The strange connection between falling balls and quantum weirdness
A ball tossed into the air follows a path that classical physics can track with confidence. Shrink that…
Cavity-mediated exciton hopping in a dielectrically engineered polariton system
Our approach, illustrated schematically in Fig. 1a, is based on a van der Waals heterostack with a monolayer of…
Physicist bends light with gravity, improves remote sensing
Enbang Li, a senior lecturer at the University of Wollongong’s School of Physics, has developed a simple yet…
The dirtiest words in fusion and fission – Physics World
The dirtiest words in fusion and fission – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics…
We still don’t have a more precise value for “Big G”
The gravitational constant, affectionally known as “Big G,” is one of the most fundamental constants of our universe.…
IonQ Researchers Say ‘Walking Cat’ Blueprint Could Lead to Machines That Run Millions of Gates on Thousands of Qubits
Insider Brief Researchers at IonQ have published a detailed end-to-end blueprint for a fault-tolerant quantum computer based on…
Planckian scattering and parallel conduction channels in an iron chalcogenide superconductor
Hsu, F.-C. et al. Superconductivity in the PbO-type structure α-FeSe. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 105, 14262–14264 (2008).…
Scientists Discover Path to ‘Extreme Light Intensities’ That Could Enable Ultra-Powerful Laser Weapons and Advanced Tech
An international team of physicists has announced a “significant advance” in laser science that offers engineers a practical…
Physicist Bends Light With Gravity to Make New Mobile Sensing Device
Astrophysicists talk a lot about gravitational lensing, one of the more fun aspects of light’s infamous particle-wave duality.…
The Most Energetic Neutrino Ever Detected Could Be Primordial
In the exotic world of particle physics, neutrinos may be the most mysterious members. They rarely interact with…
Soundwaves settle debate about elusive quantum particle
It was a head-spinning discovery. In 2018, researchers in Japan claimed to find concrete evidence of an elusive…
Solving the Black Hole Paradox May Require Seven Dimensions
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