“Fascinating ... The whole thing [the school dance] seems to work on a similar principle to a supercollider. You know, two streams of opposingly charged particles accelerated till they're just under the speed of light, and then crashed into each… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
“Charged particles can scatter light by absorbing and reemitting it (a). Light can scatter off light only by the mediation of charged particles-the virtual particle-antiparticle pairs fluctuating in the vacuum (b). This effect is very small; there is no experimental… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image