News tagged with quantum mechanical model

Time reversal: A simple particle could reveal new physics

(PhysOrg.com) -- A simple atomic nucleus could reveal properties associated with the mysterious phenomenon known as time reversal and lead to an explanation for one of the greatest mysteries of physics: the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (40) | comments 128 | with audio podcast

A new technique for understanding quantum effects in water

It covers over two thirds of our planet, is essential for life on Earth and its chemical formula is one of the few most people can name, but we still have much to learn about the structure of H2O. Now, scientists ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Primordial weirdness: Did the early universe have 1 dimension?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Did the early universe have just one spatial dimension? That's the mind-boggling concept at the heart of a theory that University at Buffalo physicist Dejan Stojkovic and colleagues proposed in 2010.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (37) | comments 200 | with audio podcast

Large Hadron Collider finds no signatures of microscopic black holes

The CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has completed a search for microscopic black holes produced in high-energy proton-proton collisions. No evidence for their production was found and ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 19, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (34) | comments 222 | with audio podcast

Experiment tests underpinnings of quantum field theory, Bose-Einstein statistics of photons

(PhysOrg.com) -- Of all the assumptions underlying quantum mechanics and the theory that describes how particles interact at the most elementary level, perhaps the most basic is that particles are either ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 25, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 45 | with audio podcast

3 Questions: Steven Nahn on the elusive Higgs boson

(PhysOrg.com) -- Troubles at the Large Hadron Collider have led some physicists to suggest the Higgs boson is sabotaging its own discovery. Nahn explains why he disagrees.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (41) | comments 10

K-State's fast laser research and theory building on Einsten's work by timing electrons emissions

Ultrafast laser research at Kansas State University has allowed physicists to build on Nobel Prize-winning work in photo-electronics by none other than Albert Einstein.

Physics / General Physics

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0