The Higgs amplitude mode is a condensed matter cousin of the Higgs boson, the storied quantum particle theorized in the 1960s and proven experimentally in 2012
Theoretical physicists and astrophysicists, investigating irregularities in the cosmic microwave background, have found there is substantial evidence supporting a holographic explanation of the universe
Their work, published in Nature Scientific Reports, lays out a possible avenue to a situation where the Second Law is violated on the microscopic level