Virtual particles may not be real, but they help physicists track how forces move, and allow for incredibly precise ...

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At the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, physicists shoot protons around a 17-mile track and smash them together at nearly the speed of light. It’s one of the most finely tuned scientific experiments ...

Physicists are now using principles from quantum mechanics to build a new model of the abstract concept of pi. Or, more ...