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tornpentacle t1_j2zmgca wrote

https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abq3903

Here's the actual paper, because...Vice, seriously?

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marketrent OP t1_j2zo66t wrote

>tornpentacle

>Here's the actual paper, because...Vice, seriously?

Linked content from Motherboard/Vice includes remarks from a call with co-author Daniel Brandenburg.

For example, in my excerpt comment:

>“There's never been any measurement in the past of interference between distinguishable particles,” said Daniel Brandenburg, a physics professor at the Ohio State University who co-authored the new study, in a call with Motherboard. “That's the discovery; the application is that we get to use it to do some nuclear physics.”

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xDared t1_j30tw4g wrote

There’s nothing wrong with this article though, even if they post some cringey work

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helm t1_j318ol1 wrote

999/1000 of physics abstracts are impenetrable to the lay public, for a reason. To understand them, you usually need a master's degree in physics. The relevant field of physics.

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marketrent OP t1_j2zn618 wrote

Becky Ferreira, 4 Jan. 2023, Motherboard, Vice Media.

>For the first time ever, scientists at Brookhaven have captured interference patterns that are created by the entanglement of two particles with different charges, a breakthrough that has opened up a completely new window into the mysterious innards of atoms that make up visible matter in the universe, according to a study published on Wednesday in Science Advances.

>“There's never been any measurement in the past of interference between distinguishable particles,” said Daniel Brandenburg, a physics professor at the Ohio State University who co-authored the new study, in a call with Motherboard. “That's the discovery; the application is that we get to use it to do some nuclear physics.”

>“I wasn't even, in a sense, trying to find something so fundamental about quantum mechanics,” he continued. “When we realized that there's something really interesting going on here, that was a really big surprise to me.”

> 

>Brandenburg and his colleagues achieved this milestone with the help of a sensitive detector called the Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC, or STAR, that captured interactions between gold ions that were boosted to the brink of light speed.

>Clouds of photons, which are particles that carry light, surround the ions and interact with another type of particle, called gluons, that hold atomic nuclei together.

>These encounters between the photons and the gluons set off a chain of events that ultimately created two new particles, called pions, which have opposite charges—one positive and one negative.

>When these pions careened into the STAR detector, the precision instrument measured some of their key properties, such as velocity and angle of impact, which were then used to probe the size, shape, and arrangement of gluons inside the atomic nuclei with a precision that has never been achieved before.

>What’s more, the team is even able to make out the rough positions of key particles in the nucleus, such as protons and neutrons, as well as the distribution of gluons.

>It also offers a new way to unravel persistent mysteries about the behavior of atoms at high energies.

Science Advances, Jan. 2023. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq3903

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always_and_for_never t1_j32xm6j wrote

Can anyone with a proper understanding of quantum physics explain the implications of this discovery in layman's terms? The only thing I got from it is "We saw some behavior that we've never noticed before. Now we get to discover how this behavior influences our understanding of things we previously discovered."

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Mikel_S t1_j332qbc wrote

That's pretty much it. They discovered a new game play mechanic and now they get to see how it works.

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Sairoxin t1_j3ccdl0 wrote

New mechanic in the game of life? Soon people will be posting

"New mechanic OP breaks laws of physics! Most important discovery in science! Click to learn more!"

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P-E-R t1_j33uj4y wrote

How can entanglement work over enormous distances? Does this property travel faster than light?

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Widespreaddd t1_j36h5qe wrote

Help out a clueless old guy. Does this relate to the double-slit experiment in any way? Is it remarkable that definite particles (not wave properties) caused interference?

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cashew76 t1_j2zpfkh wrote

The deeper we dive the better we understand the ether.

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Ixm01ws6 t1_j32dbpf wrote

i have no idea how this works but adding to my 2023 bingo card, open portal to hell 2023..

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