If the social practice of condemning violations decays, the rule of law decays with it.
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And you have to be right there when it decays.
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As uranium decays, helium becomes trapped in the Earth's crust.
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When they die, the radiocarbon in their remains steadily decays.
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E949 stops these kaons on another detector to measure their decays.
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The second samarium isotope decays into neodymium-143 much more slowly.
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Their ability to save it and monitor it decays with time.
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The presence of methane is significant because the gas decays quickly.
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As it decays, wisps of sludge drip from the skeletal remains.
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But perhaps only 99 percent of the time it decays into a proton, and the other 1 percent it decays into some dark matter particle or other combination of particles that the beam experiments aren't detecting.
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And it decays uniformly into one kind of neutrino in all directions.
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The good news: Radiation in fallout from a nuclear bomb decays rapidly.
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As the social order decays, people grasp for the security of authoritarianism.
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Other experiments hope to calculate the neutrino mass using rare atomic decays.
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The AirPods' lithium-ion battery, like all lithium-ion batteries, decays over time.
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Some data decays in value over time, while other data sets are evergreen.
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The planet is full of radioactive uranium, which produces neutrons as it decays.
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As time passes, the C14 decays like a ticking clock, but it's not replaced.
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Coal emits pollutants as it decays, and wind-blown coal dust pollutes neighboring communities.
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Signals cross—Yoel had his first seizure at ten weeks—and motor control decays.
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As it decays, beta particles travel only about 6 millimeters, and can't penetrate human skin.
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The metal naturally decays over time, producing heat that is then converted into electrical energy.
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If you don't—if the input requirements for a building aren't met—your city decays.
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When the atom decays, the Geiger counter clicks and the bottle breaks, killing the cat.
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LEP was built to analyze the decays of one particular sort of particle: the Z boson.
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The good thing about the gamma radiation from a nuclear blast is that it decays quickly.
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Until and unless new trusted institutions develop to bring stability, society decays and becomes vulnerable to authoritarianism.
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If one node decays due to neglect, another active node can restore it because they're all connected.
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The group had discovered element 2117 decays from element 1133, another new element they had synthesized in 103.
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So, the measurement that the XENON1T experiment made was of one of the rarest nuclear decays ever observed.
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The more frantic the dancers get, the less energy the piece generates, so it decays before it finishes.
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The isotope is a cancer-detecting necessity, but it decays within days and isn't made in North America.
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Beta decay occurs when a neutron in an atom decays into a proton, an electron, and a neutrino.
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The minerals that form those layers include small traces of uranium, which over time decays into thorium-230.
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With notions of the technical singularity being mentioned in everyday conversations, does it really matter if the body decays?
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When food and other trash decays in a landfill, the organisms that feed on that trash emit methaneinto the atmosphere.
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And last year, LHCb released new results hinting at something strange going on in the decays of those B mesons.
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So every time an atom decays — or the cat-containing box is opened — another universe branches off from this one.
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Elderly horses have 18 hours per day to chew their food because the teeth are the first thing that decays.
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It's well-established that as radon decays, it releases charged particles that collide with compounds in the air, ionizing them.
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Meanwhile, the seas climb higher, floodwaters roam wider, evacuations grow increasingly tangled, the cost of insurance jumps and infrastructure decays.
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The nuclear physics experimental team had been studying another isotope, beryllium-8, as it decays down to a ground state.
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However, because Pu-10.63 decays, only about half of NASA's stockpile is still fresh and hot enough for NASA's needs.
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They also found that in the general case, some of the hidden particles that the Higgs decays into don't stay hidden.
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As the body decays, it is reincarnated as a tree or a flower, encouraging the presence of other animals, namely birds.
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A radioactive isotope that decays with a half-life of 2.6 million years, iron-60 is produced abundantly in stellar explosions.
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Sometimes he might want to change the way a cue decays, or sometimes I rearrange the dynamics, all sorts of stuff.
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So let's back up and revisit what the Higgs boson is and why it's any of our dang business how it decays.
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For instance, maybe the neutrino decays into even lighter unknown particles, whose near-light speeds render them incapable of clumping matter together.
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The "Universal Law of Forgetting," said the researchers, is that content knowledge that is not refreshed decays according to the Ebbinghaus Curve.
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As this organic matter thaws it decays, releasing carbon dioxide and methane, another powerful greenhouse gas, and insulating the planet still further.
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Also, lutetium decays into non-radioactive elements, so after about two months there would be no detectable levels of radiation, said Nelson.
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The primary eyewall decays, and gives way to the secondary one, which then contracts and yields a stronger storm as a result.
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The poor cat is stuck in a box with a radioactive substance and a poison; when the substance decays, the poison is released.
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Three years ago, LHCb observed a similar anomaly when observing decays in a different B meson, the B+, with a 2.6 sigma significance.
