Sentences with phrase «wink out of existence»

They also do the publishing deals with the local publishers, so they would be in a position to step in very quickly should the REDgroup brands wink out of existence here.

Instead, they will abruptly wink out of existence when temperatures reach tipping points.

Last year, based on observations with the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory in Arizona, Kochanek and his colleagues Jill Gerke and Kris Stanek announced their discovery of one convincing failed supernova candidate, a red supergiant in the galaxy NGC 6946 that briefly flared and then seemed to wink out of existence.

And an important property of bottom quarks makes them impossible to stockpile: They wink out of existence just 1 picosecond after they're created, or in about the time it takes light to travel half the length of a single grain of salt.

By 2015, it appeared to have winked out of existence.

Earth is experiencing its sixth mass extinction event, species winking out of existence before we even know them.

Not exact matches

My point is that we know so very little about our universe that I can say «at the moment nothing we know of is eternal» while at the same time understanding that the universe could be like that electron and wink in and out of existence in some constant renewal, from singularity to singularity and back again, but because we only see a tiny fragment of the process we can only make sloppy assumptions as to the mechanics involved.

That didn't mean the branes were voids: Quantum theory asserts that even the total vacuum of empty space is seething with «virtual» subatomic particles that constantly wink in and out of existence.

Physicists will observe the collisions not only for clues to fundamental constituents of matter, hidden dimensions, and the elusive Higgs boson — the hypothetical particle that gives matter its heft — but also for tiny black holes winking in and out of existence.

And the total sum of the winding numbers of vortices that wink in and out of existence as a magnetic field is applied around the doughnut always stays the same.

You'll notice that there's quite a bit of sprite flicker when there are more than two characters on the screen at once, and characters often tumble over each other on contact, resulting in a jumbled mess of appendages that wink in and out of existence as the NES's hardware attempts to make sense of the carnage.

These can be replenished by mopping up space dust that appears when a portal winks a planet out of existence.