A Dancing Speck of Dust Tests the Laws of the Quantum World ⚡ экспресс
Original: "Experimental Blueprint for Distinguishing Decoherence from Objective Collapse"
A tiny levitating particle will help unravel why large objects can't be in two places at once.
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A tiny glass sphere hovers in a laser beam. If its oscillations die out faster than calculations predict, quantum mechanics is coming apart at the seams. Physicists are setting up this experiment to capture the moment when the world stops being probabilistic and becomes definite.
🎯 A light beam holds a particle in a vacuum like invisible tweezers. This technology is used to manipulate living cells — scientists literally sort them as if playing billiards with bacteria.