“My own personal opinion is that time is a human construct,” says Tom O’Brian. O’Brian has thought a lot about this over the years. He is America’s official timekeeper at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado. To him, days, hours, minutes and seconds are a way for humanity to “put some order in this very fascinating … Read More
25km quantum entanglement!
Physicists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have succeeded in teleporting the quantum state of a photon to a crystal over 25 kilometres of optical fibre. The experiment, carried out in the laboratory of Professor Nicolas Gisin, constitutes a first, and simply pulverises the previous recordof 6 kilometres achieved ten years ago by the same UNIGE team. Passing from light into matter, using … Read More
Stephen Hawking: God particle could wipe out the universe
Materialist science eats it’s own. In a preface to new book, the famed physicist fears the Higgs Boson becoming unstable and causing a “catastrophic vacuum decay.” But how likely is that really? Stephen Hawking seems to have turned into the man with the sandwich board that says: “The end is nigh.” Not only has he warned us that aliens might destroy … Read More
Time travel simulated by Australian physicists
Physicists at the University of Queensland in Australia have used photons – single particles of light – to simulate quantum particles travelling through time and study their behaviour. They were hoping to find out more about whether time travel would be possible at the quantum level – a theory first predicted in 1991. In the study, the researchers simulated the … Read More
Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time?
For nearly a century, “reality” has been a murky concept. The laws of quantum physics seem to suggest that particles spend much of their time in a ghostly state, lacking even basic properties such as a definite location and instead existing everywhere and nowhere at once. Only when a particle is measured does it suddenly materialize, appearing to pick its … Read More
Will the ‘Real’ Reality Please Stand Up?
In the pursuit of knowledge about the universe, recent discoveries have pushed earlier than the Big Bang, bringing physics to the point when the early universe was doubling in size every hundredth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second. Such fine-scale measurement is awe-inspiring. The technicalities of how a Cold Little Swoosh preceded the Hot … Read More