particle physics

No space, no time, no particles: Vlatko Vedral’s radical vision of quantum reality
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Many have pinpointed the birth of quantum mechanics to the small, treeless island of Helgoland, where a young Werner Heisenberg ...

The 30-year fight over how many numbers we need to describe reality
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It all started one summer lunchtime in 1992 on the terrace outside the CERN cafeteria. If you had happened to ...

Physicists are uncovering when nature’s strongest force falters
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STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY We're getting closer to understanding when the strong nuclear ...





