Cause and effect may not actually be muddled in the quantum realm
Can effect come before cause in the quantum realm? Maybe notVink Fan/Shutterstock First comes cause, then comes effect – or does it? This order of events has previously been upended…
Can effect come before cause in the quantum realm? Maybe notVink Fan/Shutterstock First comes cause, then comes effect – or does it? This order of events has previously been upended…
Polarised light can make messages encoded in a quantum hologram disappearHong Liang, Wai Chun Wong, Tailin An, Jensen Li 2024 A quantum disappearing act could make it possible to embed…
Tweezers made from laser beams can hold and move a single atomAepsilon/Shutterstock The way gravity affects the quantum realm has so far remained mysterious. But an experiment that uses lasers…
Heat can reveal whether something has quantum propertiesSkillUp/Shutterstock Everything radiates heat, but when quantum objects do it, they can reveal properties that would otherwise be difficult to detect without being…
Lasers can have a cooling effect in quantum experimentsMike_shots/Shutterstock In the strange world of quantum mechanics, nothing isn’t ever actually nothing — and now we have found that nothing, or…
Quantum effects result in particles behaving like waves that interfere with each otherShutterstock/sakkmesterke The fuzziness of the quantum world has been demonstrated on its largest-ever scale, probing the limits of…
An experiment with beams of photons has confirmed quantum weirdness existsluchschenF/Shutterstock The world is as weird as we feared. A new experiment confirms yet again the existence of correlations between…
The carbon-fluorine bonds in “forever chemicals” make them hard to destroyYurchanka Siarhei/Shutterstock Some “forever chemicals” – so named because of how difficult they are to break down – can be…
The quantum computing company Quantinuum recently announced a quantum computer it says outperformed a landmark Google computer’s result 100-fold. The 2019 Google result used a specific test called the linear…
A special laser (red) can spiralise electrons (blue)Dr. Yiqi Fang, University of Konstanz An electron has been turned into a spiralling wave of mass and charge, with the help of…