Physics
The 50-year quest to find the particle that almost broke physics
When physicists first discovered a form of a radioactivity called beta decay it seemed to violate the laws of physics. It took 50 years to work out what was going on
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When physicists first discovered a form of a radioactivity called beta decay it seemed to violate the laws of physics. It took 50 years to work out what was going on
By trapping a single electron in an isolated chamber cooled to near absolute zero, physicists were able to measure the particle's magnetic moment - a key quantum property - at a precision of 1.3 parts in 10 trillion