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
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.

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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