Sentences with phrase «tiny ripples»

The unavoidable amplitude fluctuations then give random impulses or «kicks» to the mirrors, and the mirrors» motion generates tiny ripples in spacetime, Pang says.

As the two neutron stars spiraled together 130 million light years away, they generated tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, sensed by enormous gravitational wave detectors on Earth.

By the time the waves from the black - hole merger arrived, they had become tiny ripples, changing the length of the pipes by just 1 part in 1 billion trillion.

But, I can't deny that divorce has a some sort of a ripple effect that transcends the divorcing couple and their immediate family, no matter how tiny a ripple.

Three spacecraft will orbit around the sun and measure tiny ripples in space - time via sensitive lasers.

There are also the ctenophores, or comb jellies, with their eight rows of tiny rippling paddles; cylindrical salps that swim by jet propulsion; and floating snails that catch their food by casting large nets of mucus.

«While graphene intrinsically exhibits tiny ripples in ambient conditions, we created large and tunable crumpled textures in a tailored and scalable fashion.»

Gravitational waves consist of almost unimaginably tiny ripples in the very fabric of four - dimensional space - time that emanate from rapidly moving masses and propagate at the speed of light, in analogy to ripples spreading on the surface of a placid pond.

We've made a teeny tiny ripple which I hope will grow into a bigger ripple over time as people find out about it and help spread the word.

BlackGEM is going to hunt down optical counterparts of sources of gravitational waves — tiny ripples in spacetime generated by colliding black holes and neutron stars and detected for the first time in 2015 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO).

Amid that sea of wasted votes, it's the tiny ripples that make the difference.

Fish may seem to glide effortlessly through the water, but the tiny ripples they leave behind as they wriggle their way along are evidence of a constant give - and - take of energy between the swimmer and its aqueous environment — a momentum exchange that propels the fish forward but is devilishly tricky to quantify because of the continuous nature of a large, ever - flowing body of water.

The event produced gravitational waves, tiny ripples in the fabric of space and time, which LIGO detected as they passed Earth on September 14, 2015.

This event happens as the system emits gravitational radiation, tiny ripples in the fabric of space - time.

The keystone of Einstein's general theory of relativity, gravitational waves are tiny ripples in the fabric of space - time.

Even in empty space, there are flutterings of energy, and sometimes those tiny ripples act in demonstrable ways.

First detected by networks monitoring seismic activity in 1998, the tiny ripples were initially chalked up to the many small earthquakes that occur each day around the world.

Gravitational waves are tiny ripples in space and time itself, set off by cosmic cataclysms such as the merger of two neutrons stars or black holes.

The event produced gravitational waves, tiny ripples in the fabric of space, that LIGO detected on September 14, 2015 as they passed the Earth.

«Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope and, crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.»

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.»

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

A tiny ripple in the paper caused by humidity can render itself like a lunar mountain.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.»

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and those ripples build a current, which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.»