Sentences with phrase «while under the influence of gravity»

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Plant growth is strongly influenced by the environment: stems grow up towards the sun, while roots grow down under the influence of gravity — an effect called gravitropism.

The microwave background marks the limit of the observable universe, nearly 14 billion light - years away, and Rudnick believes that the void, which is 6 billion to 10 billion light - years away, imprinted its form on the microwave background by the simple virtue of being empty: Under the influence of dark energy and gravity, space containing clusters of galaxies compresses microwaves to a shorter, warmer part of the spectrum, while space that is empty on this scale stretches and cools microwaves.