Certainly Uncertain. Simplifying Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle is more than a mathematical quirk, a handy guiding principle, or the inspiration for some really nerdy ...
Tag: quantum physics
Superposition! The strange tale of Schrödinger’s cat
The tale of physics’ most famous cat is one that is familiar to many, but what is the inside story ...
Physicists solved decades-old puzzle with huge implications for quantum computers
A happy accident lead to a breakthrough that may prove to be revolutionary in physics and beyond.
Side stepping Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle isn’t easy
The uncertainty principle provides a constant hindrance to the sensitivity of equipment such as LIGO's interferometer and new research shows, ...
Super-Superposition: 2,000 atoms in ‘two places at once’
A new record for the most atoms placed in a quantum superposition simultaneously has been set by researchers - pushing the boundary ...
Quantum satellite investigates the gap between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity
An international team of scientists has attempted to test the effects of gravity on quantum entanglement using the Micius Quantum ...
Physicists are a step closer to a theory of quantum gravity
A new study outlines the conditions that couple quantum gravity and low-energy physics.
Physicists measure quantum entanglement in chemical reactions
The discovery has implications for the improvement of technologies like solar energy systems.
‘Quantum compass’ can locate objects without GPS
The device is completely self-contained, being able to determine the position of an object on the globe with no external ...
Physicists may have solved ‘chicken or the egg’ paradox — both can come first
Of course it had to be weird and confusing.
Scientists demonstrate quantum entanglement with objects big enough to see
'Spooky action at a distance' is approaching the human scale.
Quantum technology of spinning black holes
Are black holes trying to tell us something?
Musk’s argument that we live in a simulation doesn’t hold water, quantum physicists say
The blue pill or the red pill?
China launches first quantum satellite making its communications unhackable
Teleporting quantum states might the future of communications, and China is leading the way.
Water squeezed in a new state: not liquid, nor solid or gas. Just pure quantum weirdness
Physicists have crammed water inside extremely small cracks about ten-billionth of a metre and found the molecules entered a never ...
Gamers help solve quantum physics problem where A.I. failed
After an A.I. beat the human champion at Go, a game almost infinitely more complex than chess, some might feel ...
Book review: ‘The Quantum Moment’
How the quantum moment "overturned basic beliefs about space and time, causality and reality, and exposed as mistaken many fundamental ...
Quantum physics used to make virtually uncrackable authentication system
Security experts have devised a novel authentication system that exploits quantum effects to make fraud-proof credit cards or IDs. Called Quantum-Secure ...
Measuring particle momentum without breaking the uncertainty principle
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle makes quantum physics nasty. There's no reason why we can't get all along, though. A novel technique ...
Quantum theory takes out singularity, suggests black holes are wormholes
Black holes are the single most interesting and puzzling objects in our Universe - that we know of. But as ...
