283 Results From ""quantum mechanics""

A new theoretical proposal suggests scrapping nearly everything we think we know about gravity in order to understand the universe.
Physics

Physicists Say We Were Completely Wrong About How Gravity Works

New research explores the mechanics behind the "false vacuum" theory, the idea that the universe is in a state of only temporary stability.
Quantum Physics

Physicists Find That the Universe Could “Collapse Like a House of Cards”

We now have a new idea of what photons look like from a model that predicts how these particles of light interact with their environment.
Quantum Physics

Scientists Say They’ve Discovered the Shape of Individual Photons

Researchers say they've observed photons exhibiting bizarre quantum behavior as the result of what's known as atomic excitation.
Quantum Physics

Weird New Quantum Experiment Sounds Suspiciously Like Time Travel

Researchers at the University of Oxford say they've achieved quantum teleportation using a powerful quantum supercomputer.
Quantum Physics

Oxford Scientists Say They’ve Achieved Quantum Teleportation

A trippy fringe theory suggests that time is the source of all physical matter, and space is merely a byproduct.
Off-World

Time Is Three-Dimensional and Space Is Just a Side Effect, Scientist Says

Physicist Melvin Vopson offered a new interpretation of gravity, arguing that it could be evidence that reality is a computer simulation.
Science & Energy

Physicist Says He’s Identified a Clue That We’re Living in a Computer Simulation

The podcast grift economy is bringing tabloid-y, sensationalist drama to the world of theoretical physics.
Physics

Fringe Movement Claims the Entirety of Modern Physics Is Wrong

If true, this could resolve the information paradox posed by the existence of black holes, as first pointed out by Stephen Hawking.
Black Holes

Black Holes May Actually Be “Frozen Stars,” Scientists Claim

The test involved IVO's quantum drive, a reactionless drive that supposedly doesn't need propellant to generate thrust
Advanced Transport

Contact Lost With Spacecraft Carrying Experimental Quantum Drive

Most scientists believe in an immutable set of "laws of physics" — but one outlier among their ranks thinks those "laws" might not exist at all.
Physics

Physicist Says the Laws of Physics Don’t Actually Exist

Harvard alien-hunter Avi Loeb posited that superhuman aliens could be building universes in labs and that his haters are just "jealous." 
Exobiology

Harvard Professor Says Godlike Aliens May Be Creating Universes in Labs

By using a technique known as error mitigation, IBM scientists believe they've worked around the uncertainty that plagues quantum processors.
Physics

IBM Says It’s Made a Big Breakthrough in Quantum Computing

Physicists claim to have pulled energy out of a vacuum, a trick that required them to teleport it from a different location using quantum devices.
Energy

Researchers Say They Managed to Pull Quantum Energy From a Vacuum

An international team of researchers have come up with a new theory that could allow for objects to go faster than the speed of light.
Physics

Traveling Faster Than Light Would Mean Experiencing Multiple Timelines Simultaneously

Researchers suggest the universe may never actually end, but instead lead to future Big Bangs, much like the one that brought our universe into being.
Energy

More Big Bangs Could Be Coming Up, Scientists Say

By shooting a laser pulse imitating the Fibonacci Sequence into qubits, physicists created a new phase of matter far better at maintaing a quantum state.
Quantum Physics

Scientists Fed the Fibonacci Sequence Into a Quantum Computer and Something Strange Happened

Scientists claim to have solved on of the biggest paradoxes plaguing theoretical physicists for decades, the BBC reports.
Quantum Physics

Hairy Black Holes Key to Solving Paradoxes of Universe

Here's a brain teaser for you: scientists are suggesting spacetime may be made out of individual "spacetime pixels" instead of being smooth and continuous.
Physics

Scientists Say the Universe Itself May Be “Pixelated”

MIT researchers this week captured images of super-cold atoms moving from being governed by classic, to quantum, physics, forming quantum tornadoes.
Quantum Physics

MIT Scientists Snap Images of “Quantum Tornadoes”