The color of the emitted light depends on the relative heights of the starting and ending energy levels. A crash between closely spaced levels (such as two and one) releases a pulse of low-energy reddish light, while a crash between more widely space...
Also unlike a planet, an electron—if excited by heat or light—can leap from its low-energy shell to an empty, high-energy shell. The electron cannot stay in the high-energy state for long, so it soon crashes back down. But this isn’t a simple b...
When you do the math and examine how much energy is produced per atomic union, you find that fusing anything to iron’s twenty-six protons costs energy. That means post-ferric fusion* does an energy-hungry star no good. Iron is the final peal of a s...
The interruption did nothing but earn her a similar slap, as I’m sure she knew it would. Sometimes I wondered if my mother spoke up at the wrong time on purpose. As often as we endured my father’s abuse, she had to be aware that it wouldn’t sav...
The description of Huck’s father grabbed my full attention, and I glanced up at the book in my teacher’s hand as if to double check. My eyes bulged reflexively. Huck’s father was an abusive drunk just like mine. The boy was hopeful that a corps...
When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That's why you can't fall in love wi...
Differences disappear when faced with death.
Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.
Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.
When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.
I didn't disappear; I started writing songs and worked behind the scenes.
Autumn is a classical music; when it begins, the gravity disappears!
Beauty is where the beheld butterfly disappears from sight.
I don't like magic - but I have been known to make guys disappear.
Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good.
Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear.
It's estimated that one million girls in India 'disappear' every year.
