Quarks interact more weakly at higher energies, earning the 2004 Nobel Prize

Asymptotic safety

Quarks interact more weakly at higher energies, earning the 2004 Nobel Prize

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Solitary confinement

Free quarks are never observed; they're always bound in hadrons

QCD (quantum chromodynamics) describes

QCD vacuum state characterized by non-vanishing gluon and quark condensates

CP violation

CP violation discovered in 1964 neutral kaon decays

Quantum decoherence

Quantum decoherence explains wavefunction collapse through environmental interaction

the Pauli exclusion principle forbids

Fermions cannot occupy the same quantum state

Spontaneous symmetry breaking

Spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs even when laws retain symmetry

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