Faster than the Speed of Light: Runaway
subatomic particles seem to be breaking the cosmic speed limit.
The ghostly
subatomic particles seem to have zipped faster than light from the particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, to a detector in Italy.
Not exact matches
A CERN result suggesting that
subatomic particles travel faster than the speed of light may not be what it
seems
According to the orthodox interpretation of quantum mechanics (although «orthodox»
seems an odd description for such a radical world view),
subatomic entities such as electrons or photons are either waves or
particles — depending on how the physicist chooses to observe them.
Now it
seems subatomic particles can be pushed to similar extremes to create new forms of matter.
Ulysses» passage over the Sun's far north may also confirm another of last year's discoveries: the finding that cosmic rays — high - energy
subatomic particles from deep space — do not
seem to penetrate to the Sun's poles easily.
Particles behaving oddly at the Large Hadron Collider
seem to be the strongest signs yet of an unusual «
subatomic pancake» called a colour - glass condensate.
Although this statement
seems absurd, it describes a very real behavior that
subatomic particles exhibit.