and tend to form a flat pool rather than a spherical droplet, meeting the surface at a low angle.

Rather than viewing gravity as a force, Einstein saw it as a warping of space and time itself.

No wonder cynics have dismissed quantum gravity as little more than a parlour game.

Mark Toorock, one of the world's best - known practitioners and the owner of what may be the world's only dedicated parkour training gym, explains, «People who practice parkour see the law of gravity as more of a suggestion than a limitation.»

Stars at the very edges of spiral galaxies, for instance, rotate much faster than can be explained by Newtonian gravity alone; the picture makes sense only if astrophysicists either modify gravity itself or invoke additional gravitational acceleration due to an unknown source of mass such as dark matter.

But if a moon revolves faster than the planet spins — as Phobos does — it moves inward and the planet's gravity tears it to pieces, which smash into the surface below.

In the September Physical Review D, he explains that in certain circumstances Hoava's graviton fluctuates as it interacts with normal matter, making gravity pull a bit more strongly than expected in general relativity.

For Ullrich and Thiel, the direct evidence of a rapid and complete adaptation to zero gravity in less than a minute begs the question as to whether previous cell changes measured after hours or days were also the result of an adaptation process.

In any case, as far as Ullrich is concerned the result of the ISS experiment is good news for manned space flight: «There's hope that our cells are able to cope much better with zero gravity than we previously thought.»

As a result, under such conditions the rainbow effect of quantum gravity could potentially be observed even at energies of particles hundreds of times smaller than the energy of protons in today's LHC.

As it turned out, some bending of light would have been expected even with Newtonian gravity, as Johann von Soldner had calculated (unknown to Einstein) more than a century earlieAs it turned out, some bending of light would have been expected even with Newtonian gravity, as Johann von Soldner had calculated (unknown to Einstein) more than a century earlieas Johann von Soldner had calculated (unknown to Einstein) more than a century earlier.

This planet also releases more heat than it receives from the sun as gravity compresses its mass (and slowly shrinks the planet).

At least some London Underground lines have stations higher than the tracks either side, so that gravity helps to slow the trains» approach and accelerate them as they leave.

It has an orbit that takes the object so far away from the Sun (some 3000 times farther than Earth) that it is likely being influenced by forces of gravity from beyond our Solar System such as other stars and the galactic tide.