Hardy's paradox, created in 1992, hinted at a scenario haunting the edges of quantum physics. It presented a thought ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Quantum mechanics and classical physics don’t always get along, and can sometimes form apparent paradoxes ...

A new study takes the GHZ paradox, which describes how quantum theory can't be described by local realistic descriptions, to ...

Light has always been the stage on which quantum mechanics performs its strangest tricks, and the double-slit experiment is ...

Physicists have engineered photons that behave as if they inhabit a space far richer than the familiar three dimensions, ...

Quantum mechanics has always had a way of making even the sharpest minds stop and scratch their heads. In the everyday world, you expect objects to follow straightforward rules. A ball thrown into the ...

Convention has it that quantum mechanics and thermodynamics cannot be true simultaneously – so say scientists at the University of Twente (“UT”), The Netherlands. But now, in a new journal paper, UT ...

Artist view of a black hole ringing down into a stable state. Credit: Yasmine Steele at University of Illinois–Urbana Champaign Artist view of a black hole ringing down into a stable state. Credit: ...

That quantum mechanics is a successful theory is not in dispute. It makes astonishingly accurate predictions about the nature of the world at microscopic scales. What has been in dispute for nearly a ...