For most everyday experiences, such as riding a bicycle, using a lift or catching a ball, classical (Newtonian) mechanics is perfectly accurate.
Quantum Physics
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Ordinarily, light particles—photons—don't interact. If two photons collide in a vacuum, they simply pass through each other.
Quantum Physics
Jun 19, 2017
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When a ballerina pirouettes, twirling a full revolution, she looks just as she did when she started. But for electrons and other subatomic particles, which follow the rules of quantum theory, that's not necessarily so. When ...
Quantum Physics
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Forty years ago, Canadian physicist Bill Unruh made a surprising prediction regarding quantum field theory. Known as the Unruh effect, his theory predicted that an accelerating observer would be bathed in blackbody radiation, ...
Space Exploration
Apr 18, 2017
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(ScienceX)—It was another good week for physics as an international team of researchers discovered strange forces acting on nanoparticles, which were related to looking at the Casimir Effect using quantum field theory. ...
A new scientific paper published, in part, by a University of New Mexico physicist is shedding light on a strange force impacting particles at the smallest level of the material world.
General Physics
Apr 10, 2017
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New research offers insights into how crystal dislocations—a common type of defect in materials—can affect electrical and heat transport through crystals, at a microscopic, quantum mechanical level.
Nanophysics
Mar 15, 2017
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A UK, Canadian and Italian study has provided what researchers believe is the first observational evidence that our universe could be a vast and complex hologram.
General Physics
Jan 30, 2017
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The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Physical Society (APS) announced today, on behalf of the Heineman Foundation for Research, Educational, Charitable, and Scientific Purposes, that Carl M. Bender of ...
Quantum Physics
Oct 13, 2016
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Among the intriguing issues in plasma physics are those surrounding X-ray pulsars—collapsed stars that orbit around a cosmic companion and beam light at regular intervals, like lighthouses in the sky. Physicists want to ...
Plasma Physics
Jul 29, 2016
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