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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about vacuum birefringence or vacuum turning into a crystal
Links:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19446
science.nasa.gov/missions/ixpe/nasas-ixpe-may-have-proven-90-year-old-theory
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_fluctuation
#vacuum #physics #quantumphysics
0:00 Vacuum you say? Empty you say?
1:20 Vacuum birefringence and how it works
4:55 Quantum foam and QED
7:10 Magnetic field effects on vacuum
9:30 First hint in 2016 from the closest neutron star
10:30 X ray observations confirm this phenomenon
12:00 What this implies - crystalized vacuum!
13:15 Conclusions
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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about vacuum birefringence or vacuum turning into a crystal
Links:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19446
science.nasa.gov/missions/ixpe/nasas-ixpe-may-have-proven-90-year-old-theory
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_fluctuation
#vacuum #physics #quantumphysics
0:00 Vacuum you say? Empty you say?
1:20 Vacuum birefringence and how it works
4:55 Quantum foam and QED
7:10 Magnetic field effects on vacuum
9:30 First hint in 2016 from the closest neutron star
10:30 X ray observations confirm this phenomenon
12:00 What this implies - crystalized vacuum!
13:15 Conclusions
Enjoy and please subscribe
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The hardware used to record these videos:
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Credit:
Mark Garlick markgarlick.com
APN MJM CC BY SA 3.0 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birefringence#/media/File:Crystal_on_graph_paper.jpg
Ingo Dierking CC BY 4.0 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birefringence#/media/File:Food_Polarization-Dierking.jpg
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