The Hunt for Vulcan by Thomas Levenson

Author:Thomas Levenson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2015-11-02T16:00:00+00:00

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*1 To call something a fundamental particle is to say that it is a chunk of reality that cannot be broken up into any smaller components. Another example of such a particle would be the photon —the quantum, or finest possible subdivision of light across the entire spectrum of electromagnetic energy.

*2 In current theory, a particular kind of nothing called the false vacuum. False vacuums are regions of space-time that appear to be truly empty of phenomena, but through the effects of quantum mechanics can be populated, seemingly from nowhere, by subatomic particles or energy fluctuations.

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