Sentence examples for odd properties from inspiring English sources

After it arrives, the storage ring will function as a holding tank for muons generated by Fermilab's particle accelerators, under an experiment called Muon g-2 that will look at odd properties of matter in the subatomic world.

This week a group of researchers led by Ortwin Hess of the University of Surrey, in England, announced a plan to stop light completely and store it, using materials that possess some odd properties.

If they are granted a few more wishes, those scientists may find strange things predicted by more speculative theories, like new dimensions, beyond the usual four, hidden in the fabric of space, and swarms of other unknown particles with odd properties -- discoveries that would remake humanity's view of the cosmos.

(One nanometer is how much your fingernails grow per second). At that scale they have odd properties that change depending on their size, which scientists can control by tuning the particle to the right size.

This carefully bound "particle" is called an indirect exciton, and it has the odd property that it will move when placed in an electric field even though it is neutrally charged.

In particular, it draws on the odd property of objects having both positive and negative charges at the same time, or for one subatomic particle affecting another without seemingly coming into physical contact with it.

If the plan works, halting and hoarding light in this way could eventually lead to better computers.The odd property on which Dr Hess's plan rests is called negative refraction.

And they illustrate an odd property of Mr. Cronenberg's filmmaking: he's very good when he's most himself, riffing on his own obsessions, and good too when he seems least like himself, working on relatively conventional Hollywood projects.

Even appreciating the gratification of nostalgia and camp, Disaster! is an odd property to find on Broadway and doesn't seem particularly at home here, with its cheap sets, shabby projections and understaffed chorus.

Their odd property of being demonstrable only, so to speak, from within confers on them also a high resistance to attack from outside...

This odd property led Gerard 't Hooft and Leonard Susskind to propose the holographic principle, which suggests that anything that happens in a volume of spacetime can be described by data on the boundary of that volume.