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Zero-point energy is one of the most intriguing phenomena of quantum mechanics. Because quantum particles are also waves, they must always have more than zero energy. Zero-point motion is even crazier – it means that quantum particles at their lowest-energy point should also move, because of literally nothing. Zero point motion has been very hard to experimentally verify, but physicists confirmed it in a recent experiment – let’s take a look.

Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu2637

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