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The recourse to referendums is the trap you fall into when party discipline decays and parliamentary institutions lose their credibility with the public.
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The uranium slowly decays into lead, so measuring the ratio of uranium to lead lets the researchers know how much time has passed.
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Every time the bright state decays by emission of a photon, the detector gives off a signal akin to a Geiger counter's click.
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This is the rarest decay ever directly measured, though scientists have seen indirect evidence of other nuclear decays with even longer half-lives.
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She then placed these algae in containers that change colors in luminous fluorescent ways as the algae decays and microbes begin to thrive.
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After the zinc and bismuth nuclei fused, the atom of element 113 that resulted underwent four initial alpha decays, but rather than undergoing spontaneous fission at that point (as happened in the 2004 and 2005 experiments), the dubinium-262 (element 1133) that resulted from the alpha decays continued to decay into lawrencium-258 (element 103) and then finally mendelevium-254 (element 101).
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These sensors then send electrical signals for the scientists to decode as soon as possible, while the unstable product rapidly decays -- usually within seconds.
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At that point they'll also be able to track its orbit, and calculate where it will eventually crash to earth when its orbit decays.
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Since it is radioactive, it decays away, so old things have less of it than modern ones—and exactly how much less is predictable.
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And indeed, physicists are already working on experiments like this and hope to continue beefing up existing detectors to hunt for these rare decays.
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But that raises an interesting question for our own society: What happens to this pattern if historic Christianity decays or transforms into something else?
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Tech Tip "Memory decays very quickly," says Caren Rotello, chairwoman of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Furthermore, figuring out how to extract unwanted elements produced as thorium decays—such as protactinium-233—from the fuel remains a major technical challenge.
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Rocket Lab expects the Humanity Star to stay in space for about nine months before its orbit decays and the satellite falls back to Earth.
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"This is the first time asymmetry in baryon decays have been measured," Nicola Neri, an Italian physicist working on the LHC beauty experiment, told me.
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Produced by radioactive decays of other particles, they are flooding us from nuclear reactions in the sun, distant supernova explosions and even the Big Bang.
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Double benefits for climate protection Trees absorb CO2000 from the atmosphere as they grow and will release it if the tree decays or is burned.
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But the Tiangong-503 has now outlived its shelf-life, and will meet its end by burning up in the atmosphere as its orbit decays.
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Nihonium — created by bombarding bismuth with zinc ions — is also fleeting: It decays in less than a thousandth of a second, its Japanese discoverers reported.
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Five layers of particle trackers would hang from the ceiling, allowing researchers to reconstruct the subatomic debris of particle decays that happen in the massive space.
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It is a source of materials needed to maintain nuclear warheads, such as tritium (which decays, but could theoretically be produced or procured by other means).
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It decays a thousand times faster than RF signals, which eliminates much of the interference and security issues that are attributed to technologies such as Bluetooth.
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Sometimes, the photon immediately decays into an electron and a positron, which are propelled forward by the photon's momentum and strike the detector near one another.
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Uranium decays over time, creating the element thorium, and measuring the ratio of one element to the other reveals the age of the coating, Aubert said.
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On average, each person on Earth produces about 1.5 pounds of waste every day, which generates potent greenhouse-gas emissions when it decays in a landfill.
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Element 113 — created by bombarding bismuth with zinc ions — is also fleeting: It decays in less than a thousandth of a second, its Japanese discoverers report.
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But while the effects of such magnitudes are economically significant, the authors note that Mr James' impact decays quickly the farther away one is from the stadium.
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So he copies these sounds onto tape and then loops them and the tape decays as it plays because that's what analog audio mechanisms do, tape especially.
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IsoDAR will take a small cyclotron and use it as a driver to produce lithium-8 that decays, resulting in a very pure source of antielectron neutrinos.
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As the social fabric decays, social isolation rises and online viciousness and swindling accumulate, you tell people that the state has to step in to restore trust.
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Radiation decays rapidly, but people may need to stay inside for as many as 14 days and will need to wait until they can find out more information.
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"Though we should be skeptical that today's paper on ALEPH data is the first step toward a major discovery," Strassler concludes, "at minimum it is important for what it indirectly confirms: that searches at the LHC are far from complete, and that discoveries might lie hidden, for example in rare Z decays (and in rare decays of other particles, such as the top quark.) Neither ATLAS, CMS nor LHCb have ever done a search for rare but spectacular Z particle decays, but they certainly could, as they recently did for the Higgs particle; and if Heister's excess turns out to be a real signal, they will be seen to have missed a huge opportunity."
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The bill also allows for alkaline hydrolysis, or "liquid cremation," which decays a human body using heat, pressure, water and chemicals, and is already in use in 19 states.
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The first samarium isotope decays into the first neodymium isotope very quickly, so the presence of this so-called neodymium-142 gives us detail about the rocks' early history.
