Black holes devour stuff and then shrivel away over billions of years. Explaining what happens to anything that falls in explodes our current theories of physics, says cosmologist Paul Davies Physics 22 September 2021 By Paul Davies Jordi Ros PLAY a movie of an everyday scene backwards and we laughContinue Reading
To solve the big mysteries in physics, we need to embrace fresh perspectives, says cosmologist Stephon Alexander. Here he explains why intuition is so important – and outlines one of his own wild ideas Physics 8 September 2021 By Thomas Lewton Jennie Edwards AS A child, Stephon Alexander was awestruckContinue Reading
Stingrays have protruding eyes and mouths, which seem like they would make swimming less efficient, but they actually create vortices that let the rays swim fasterContinue Reading
By Matthew Sparkes Collisions recorded by the CMS detector, part of the LHC McCauley, Thomas/CERN The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) wakes from a three-year shutdown next month when beam tests begin ahead of experimental work. During the downtime, upgrades were made to the computer centres that handle the vast amountsContinue Reading
By Leah Crane An illustration of gravitational waves around black hole Getty Images/iStockphoto Source: iStockphoto We may finally have a way to detect the quantum nature of gravity. The question of how gravity and quantum mechanics fit together has been one of the biggest problems in physics for decades. TheContinue Reading
By Philip Ball AN APPLE never appears to be in many places at one. That statement hardly seems surprising – until you start burrowing into the depths of quantum weirdness, and realise there’s no fundamental reason why that shouldn’t be so. The theory of decoherence implies that the reason quantumnessContinue Reading
The maths suggests the reality we get from quantum probabilities is random, but there might be some hidden determinism at play – or perhaps the present can influence the past Physics 25 August 2021 By Miriam Frankel Skizzomat THE quantum realm of atoms and particles has randomness at its core.Continue Reading
New research reveals hints of quantum states in tiny proteins called microtubules inside brain cells. If the results stand up, the idea that consciousness is quantum might come in from the cold Physics 25 August 2021 By Thomas Lewton Skizzomat IF IT is a controversial idea that warm, wet lifeContinue Reading
There is tantalising evidence to suggest that photosynthesis in some bacteria depends on quantum coherence and birds’ amazing feats of navigation rely on entanglement Physics 25 August 2021 By Thomas Lewton Chloroplasts in plant cells are centres of photosynthesis – and quantum weirdness, too? Science Photo Library ONE response to theContinue Reading
The maths suggests the reality we get from quantum probabilities is random, but there might be some hidden determinism at play – or perhaps the present can influence the past Physics 25 August 2021 By Miriam Frankel Skizzomat THE quantum realm of atoms and particles has randomness at its core.Continue Reading
