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Home » Atomic and molecular » Breaking Lorentz symmetry

Breaking Lorentz symmetry

10 Mar 2004

As physicists celebrate 100 years of Lorentz symmetry, some theorists and experimentalists are working hard to spoil the party

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Imagine you are about to create a universe. How would you do it? As soon as you say “let there

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Robert Bluhm is Sunrise Professor of Physics at Colby College in Waterville, ME 04901, US, e-mail rtbluhm@colby.edu
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