Sentence examples for instead of colliding with from inspiring English sources

The problem with swords made of light is that, by its nature, light is massless – it will simply pass through other light like an appalling coward, instead of colliding with it with a satisfactory "bwwwooOOUumm-TSSSK". Scientists at the MIT Centre for Ultracold Atoms, in Massachusetts, recognise the problem of light's irritating pacifism and are taking important steps to correct it.

Look to either side of the object and try to aim the car away from it instead of colliding with the object head on.

I don't know anything about thermodynamics, so forgive me if this is completely wrong, but maybe the photons that are eminating from B and bouncing off of the spherical portion have a high probability of colliding with successive photons coming from B, thus causing those photons to scatter instead of returning to B? Photons do not collide - they pass through each other.

Scientists have declared earlier today that it has no chance of colliding with the Earth.

Bicyclists running the red light at crossing facilities increase the potential of colliding with motor vehicles.

In coastal regions, dolphins run the risk of colliding with boats.

Instead of colliding, these two communities can actually connect.

In this case, the animal jumped forward in response to the stimulus instead of turning and colliding with the wall behind it.

One can imagine that an electron about to "collide" with and lose energy to the medium could end up instead colliding with its partner so that they exchange momentum without imparting any to the medium.

The vessel instead ended up colliding with the ship and sinking it.

Instead, it collides with other masses of continental crust located behind the subduction zone and contributes to the formation of a new supercontinent.