Pronunciation of the English word ripples.
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1. | A gentle wind made ripples on the surface of the pond. | |
2. | The stone started ripples in the pond. | |
3. | Ripples continue to radiate outward long after the stone that produced them has sunk to the bottom of the pond. | |
4. | If mass curves space, then very large masses moving quickly through space would create ripples in space. These are called gravitational waves. | |
5. | LISA will place three spacecraft in orbit around the Sun, tagging along behind Earth. The three spacecraft will be 5 million kilometers apart flying in a triangle formation. When a gravitational wave passes by, these ripples in space gently push the spacecraft around by the tiniest amount imaginable. But the super-super-super sensitive laser beams that connect the three spacecraft will allow this tiny movement to be measured. | |
6. | One of the most spectacular achievements in physics so far this century has been the observation of gravitational waves, ripples in space-time that result from masses accelerating in space. | |
7. | But those who insist the U.S. did not put astronauts on the moon have claimed their own "evidence" to a faked landing. They question why the flag astronaut Neil Armstrong planted on the moon could not possibly be rippling, because there is no air on the moon. In reality, the astronauts bent the metal frame holding the flag, causing the ripples. |