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July 25, 2014

Boosting the Force of Empty Space
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Jul 25, 2014
Vacuum fluctuations may be among the most counter-intuitive phenomena of quantum physics. Theorists from the Weizmann Institute (Rehovot, Israel) and the Vienna University of Technology propose a way to amplify their force. Vacuum is not as empty as one might think. In fact, empty space is a bubbling soup of various virtual particles popping in and out of existence - a phenomenon called "vacuum fluctuations". Usually, such extremely short-lived particles remain completely unnoticed, but in c ... read more

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