Quantum mechanics, or quantum physics, is the body of scientific laws that describe the wacky behavior of photons, electrons and the other subatomic particles that make up the universe.

The term "quantum mechanics" was first coined by Max Born in 1924. The acceptance by the general physics community of quantum mechanics is due to its accurate prediction of the physical ...

Accidental Science. In 1900, German theoretical physicist Max Planck accidentally gave birth to the field of quantum mechanics (aka quantum physics) when he tried to investigate why the results of ...

In 1927, physicists gathered to discuss the recent formulation of quantum mechanics, at the Solvay Conference on Physics in Brussels. Many important figures were in attendance, including Werner ...

If Einstein had turned reality into a testable hypothesis, Bell also did something novel, which was to show that Einstein’s assumption of pre-existing variables could also be tested (Physics 1 ...

A century ago, physics had its Darwinian moment — a change in perspective that was as consequential for the physical sciences as the theory of evolution by natural selection was for biology.

Whereas in classical physics, a particle such as an electron has a real, objective position and momentum at any given moment, in quantum mechanics, those quantities don’t, in general, ‘exist ...