Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. optic fibres with different colours of light A paradox at the heart of quantum physics has been tested in an extraordinary fashion ...
Quantum mechanics has always had a way of making even the sharpest minds stop and scratch their heads. In the everyday world, you expect objects to follow straightforward rules. A ball thrown into the ...
Viruses exist at the boundary between living and non-living matter, while skin is a living interface between physics and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger (GHZ) paradox describes how quantum theory cannot be described by local realistic descriptions. A ...
A team of physicists has coaxed a single, photon-like particle into behaving as if it lives in 37 different quantum dimensions at the same time, and they can make it do the trick on demand. The result ...
One of the most important paradoxes in physics is Schrödinger's Cat. At the microscopic level, light and particles behave according to quantum mechanics. This allows them to be in two places at once ...
In anti-Klein tunneling, sound waves bounce back as if hitting an invisible wall; in Klein tunneling, they pass through the barrier effortlessly—as if the wall isn’t there at all. In a groundbreaking ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine standing on a railway platform watching a trolley go past. A girl on the trolley drops a bright red ball. To her, the ball falls ...
The way gravity affects the quantum realm has so far remained mysterious. But an experiment that uses lasers as a pair of tweezers could let researchers assess how Earth’s gravitational pull affects ...