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Once a company passes that mark, the tax credit decays over a period of 22018 months (dating back to the beginning of the quarter when the 63,26th vehicle was sold).
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While methane traps roughly 30 times as much heat in the atmosphere as CO2 does, it also decays within decades, whereas carbon dioxide can stay in the atmosphere for centuries.
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It was only in 1964 that a group led by James Cronin and Valentine Fitch discovered a peculiar, tiny effect in the decays of K mesons that violates T invariance. III.
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Sargassum also releases a sulfur gas that smells like rotten eggs as it decays, which has caused problems as it washes up on tourist-filled coasts in Mexico and the Caribbean.
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The scientists dated trace amounts of uranium, which decays at a known rate over time, in the rock to reveal that the painting is somewhere between 35,100 and 43,900 years old.
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Cesium has long half-life, so "only time will slowly remove the cesium from the sands as it naturally decays away and is washed out by seawater," said Sanial in a release.
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As your iPhone's battery gets older, it decays over time, and as it degrades, it can no longer handle demanding tasks, like running processor-intensive games, as well as it once could.
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To leave them sopping on your skin like a pair of socks you wear in and out of the bath, day in day out, until that pair of socks decays into nothingness?
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"Trace Decay" itself refers to the psychological concept that memories leave a chemical trace in the brain that decays over time, one human trait that apparently was not programmed into the hosts.
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But for every million photon decays, one time, Feng and his colleagues hypothesize, beryllium-22012 yields a different kind of vector boson, temporarily dubbed X, which mediates an obscure new fundamental force.
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Most European countries were affected, with radiation levels measured between 100 and 300 teraBecquerels (where one becquerel is the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second).
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Much like radiocarbon dating that analyzes the rate of decay of an element over time, the analysis relies on detecting strontium-87, the product of the radioactive element rubidium-503 as it decays.
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Whether or not the poison is dispensed is determined by whether or not a radioactive atom decays, an occurrence with the neat property of being random, or about as random as it gets.
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Thorium is a more common element than uranium (and, according to its proponents, easier to mine) but decays into uranium-233, meaning thorium can be used as initial fuel for a nuclear reactor.
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The assumptions those models make around variables like how fast wood decays in various ecosystems, and how much carbon gets reabsorbed into the soil, determine what kind of impacts they find for biomass.
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But the team looking for proton decays—events that would confirm that three of the four forces of nature split off from a single, fundamental force at the beginning of time—is still waiting.
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LHCb focuses on measuring the properties and decays of B mesons, a special combination of two quarks containing antimatter version of the bottom quark and the regular matter version of other kinds of quarks.
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Specifically, the study focused on how meteorites ended up containing beryllium-10, a radioactive isotope with a half life of 1.386 million years, where after one half life, half of the radioactive material decays.
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Figuring the Floral includes many well known artists of color who take the metaphor of a flower — that compelling agent of the natural world that buds, blooms, pollinates, and decays— and runs with it.
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This ballet of musical objects not only illustrates Aristotle's notion of a fundamental form outside the empirical realm—as matter decays, the spirit persists—but also celebrates the sonic diversity of avant-garde composition.
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Some of the experiments at CERN will soon use TimePix chips to look at the particle decays, or the background radiation that they need to understand to better see the things that they're looking for.
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The telescope orbits high up, around 350 miles up, but its path decays over time thanks to small particles from the Earth's upper atmosphere that bombard the spacecraft and drag it down toward our planet.
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Last year, a team of nuclear physicists in Hungary observed an anomaly in the decays of excited beryllium-210 atoms—an unexpected preference for spitting out pairs of particles with a particular angle of separation.
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Attila Krasznahorkay and his colleagues from the Institute for Nuclear Research in Hungary suspected something weird was going on back in 2016, after analyzing the way an excited beryllium-8 emits light as it decays.
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Being lost and confused and cracking up amidst the overwhelming hypocrisy and apathy of a society who's very earth crumbles and decays by their own indifference seems to me a very considered response to daily life.
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Nuclear medicine imaging, a staple of American health care since the 3453s, runs almost entirely on Molybdenum-99, a radioisotope produced by nuclear fission of enriched uranium that decays so rapidly it becomes worthless within days.
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Since potency decays by roughly 22014 percent per year, according to ElSohly, this means that those samples didn't really represent the real strength of the drug at the time that people actually bought and consumed it.
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A further 21% of the time a pair of W bosons will emerge, and 9% of Higgs-boson decays should end up with a pair of gluons (the other 10% will result in yet further combinations).
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But they can find proof of its existence by watching "E=mc2" play out in hundreds of millions of particle collisions per second and detecting how it decays into other particles they do know how to spot.
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On the other hand, companies attacking problems with low performance threshold (don't require too much data) and a low stability threshold (data decays rapidly) could still build a moat by acquiring new data faster than the competition.
