Physicists embark on a hunt for a long-sought quantum glow MIT physrevlett
According to a prediction known as the Unruh effect, Millenium Falcon pilots would more likely see a warm glow as they jump to hyperspace. Credit: Christine Daniloff, MIT
Since the 1970s when it was first proposed, the Unruh effect has eluded detection, mainly because the probability of seeing the effect is infinitesimally small, requiring either enormous accelerations or vast amounts of observation time.
"Now at least we know there is a chance in our lifetimes where we might actually see this effect," says study co-author Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who is designing an experiment to catch the effect based on the group's theory."It's a hard experiment, and there's no guarantee that we'd be able to do it, but this idea is our nearest hope.
To produce a glow warm enough for detectors to measure, a body such as an atom would have to accelerate to thein less than a millionth of a second. Such an acceleration would be equivalent to a g-force of a quadrillion meters per second squared .
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