The central mystery of quantum mechanics is that small chunks of matter sometimes seem to behave like particles, sometimes like waves. For most of the past century, the prevailing explanation of this conundrum has been what’s called the “Copenhagen interpretation”—which holds that, in some sense, a single particle really is a wave, smeared out across […]
Researchers at The University of South Carolina, USC, have proposed that a link between string field theory and quantum mechanics does exist. The link assumes that string field theory is a fully consistent definition of the theory and thereby find in its structure that quantum mechanics emerges. What is String Field Theory? String field theory […]
On the face of it, both electricity and magnetism are remarkably similar to gravity. Just as two masses are attracted to each other by an inverse square force, the force between two charged objects or two poles of a magnet are also inverse square. The difference is that gravity is always attractive, whereas electricity and […]
Cooling down electrons close to absolute zero has given us new perspective on how the world behaves at the smallest of scales. This could be the gateway to gaining greater understanding and perhaps even mastery of superconductivity.
Researchers from MIT just proved neutrino oscillation from Illinois to Minnesota, a distance of 456 miles. Ultimately, this stands as the longest distance that quantum effects were ever tested and proven.
If the equations of quantum mechanics must be altered in accordance with the new research, it will give rise to a new and very curious definition of time.
In a recent publication, scientists provide evidence that their experiment invalidates decades-old criticism against pilot-wave theory, an alternative formulation of quantum mechanics that, if true, would avoid some of the more confusing aspects of the subatomic world.
Isaac Newton established that light is a particle. Many years later, James Clerk Maxwell made a theory that would disprove Newton–the theory of electromagnetism, which we still use today. In this theory, light is a wave. However, another great physicist came along and altered the theory again, once more asserting that light is a particle. This physicist […]
Scientists at Delft University of Technology created a quantum circuit that enables them to listen to the weakest radio signal allowed by quantum mechanics.
Scientists at the British University of Columbia have argued that constantly fluctuating space-time is responsible for universal expansion, not dark matter.
Albert Einstein was not a fan of quantum mechanics. He was annoyed by the uncertain, random nature of the universe it implied (hence the famous quote “God does not play dice with the universe”). So, Einstein tried to develop a unified theory that would circumvent what he saw as quantum mechanics’ flaws. Here, Alan Alda and […]
Around a century since the accidental birth of the field of quantum physics and we are still in the dark: quantum phenomena remain unpredictable and unconquerable. While it is an uphill battle, the stakes are high should we succeed.