Physicists describe the microscopic world using a weird theory called quantum mechanics. The year 2025 is the International ...

In some ways, death doesn't exist in quantum mechanics. No wonder Albert Einstein thought it made no sense at all, even if ...

Physicist Erwin Schrodinger proposed that if you sealed within a box a live cat, a radioactive atom, and a vial of poison, the atom may or may not decay at a given moment, breaking the vial and ...

Albert Einstein had published his theory of general relativity in 1915 ... Four months later, Erwin Schrodinger published his famous equation, which described electrons as wave functions.

Bohr entered the story in 1912 when, working in the laboratory of Ernest Rutherford in Manchester, he devised a quantum theory of the atom. In Bohr’s picture ... seemed to some – like Austrian ...

The team from Australia has demonstrated that an atom of antimony can be used to store ... First proposed in 1935 by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, "Schrödinger's cat" was designed ...

This problematic phenomenon, called atom loss, corrupts data and spoils ... Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger famously compared this concept to having a cat inside a box with something that ...

Matthew Chow, center, and Bethany Little discuss with Yuan-Yu Jau, off camera, the first practical way to detect atom loss for neutral ... Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger famously compared ...

Welcome to the quantum world, a subatomic realm – yes, smaller than an atom – where the laws of ... It will upend encryption and molecular biology. In theory, it could even possibly find ...

In 1935, quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger ... theory of quantum physics to this day. What made it controversial was his suggestion that a cat, in a box with a radioactive atom, Geiger counter ...