Sentences with word «wimp»

The infant universe would have produced a huge number of WIMPs as subatomic particles crashed into one another.

«We've been searching for WIMPs for quite some time, but we haven't found them yet, so I think it's important to think outside the box,» says Yonit Hochberg, a theorist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California (UC), Berkeley, and an author of the new paper.

I've seen guys with 6 - pack abs who look like scrawny wimps when they have a shirt on.

So they sent me the supplies and then I had to do it and couldn't wimp out of making them all.

In the early and mid-1980s, psychologists and wanna - bes flooded the market with self - help books to encourage people to be assertive without being aggressive, to stand up for themselves, to stop acting like wimps in their relationships.

If our understanding of dark matter is correct, then we should be able to make WIMPs in the LHC's high - energy collisions.

CDMS - 2, 780 meters below ground in Minnesota's Soudan Underground Laboratory, is on the lookout for such WIMPS.

This so - called WIMP miracle has sustained the search for decades, but now some theorists are questioning its validity.

The composition of dark matter is unknown, but may include ordinary and heavy neutrinos, recently postulated elementary particles such as WIMPs and axions, astronomical bodies such as dwarf stars and planets (collectively called MACHOs), and clouds of nonluminous gas.

He had destroyed his legacy with decade long fourth - placing = Champions ambition and created a whole bunch of wimps who will be keeping the new Manager busy.

That state of affairs is known as the «WIMP miracle.»

If WIMPS don't interact much with other particles, how can you find them?

(CDEX, CDMS, CoGeNT, COUPP and CRESST are just the most notable examples that start with the letter C.) The delicate work of detecting any weak, rare and fleeting interactions of WIMPs with atoms requires isolation and solitude, confining most detectors to caverns, abandoned mines and other outlier subterranean spaces.

But AMS has spotted too many positrons for that — so what could make WIMPs collide in space more often than expected?

Even with just a few detection events — «maybe five,» Sadoulet suggests — CDMS should be able to make a lower limit estimate of WIMP mass and get an idea of the interaction rate, giving us a first glimpse at the properties of the cosmic dark stuff.

You have to confront and empathize, and wimps don't do that.

And you are spot on about wimping out by going too small or safe.

The experiment monitors germanium detectors, cooled to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero, for subtle vibration and ionization effects that would be produced by WIMPs colliding with germanium nuclei.

One way to find them is to look for gamma rays, which should be produced when WIMPs collide and disintegrate.

«This information may help us place limits on how often WIMP particles collide or decay.»

There, shielded from most sources of contaminating noise, researchers have spent more than a year's worth of time looking for flashes of light emanating from WIMPs striking xenon nuclei.

The mechanism for this asymmetry is still unclear, but if something similar happened for dark matter, it should be made of lightweight particles of about 5 to 10 gigaelectronvolts — just below what WIMP detectors can see.

You spineless wimps get into these group orgasms any time the media puts their name in an article just for web clicks to watch the circle jerk create ad money.

Leadership is not a role for wimps because you have to stand up and explain what needs to be done once in a while.

By most accounts, the most credible hint of light WIMPs came in April.

There, shielded from most sources of contaminating radiation, researchers have spent more than a year's worth of time looking for flashes of light emanating from WIMPs striking xenon nuclei.

«My money is still on WIMPs.»

On the other, they have ruled out some of the simplest and most cherished WIMP models, raising fresh fears that the long - postulated particles might be a multidecadal detour in the search for dark matter.

AP parents are portrayed as ineffective, permissive, overprotective, spineless wimps who are literally so attached to their children their only goal in parenting seems to be smothering, not loving their children.

Aside from DAMA and CoGeNT, most WIMP hunters are coming up empty and may be ready to rule out the long - sought particles, she says.

For two decades, astronomers have found less dark matter at the centers of galaxies than what WIMP models suggest they should.

«Our results can not be interpreted as significant evidence for WIMP interactions,» Cooley said.

(I'm not sure what growing up in New Mexico has to do with that...) I really love the flavor of a good pepper, but I am a huge wimp when it comes to heat.

I'm a bit of a spice wimp so I only put a little chipotle in the dressing.

All the experiments rely on the same principle: detecting WIMPs on the rare occasions when they collide with an atomic nucleus.

Gaitskell and other WIMP hunters are betting that bigger detectors will yield better results, and have plans for a new generation of experiments with dramatically larger sizes and sensitivities.

The water was cold and I'm a total wimp so I only made it up to my butt before giving up and going back to my lawn chair each time I got out to the water.

I am the only wimp who gags over a nasty poopy diaper and would therefore like to avoid poopy diapers at all costs?!

TL isn't going to admit that he would have considered wimping out of the QB - competition.

Now I am a total wimp when it comes to a spicy cocktail.

The goal of LHC experiments isn't to produce WIMPs directly, but to produce other particles that might decay into dark matter.

And, because it only looks for WIMPs weighing 100 GeV or more, it couldn't verify CoGeNT's result.

To explain the current abundance of dark matter in the universe (as inferred from galactic observations and other data), the rate of annihilation, which governs how often WIMPs were produced in the early universe as well as how often they annihilate now, must fall within a narrow range.

TKF: In bubble chamber detectors, WIMP collisions are expected to generate a single bubble, while other, more energetic particles are expected to trigger bubble tracks.

Don't collapse to popular pressure and end up looking like even bigger wimps by caving.

But, most of the biting dogs I see are really wimps: sensitive and very mild dogs.

Some of the bosses are complete wimps like this guy, but some of the later ones can be downright brutal.

Mainly just superfat old guys and other wimps ride them now.

What if they don't see WIMPs at all?