Quantum mechanics was born 100 years ago. Physicists are celebrating

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A century ago, science went quantum. To celebrate, physicists are throwing a global celebration, one year old. In 1925, quantum mechanics, the scientific theory describing the vague rules of very small degrees, began to crystallize in the minds of physicists. Starting from that year, a series of monumental letters determined the frame of theory. Quantum … Read more

A rapid radio explosion from a dead Galaxy Enigma astronomers

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A staccato explosion of electromagnetic energy is first followed in an old, dead galaxy. The discovery supports the idea that there are more ways to produce such flames, called rapid radio explosions, as it was originally thought. Rapid radio, or FRB distributions, are long explosions of milliseconds of intense radio waves. Astronomers have noticed thousands … Read more