These exotic particles could break physics

Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles — the standard model of particle physics — ...
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Virtual particles: How physicists’ clever bookkeeping trick could underlie reality

(THE CONVERSATION) A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would ...

‘Nothingness’ Is the Reason You’re Alive and Conscious, Quantum Physicists Say

Quantum field theory says true nothingness doesn’t exist; even a vacuum teems with energy fields that help create matter and ...
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Scientists made something out of nothing. Literally.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Seemingly empty vacuums are actually teeming with perturbations known as virtual particles that are nearly impossible to detect. Virtual particles ...
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Facts of the Matter: Fleeting virtual particles are reality’s invisible helpers

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. The surface of a calm pond might appear smooth and ...
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Glimpsing the quantum vacuum: Particle spin correlations offer insight into how visible matter emerges from 'nothing'

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered experimental evidence that particles of matter emerging from energetic subatomic smashups retain a key ...