Sentence examples for of a particle from inspiring English sources

This would correspond to the size of a particle of sand, easily visible and palpable to our unaided senses.

In it he predicted the existence of a particle which gives other subatomic species their mass.

The most prominent advocate of a particle theory of light was Isaac Newton.

The lifetime of a particle against charge exchange is about the same.

Then Werner Heisenberg, a quantum pioneer, said you cannot predict with any certainty the position or velocity of a particle – they interact in total chaos.

Then there's Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, which states that it is impossible to measure simultaneously the momentum and the position of a particle.

That, however, would require the energy of a particle accelerator the size of a galaxy, something that would never get through Congress.

It also reflects an avant-garde love of randomness, being based on a greatly magnified computer-model of a particle of a sneeze.

In Beirut, they made use of a particle accelerator at the Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission that spews out ions, or electrically charged atoms.

In fact, according to the uncertainty principle, which Heisenberg enunciated two years later, it was impossible to know both the position and velocity of a particle at once.

In fleshing out this radical worldview, Heisenberg discovered a problem in the way that the basic physical properties of a particle in a quantum system could be measured.