Ivette Fuentes is a professor of quantum mechanics who conducts experiments at the scales where quantum theory and general ...

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Researchers at Hiroshima University have developed a realistic, highly sensitive method to detect the Unruh effect—a long-predicted phenomenon at the crossroads of relativity and quantum theory. Their ...

The question of how gravity interacts with the quantum world has long perplexed physicists, but a non-quantum theory of space ...

Physics has a problem—their key models of quantum theory and the theory of relativity do not fit together. Now, Dr. Wolfgang Wieland from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is ...

For over 100 years, two theories have shaped our understanding of the universe: quantum mechanics and Einstein's general relativity. One explains the tiny world of particles; the other describes ...

The Earth’s gravity, manifested as curvature in space and time, is expected to alter the rules of standard quantum theory. An experiment consisting of three quantum computers at different elevations ...

What exactly is … everything? What is space-time? At one extreme, you’ve got the weird rules of quantum physics that deal with subatomic particles. At the other extreme, you’ve got the vast expanses ...

Time has always seemed like the one thing physics could count on. Matter changes, stars die, particles flicker in and out, ...

A ring in space, at least on paper, can do something a black hole cannot. It can connect distant regions without forcing anything through crushing gravity or a singularity.

Time seems to be one of the most obvious things in the universe: it moves forward, seconds change minutes, and the past ...

The first step toward quantum gravity, the "holy grail of physics," may be hiding in a quantum recipe to cook up black holes. That's the suggestion of new research that adds quantum corrections to ...