Quantum mechanics and general relativity are the two pinnacles of 20th-century physics. In their respective fields, ...
Was there ever any choice in the Universe being as it is? Albert Einstein could have been wondering about this when he remarked to mathematician Ernst Strauss: “What I’m really interested in is ...
Physicists once treated Einstein’s picture of a clockwork universe as the gold standard for what “reality” should look like, ...
Yet it is not regarded as absurd today. After exhaustive proofs of entanglement's authenticity in the real world, it is now the key resource in quantum information theory, allowing quantum ...
A century ago, the strange behavior of atoms and elementary particles led physicists to formulate a new theory of nature. That theory, quantum mechanics, found immediate success, proving its worth ...