Syracuse University physicists develop model that pushes limits of quantum theory, relativity
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 05:28
in Physics & Chemistry
All of the matter in the universe - everything we see, feel and smell - has a certain predictable structure, thanks to the tiny electrons spinning around their atomic nuclei in a series of concentric shells or atomic levels. A fundamental tenet of this orderly structure is that no two electrons can occupy the same atomic level (quantum state) at the same time - a principle called the Pauli exclusion principle, which is based on Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum theory...