[ad_1] IMAGE: MIT physicists created a perfect fluid in the lab and recorded the sound of that “perfect flow”. The way sound travels through this fluid can be used to … visualize More Credit: Image: Christine Daniloff, MIT For some, the sound of a “perfect stream” might be the gentle …
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[ad_1] IMAGE: The Voyager spacecraft continues to make discoveries even as it travels through interstellar space. In a new study, physicists at the University of Iowa report on Voyager’s detection of cosmic rays … sight More Credit: NASA / JPL More than 40 years after its launch, the Voyager probe …
Read More »Scientists produce sound waves from a quantum vacuum in the Black Hole laboratory
[ad_1] Researchers have developed a new theory for observing a quantum vacuum that could lead to new insights into the behavior of black holes. The Unruh effect combines quantum physics and the theory of relativity. It has not been possible to measure or observe it so far, but now new …
Read More »A wind chime-based dark matter detector seems odd enough to work
[ad_1] Illustration: Jim Cooke Dark matter physicists may have one of the most frustrating jobs in science. Their work deals with something that, according to almost all models of the universe, must exist. But we have never found any direct evidence for dark matter. Where other scientists can capture their …
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