Sentences with phrase «universal time»

But LIGO did not register the gravitational waves coming from them until 9:50:45 Coordinated Universal Time on 14 September, when the wave's frequency rose above some 30 cycles per second (hertz)-- corresponding to 15 full black - hole orbits per second — and was finally high enough for the detectors to distinguish it from background noise.

Winter Solstice This site includes a graph showing how the date of the Winter Solstice changes from year to year, a table of universal times of the Winter Solstice, a QuickTime movie illustrating the tilt of Earth relative to the sun, and other miscellaneous data about the Winter Solstice.

Time is given in Universal time; central duration time (lower right) tracks how long the sun will appear blacked out to an observer on the ground.

At 12:41 universal time on 17 August, physicists with three massive instruments — the twin 8 - kilometer - long detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana, and the 6 - kilometer Virgo detector near Pisa, Italy — spotted waves unlike any seen before.

Einstein held that there is no such thing as universal time and that matter affects the rate at which clocks tick, such that time slows near massive objects.

«The new work operates on familiar scales of distance and velocity, with clocks that can be used for universal timing applications,» Müller says.

But when we move out into celestial space the problem is magnified and the time we measure is clearly our time, not universal time or absolute time.

In 1905, Einstein overturned Newton's harmonious picture of a standard universal time.

Have students study the Almanac of Key Terrestrial Events, Solstices, Equinoxes and Cross Quarters and determine the time difference between Universal Time and their own local time.

His enormous triptych painting «Americans, Youngstown, Ohio» (1977 — 78) is an ambiguous monument to a very specific yet somehow universal time and place in modern US society.

Then there's New Earth Time, developed by Mark Laugesen in Auckland, New Zealand, where the day is split into 360 degrees with 0 degrees being midnight at Greenwich, as with Universal time now.

Not only are some people proposing a single global universal time zone, but they're also talking about a new calendar in which every new year starts on a Monday and some years have an extra week which for some reason they call an Xtr.

Just as the historic 38th parallel separates the hostile states of North and South Korea, the Mason - Dixon line marks a notional but blood - stained boundary between the northern states and the American South, and the Greenwich meridian formally replaced the Paris meridian as the notional ground zero for the measure of universal time, so the 100th meridian has entered U.S. consciousness.

Do note that the times provided are in Universal Time (UT) using 24 hour notation.

Yes, shame on me for planning my life's events around our universal time measuring system.

There is no universal time to start potty training, but many children will show signs of readiness between 18 and 36 months.

On 14 September 2015, at 9:50:45 universal time — 4:50 a.m. in Louisiana and 2:50 a.m. in Washington — LIGO's automated systems detected just such a signal.

Since 1972, international time zones have been defined against Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is based on signals averaged from around 400 atomic clocks.

Twice each day, about an hour before midnight and noon, Coordinated Universal Time, hundreds of meteorologists worldwide send balloons into the upper atmosphere to measure pressure, temperature, and relative humidity.

The team operates on Coordinated Universal Time.

His words could become literal truth in January, when the World Radiocommunication Conference of the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva, Switzerland, will vote on whether to redefine Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and pull our clock time out of synchronization with the Sun's location in the sky.

At 23:33 universal time, 10 hours and 52 minutes after the gravitational waves arrived, the team used the telescope in Chile to snap an image of NGC 4993, and Charles Kilpatrick, a postdoc at UC Santa Cruz, saw a bright spot not visible in archival images of the galaxy.

Felicitas Arias of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures suggests we stop adding leap seconds to coordinated universal time...

Felicitas Arias of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures suggests we stop adding leap seconds to coordinated universal time (UTC), which is based on atomic clocks, to compensate for its drift from astronomical time, mainly on the grounds that telecommunications systems do not work well with leap seconds (17 December 2011, p 27).

The requirements of specialized machines drove a proliferation of timescales customized to each user: Universal time, sidereal time, ephemeris time, barycentric time, and terrestrial time are just a few examples.

It was recorded at 01:30 coordinated universal time (UTC) on 8 March; the last transmission from flight MH370, an electronic «handshake» between the aircraft's communication system and a satellite, took place at 00:19 UTC, when the plane is estimated to have run out of fuel.

A fourth satellite provides three more redundant triangulation measurements that are averaged out to adjust for any deviations between the receiver clock and Universal time.

Each carries four ultra-precise clocks synchronized to GPS time — which is, essentially, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) without the leap seconds.

On 14 September 2015, at 9:50:45 universal time, humans detected for the first time a gravitational wave — a rippling, infinitesimal stretching of spacetime itself set off when two black holes spiraled into each other.

This link was an important consideration in the definition of the international time scale, UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).

They submit their time signal measurements to the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Paris, France, which averages them and publishes a monthly newsletter that sets Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

The image shows two scour marks at the Bradbury Landing site where the Mars Science Laboratory mission's skycrane landing system placed Curiosity onto the ground on Aug. 6, 2012, EDT and Universal Time (Aug. 5, PDT).

Clock time, known as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), is determined from International Atomic Time (TAI) by comparison with astronomical or navigational time (Universal Time UT1).

In short, there is no universal time to exercise.

Time is based upon UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).

It is Coordinated Universal Time, the official measure of time in the world, which is independent from the time zones.

The moment that Xenogears» many disparate and confusing pieces come together to form a whole is special; not just because it's a brilliant plot twist, but because it makes your 30 hour «hero's journey» feel like a single grain of sand in the flow of universal time — before empowering you to flip the whole hourglass upside down.

Kim's landscapes are universal places set in a universal time.

The editors and photographers there are recruiting people with cameras worldwide to create a global portrait of a moment in time on Sunday, May 2 — precisely 15:00 Coordinated Universal Time (11:00 a.m. on the East Coast of the United States).

The data for each site is provided in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and the values for each site are in gross output (MW), prior to maintenance losses, electrical losses, and potential curtailment.