Sentences with phrase «tiny scale»

To properly describe these extreme objects, physicists need a more profound theory that can deal with strong gravity on tiny scales — a quantum theory of gravity.

Same thing goes for time at tiny scales and where there is enormous gravity (warped spacetime).

Tiny scales in ancient lagoon may be the first fossil evidence of the moth - butterfly line.

Although this is not the first nanonecklace ever made, the new process provides a more general and controllable way of synthesizing such nanomaterials — a useful development, because manipulating materials on such tiny scales is a challenge.

Tiny scales along the animals» bodies improve the efficiency of their movements through water.

According to Dr. Mills, such substances include cigarette smoke, dust and mold in homes, and human dander — tiny scales from hair and skin that become part of the environment.

Plus a fully operational toy bulldozer and tiny scale models of cunningly crafted blighted neighborhoods.

On extremely tiny scales, far smaller than an atom, all matter and all forces may consist of vibrating strings of energy.

As the size of devices shrinks further, fewer and fewer electrons can fit, making flash and similar memories less stable at very tiny scales.

Our work on tiny scale insects just adds to a growing body of evidence that there are probably far more species in the world than conventional methods have recognized.»

The integrated HPCAT facility has established four operating beamlines in nine hutches An array of novel X-ray diffraction — imaging at tiny scales — and spectroscopic techniques to reveal chemistry, has been integrated with high pressure and extreme temperature instrumentation.

Some of these properties are so short - lived and occur at such tiny scales that they remain shrouded in mystery.

Chemistry controlled on tiniest scale can create hollow nanoparticles.

Tiny scales along the animals» bodies improve the efficiency of their movements through water.

Despite this virtually inconceivable vastness, to say that our universe is all there is in reality may be another example of our limited imagination due to our fleeting lives, tiny scale and desperate ignorance.

To get to the big picture of the whole universe, these theories have to consider what is known about particles on the tiniest scale.

«They took what I was doing on a tiny scale and blew it up and kept the quality very high.

: An Epic Tale on a Tiny Scale!

Make real nano - particles and explore physics on a tiny scale.

«It's the tiniest scale imaginable,» Hameroff says.

The ability to probe such exquisite physical phenomena at these tiny scales is why ORNL purchased the HERMES.»

CAN the way the universe behaves at the tiniest scales be recreated in the lab?

Theoretically, you could pattern metamaterials at that tiny scale using specialized methods like focused beams of charged atoms, but such materials would be difficult to mass - produce.

At this tiny scale — called the Planck scale gravity, which is usually much weaker than the other fundamental forces, becomes very powerful.

Click through the images to see them all Da Vinci surgical system This robot translates a surgeon's movements down to a tiny scale to allow minimally invasive procedures, such as heart valve repair.

The device serves as an on / off switch on the tiniest scale and could play an important role in quantum computing.

This effect is typical with light - scattering structures like the tiny scales that cover the insect's wings.

Up close, the spots mimic the Canyonlands» topography on a tiny scale: Centimeter - tall towers rise above a network of valleys.

Now, one team of researchers has solved the problem on a tiny scale, with a program that lets microscopes automatically track objects invisible to the human eye.

They also don't feel a powerful force that operates on tiny scales, known simply as the strong force, which binds protons and neutrons together in an atom's nucleus.

Catherine Carr, a neuroscientist at the University of Maryland, College Park, agrees that the study is «very exciting» — particularly because the katydids have overcome the problem of impedance matching «on such a tiny scale.»

This deposit is famous for its intricate fossil preservation, and the moth specimen was so exquisite that Yale University paleontologist Maria McNamara and colleagues were able to zoom in on the insect's wings to detect the fine details of tiny scales.

Nearly all the theories predict that on tiny scales, approaching the «Planck scale» of 10 - 35 metres, familiar notions of space and time start to disintegrate, giving way to a seething melee of quantum gravitational fluctuations known as «space - time foam».

But this description starts to fall down on the tiniest scales, and the search is on for a new theory that describes gravity at the quantum level and unites it with the other forces.

«Lab experiments show that dielectric breakdown is an explosive process on a tiny scale,» said Jordan.

Their common goal is to find a single theory that unites quantum mechanics — the theory that describes the behaviour of matter on tiny scales — with Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes space, time and gravity.

They are characterized by a superficially shark - like coating of tiny scales, and spines in front of their fins (Fig. 1).

Gladbachus, though relatively young, has features seen in even older fossils, such as its tiny scales.

Hair shines best when the tiny scales on the cuticle lie flat (as is the norm with straight hair), bouncing back light rays.

Frizz happens when your hair's cuticles — the tiny scales that cover each strand — don't lie flat.

«What it takes to do things right at a bigger scale is more than it costs to do them right at a tiny scale,» he said.

The idea is to give aspiring school and learning - space founders the resources needed to test promising concepts on a tiny scale.

Such boutique programs offer highly personalized environments on a tiny scale, in a tech - enabled reinvention of the one - room schoolhouse that eschews lockstep schedules and standard curricula for student - led learning.

The Twingo RS wasn't an overwhelming sales success in the UK (its biggest year was 2009 with around 300 sold), but with the third generation Twingo yet to feature an RS model the only hot Twingo to date is the only way to enjoy RS thrills in a tiny scale.

Their gorgeous iridescent blue color comes not from pigmentation but the way the tiny scales are arranged so as to refract light much like a prismatic effect.

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The tiny scale, the little blinking screen (which actually goes through a boot sequence) and that popping «hello!»

That sense of wonder is especially vivid in the watercolors by Isabel Cooper and Helen Damrosch Tee - Van, which include, among others, a golden lizard with hundreds of tiny scales, a quail - like bird in the former British Guiana and a black marmoset sticking out its tongue.

A literate Oakland addition: Another new effort, though at the tiny scale of 400 square feet, is Gallery 2301.