Sights set on quantum froth

• Autores: Amarendra Swarup
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2539, 2006, pág. 18
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Driving along a straight road full of potholes is similar to light traveling through the vacuum of space: it surges ahead in places and takes diversion at others, because the fabric of space-time is thought to be "foamy" rather than smooth. Soon, the world's largest telescopes could look for this to glimpse the very nature of space-time for the first time. Now, cosmologists Jack Ng, Wayne Christiansen and Hendrik van Dam at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill think they know how to detect the foam's effects using a telescope being built, the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer on Mount Paranal, Chile.