“When the first "let there be light" spoken, the entire electromagnetic spectrum is emitted.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Gamma rays are the sort of radiation you should avoid. Want proof? Just remember how the comic strip character "The Hulk" became… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When you're a hammer (as the saying goes), all your problems look like nails. If you're a meteorite expert pondering the sudden… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect… — Timothy Murphy Copy Share Image
“In 1994, NASA’s Compton Gamma Ray Observatory detected something as unexpected as the Velas’ discoveries: frequent flashes of gamma rays right near… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Filling out the entire electromagnetic spectrum, in order of low-energy and low-frequency to high-energy and high-frequency, we have: radio waves, micro waves,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“She can’t see it, Joss. We’re at the far end of the electromagnetic spectrum here, surrounded by gamma rays. I know school… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
[An audience conditioned by a lifetime of television-watching is so corrupted that] their standards have been systematically lowered over the years. These… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more… — Claude Nicollier Copy Share Image
In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this… — Clifford Shull Copy Share Image