The electrons ricocheted off hard point-like objects inside the proton.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Physics 1990 - Presentation Speech] Reference

Objects that, until now, appeared point-like are progressively revealing their true nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Images Provide Insight Into Our Sun's Ultimate Fate | Universe Today] Reference

It is an absolute, almost point-like concentration of the formative ability of consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exclusive concentration] Reference

Richard Feynman explained it by assuming that the protons consisted of point-like constituents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forces] Reference

The QFT is the mathematics of point-like objects (particles) in a Euclidean or Minkwoski space.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?] Reference

In the model system above, the topological defect is point-like - it is just a single point in space.    From Wordnik.com.  [Embedded in Montreal] Reference

For example: In every experiment conducted so far, an electron always behaves as a point-like object.    From Wordnik.com.  [World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" | Universe Today] Reference

And this point-like source creates a curvature in 3+1-dimensional space-time, which we experience as gravity.    From Wordnik.com.  [World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" | Universe Today] Reference

To this kind of observation nothing is accessible, we know, except spatial displacements of single point-like entities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

The emission from M82 is effectively point-like for VERITAS, and the white circle indicates the size of a simulated point source.    From Wordnik.com.  [Solving the Mystery of Cosmic Rays' Origins | Universe Today] Reference

This is interpreted to mean that nucleons are not point-like, but occupy a certain volume, and can thus possess an inner structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Physics 1990] Reference

In physics, a theory that views subatomic particles as string-like objects floating in space-time rather than as point-like objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [string theory] Reference

Force is the gradient of a potential, so enclosing a charge or a gravitating point-like object with a shell does not induce a force on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Hole Drive Could Power Future Starships | Universe Today] Reference

The electrons orbiting atomic nuclei as well as the quarks inside nucleons have a size, if any, smaller than 10-18 meters; they appear point-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Accelerators and Nobel Laureates] Reference

In three spatial dimensions one can have either point-like defects (monopoles), line-like defects (strings) or membrane-like defects (domain walls).    From Wordnik.com.  [Embedded in Montreal] Reference

It treats particles as point-like objects, which often creates problems (like an infinitely strong electric field in the vicinity of a point charge).    From Wordnik.com.  [Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?] Reference

If a black hole would only exists as a point-like source without more then 1 dimension, how would this 1-dimensional source produce 3- dimensional gravity?.    From Wordnik.com.  [World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" | Universe Today] Reference

All the leptons are still considered to be truly fundamental, i.e. point-like and without internal structure, but for the protons, etc, this is no longer true.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prizes in Physics 1901-2000] Reference

Mereologically, an atom (or “simple”) is an entity with no proper parts, regardless of whether it is point-like or has spatial (and/or temporal) extension.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Dreams Of Reality, 3] Reference

This led me to wonder what it would be like to exist as though my ‘present’ was an hour long, and not merely the point-like meeting between the future and the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [EP093: {Now + n, Now – n}] Reference

These endpoints define 0-branes, and there are some ideas that the whole of M - theory can be reduced to sigma models or soliton field theories of these point-like particles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science and Unobservable Things] Reference

The signature has a point-like firmness and simplicity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Autographs] Reference

The rules of the operator algebras seem too strict and too point-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reference Frame] Reference

Monster to get to that point-like they had to get something out of their system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murmurs.com] Reference

When it does so, it will meet up with itself-photons are not point-like objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ars Technica] Reference

The project team plans to release a catalogue of "point-like sources" in January 2011.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC - Ouch] Reference

The team found a point-like glow around the star that might be a planet weighing about 8.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Online News] Reference

At some point-like, when we master teleportation - I'll want to see truly global leagues.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hardball Times] Reference

Leptons are particles of matter which appear to be point-like, without internal structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews] Reference

"Well, a particular evolution - such as substructure involving more point-like particles inside ...".    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Blogging] Reference

Confined in its core are three quarks, or point-like subatomic particles, surrounded by two rings of "clouds.".    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

The Chandra "First Light" image of Cas A in 1999 revealed a previously undetected point-like source of X-rays at the center.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

The two black holes are a mere 3,000 light years apart and are seen as the bright point-like sources in the middle of the image.    From Wordnik.com.  [Space News From SpaceDaily.Com] Reference

The strategy proved very rewarding, as the astronomers were able to discern a feeble, point-like glow well inside the star's halo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Blogging] Reference

The observations revealed point-like sources of bright X-ray light - telltale signs of supermassive black holes - within many of the blobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPACE.com] Reference

Point-like clamping forces in hard tool material.    From Wordnik.com.  [3. Preparation for shaping of surfaces standing at an angle to each other and stepped surfaces] Reference

As the brightest point-like object in the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference