carry light
Americannoun
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Quantum mechanics operates on incredibly tiny scales, and scientists are constantly developing more precise tools to measure and control phenomena such as photons, the particles that carry light.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2026
It had been assumed that neutrinos were essentially massless particles, like the photon particles that carry light.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 6, 2015
So, to carry light over such vast distances as that between sun and earth, they postulated the existence of a tenuous, invisible substance called the ether.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thanks to the light loads their large wings carry, "light planes," which commercial pilots call flivvers, pop-bottles, and of which an unprecedented 2,500 are being turned out this year, are all but foolproof.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sight is really a brain function; one sees with the brain, since the optic nerve endings in the back of the eye merely carry light impressions to the brain where they are properly interpreted.
From The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) by Winslow, Kenelm
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