Scientists have shown that photons, particles of light, from vacu ám can be made. Thus they prove an old quantum theory in which it was claimed that in vacuum ám ‘virtual particles’ can exist.
For the study, done by a Swedish university, was a magnetic field billions of times per second, the direction was changed. This was then used as the drive for a device that is sensitive to magnetism. By the resulting vibrations was a speed simulated, which is set at 25 percent of the speed of light. The whole functions according to the scientists as a kind of vibrating mirror, where the virtual particles against them clashed. Virtual particles is a description of a phenomenon in which particles in a vacuum spontaneously arise and then disappear again. The mirror where the photons hit the clashes, gave the particles enough energy to make them materialize, then this detected could be.
By the experiment appeared pairs of photons in the vacuum, which is an old quantum theory was proven. Forty years ago, after physicists have known that a such an experiment, particles would have to generate in a vacuum. It should also be possible for other particles, such as protons, to appear. However, because this mass, more energy is needed for this to materialize, something which is currently not yet possible.
So-called kwantumfluctuaties in a vacuum, that the appearance and disappearance of particles predict, are part of a quantum theory which was described by Werner Heisenberg, who is seen as one of the founders of the field of research. An effect of virtual particles was previously demonstrated by Dutch researchers in a Philips lab, which has two metal plates in a vacuum placed. Despite the absence of an external source of power, there could be a measurable force between the two plates can be measured, which was attributed to the effects of virtual particles.
