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    After a long period of successive absorption and re-emission (a photon might take a thousand years to leave the sun), gamma rays become x-rays, extreme ultraviolet, ultraviolet, then eventually turn into visible light and other forms of radiation.†  (source)
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    We can use the BDA to put some photon pressure on the eyeball.†  (source)
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    Babette of electrons and photons, of whatever forces produced that gray light we took to be her face.†  (source)
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    Within that context of thought, ghosts and spirits are quite as real as atoms, particles, photons and quants are to a modern man.†  (source)
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    (ELECTRON, PROTON, NEUTRON, MESON AND PHOTON) ERASE†  (source)
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    While the journalists from Scientific American tended to wear tweed sport jackets with pocket protectors and were crowded into one corner of the room discussing photons, most of the other patrons looked as if they'd dropped by after finishing up at work on Wall Street or Madison Avenue: Italian suit jackets slung over the backs of chairs, Hermès ties loosened, men who seemed to want to do nothing more than to scope out the women in attendance while flashing their Rolexes.†  (source)
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    A photon is effectively a tiny puff of light.†  (source)
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    The radiation zone, the region of the sun's interior that surrounds the core, absorbs these high-energy photons and re-emits them at a slightly lower energy level.†  (source)
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    she hears the bones of dead whales stir five leagues below, their marrow offering a century of food for cities of creatures who will live their whole lives and never once see a photon sent from the sun.†  (source)
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    Which turned black as night as they attempted to deflect the massed photons.†  (source)
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    What the photon is it?†  (source)
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    But it's still going to take a lot of photons.†  (source)
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    He decided to refrain from asking about Captain Kirk's use of photon torpedoes against the Klingons.†  (source)
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