Time feels steady and familiar in daily life, but at the quantum level it becomes slippery. That puzzle now has a fresh twist ...
Time may feel smooth and continuous, but at the quantum level it behaves very differently. Physicists have now found a way to measure how long ultrafast quantum events actually last, without relying ...
EPFL physicists have found a way to measure the time involved in quantum events and found it depends on the symmetry of the ...
Quantum mechanics replaced the clockwork certainty of classical physics with something far stranger: a framework in which ...
Physicists have found a way to measure how long ultra-fast quantum events actually take—without using a clock at all.
Quantum mechanics has always carried a quiet tension. At its core, the theory allows particles to exist in many states at once, described by a mathematical object called a wavefunction.
The concept of time has troubled philosophers and physicists for thousands of years, and the advent of quantum mechanics has not simplified the ...
They ask us to believe, for example, that the world we experience is fundamentally divided from the subatomic realm it’s built from. Or that there is a wild proliferation of parallel universes, or ...
On 9 July 1925, Heisenberg sent a paper titled ‘Quantum-theoretical re-interpretation of kinematic and mechanical relations’ to Max Born, whom he was assisting at that time, and Born sent the paper to ...