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Physicists Study How Light Interacts with Quantum Vacuum


Physicists have achieved the first-ever real-time, 3D simulations of how intense laser beams alter the quantum vacuum -- a state once assumed to be empty, but which quantum physics predicts is full of virtual electron-positron pairs.

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