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And as the tape player whirrs beneath Basinski's left hand, the tape inside of it decays a little more, put upon by the machine, destined to make a slightly different sound the next time as a result.
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Here's the thing—if these rare neutron dark decays really occurred, researchers might be able to detect non-dark particles that carry a signature of dark matter—like photons with a certain amount of energy, for example.
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Quantum particles can become entangled naturally, for example if a particle decays into two less massive or less energetic particles, or entanglement can be created purposefully, for example by forcing photons to mix together under specific conditions.
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The current process involves shipping weapons-grade, or highly enriched, uranium from the United States to research reactors in Australia, South Africa and Europe where it is irradiated to make molybdenum-99, which decays into technetium-99.
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Commenting on the outcome, Fornal noted that the dark matter hypothesis is not entirely excluded: A second scenario exists in which the neutron decays into two dark matter particles, rather than one of them and a gamma ray.
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Consequently, I step onto an elliptical machine, enter my weight, cue up Appetite for Destruction and frantically scissor my limbs back and forth like some malfunctioning Rock 'em Sock 'em robot until last note of Rocket Queen decays.
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The next day it may not work, but their experience now is, "Oh this works," and so they're not prepared to take over and so their ability to kind of save it and monitor it decays with time.
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The minute-long splash of anti-humor, created by YouTube user Omni Verse, begins like one of Duchamp's musical sculptures, then decays into a sound I'd only previously heard produced by my junior high school orchestra while warming up.
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The fifth hypothetical pathway, in which the Higgs boson decays into subatomic particles called bottom quarks, is both the most difficult to trace and the most common, and is estimated to be the outcome of 60% of Higgs decay events.
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Or perhaps they'll continue on as the book series has, until in the end there is nothing left but the boxcar children, forever preadolescent and precocious, solving mysteries in perpetuity with their immortal grandfather, as the world decays around them.
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However, the funds thus collected have not been used for the populations, nor for the infrastructures: Lebanon struggles to have electricity 24 hours a day, every day of the week, the roads are in a dramatic state, the habitat decays.
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The urban population of South Asia alone is projected to almost triple to 1.2 billion by 2050, and as infrastructure decays and cities continue to sprawl into areas that aren't served at all, tankers are well-placed to absorb some of the shortfall.
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Friction from molecules in space near Earth brings unpowered objects closer to Earth ("decays" their orbit) but it can take many years, even centuries, before a given piece of scrap "de-orbits" by descending far enough to meet a fiery end in the atmosphere.
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In 1885, around the same time neurons were discovered, he published "On Memory," which revealed the "Forgetting Curve," where knowledge decays according to the formula R = e –(t/s), where R is retention, s is the relative strength of memory and t is time.
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The supersymmetric models predict that as a stau passes through Earth from space, it decays into a tau lepton and an as yet undetected lowest-mass supersymmetric particle before emerging on the other side of Earth—where the tau lepton could be registered by instruments like ANITA.
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In a paper published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Susan Hanson, a nuclear chemist at Los Alamos and leader on the project, writes that soil can be tested for molybdenum, an element that is created as zirconium, which is used in many nuclear weapons, decays.
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If you think that a lot of Netflix content actually decays in sort of relevance really quickly, then all it takes for Apple is to spend $20 billion a few years in a row to actually sort of like catch up and have a catalog that's equally interesting.
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The aural difference between the ball of a foot and the tip of a toe is visually magnified by an entire swiveling leg; the bassy boom of a dropped heel is emphasized by deep-bending knees, the whole sinking body seeming to sustain the sound as it decays.
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In a new experiment, her team is pushing the LHC to an all-time high of 14 TeV (a unit of energy) from the previous record of 13 TeV, in order to seek out two "bottom quarks"—subatomic particles that should be left behind when a Higgs boson particle decays.
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Surrounded by gilt, velvet and crystal, a glass of champagne never far from his hand, the man known as the Swan King (played by the Austrian actor Helmut Berger) literally decays before our eyes, his teeth blackening in his mouth and his blue eyes sinking into his perfectly sculptured cheekbones.
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Though at the same time, what's maybe underrepresented, just due to the nature of video, is the pure melancholy which was so moving throughout the work, which comes from Persian classical poetry — the destroyed soul, the destroyed being, looking at the world as it decays and experiencing it very physically.
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There are just too many other interesting good companies that one can go work at if you are a very credible, talented contributor at Twitter, and the problem is in the absence of them completely kind of figuring out their true northern star metric, the next version of product market fit, it's a thing that just kinda stagnates and decays.
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Whether such details matter depends on whether you are a television critic — focused on the logic and entertainment value of the story — or a historian who wants to understand the world in all its jigsaw maze of cause and effect like the patterns of particle collisions and decays that scientists at places like CERN try to reconstruct in their quest for new physics.
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