Personally the power I want is the ability to diffract!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference
Material particles have wave nature and can diffract around objects. From Wordnik.com. [How to Teach Physics to Your Dog] Reference
Light waves also diffract, though the effect is much smaller and difficult to detect. From Wordnik.com. [Optics basics: What is a wave? Part III: Diffraction « Skulls in the Stars] Reference
I suppose if we could all diffract, our favorite walks might get surprisingly crowded!. From Wordnik.com. [Quantum Mechanics on YouTube] Reference
The sound waves wrap around (diffract around) the outside of the farmhouse, allowing communication. From Wordnik.com. [Optics basics: What is a wave? Part III: Diffraction « Skulls in the Stars] Reference
This is why nobody has ever seen a dog diffract around a tree; nor are we likely to see it any time soon. From Wordnik.com. [How to Teach Physics to Your Dog] Reference
I can recall here that on the other hand, considering gases as consisting of molecules which diffract light. From Wordnik.com. [Jean Baptiste Perrin - Nobel Lecture] Reference
As a result, the waves diffract by a large amount, which is why we can hear sounds even around tight corners. From Wordnik.com. [How to Teach Physics to Your Dog] Reference
Volcanic ash, or any finely-divided substance, suspended in the atmosphere, can diffract the colors strangely. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
Our bacteriorhodopsin crystals were found to diffract X-rays, but to be too small and too disordered for a structural analysis. From Wordnik.com. [Hartmut Michel - Autobiography] Reference
We also saw that quantum particles behave like waves—electrons, atoms, and molecules diffract around obstacles and form interference patterns. From Wordnik.com. [How to Teach Physics to Your Dog] Reference
A dog can hear a potato chip hitting the kitchen floor from the living room because sound waves diffract through the kitchen door and around corners. From Wordnik.com. [How to Teach Physics to Your Dog] Reference
On the right, a wave with a long wavelength encounters an opening comparable to the wavelength, and the waves diffract through a large range of directions. From Wordnik.com. [How to Teach Physics to Your Dog] Reference
For example if two people stand back-to-back in an open field with no large objects to reflect or diffract the sound waves, they can still hold a conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Optics basics: What is a wave? Part III: Diffraction « Skulls in the Stars] Reference
Similarly, if sound waves encounter an obstacle like a chair or a tree, they will diffract around it, provided the object is not too much larger than the wavelength. From Wordnik.com. [How to Teach Physics to Your Dog] Reference
Following the experiments of Davisson and Germer and Thomson, scientists showed that all subatomic particles behave like waves: beams of protons and neutrons will diffract off samples of atoms in exactly the same way that electrons do. From Wordnik.com. [How to Teach Physics to Your Dog] Reference
Preliminary 2D crystals are available that diffract to about 1 nm resolution so far. From Wordnik.com. [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference
There was nothing to diffract the sun like the smog in L.A. or general moisture in Florida. From Wordnik.com. [Matador Network] Reference
And the reflectors diffract returning light so that it spreads over 15 kilometers on earth. From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
In fact, they don't even glow - especially not in space, where there would be no air particles to diffract off. From Wordnik.com. [Latest news breaking news current news UK news world news celebrity news politics news] Reference
And, to confess the truth, I find myself somewhat loath to diffract this pure ray to the arbitrary end of my special topic. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions and Criticisms] Reference
The BEC's generated from suitable atoms at very low temperatures are such waves; or else they would not be able to diffract. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Sarabande takes the previous film's color palette into a realm of heightened movement, specifically focusing on twisting and torquing forms as they reflect and diffract light. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
In order to merge the different views (projections) of an object, which is subsequently vaporized in this "diffract-and-destroy" mode, it is important that they all be identical. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
The atoms in the protein crystals cause the x-rays to diffract, and the scientists collect and analyze the pattern of diffraction to solve the atomic-level structure of the proteins. From Wordnik.com. [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference
The current ash cloud is too high to be a risk to people on the ground and too thin to be seen, although it is likely to make sunsets redder because of the way the volcanic particles diffract the sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Its special shape is designed so that waves of starlight will diffract around it, lapping against and nullifying each other to cast an ultra-dark shadow, ensuring that only an exoplanet's light falls on the JWST's huge mirror. From Wordnik.com. [SEEDMAGAZINE.COM] Reference
Science Minister launches World’s largest diffract. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
You need your wavelength to be comparable to the size of the tree—maybe ten centimeters—in order to diffract around it, and you’re thirty-four orders of magnitude off. From Wordnik.com. [How to Teach Physics to Your Dog] Reference
To get your wavelength up to the millimeter or so you’d need to diffract around a tree, you’d have to be moving at 10-30 meters per second, and that’s impossibly slow. From Wordnik.com. [How to Teach Physics to Your Dog] Reference
There, computerized, transparent devices called holographic gratings diffract light in ways that ordinary optical components like prisms can’t, steering it to the user’s eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Heads-Up Display Eyewear | Impact Lab] Reference
"Our research has shown that certain light beams do not diffract or spread - they can travel around corners and propel particles round corners. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
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