A ring of 10 to 30 atoms, each inflated to a fragile, oversized state and held in place by laser tweezers, has given physicists what the authors describe as a highly controlled look at a quantum ...

Physicists have successfully simulated false vacuum decay, a quantum process theorized to be capable of ending the universe as we know it. The simulation, conducted by researchers studying quantum ...

Vacuum decay, a process that could end the universe as we know it, may happen 10,000 times sooner than expected. Fortunately, it still won’t happen for a very, very long time. When physicists speak of ...

Physicists in China have simulated the effect of "false vacuum decay": a phenomenon believed to play out constantly in the seemingly empty expanses of space, and which one theory even suggests could ...

Scientists have produced the first experimental evidence of vacuum decay. An experiment conducted in Italy, with theory support from Newcastle University, has produced the first experimental evidence ...

The universe may not be as stable as you think. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, ...

Of all the possible ends of the universe, vacuum decay would be the most thorough. The universe is going to end. But of all the possible ends of the universe vacuum decay would have to be the most ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Vacuum decay, a process that could end the universe as we know it, may happen 10,000 times sooner than expected. Fortunately, it still ...

An experiment conducted in Italy, with theory support from Newcastle University, has produced the first experimental evidence of vacuum decay. The ultracold atoms lab of the Pitaevskii Center for Bose ...

One of the quantum fields that fills the universe is special because its default value seems poised to eventually change, changing everything. Vacuum decay, a process that could end the universe as we ...