If I can understand the particle in a box, I can understand quantum mechanics, which means, maybe, I can understand, like, you know, life. This notion popped into my head three years ago, and it’s still rattling around in there. Here’s the backstory:

Physicists are still trying to reconcile two different worlds: the quantum and the macro. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State ...

"We were surprised how sensitive the levitated nanoscale particle was to the fluctuations of its environment. This levitated small particle isolated in a vacuum environment will be an ideal system to explore the transition between quantum mechanics and classical mechanics and to develop new kinds of quantum devices in the future."

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics recognized Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger for their groundbreaking experimental work confirming quantum entanglement, a phenomenon where the state of one entangled particle is instantaneously linked to ...

Reference article: A brief, simple explanation of Schrödinger's cat. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, who helped found the discipline of ...

The relationship between quantum mechanics and classical physics has baffled scientists for decades. In the quantum world, particles can exist in multiple states at once—a phenomenon known as superposition. Yet, this strange behavior seems to vanish at ...