In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron pairs would be spontaneously created out of nothing, through a phenomenon ...
The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physicists. Now, a new kind of ...
In this video, we explore the fundamental question: Why is there something rather than nothing? Using a Socratic approach, we survey the best scientific ideas in physics regarding how a universe could ...