Scientists Made the Fastest-Spinning Particles Ever to Test the Limits of Physics
These particles spin around each other a billion times per second, and will be used to study the very fabric of spacetime.
These particles spin around each other a billion times per second, and will be used to study the very fabric of spacetime.
Although the answer was more or less what scientists had predicted it would be, finding the answer was an enormous feat that required international coordination.
Every so often, protons and even entire atomic nuclei strike the Earth with extremely high energies. No one knew for sure where the most energetic of these particles came from—until now.
At last, a machine that can actually simulate quantum mechanics working on a large scale.
Fresh results about potentially habitable exoplanets are always tantalising. But there’s only so much information we can gather about them with present-day technology.
“There’s no justification for thinking that the Earth is flat... But it’s indicative of a deeper problem.”
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It was a proof-of-principle test that may one day lead to a way to acquire fuel during a long-distance space mission.
Sound and light have way more in common than you think.
The meteorite itself is of interest to scientists, who want to know what these rocks are made of in order to better understand our Solar System.
This discovery is yet another tool to probe the very deepest underpinnings of the Universe.
Could new silicon-filled diamonds eventually lead to speedier surfing? We can but dream.
Think we have problems now? Just wait a few billion years, when the accelerating expansion of the Universe triggers an energy crisis of cosmological proportions.
This esoteric calculation will inform physicists as to whether there are strange, undiscovered particles out there yet to be studied.
These kinds of tests are important for the way they can rule out alternative theories of gravity that look like general relativity but differ for yet-to-be-explored physical realms.
How can spacecraft meant to study and take advantage of asteroid resources up close survive the environments of their utterly unearthly hosts?
