Physicists have long wondered whether matter can spontaneously emerge from nothing, a process known as the Schwinger effect. Though the original idea required impossibly high electric fields, researchers at the University of British Columbia have now proposed a striking analog: using superfluid helium films to generate vortex pairs from a flowing “frictionless vacuum.” Credit: SciTechDaily.com Superfluid helium reveals a manageable …
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