A clear and entertaining presentation of the double slit experiment that demonstrates the mind-bending wave aspect of matter, a result just replicated on a record-breaking molecule of 2,000 atoms. An excerpt from What the Bleep Do We Know?
An increasing body of evidence has emerged that quantum processes play an important role in a number of biological mechanisms.
An experiment caught a quantum system in the middle of a jump — something the originators of quantum mechanics assumed was impossible.
Schrödinger’s cat is a thought experiment exploring the fate of an animal placed in a box with poison and radioactive material. Until now, the cat seemed to exist in a zombie state in which it was neither alive nor dead -- until you looked in the box
Regarding the future of quantum mechanics, I have to echo Viola in Twelfth Night: “O time, thou must untangle this, not I.”
The rise of fascism shaped Schrödinger’s cat fable.
Quantum entanglement is thought to be one of the trickiest concepts in science, but the core issues are simple. And once understood, entanglement opens up a richer understanding of concepts such as the “many worlds” of quantum theory.
And you thought there were just solids, liquids, gases and plasma
The laws of physics work both forward and backward in time. So why does time seem to move in only one direction? One potential answer may also reveal the secrets of the universe’s missing mass.
Alan Alda and Brian Greene discuss Einstein's relationship with the "unruly child" of quantum mechanics. Einstein founded the field in 1905, and then spent his life searching for a theory that would supercede it.
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