In 1915, Albert Einstein, with a little help from his friends, developed a theory of gravity that overturned what we’d thought were the very foundations of physical reality. The idea that the space ...

To the average person, most quantum theories sound strange, while others seem downright bizarre. There are many diverse theories that try to explain the intricacies of quantum systems and how our ...

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In quantum mechanics, small bits of matter have the mysterious behavior of sometimes seeming to behave as particles, sometimes as waves. But the dominant explanation of this mystery, assumed for the ...

While the official title of the 5th Solvay conference was “on Electrons and Photons”, it was abundantly clear amongst the guests that the presentations would center on the new theory of quantum ...