Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

SoylentNews is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop. Only 16 submissions in the queue.

Submission Preview

Link to Story

Quantum fluctuations can jiggle objects on the human scale

Accepted submission by exec at 2020-07-01 15:56:45
News

The universe, as seen through the lens of quantum mechanics, is a noisy, crackling space where particles blink constantly in and out of existence, creating a background of quantum noise whose effects are normally far too subtle to detect in everyday objects.

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-quantum-fluctuations-jiggle-human-scale.html [phys.org]

-- submitted from IRC


Original Submission