Sentences with phrase «tiny flash of light»

When a collision happens, a xenon atom will recoil and emit a tiny flash of light, which is detected by LUX's light sensors.

When a low - energy neutrino or antineutrino from a supernova collides with a water molecule in the tank, the resulting light signal is recorded by about 100 of 13,000 photomultipliers, ultrasensitive light - detecting devices that turn a tiny flash of light into a larger recordable burst of electricity.

Analysing the area of the brain that creates these tiny flashes of light could help blind people see.

Tiny flashes of light picked up from the oil appear to be telling physicists that neutrinos have a mass.

They pass muon antineutrinos through the oil and look to see whether tiny flashes of light and gamma radiation are produced when electron antineutrinos interact with protons.

A particle interaction in liquid xenon leads to tiny flashes of light.

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There's little sign of the technology visible to customers, except for black boxes, cameras and a few tiny flashing green lights in the darkened, open ceiling above.

Checking and re-checking throughout the night became exhausting, turning on our flash - light on our phones just to see the tiny rise of her chest or putting our faces up to hers to feel her breath.

In De luce, Grosseteste proposed that the universe began with a flash of light, which pushed everything outwards from a tiny point into a big sphere.

They also flashed lights into their tiny participants» eyes, played them single tones from an mp3 player attached to a pair of speakers and touched their feet gently.

Some of the lights were tiny: The flash of a dinoflagellate is just a tenth of a millionth of a watt and lasts but a tenth of a second.

In De luce, Grosseteste proposed that the concentric universe began with a flash of light, which pushed everything outwards from a tiny point into a big sphere.

The amplifier translates electrical impulses of the brain into flashes of light that shine through the scalp, where they are picked up by a tiny magnetically attached receiver.

Other useful properties of synchrotron light are: - high energy beams to penetrate deeper into matter - small wavelengths permit the studying of tiny features, e.g. bonds in molecules; nanoscale objects - synchrotron beams can be coherent and / or polarised, permitting specific experiments - the synchrotron beam can be made to flash at a very high frequency, giving the light a time structure.

With every movement that we made, the tiny planktons moved around us glowing and bursting with flashes of light.

, a tiny USB flash drive that can be loaded with bitcoin by the first user and passed along, is more of a light hardware wallet than a heavy paper wallet.

Opendime, a tiny USB flash drive that can be loaded with bitcoin by the first user and passed along, is more of a light hardware wallet than a heavy paper wallet.

It has what appears to be a string of white lights along its tiny balcony with each corner flashing.