particles
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Photonics leverages particles of light and relies on highly complex physics.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
However, during particularly intense events, some particles can penetrate the atmosphere, where they have the potential to take out power grids or communication networks.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
Unlike gravity or electromagnetism, the strong force becomes stronger as particles move farther apart, similar to a rubber band stretching tighter the more it is pulled.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
In its first moments, the universe was a seething soup of elementary particles and energetic photons that would destroy any atom before it could form.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
They had been breathing in ash that coated their throats, the particles of dust sucking their mouth dry, just like it did the smaller springs that had fed into the Green River.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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