Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

Physicists from Stevens Institute of Technology and Yale University have launched an experimental program to detect gravitons ...

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How would Einstein have reacted to Bell’s theorem and the experimental results derived from it? Alain Aspect’s new ...

Amid some scepticism, many say the machines can now achieve results beyond the capability of traditional computers ...

An experiment outlined by a UCL-led team could test whether relatively large masses have a quantum nature, resolving the question of whether quantum mechanical description works at a much larger scale ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

In 1971, graduate student Stuart Freedman and postdoctoral fellow John Clauser took over a room in the sub-basement of Birge Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, and built an experiment ...

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The double-slit experiment is the best demonstration of quantum weirdness, in which electrons simultaneously act like particles and waves and seemingly violate basic laws of physics. Now we’re trying ...