Recent experiments have begun to demonstrate how the weird world of quantum mechanics gives way to the familiarity of everyday experience Editor’s note (10/9/2012): We are making the text of this ...

As Joe Howlett points out, "the Schrödinger equation remains physicists’ foremost window into the quantum realm. It tells scientists how that strange world works; that is, how quantum objects interact ...

For a century, the Schrödinger equation has been the bedrock of quantum mechanics, successfully predicting how matter behaves as a wave. Yet, physics has lacked a fundamental explanation for why ...

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I have suggested before that the one thing “everyone knows” about quantum mechanics is that the quantum world is fuzzy and uncertain. Actually, there’s another thing, too. “Everyone” has heard of ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The strangeness of the world of the very small that allows a particle to be in two states at once ...

It underpins the whole theory of quantum mechanics, but does it exist? For nearly a century physicists have argued about whether the wave function is a real part of the world or just a mathematical ...