Sentences with phrase «strange type of particle»

But he forgot about a strange type of particle — the tachyon.

Not exact matches

In quantum mechanics, interactions between particles can give rise to entanglement, which is a strange type of connection that could never be described by a non-quantum, classical theory.

But while close, the two measurements didn't match perfectly, a result which leaves some wiggle room for physicists to think up other types of strange new particles.

In a paper published in the January 18 issue of Physical Review Letters, an international physics collaboration demonstrated that both types of bonds play by the same rules — quantum mechanics, the strange state in which matter exists as particles and waves at the same time.

The feat showed that the particles of light can retain a strange type of interconnectedness, known as quantum entanglement, even when flung to opposite ends of a country, researchers from China report in the June 16 Science.