Artist's Rendering of Quantum 'Clocks' (IMAGE)

Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

Artist's Rendering of 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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Yi Wang and Xingang Chen

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