Quantum mechanics and general relativity are the two pinnacles of 20th-century physics. In their respective fields, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: koto_feja via Getty Images Physicists have developed a novel approach to solving one of ...

Einstein and the Quantum Revolutions Alain Aspect Univ. Chicago Press (2024) French physicist Alain Aspect is a pioneer in ‘quantum entanglement’ — connections between the quantum properties of ...

Attempts to describe quantum physics are rarely enjoyable, but Paul Davies' zeal in Quantum 2.0 sometimes steers too close to ...

Kellogg Stelle was a professor of physics at Imperial College London for decades until his death last month. In 1977, he developed a particle theory of gravity that’s renormalizable, but the theory’s ...

In search of a united scientific theory, a new quantum gravity paper might have proposed an interesting aspect that made the ...

In a recent article published in the journal Frontiers in Physics, researcher Piotr Ogonowski proposes an innovative method to reconcile two of the most important theories of modern physics: Albert ...

Encouraged by successes in understanding black holes, theoretical physicists are applying what they’ve learned to whole ...

Imagine a physicist observing a quantum system whose behavior is akin to a coin toss: it could come up heads or tails. They perform the quantum coin toss and see heads. Could they be certain that ...

You might say it all started with a spot of hay fever. In June 1925, a young physicist named Werner Heisenberg retreated to the barren island of Helgoland in the North Sea, seeking respite from his ...