Quantum Clocks (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Dallas

Quantum Clocks

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New research suggests that oscillating heavy particles generated "clocks" in the primordial universe that could be used to determine what produced the initial conditions that gave rise to the universe.

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Image by Yi Wang and Xingang Chen

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