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…
Ryan Wills; adboestock/Getty images As one of the original architects of quantum theory, perhaps our most successful scientific idea, you would think that Niels Bohr would have been interested in…
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…
Do quantum interactions help brain cells stay in sync?Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Nerve fibres in the brain could produce pairs of particles linked by quantum entanglement. If backed by experimental observations,…
Hector Vivas/Getty Images This story is part of our Cosmic Perspective special, in which we confront the staggering vastness of the cosmos and our place in it. Read the rest…
Splitting qubits inside a quantum computer into high and low-energy groups can charge a batteryShutterstock / Pavel Chukhov A 19th-century thought experiment, considered for decades to break the laws of…
Quantum states can be surprisingly energeticDavid Wall/Getty In quantum mechanics, the whole can be much greater than the sum of its parts, according to new calculations. They suggest that several…
These futuristic batteries could eventually charge electric vehicles at a fraction of today’s speedsda-kuk/Getty Images Quantum batteries could one day charge electronics much quicker than standard ones thanks to the…
For Alan Barr, it started during the covid-19 lockdowns. “I had a bit more time. I could sit and think,” he says. He had enjoyed being part of the success at…