particle physics
You are an energy field — but not the “chakras” or “auras” kind.
The double-slit experiment, hundreds of years after it was first performed, still holds the key mystery at the heart of quantum physics.
With a massive, charged nucleus orbited by tiny electrons, atoms are such simple objects. Miraculously, they make up everything we know.
Time gets a little strange as you approach the speed of light.
That scary swirling void from which nothing can escape is our perfect universal translation tool.
We are about to learn a lot more about the most elusive of cosmic particles.
With a bigger, better, and more sensitive detector, the XENON collaboration joins LZ and PANDA-X in constraining WIMP dark matter.
2023 is an exciting time for the study of quark-gluon plasmas.
If there are three neutrino species, all with different masses, then how is energy conserved when they oscillate from one flavor to another?
Everything everywhere all at once.
A non-invasive method for looking inside structures is solving mysteries about the ancient pyramid.
If you’re a massless particle, you must always move at light speed. If you have mass, you must go slower. So why aren’t any neutrinos slow?
Protons and neutrons are held together by the strong force: with 3 colors and 3 anticolors. So why are there only 8 gluons, and not 9?
ChatGPT doesn’t understand physics, but it memorizes very well and puts in extra effort.
When you combine the Uncertainty Principle with Einstein’s famous equation, you get a mind-blowing result: Particles can come from nothing.
Are quantum fields real, or are they simply calculational tools? These 3 experiments show that if energy is real, so are quantum fields.
Recent measurements of subatomic particles don’t match predictions stemming from the Standard Model.
The combination of charge conjugation, parity, and time-reversal symmetry is known as CPT. And it must never be broken. Ever.
Though quantum mechanics is an incredibly successful theory, nobody knows what it means. Scientists now must confront its philosophical implications.
A Fermilab study confirms decades-old measurements regarding the size and structure of protons.
Apart from the energy needed to flip the switch, no other energy is needed to transmit the information.
Experiments tell us quantum entanglement defies space and time.
How the Big Bang gave us time, explained by theoretical physicist.
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When you bring two fingers together, you can feel them “touch” each other. But are your atoms really touching, and if so, how?
To Einstein, nature had to be rational. But quantum physics showed us that there was not always a way to make it so.
Einstein tried to disprove quantum mechanics. Instead, a weird concept called entanglement showed that Einstein was wrong.
“Once quantum mechanics is applied to the entire cosmos, it uncovers a three-thousand-year-old idea.”
The central equation of quantum mechanics, the Schrödinger equation, is different from the equations found in classical physics.
It isn’t just identical particles that can be entangled, but even those with fundamentally different properties interfere with each other.
Quantum superposition challenges our notions of what is real.