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Measuring (almost) zero

Dec 1, 2009 Sign in to view comments

The electron's electric dipole moment is unimaginably tiny – and may not even exist. But as Chad Orzel explains, that has not stopped experimentalists from trying to measure it, since a non-zero result could imply the existence of new physics

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