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And yet this research conflicts with the parade of physicists who have an anti-realist stance about quantum fluctuations. It’s time to stop teaching the biggest lie about Hawking radiation: "Despite how often this viewpoint has been repeated, and despite the many prominent voices that have lent their support for it, it simply isn’t true. You can’t “pop” a particle-antiparticle pair out of empty space itself..."
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How visible matter appears out of the quantum vacuum
https://connectsci.au/news/news-parent/7...he-quantum
INTRO: Physicists have used an ion collider to see matter emerging from the vacuum after smashing together energetic subatomic particles.
The vacuum was once thought to be “empty” or “nothing”. But the development of quantum field theory over the past 100 years has revealed that the vacuum is actually the lowest energy state of empty space teeming with quantum activity.
Random quantum fluctuations of the vacuum can create and annihilate “virtual particles” which can act as mediators for fundamental forces like electromagnetism. They pop in and out of existence in a flash as matter-antimatter pairs.
These fleeting virtual particles pairs cannot be directly detected, but their signature can show up in particle collider experiments. The new research, published in Nature, uses data from experiments at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) carried out by the STAR Collaboration.
They found a significant correlation between the intrinsic spin (a form of angular momentum which is fundamental to subatomic particles) of certain pairs of particles created by proton-proton collisions.
These spin correlations can be directly linked to the alignment of spin in virtual quark-antiquark pairs generated in the quantum vacuum. In other words, the proton-proton collisions supplied sufficient energy to the virtual particles for them to transform into the real particles detected by STAR.
“This work gives us a unique window into the quantum vacuum that may open a new era in our understanding of how visible matter forms and how its fundamental properties emerge,” says study co-lead Zhoudunming (Kong) Tu, a STAR physicist at Brookhaven... (MORE - details)
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How visible matter appears out of the quantum vacuum
https://connectsci.au/news/news-parent/7...he-quantum
INTRO: Physicists have used an ion collider to see matter emerging from the vacuum after smashing together energetic subatomic particles.
The vacuum was once thought to be “empty” or “nothing”. But the development of quantum field theory over the past 100 years has revealed that the vacuum is actually the lowest energy state of empty space teeming with quantum activity.
Random quantum fluctuations of the vacuum can create and annihilate “virtual particles” which can act as mediators for fundamental forces like electromagnetism. They pop in and out of existence in a flash as matter-antimatter pairs.
These fleeting virtual particles pairs cannot be directly detected, but their signature can show up in particle collider experiments. The new research, published in Nature, uses data from experiments at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) carried out by the STAR Collaboration.
They found a significant correlation between the intrinsic spin (a form of angular momentum which is fundamental to subatomic particles) of certain pairs of particles created by proton-proton collisions.
These spin correlations can be directly linked to the alignment of spin in virtual quark-antiquark pairs generated in the quantum vacuum. In other words, the proton-proton collisions supplied sufficient energy to the virtual particles for them to transform into the real particles detected by STAR.
“This work gives us a unique window into the quantum vacuum that may open a new era in our understanding of how visible matter forms and how its fundamental properties emerge,” says study co-lead Zhoudunming (Kong) Tu, a STAR physicist at Brookhaven... (MORE - details)