Physicists have successfully simulated how light interacts with empty space - a phenomenon once thought to belong purely to the realm of science fiction. (Nanowerk News) Physicists at the University ...

The Dynamical Casimir Effect (DCE) encompasses a striking quantum phenomenon whereby rapid, nonadiabatic modifications of boundary conditions produce pairs of real photons from the quantum vacuum – a ...

Physicists have used an ion collider to see matter emerging from the vacuum after smashing together energetic subatomic particles. The vacuum was once thought to be “empty” or “nothing”. But the ...

HOUSTON – (June 17, 2025) – Vacuum is often thought of as empty, but in fact it is teeming with fleeting energy fluctuations — virtual photons popping in and out of existence that can interact with ...

According to a new theory, our universe developed from a “pre-inflationary multiverse” made of particles in quantum ...

A new three-volume study explores how quantum physics, gravitation and cosmology may be understood within a unified ...

Illustration of photon-photon scattering in the laboratory. Two green petawatt lasers beams collide at the focus with a third red beam to polarise the quantum vacuum. This allows a fourth blue laser ...