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fluctuate
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The Three-Body Problem
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- Cosmic microwave background radiation very precisely matched the thermal black body spectrum at a temperature of 2.7255 K and was highly isotropic—meaning nearly uniform in every direction—with only tiny temperature fluctuations at the parts per million range.†
p. 119.9
- I want to see the overall fluctuation in the cosmic microwave background.†
p. 120.2fluctuation = the process of alternately increasing and decreasing in quantity; or the amount of such a change
- "What I mean is ...I want to see the isotropic fluctuation in the overall cosmic microwave background, between one and five percent," he said, quoting from Shen's email.†
p. 120.3
- Then you must know that unlike the local variations we observe in different parts of the universe, the overall fluctuation in the cosmic microwave background is correlated with the expansion of the universe.†
p. 120.9
- But you want to see a five percent fluctuation tonight?†
p. 121.1
- If the kind of fluctuation you anticipate—in excess of one percent—occurs, this line would turn red and become a waveform.†
p. 121.6
- If you want to see it show the kind of fluctuation observable by the naked eye, you might have to wait until long after the death of the sun.†
p. 121.7
- From now on, if such great fluctuations occur, the data will be automatically saved to disk.†
p. 121.8
- As they looked at the terminal, the fluctuation was just getting started.†
p. 123.6fluctuation = the process of alternately increasing and decreasing in quantity; or the amount of such a change
- If the cosmic microwave background is fluctuating this much, we should be able to see it with our own eyes.†
p. 125.2fluctuating = alternately increasing and decreasing in quantity
- She quickly discovered that within the frequency ranges monitored by Red Coast, solar radiation fluctuated unpredictably.†
p. 259.3fluctuated = alternately increased and decreased in quantity
- Sometimes, during one of the sudden fluctuations in solar radiation, the surface of the sun was calm.†
p. 259.3 *
- Since hundreds of thousands of kilometers of solar material would absorb any shortwave and microwave radiation originating from the core of the sun, the radiation must have come from activities on its surface, so there should have been observable surface activity when these fluctuations occurred.†
p. 259.5
- All the mysterious sudden fluctuations within narrow frequency bands that she had observed were in fact the result of other radiation coming from space being amplified after reflecting off an energy mirror in the sun.†
p. 262.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(fluctuate) to alternately increase and decrease in quantity
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)