Glimpsing the quantum vacuum: Particle spin correlations offer insight into how visible matter emerges from 'nothing' - Phys.org
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Glimpsing the quantum vacuum: Particle spin correlations offer insight into how visible matter emerges from 'nothing' - Phys.org

Source:Phys.Org
Author:Karen McNulty Walsh, Peter Genzer

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 feature of virtual particles that exist only fleetingly in…