How to Use relativistic in a Sentence
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Force, in relativistic terms, is defined by the equation \vec {F} =\gamma (\vec {v} )^{3}m_{0}\,\vec {a} _{\parallel }+\gamma (\vec {v} )m_{0}\,\vec {a} _{\perp }.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
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The proton is a collection of quarks and gluons moving at relativistic speeds around a central point.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2023
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The quest to reconcile the quantum and relativistic worldviews has occupied physics for decades.
—Adam Frank, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2023
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The swarm could be made of many individual collectors placed all around the different parts of a black hole in order to best collect from the accretion disk, the corona, and the relativistic jets.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2021
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Which is not to imply half the country is purely rational and the other are relativistic nutcases.
—Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
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Only about 1% of tidal disruption events result in relativistic jets (or beams moving at close to the speed of light) that launch plasma and radiation from the poles of a rotating black hole.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 30 Nov. 2022
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The strange quark can decay in a way that converts this into a proton, which can be spotted using the detector hardware at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2017
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The engine accelerates ions confined in a loop to moderate relativistic speeds, and then varies their velocity to make slight changes to their mass.
—Fox News, 16 Oct. 2019
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Artist's conception of a tidal disruption event (TDE) that happens when a supermassive black hole tears apart a star and launches a relativistic jet.
—Erika K Carlson, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2018
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These are called relativistic jets, and they're made of superheated plasma ejected from the accretion disk.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2019
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That notion has taken root in our relativistic culture.
—WSJ, 18 Sep. 2018
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All the principles of classical physics are fully intact in the relativistic context.
—Sean Carroll, Quanta Magazine, 14 Nov. 2022
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Breakthroughs were made in relativistic quantum mechanics, leading to the Klein-Gordon, Dirac, and Proca equations.
—Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 7 May 2021
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At some point, regardless of how it was born, all massive particles will eventually move slowly compared to the speed of light: becoming non-relativistic and cold.
—Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
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But Einstein’s theories turned Newton’s absolute space and time into a relativistic mash-up — his equations suggested a merged spacetime, a new sort of arena in which the players altered the space of the playing field.
—Tom Siegfried, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2019
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One was a single, sharp peak that lasted only 30 microseconds, which suggests an event that comes from an extremely small area of space (in the neighborhood of 10km, although relativistic effects could change that value).
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2018
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Each pinging photon of light would impart a slight momentum to the sail and its cargo; in the microgravity vacuum of space, the torrent of photons unleashed by a gigawatt-class laser would rapidly push a nanocraft to relativistic speeds.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 Apr. 2016
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CMEs can create a kind of solar wind on steroids, generating shock waves that push energetic particles to relativistic speeds, or velocities that approach the speed of light.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2018
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The scientists were using a super-heavy ion linear accelerator to bombard atoms with ions as heavy as uranium at relativistic speeds.
—Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2021
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But, given that all of this is happening near a supermassive black hole, the researchers hope to continue these simulations with a version of the software that handles relativistic effects better.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024
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The enforcement of the original meaning of the Constitution is therefore not a morally indifferent or relativistic act.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 22 June 2023
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Here the relativistic effects predicted by Einstein must be taken into account.
—Martin Rees, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
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The environment in which a lightning bolt forms typically has some loose electrons, and these get rapidly accelerated to relativistic speeds by the intense electrical fields.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2019
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Its relativistic quantum fields still live in Euclid’s continuum—or more precisely, in Einstein’s update.
—Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
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No one had successfully modeled how a viscous fluid would act at relativistic speeds, but working with colleagues in the Vanderbilt physics department, Disconzi successfully did it.
—Yvette Cendes, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
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No one had successfully modeled how a viscous fluid would act at relativistic speeds, but working with colleagues in the Vanderbilt physics department, Disconzi successfully did it.
—Yvette Cendes, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2019
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Use the momentum principle along with relativistic momentum to calculate the final velocity of the spacecraft.
—Rhett Allain, WIRED, 31 May 2018
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This type or radiation is created when relativistic electrons — those traveling at nearly the speed of light — encounter strong magnetic fields, which imparts a particular signature on the light.
—Mara Johnson-Groh, Discover Magazine, 11 Sep. 2019
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Eventually, it is literally ripped apart, its material subsumed into an orbiting accretion flow that either falls into the black hole or gets shot out as a relativistic jet.
—Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
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Other physicists around the same time, including Benedict Friedlaender and August Föppl, held similar relativistic ideas.
—Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 29 July 2019
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