Waterloo scientists have developed a new way to understand how the universe began, and it could change what we know about the Big Bang and the earliest moments of cosmic history. Their work suggests ...

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have uncovered a bold new way to explain how the universe began—one that could ...

Most current models of the Big Bang rely on general relativity along with additional elements that are introduced to make the ...

A cloud of helium atoms split, scattered and fell under gravity, yet still behaved as if its parts were linked. That is the ...

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Quantum theory and general relativity have long described the universe with incompatible languages, one speaking in probabilities and the other in smooth curves of spacetime. A new line of work argues ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, resisting every attempt to be folded neatly into the quantum rules that govern the rest of nature. Now a convergence of bold ...

Scientists show helium atoms can exist in two places at once, preserving quantum behavior even as they fall under gravity.

Quantum physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) have achieved a major milestone by directly observing atoms ...

Subatomic particles, gravity wells and the beginning of the universe – these are difficult and mysterious concepts that are ...

Quantum mechanics has always carried a quiet tension. At its core, the theory allows particles to exist in many states at once, described by a mathematical object called a wavefunction. Yet daily life ...

Researchers at IPhT (CEA, CNRS) and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have shown that gravity—and with it, ...