The smallest time interval ever defined. Named after theoretical physicist Max Planck (1858-1947), Planck time is 10-43 seconds; however, the only measurement ever actually made was more than twice as ...

Fermilab scientists have been conducting experiments to look for quantum fluctuations of space and time at the smallest scale imaginable according to known physics. At this limit, the Planck length, ...

A research team led by Prof. Dr. Yang Yong from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed a remarkable quantum tunneling phenomenon across double ...

I’d like to invite you to an even higher level of nerdom! Every good nerd knows that E=mc^2. Every great nerd knows that, really, E^2=m^2c^4+p^2c^2 Want to know what that even means? Sure, I’ll tell ...

It's notexactly Doc Brown's DeLorean from "Back to the Future," but theEuropean Space Agency's (ESA) Planck Observatory will be something of a cosmictime machine after it launches this week. Planck ...

A team of researchers at the US Department of Energy's Fermilab are trying to take a measurement of the fabric of spacetime to show that there is a finite unit that makes up the universe. To do so, ...

We measure on average 1.70 meters (about 5 feet 7 inches). A common height that seems normal in our human-scale world. Yet, when we compare it to the smallest and largest conceivable distances in the ...

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