carry light
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
To make Newton's physics work, scientists presumed the existence of a substance called ether, which they thought was necessary to carry light waves through space.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
You are to carry light into dark places and unto those who sit in darkness.
From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore
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