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Would you believe that a growing number of physicists and technologists, including Elon Musk maintain that we are living in a ...
MIT physicists have performed an idealized version of one of the most famous experiments in quantum physics. Their findings ...
But researchers still disagree widely on how best to describe the physical reality that lies behind the mathematics, as a ...
This quantum balancing act—long debated by Einstein and Bohr—was tested without traditional “spring” components, instead relying on atomic “fuzziness” to confirm Bohr’s view: you can’t observe both ...
Nature survey shows that disagreement about the meaning of quantum physics remains strong, even 100 years in. And that’s OK.
It’s the weirdest thing: quantum theory works incredibly well in practice. It powers devices ranging from MRI machines to lasers and the very computer you’re reading this on. But even after 100 years, ...
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of modern quantum mechanics, a survey asked 1,101 physicists for their takes on ...
Einstein and Bohr would have never thought that this is possible, to perform such an experiment with single atoms and single ...
Sarah Tesh reviews Light: the Extraordinary Energy That Illuminates Our World by Jess Wade, illustrated by Ana Sanfelippo ...
A groundbreaking quantum experiment conducted by MIT physicists has turned a major page in the long-standing debate between ...