Theories of quantum mechanics predict that some particles can exist in superpositions, which essentially means that they can be in more than one state at once. When a particle's state is measured, ...

Quantum walks sound abstract, but they sit at the center of a very concrete race: who will harness quantum mechanics to solve problems that overwhelm today’s most powerful supercomputers. Instead of ...

Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity, is famously incomplete. As proven by physics Nobel laureate Roger Penrose, when matter collapses under its own gravitational pull, the result ...

Cutting-edge atomic clocks may soon reveal a strange possibility: time itself behaving like a quantum object, existing in ...

Main ideas of the article are further expanded on in this online lecture by the author. Faced with this problem, I realized that the ultraviolet radiation he described might be explained using quantum ...

The biggest open problem in the foundations of physics is that Einstein’s theory of gravity, General Relativity, does not ...

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