The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physicists. Now, a new kind of ...

Can two versions of reality exist at the same time? Physicists say they can — at the quantum level, that is.

The modern scientific world prides itself on precision, empirical rigour, and the pursuit of measurable truth. Yet, some of ...

Quantum theory is often sold as a story about tiny particles, but its real disruption lands squarely on our everyday sense of what is real. At the smallest scales, the equations that power lasers, ...

Physicists have long suspected that there is a layer of physical reality beneath quantum theory and a new mathematical model ...

A leading physicist argues the brain may operate like a quantum system—and that enhancing it could create humans who perceive ...

In quantum physics that’s no longer true. It’s not at all obvious what the formal mathematical procedures of quantum mechanics say about “how things are” in a quantum object; they’re just a ...

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When you throw a ball in the air, the equations of classical physics will tell you exactly what path the ball will take as it ...

At an event to mark the 100th anniversary of quantum mechanics last month, lauded specialists in quantum physics argued politely — but firmly — about the issue. “There is no quantum world,” said ...

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Sorta sparked by this comment someone made to me but it's similar to what other people have told me before: I was listening to a lecture on quantum electrodynamics and it helped me conceptualize the ...