Sentence examples for marble rolling from inspiring English sources

It sounded like a ball bearing or a marble rolling on the bare floor above my head.

Resorting to the same analogy as Dr. Haroche, Dr. Wineland compared the electron to a marble rolling back and forth in a bowl.

The marble rolling pin and the two pans I had bought to make dinner for a long-ago date seemed somehow inadequate.

He opened a desk drawer and extracted a new manila folder, then pulled and pulled and finally yanked open the top drawer of the desk to reveal a grubby pencil, three paper clips, and one marble rolling around.

If one were to probe space-time in that region by sending out a ray of light or a test body, both the ray and the body would travel in perfectly straight lines, like a child's marble rolling across the rubber sheet.

The system then seeks the lowest energy state, like a marble rolling across an evolving energy landscape to find the deepest valley.

Physicists are developing a new finesse -- getting a feel for quantum mechanics by playing with atoms the way their predecessors mastered Newtonian physics by fooling around with swinging pendulums or marbles rolling down inclined planes.

Like marbles rolling on a warped rubber surface, the bodies then move about in ways determined by the bending of space-time, and so on: everything is dealt with together, including any observers.

I loved the idea of something irresistibly travelling along a set path — marbles rolling down wooden or plastic troughs, subway trains hurtling beneath city streets, water propelled by gravity through underground pipes, rivers implacably tumbling and oozing their way to the sea.

You get enough marbles rolling, says Hays, and a certain number get to the other side.

I laughed out loud, but then came a sound like steel marbles rolling across the ceiling.