Quantum mechanics has always had a way of making even the sharpest minds stop and scratch their heads. In the everyday world, ...

A team of physicists affiliated with multiple institutions in China has measured a pulse of light in 37 dimensions. In their paper published in Science Advances, the group explains that their ...

"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 ...

A carefully designed experiment uses Hardy’s paradox to illustrate lack of local realism. Hardy’s 30-year-old thought exercise has led many researchers to chip away at real versions. If the universe ...

We talk about some real experiments that claim to have demonstrated Zeno's phenomenon. A moving arrow is at rest.” Zeno, a Greek philosopher famous for his metaphysical trolling, devised a paradox ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Don’t try to do a quantum experiment near a black hole — its mere presence ruins all quantum states in its vicinity, researchers say. The finding comes from a thought experiment that ...

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 ...