Sentences with phrase «tiny changes in the distance»

Its instruments will detect incredibly tiny changes in the distance between the cubes caused by gravitational waves.

Should a gravitational wave travel through our planet, a tiny change in distance may be recorded by the interferometer — this represents the minute squeezing and stretching of spacetime that occurs as gravitational waves propagate.

Not exact matches

The landscape changes to prairie as you leave the Badlands, but the tiny points in the distance soon become the Rockies as you backtrack through Calgary and head west to Banff.

Among them: active cruise control to keep vehicles at a safe buffer distance from others at highway speeds; lane - change warning systems that use tiny cameras and sensors to identify lane markings and warn drivers when their vehicles start to stray; and emergency systems that automatically tighten seat belts and apply the brakes when a car is closing in dangerously fast on the vehicle in front of it.