Sentence examples for lump of matter from inspiring English sources

For now, he defined a planet as the smallest spherical lump of matter that is formed around stars or stellar remnants.

Yet for much of his life he was seen as little more than a human pot plant: a mindless lump of matter, surviving only because people took the trouble to keep him fed and watered.

Smash a lump of matter into antimatter and it will release a thousand times more energy than the same mass of fuel in a nuclear fission reactor and some 2 billion times more than burning the equivalent in hydrocarbons.

Sasselov argued, among other things, that the criteria for planethood was sun-centric, excluding planets beyond our solar system, or so-called "exoplanets". He offered an alternative definition: A planet, he argued, is "the smallest spherical lump of matter that formed around stars or stellar remnants". That opened up a lot of possibilities, one of them clearly being the reinstatement of Pluto.

The soul is that which individuates each of us and animates this indistinct lump of matter that I am (and as we have already said, Thomas was quite a large lump of matter).

The first few instants after the Big Bang gave rise to variations in the dense lump of matter, which now manifest as variations in the CMB.

Of more interest is the question of where these lumps of matter and energy came from.

Collages grow denser and junkier, soiled with pigment and dirt, affixed with lumps of matter as dark and moist looking as chewed food or dissolving flesh.

Brown dwarfs are essentially failed stars, lumps of matter bigger than a planet but not large enough to kindle the thermonuclear fire of a star.

But according to many of those theories, the radiation should occasionally flare up as isolated lumps of matter fall toward the black hole or storms are generated by strong magnetic fields swirling through space there.

It may or may not be pertinent to a larger picture of the period's visual culture that Willem de Kooning's controversial paintings of women as fragmented lumps of matter with bared teeth and googly eyes were being produced and exhibited at roughly the same time that Wolverton's female grotesques were in wide circulation.