Sentences with phrase «unlike ordinary matter»

The idea that our universe is dominated by two separate mystery components, utterly unlike ordinary matter or energy, strikes many researchers as absurd.

In fact, a whopping 96 per cent of it is made of something whose very nature we are at a loss to describe — something utterly unlike the ordinary matter that makes up stars and galaxies, planets and moons, birds and bees.

Not exact matches

However, unlike ordinary enduring objects the succession is not primarily a matter of repetition of qualities in one occasion after another through long stretches of time.

In fact, the latest survey of the Big Bang's residual light suggests that more than 84 percent of the matter in the cosmos is of the «dark» variety: exotic particles unlike the ordinary atoms that make up our everyday world and the objects therein.

But unlike dark matter particles, neutrinos are ordinary matter, known to exist in great numbers.

Unlike other exotic particle candidates, his and Britton's do not contain ordinary nuclear matter (i.e., quarks found in protons and neutrons).

First, minute quantities of radiation can be detected, because radiation is unlike anything else (million - electron - volt particles crashing through ordinary matter that is ionized by a few electron - volts, slowing down while creating tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of ionization sites).

It noted that in family proceedings, unlike in ordinary civil proceedings, consent orders are binding and enforceable as a result of the court endorsing the agreement, rather than as a matter of contract.