Word: detectors
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...piece created especially for the show used chopped-up footage of piano strings being plucked in sync with the audio, while another composition featured a buzzing acupuncture point detector that was pressed against various points of Schmidt’s body and enlarged for the audience with a live video feed. Captivating and thoroughly enjoyable, the duo’s vivid imagery and even more vivid music bridged performance and process, recreating the act of composition onstage and refashioning the link between sound and equipment that often gets lost amidst the technology...
...they are decked out in military garb, including black caps, fatigues and combat boots, with 9mm Berettas strapped to their side. Getting past them to work is a lot like getting on a plane these days: every employee as well as every visitor has to go through a metal detector and then get searched by a guard using an electronic hand wand...
...came from nuclear fusion the same process that powers the H-bomb - but they had no proof. But Davis realized that fusion reactions at the sun's core should generate neutrinos, elusive particles that would escape and fly all the way to, and through the Earth. He put a detector deep underground to screen out other stray particles, and, sure enough, there were the neutrinos...
...That alone was Nobel-worthy work, but Davis also found that there were only about a third the predicted number of particles. Theorists struggled for decades to understand why; finally, in the late 1990s, Koshiba?s Super-Kamiokande detector in Japan proved that the missing neutrinos had really just converted into another form, undetectable by Davis's machine (for complex reasons, this also implied that neutrinos, long thought to be massless, actually do have a tiny mass...
...officer was sent to investigate a beeping noise at 51 Brattle St. The officer determined the beeping to be caused by a smoke detector in a trashcan...