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Negative Energy 'Ghosts' Flashing in Space Could Reveal New Physics


A 'boom' of light that appears when a particle exceeds the speed of light set by a medium could, in other contexts, signal a kind of quantum instability that could trigger what's known as vacuum decay.

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