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subatomic particles
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Virtual particles: How physicists’ clever bookkeeping trick could underlie reality
Scientists imagine virtual particles popping in and out of existence to explain how forces transfer between particles. koto_feja/iStock…
Why Physicists Built an Experiment the Size of a Sea
Deep beneath the Mediterranean, a massive neutrino detector has captured a particle so energetic it could rewrite our fundamental understanding of the cosmos.