This year – despite being mainly obscured by the shadows of COVID-19 – has given some amazing breakthroughs in the field of Physics. Some main developments in this domain are as follows:
- The scientists at CERN have recently detected a rare phenomena of the God particles i.e. Higgs Boson. It was observed that a boson split into two muons.
- In the largest underground research facility in the world, at the INFN’s Gran Sasso particle physics laboratory in central Italy using an ultrasensitive Borexino detector, the scientists traced neutrinos in the carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle.
- Physicists in Germany have detected the shortest moment of time, i.e. the time for photon to traverse a photon. The time measured is 247 zepto-seconds.
- A new particle “tetraquark” has been discovered at CERN, which is entirely made up of heavy quarks. It has been named X(6900) and is made up of same kind of quarks.
- The phenomenon of quantum teleportation has also been observed at the Fermilab, US. Data was transferred by entangled photons over a distance of 44 kilometers. This will open new horizons in the fields of data communication and transfer.
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