Sunday Science: New Technique To Reveal Virtual Particles

The experiment this week is about an experiment which will measure nothing. But not any nothing. A very specific nothing, that's the vacuum of quantum electrodynamics.

Sabine Hossenfelder Sabine Hossenfelder - Science News
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My favourite physics paper of the week is a new idea for how to coax virtual particles out of the quantum vacuum and into revealing themselves. ,Sabine Hossenfelder
 

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