Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Quantum mechanics and classical physics don’t always get along, and can sometimes form apparent paradoxes ...

For over a century, quantum mechanics has challenged our established notions of physics. At its core are questions that unsettle our understanding of the universe: when does a quantum particle ...

Quantum mechanics has always had a way of making even the sharpest minds stop and scratch their heads. In the everyday world, you expect objects to follow straightforward rules. A ball thrown into the ...

Convention has it that quantum mechanics and thermodynamics cannot be true simultaneously – so say scientists at the University of Twente (“UT”), The Netherlands. But now, in a new journal paper, UT ...

Artist view of a black hole ringing down into a stable state. Credit: Yasmine Steele at University of Illinois–Urbana Champaign Artist view of a black hole ringing down into a stable state. Credit: ...

A team of physicists has created a cloud of ultracold atoms that stubbornly resists the most basic rule of everyday ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger (GHZ) paradox describes how quantum theory cannot be described by local ...