matter

The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus;      197 words ...matter • noun   1. decaying vegetable matter synonyms : material, substance, stuff.   2. the heart of the matter synonyms : affair, business, proceeding, situation, circumstance, event, happening...

Let there be matter. (physicists trasmute optical photons into bits of...

Discover;  December 1, 1997 ;     686 words ...Einstein taught us that matter is just another form of energy. Now physicists...have for the first time created bits of matter from beams of light. Albert Einstein's Epochal insight into the equivalence of matter and energy, elegantly expressed as E...

Death of Naperville legend reminds us we all matter.(Neighbor)(Community...

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  December 8, 2004 ;     700+ words ......lost a true legend last month when Herb Matter Jr. died two weeks shy of his 82nd birthday...Barnard and cartoonist Charles Schulz. Matter was a grandson of James Nichols, after...Avenue across from North Central College. Matter was the only child born to James Nichols...

I almost didn't write this. (journalistic use of the phrase 'it almost...

U.S. News & World Report;  November 10, 1997 ;     700+ words ......familiar nonsense phrase-- it almost doesn't matter --seems to be making a comeback. News...deficit is so low that it almost doesn't matter whether it is eliminated. The phrase shows...was so wrenching that it almost doesn't matter whether Drexler's baby was stillborn or...

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: HEIR APPARENT; AT AIR HART, MATTER'S NUMBERS RIVAL STAR...

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  December 7, 1999 ;     700+ words ......find then-junior varsity quarterback Kyle Matter on the sideline scripting the plays. It...main thing.'' Until this season began, Matter, a junior, was known as ``the quarterback...Cal this year - has a reason to watch Matter. He might even learn something. A comparison...

How deep is Rene Descartes' cut? How am I related to the paperweight on my...

Frontier Perspectives;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......paperweight on my table? The paperweight is matter and I am a conscious being. The question...version of a profound question, how is matter related to consciousness? Introduction...into two categories, the Mind and the Matter. This cut is popularly known as the Cartesian...

MATTER

Young Students Learning Library;      700+ words ...00-00-0000 Look around you--everything you can see or touch is made of matter. This book is matter. So is a glass and the water in it, and the air you breathe. Matter is anything that has volume (takes up space). Scientists also say that matter...

It's a mammoth task to find out what's matter.(News)

The Birmingham Post (England);  June 29, 1999 ;     494 words ......scientists are trying to find out why matter - the stuff everything from planets to...The team is trying to understand how matter survives the first microseconds after...the Big Bang created equal amounts of matter and anti-matter - a substance which is...

Herbert J. Matter Jr.(Obituaries)(Obituary)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  November 17, 2004 ;     474 words ...Herbert J. Matter Jr. a lifelong resident of Naperville Funeral services for Herbert J. Herbie Matter Jr., 81, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday...Sunrise Assisted Living in Naperville. Mr. Matter graduated from the University of Illinois...

DOES INTERNATIONAL LAW MATTER?

American Society of International Law. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......DAVID D. CARON* "Does international law matter?" That such a skeptical question is posed...question of whether international law matters echoes older questions we have debated...international law, like all of law, should matter and in the sense that we are disappointed...

at CERN Use Anti-Matter to Probe Origins of Universe

Xinhua News Agency;  August 10, 2000 ;     418 words ......planning to create particles of anti- matter, which they say could shed new light...struggling for years to understand why matter exists at all. In theory, the Big Bang should have created equal amounts of matter and anti-matter, and they should have...

Interview: Dr. Fabrizio Nicastro discusses the discovery of some of the...

NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday;  February 4, 2005 ;     700+ words ......discovery of some of the universe's missing matter Host: IRA FLATOW Time: 2:00-3:00 PM IRA...Nature that they have found some of the matter in the universe that has gone missing...the mysterious dark energy or the dark matter here. No, we're talking about baryons...

Scientist's probe into anti-matter speeds us to the stars.(News)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  June 30, 2005 ;     651 words ......university has been praised for his investigation of anti-matter, the elusive 'dark element' which could one day cure...began with a big bang around 15 billion years ago. Matter and anti-matter were scattered everywhere, according to the theory...

DARK MATTER

Natural History;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...MOST OF THE MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE IS NEITHER BOUND UP IN...second of every day, millions of dark-matter particles may course through every cubic...readily admit that they don't know what dark matter is-just that it dominates the universe...

GRAY MATTERS: Evidence found for theoretical dark matter

New Haven Register;  August 27, 2006 ;     542 words ...Physicists have found solid evidence of dark matter, the material that comprises virtually...out of the truly odd stuff that we call "matter" and makes up a paltry 5 percent or so...quite large, 5 percent includes a lot of matter. All of the stars, planets and everything...