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Quantum Mechanics
No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?
If you can model anything in the Universe with an equation, mathematics is how you get the solution(s). Physics must go a step further.
Quantum mechanics forces us to toss out the old, reliable ways in which we make sense of our everyday reality.
The game of Plinko perfectly illustrates chaos theory. Even with indistinguishable initial conditions, the outcome is always uncertain.
There's a speed limit to the Universe: the speed of light in a vacuum. Want to beat the speed of light? Try going through a medium!
From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.
Experiments cannot confirm what theory predicts about neutrinos. And particle physicists have no idea why.
The Standard Model of elementary particles has three nearly identical copies of particles: generations. And nobody knows why.
The spooky world of quantum mechanics might reach out and touch you — by mutating your DNA. Welcome to the weird world of quantum biology.
Humans who've lived through the same events often remember them differently. Could quantum physics be responsible?
Are physicists about to decode a mysterious field of science that could have huge implications for your health?
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Popular media often frame scientists as having a cold, sterile view of the world. That couldn’t be further from the truth.
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Our world would be impossible without quantum mechanics — but we still don’t have a narrative of how it works.
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Equations that describe time travel are fully compatible and consistent with relativity — but physics is not mathematics.
Every timekeeping device works via a version of a pendulum — even the atomic clocks that are accurate to nanoseconds.
Realism in science cannot be completely unmoored from human experience. Otherwise, realism ends up tortured with unreal paradoxes.
The relationship between these two ways of thinking about the world deserves deeper exploration.
We cannot deduce laws about a higher level of complexity by starting with a lower level of complexity. Here, reductionism meets a brick wall.
More than any other of Einstein's equations, E = mc² is the most recognizable to people. But what does it all mean?
“When molecules misbehave, it can lead to great insight.”
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?
The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.
In scientific theories, the Multiverse appears as a bug rather than as a feature. We should squash it.
If you want to understand what the Universe is, how it began, evolved, and will eventually end, astrophysics is the only way to go.
At a fundamental level, nobody knows whether gravity is truly quantum in nature. A novel experiment strongly hints that it is.
There are a few possible solutions to the problem of interstellar travel, but they largely remain within the realm of science fiction.
Many still cling to the idea that we live in a deterministic Universe, despite the nature of quantum physics. Now, the "least spooky" interpretation no longer works.
There's a big difference between the notions of 'false vacuum' and 'true vacuum' states. Here's why we don't want to live in the former.