Sentence examples for speck of matter from inspiring English sources

I thought of the big-bang theory, wherein a tiny speck of matter and energy mysteriously explodes, expanding the universe.

It follows that if we could see objects whose light was sent 15 billion light years ago, all we would see would be a small speck of matter surrounded by empty space.

Since the 1960s, most cosmologists have embraced the idea that our universe was born some fourteen billion years ago, when an infinitesimal, ultra-dense speck of matter exploded and eventually became all the planets, stars, and galaxies we see around us today.

It explained how a subatomic speck of matter transformed into a massive big bang, creating a huge, flat and uniform universe with tiny density fluctuations that eventually grew into today's galaxies and cosmic large-scale structure, all in beautiful agreement with precision measurements from experiments such as the Planck satellite.

That's because, according to one of the more baffling concepts from Einstein's theory of relativity, the spin is measured against an abstract "frame of reference" determined by the average positions of all the stars in the universe--not a nearby speck of matter like a city.

Three specks of matter captured by the NASA spacecraft Stardust may be stardust that has just entered our solar system.

Particle physicists learn from nature by accelerating specks of matter -- protons and antiprotons, for example -- and forcing them to collide with fixed targets or with each other.

Rosalind eagerly absorbed the theory of crystallography, and so joined, as Maddox puts it, "the small band of the human race for whom infinitesimal specks of matter are as real and solid as billiard balls".

For consider a nice, Newtonian world of point-particles, with nary a speck of homogeneous matter to be found.

Water runs down refrigerated plates or tubes, and the specks of solid matter that cause whiteness in homemade cubes are expected to fall to the bottom and drain away.

London has the highest levels of the toxic gas nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in the EU, and has received a series of legal warnings for failing to comply with European laws governing PM10s, tiny specks of particulate matter 10 microns across (a micron is a millionth of a metre).