Sentences with phrase «weaker gravity field»

Each weighed more than 180 lbs on Earth, but just one - sixth as much in the moon's weaker gravity field.

Not exact matches

I believe that the acceleration due to gravity is proportional to one over the distance squared in weak gravitational fields, because it has been measured literally millions of time and not violated.

Writers of science fiction have field days imagining how universes with stronger and weaker forces of gravity or different ratios of weights of protons and neutrons could lead to forms of intelligent life.

However, MOND is not widely accepted because it is not clear why gravity's pull should change in weaker fields.

General relativity has been tested with great precision within the solar system, and in binary pulsar systems where gravitational fields are very strong, but never on large scales where gravity's pull is weak.

In a previous accident, the character had destroyed his «intrinsic field» (a made - up concept), which presumably stripped him of the fundamental forces — electromagnetic, strong force, weak force — other than gravity, that hold material together.

Just as every planet has a gravity field, it is believed that every planet with an atmosphere is also surrounded by a weak electric field.

Historically, measurements of our solar system's gravity created by our sun have been used to try and detect the fifth force, but that has proven difficult because its gravitational field is relatively weak.

The primary shows weaker alkali lines than field dwarfs of similar spectral type, but still consistent with either a high - gravity dwarf or a younger object of hundreds of millions of years.