The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...
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Using a technique known as a Bell state measurement, the team interfered one photon from the entangled pair with the photon from the first quantum dot. This caused the information encoded in the first ...
Quantum theory fails to explain how the reality we experience emerges from the world of particles. A new take on quantum ...
A few years ago, NASA was listening for cosmic rays above Antarctica when it found signals that shouldn't exist, and it's ...
Dr Sumedha Kotwal When we look deeply into matter, the solidity of the world begins to dissolve. What appears hard, tangible, ...
More than 200 years ago, physicist Thomas Young amazed the scientific world when he showed that light behaves like both a ...
In recent years, the clear divide between the seen and unseen has diminished. The force that broke this divide was not ...