Sentences with phrase «tiny photons of light»

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All an evolutionary storyteller has to do is to start with the apparently simplest version, ignore the neural equipment that has to be present for an organism to make any use of a «photon receptor,» and spin a charming tale about how a tiny primitive light - sensing cell might grow up to be a full - fledged eye.

Photons make up light — and the fact that scientists regularly entangle these tiny packets of energy raised the possibility that humans might actually be able to observe this effect.

In five minutes, the scope collected a mere 11 photons of light from the glow — tiny but enough for Swift's sensitive instruments to track the detonation with accuracy.

Light consists of tiny indivisible portions, the photons.

When sunlight shines on a solar panel, photons — tiny packets of light energy — bombard the panel's surface like a barrage of bullets and get absorbed.

Because photons impart momentum, physicists were able to demonstrate the potential of light to supply a tiny wing's lift.

The actual wavelengths / photons / particles of visible light are really tiny — all high energy signifies here is that the waves are closer together and smaller in height, they are so because travelling at the same speed as longer waves they have to be considerably smaller, and end up being microscopic like near infrared and visible is even smaller, thermal infrared can be the size of a finger nail.

Who knew that a photon travelling at the speed of light, carrying a tiny bit of energy with it, and having charactersitics identical to other photons save for direction, would know if that packet of energy is allowed to do work or not?