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We don't see these wave properties for everyday objects because the wavelength decreases as the momentum increases.
If we took a single atom and blew it up to the size of the Solar System, the wavelength of a cat running from a physicist would be as small as an atom within that Solar System.
Visible light has a wavelength, a size, that's much smaller than the things around you, the features on people's faces, the size of your cell phone.
Audible sound has a wavelength that can be up to 50 feet long.
Radio waves have a wavelength that's long, and that makes their resolution poorer.
It had to come through intergalactic space, through the Earth's atmosphere, where water vapor can absorb it, and everything worked out perfectly, the size of the Earth at that wavelength of light, one millimeter wavelength, was just right to resolve that black hole, 55 million light-years away.
This can be accounted for with a second infrared wavelength LED.
When placed close to a silicon wire, a ring siphons off and temporarily stores only certain waves of light— those whose periodic wavelength fits a whole number of times along the ring’s circumference.
Various biomolecules in saliva absorb light at the same wavelength— but each has a distinct chemical fingerprint.
In a lab-on-a-chip, after the light passes through a saliva sample, a host of fine-tuned rings may each siphon off a slightly different wavelength of light and send it to a partner light detector.
Together with my physics colleagues, we realized there actually is a particular wavelength of ultraviolet light that should kill all bacteria, but should be safe for human exposure.
That wavelength is called far-UVC light, and it's just the short-wavelength part of the ultraviolet spectrum.
But if you don't do that, if you allow for the accident to keep on happening, you have the possibility of getting on a wavelength.
And I like to explore all the possibilities in the hope that you'll be on the wavelength of your audience.
This is a pulse of light that's only about one wavelength of light long, so it's a whole bunch of photons all coming and hitting simultaneously.
A zeptowatt, if you put it in similar terms, is if you take just one grain of salt and then you imagine a tiny, tiny, little ball that is one thousandth of the mass of that one grain of salt and then you drop it one nanometer, which is a hundred times smaller than the wavelength of visible light, once per day.
There's nothing inherent about red that makes it long wavelength.
This is the sort of little movie that is made for a cult audience because, rather like Howdy's gazpacho (well, I think that's what it is), it's an acquired taste: you have to be attuned to its peculiar wavelength.
Still, Cusack and Robbins create a couple of originals here: nerdy but loose, street-smart without being hipsters or posers, these guys are on the same nutty wavelength, and they never put each other down.
It soon develops that the parties are not on the same wavelength - or perhaps in the same "time zone", hence the title of the movie.
I'm sure they're wonderful bright people that operate at a different wavelength.
Perhaps I was not on the same wavelength as the director, but I thought it was painfully torpid with little substance.
The range of usable territory – the spectrum – is administered by governments as though it were real estate, and is broken up according to wavelength, with an amount apportioned for cell phones, other bits for military pilots, and so on.
They are essentially the same physical phenomenon; the difference in wavelength comes only from the sun being much hotter than Earth.
With the return of France to NATO’s integrated military structure, the two countries are on the same “Atlantic” wavelength for the first time since 1966.
As for human rights that are particularly valued in the contemporary West – those of dissenters and minorities, including sexual minorities – Russia seems to be on a completely different wavelength.
Because worries about a “widening Atlantic” gap have existed since the early 1970s, it is tempting to proceed as if transatlantic relations will remain on roughly the same wavelength as before.
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