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Classical physics is characterized by the equations describing the world. Yet our day-to-day experience is struck by this deterministic vision of the world. A physicist has been analyzing the ...

The Big Ideas: What Is Reality? Effective theories in physics can help us measure and examine reality, despite the many things we do not yet know. By Lisa Randall Dr. Randall is a physicist. This ...

Interpretations In his new book of essays, David Kaiser explores quantum physics from a scientific, historical, economic and philosophical standpoint. (Courtesy: iStock/Pobytov) Both a physicist and a ...

The scent of coffee. The clarity of sunlight dappling through the trees. The howl of the wind in the dark of night. All this, according to a philosophical argument published in 2003, could be no more ...

In an article published in Communications Physics, researchers from the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Institute for ...

In everyday life, all matter exists in one of three states: gas, liquid, or solid. However, in quantum physics, two different states can exist at the same time. An ultracold quantum system, for ...

Classical physics is characterised by the precision of its equations describing the evolution of the world as determined by the initial conditions of the Big Bang - meaning there is no room for chance ...