Phonetician's diacritics

Usage examples of macrons.

The truth is, the macrons are far more specific than light, because they don't diffuse readily or suffer such embarrassments as red shift.

The farther away the star we're looking at, the older it is, because of the time it takes our macrons to get here.

We find the macrons in a beam emanating from a thousand light-years away to be almost as distinct as those from our own sun's field.

At some point there will be an interaction that occurs in light—and some of the resultant macrons will reach us, however far away we are.

Does it hit the smarty sooner than the marginal one, or is it like the macrons: you get it or you don't?

The computer, he thought, must perform a tremendous task, for surely a completely different flow of macrons would be required for each change in direction—yet the transition was smooth.

What was the distinction between the tame macrons and the wild ones, that only the tame should pass?

And finally the light struck out into deep space, leaving its macrons behind, divorced.

Like a cloak shed of its master, the mantle of macrons collapsed, compacted, lost form—but remained as lightspeed impulses, clumping to each other, billions where one had been before.

The macrons aren't uniformly distributed, though they seem to be reasonably well ordered within the clumps.