Quantum Physics News

RSS

Film Maker Awarded Collide@CERN-Geneva Prize

CERN and the City and the Canton of Geneva awarded the second Collide@CERN-Geneva prize to the 47 year-old film maker Jan Peters, for his proposal to explore the world of CERN from a highly personal perspective.

27 Mar 2013

New Experimental Approach to Probe Positively Charged Ions

Scientists at the Department of Physics of the University of Oulu have teamed up with scientists in France, Russia and Japan to propose a new experimental method for researching positively charged ions.

26 Mar 2013

Researchers Identify Quantum Level Mechanism for Interpreting Vacuum

Two forthcoming EPJ D papers challenge established wisdom about the nature of vacuum. In one paper, Marcel Urban from the University of Paris-Sud, located in Orsay, France and his colleagues identified a quantum level mechanism for interpreting vacuum as being filled with pairs of virtual particles with fluctuating energy values.

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 26 Mar 2013

Theoretical Physicist Stephon Alexander to Discuss Consequences of Parity-Violating Universe at Physics Colloquium

Stephon Alexander from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College, will discuss "The Cosmological and Gravitational Consequences of a Parity Violating Universe" at 4 p.m. Friday, March 29, during a physics colloquium.

26 Mar 2013

Harvard Scientists Measure Magnetism of Matter and Antimatter with Unprecedented Precision

In a breakthrough that could one day yield important clues about the nature of matter itself, a team of Harvard scientists have succeeding in measuring the magnetic charge of single particles of matter and antimatter more accurately than ever before.

26 Mar 2013

Researchers Create Highly Unusual Plasma Composed of Hollow Atoms

An international team of plasma physicists has used one of the world's most powerful lasers to create highly unusual plasma composed of hollow atoms.

26 Mar 2013

Planck Satellite Measures Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation with Exquisite Precision

Rachel Bean, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, comments on new data released by the European Space Agency offering a detailed map of relic radiation from the Big Bang.

25 Mar 2013

Closest Reading yet of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Thanks to a supersensitive space telescope and some sophisticated supercomputing, scientists from the international Planck collaboration have made the closest reading yet of the most ancient story in our universe: the cosmic microwave background (CMB).

25 Mar 2013

Planck Space Telescope Data Confirms Standard Model of Cosmology

Europe’s Planck space telescope, which University of Manchester scientists at the Jodrell Bank Observatory helped build, has compiled the most detailed map of the post-Big Bang Universe ever recorded and thrown up anomalies that current physics cannot yet explain.

25 Mar 2013

Sideline Quasars May Have Prevented Formation of New Generations of Stars

University of Colorado Boulder astronomers targeting one of the brightest quasars glowing in the universe some 11 billion years ago say "sideline quasars" likely teamed up with it to heat abundant helium gas billions of years ago, preventing small galaxy formation.

25 Mar 2013