Glimpsing the quantum vacuum: Particle spin correlations offer insight into how visible matter emerges from 'nothing'
by Karen McNulty Walsh, Peter Genzer, Brookhaven National Laboratory

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4 February 2026

On 4 February 2026 Phys.org reported: Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered experimental evidence that particles of matter emerging from energetic subatomic smashups retain a key feature of virtual particles that exist only fleetingly in the quantum vacuum. The finding offers a new way to explore how the vacuum -- once thought of as empty space -- provides important ingredients needed to transform virtual 'nothingness' into the matter that makes up our world. Global Good News service views this news as a sign of rising positivity in the field of science, documenting the growth of life-supporting, evolutionary trends.

The research, just published in Nature, was carried out by the STAR Collaboration at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a DOE Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research. The paper presents evidence of a significant correlation in particle spins—a built-in quantum property related to magnetism—among certain pairs of particles emerging from proton-proton collisions at RHIC.

...'This is the first time we've been able to see directly that the quarks that make up these particles are coming from the vacuum; it's a direct window into the quantum vacuum fluctuations,' Tu, said. 'It's amazing to see that the spin alignment of the entangled virtual quarks survives the process of transformation into real matter.'

...Understanding how quarks transition from free-moving entities into bound particles like protons, neutrons, and hyperons is one of the central challenges of nuclear physics. The new approach opens a path to explore key questions that underlie how mass and structure emerge in the universe.

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