Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

This model was a centrepiece of what has become known as the old quantum theory, which itself was the product of a realization at the turn of the twentieth century that the precepts of classical ...

A new theoretical approach is proposed to explain the nature of the well-known narrow and intense optical J-band of ...

Just as it would be impossible to make sense of modern biology without Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, our fundamental understanding of the physical world is now rooted in quantum principles.

Quantum field theory marries the ideas of other quantum theories to depict all particles as “excitations” that arise in underlying fields. The British physicist Paul Dirac started the ball ...

That light can be both particles and waves is one of the most illogical—but at the same time fundamental—characteristics of quantum mechanics. This is called wave-particle duality. The theory ...

Joe Scott The Quantum Theory That Might Make You Immortal ¦ Answers With Joe Posted: December 30, 2024 | Last updated: December 30, 2024 Quantum physics is dominated by the idea that quantum ...