How to Use photon in a Sentence

photon

noun

• In the case of a photon, for which m=0, the equation boils down to E=pc.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2021
• If all goes well, the first light photons will enter the camera in the spring.
  — Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024
• When the stream of photons struck the retina, neurons fired.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
• In fact, the researchers show that the photons are what physicists call squeezed.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2017
• Within the photon ring is the shadow of the black hole, the point of no return known as the event horizon.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Sep. 2019
• Its qubits can be fashioned of many things, such as ions, photons, and atoms.
  — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 22 Feb. 2023
• Light bends around the gravity of the black hole, which creates the photon ring seen in the image.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Apr. 2023
• The process of making a photon is like setting a swing in motion.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2018
• When hit by photons, the dots emit electrons that flow across the graphene sheet to produce a current.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
• This plasma allows the glass to absorb most of the photons from the laser and locally melt the two glass sheets to form a weld.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 9 May 2024
• One photon of sunlight too much, and it’d wilt like old lettuce.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 5 June 2020
• The wavelength of the photon is dictated by the energy of the electrons and the spacing of the magnets.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Dec. 2018
• Both electrons and positrons have a small mass unlike photons, which have no mass.
  — Aristos Georgiou, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2018
• These transitions produce photons that are in the UV area of the spectrum.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 31 July 2024
• That doesn't tell me if my photons are being absorbed or not.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 June 2019
• Then there are the force carriers: photons, W and Z bosons, the Higgs, and gluons.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2018
• But rewinding the state of the universe plus an extra photon creates a glitch.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
• Some processes in physics happen in the blink of an eye while others happen in the blink of a photon.
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2023
• In the bizarre world of quantum mechanics, electrons and photons can be in two states at once.
  — Arthur Herman, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
• Instead, the first beam splitter sends the photon down one path or the other, like a particle.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 27 Oct. 2017
• This time the probe photon’s route would be split into three by partial mirrors.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 21 May 2018
• Solar sails, on the other hand, are powered by photons emitted by the sun.
  — Elijah Wolfson, Time, 26 July 2019
• Flipped over, a Fresnel can gather light from a 10°-wide patch of sky onto the photon counters.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 10 Sep. 2020
• When the particles are slowed, that mass is given up as photons in the field, which slow the cylinder as they are absorbed.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 15 Oct. 2019
• The travel time of the photons reveals the surface height—and any changes—to within millimeters.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 14 Apr. 2020
• The team made use of optical chips with channels that allowed photons to pass through.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2023
• Scientists use a laser to bathe a cesium atom with photons.
  — Quanta Magazine, 4 Sep. 2024
• In other words, the ratio of baryons, which include protons and neutrons, to photons, which light is made of, would have to shrink.
  — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 26 Sep. 2018
• The stack of OLEDs produces five photons for every electron that passes through.
  — New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2024
• Alice encodes the information onto photons and then sends them to Bob.
  — Pramod Kumar, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024