Sentences with phrase «wave the detector over»

So if we were to wave the detector over every stone in the field, it would, on average, sound twice — once for the real diamond, and once when a false reading was triggered by a stone.

Not exact matches

Bags were meticulously checked, metal - detector wands were waved over every single body, and gum was vigilantly confiscated.

Here on Earth, two giant detectors on opposite sides of the United States quivered as gravitational waves washed over them.

Einstein's famous theory of general relativity predicts the existence of gravitational waves, but it's taken humanity over a century to develop the technological know - how to build a detector sensitive enough to perceive them.