Today's physicists are struggling with a quandary. They have accepted two separate theories that explain how the universe works: Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes the ...

Quantum particles are not really just particles…they are also waves. The word uncertainty is used a lot in quantum mechanics. One school of thought is that this means there's something out there in ...

The word uncertainty is used a lot in quantum mechanics. One school of thought is that this means there’s something out there in the world that we are uncertain about. But most physicists believe ...

Quantum mechanics forbids us from measuring the universe. But we try with this principle. Quantum mechanics forbids us from measuring the universe beyond a certain level of precision. But that doesn’t ...

MR. W. L. COWLEY 1 raises a point of some importance to a popular presentation of quantum theory. The understanding of the Uncertainty Principle is confused by there being two quite distinct ideas ...

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