The famous double slit experiment, originally performed by Thomas Young in 1801, directs coherent light towards a screen with 2 slits. What young found was that when the slits were spaced close enough together, the light that passed through the slits interacted...
In a recent paper by the leading theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind, director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, a major conundrum of Copenhagen quantum mechanics is...
A new experiment has the physics world talking, and the subject is size — specifically the radius of the proton. The problem is, it seems to be smaller than previously thought. So why all the fuss?
To understand the workings of the...
The Large Underground Xenon Detector (LUX) is a physics...
Physicists attempt to cool down a heated debate by suggesting quantum entanglement occurs through spacetime wormholes.
The theoretical physics of black holes abounds with paradoxes, such as the loss of information behind the point of no return – the...
The popular titles stating that Hawking says, “there are no black holes” are incorrect.
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The predominant scientific paradigm does not regard the Universe as a Living System. This stems from a perspective that the Universe is unconnected, and mechanical. What is the difference between a mechanistic concept of the universe (acting like gears and cogs in a machine) versus a dynamical self-organizing...
A French team of scientists, led by Physicists Yves Couder and Emmanuel Fort, investigated alternative possibilities in the wave-particle duality interpretation of the double slit experiment by observing bouncing droplets in a vibrating oil bath. The remarkable results have caught the attention of the public eye as this approach may...
The behavior of light known as lasing is the result of quantum coherent behavior at a macroscale – it involves an astoundingly large assembly of photons all oscillating in phase, at a uniform wavelength. With the advent of lasers – which was made possible by the theoretical work of Albert...