By giving a moving object a choice about how to act, scientists seem to have proved weird things about how reality works Reality doesn’t exist until it’s measured, at least for very small things, new research has found. By replicating a famous experiment where an object is given a choice for how to behave, physicists found that the object doesn’t … Read More
Entangled photons cast a new light on cause and effect
The idea that correlation does not imply causation is well known to scientists and statisticians, but now physicists in Canada have shown that it is not always the case in the weird world of quantum mechanics. Research in medicine, economics and many other disciplines often relies on showing a statistical correlation between two variables. It is often not clear, however, … Read More
A New Physics Theory of Life
Why does life exist? Popular hypotheses credit a primordial soup, a bolt of lightning and a colossal stroke of luck. But if a provocative new theory is correct, luck may have little to do with it. Instead, according to the physicist proposing the idea, the origin and subsequent evolution of life follow from the fundamental laws of nature and “should … 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
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
Why quantum physics is the biggest embarrassment in all of modern physics
It’s been close to a century since we established how quantum mechanics “works,” and we still don’t know what it really means — and that, says cosmologist Sean Carroll in the video up top, may make QM the most embarrassing subject in all of modern physics. What’s embarrassing, says Carroll, isn’t that there remain unanswered questions about quantum mechanics, or … Read More