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- noun Plural form of
gamma .
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Examples
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When a positron and an electron go "poof," you get two 511 kev gammas, which is equal to the sum of their respective masses.
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Until recently, Mac OS X and Windows used two different "gammas," which meant that images on Macs appeared brighter than ones on PC.
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It's Sunday night, which means that the illustrious crew of the WTF are hard at work chasing gammas and getting in trouble.
barney flies the hovercraft while cinnamon infiltrates the premier's staff... coffeeem 2009
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Pi-zero decays to two gammas which make two electron-like rings.
Pi Bente Lilja Bye 2008
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The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which records lower-energy gamma rays than does VERITAS, also found gammas from M82 and from another starburst galaxy, NGC 253, reported Keith Bechtolof the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, Calif.
Wired Top Stories Ron Cowen 2009
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With it's 5.27 year half-life and two 2.2 MeV gammas produced in the decay, you'd still have disposal issues.
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Solrey, the Sun is the brightest object in the sky, in all wavebands of the EM spectrum, with the exception of very high energy gammas transients aside; GRBs, SNe, etc, certainly outshine the Sun briefly.
Do "Skeleton" Filaments Give Structure to the Universe? | Universe Today 2009
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This sort of craft would reach low gammas ~ 2 or v = .8c.
Plasma Rocket Could Help Pick Up Space Trash | Universe Today 2009
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True, but I don't think the gammas are created whole.
Peggy Drexler: Will Hillary Ever Be One Of The Cool Kids? 2008
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March 2nd, 2009 at 6: 39 am the idea would be to find that which exceeds the speed of light (that which simultaneously destroys sub-atomic particles) and develop a detector so the returning data would “race” the gammas back to us - BUT - how much warning time would that really give us - anyhow???
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