The physics of the microrealm involves two famous and bizarre concepts: The first is that prior to observation, it is impossible to know with certainty the outcome of a measurement on a particle; ...

Three's company: interference patterns for one to four slits (expand for full image) A group of physicists in Austria has directed a beam of large molecules at a series of extremely narrow slits to ...

The famous paradox of Schrödinger’s cat starts from principles of quantum physics and ends with the bizarre conclusion that a cat can be simultaneously in two physical states – one in which the cat is ...

PHYSICS HAS A problem. In general relativity, time is entwined with space. It is relative, depending on speed or gravity. In quantum mechanics, however, time is an absolute. It is a smooth background ...

Topological defects are encountered in fields ranging from condensed-matter physics to cosmology. These broken-symmetry objects are intrinsically local, but theoretical work now suggests that ...

All the circuits that we have analyzed are linear circuits and we must be more specific in defining a linear circuit. We can consider the most important consequence of linearity, the principle of ...

Scientists shined a little light, literally, on the perplexing processes that govern atoms, in a new experiment that showed the effect of bouncing one photon of light off an atom. Atoms and particles ...