You may have seen sensational headlines: “CERN finds fourth dimension!” or “Ghost structure discovered inside accelerator”. That’s not quite right — CERN hasn’t cracked open a new spatial dimension. What’s really going on is more subtle, more mathematical, and still pretty fascinating. In 2024, particle accelerator physicists reported evidence for a resonant “ghost” structure inside ...
Open a laptop, flick on a lamp, or tap your phone, and you’re already living in a quantum-powered world, even if the physics underneath it still sounds like controlled madness. Quantum mechanics is not just a quirky theory about tiny particles; it is a radical rewrite of what reality is allowed to do, and it ...
The proton was supposed to be simple. Three quarks held together by gluons sounded tidy enough to fit on a classroom poster and, for decades, that picture did its job. But new measurements, sharper than anything we’ve had before, are showing a world that’s messier, livelier, and frankly more beautiful than the tidy sketch. Inside ...
For more than a century, we have treated the brain like a sophisticated biological computer, confident that enough wiring diagrams and firing patterns would one day explain every thought, memory, and feeling. Yet in the shadows of this neat picture, quantum physics has been quietly raising awkward questions about what matter, causality, and even ...
In the familiar world, objects stay put, causes follow effects, and a cat is either alive or dead, never both at once. Deep beneath that everyday surface, though, lies a fiercely counterintuitive layer of reality where particles tunnel through walls, influence one another across vast distances, and seem to exist in many states at ...
Stand on a city street, open your phone, look up at a satellite streaking overhead, and you’re already living in a world quietly ruled by quantum physics. Beneath every screen tap, GPS signal, and medical scan lies a restless universe of particles that refuse to behave like anything in our everyday experience. For more ...
For more than a century, cosmology has told a relatively clean story: the universe began in a searing hot Big Bang, space expanded, matter cooled, and the rest is history written in stars and galaxies. But a new generation of quantum theories is quietly tearing at the edges of that tidy narrative, suggesting the ...
Walk into any physics lab today and you will find a quiet revolution underway: reality, as quantum experiments keep reminding us, is far stranger than the sturdy, everyday world our senses insist is true. Particles tunnel through barriers they seemingly have no energy to cross, information appears to leap across space faster than anything ...
You probably think quantum mechanics is something reserved for physicists in lab coats working on complicated equations. Here’s the thing though. This mysterious branch of science is already woven into the fabric of your everyday existence. From the moment you wake up and check your phone to the time you navigate your car to work ...
Quantum entanglement used to live in the same mental drawer as teleportation and time travel: fun to imagine, but surely not part of our everyday reality. Yet over the past two decades, this once‑esoteric idea has marched out of chalkboard arguments and into real devices, satellites, and even early-stage networks on Earth. Physicists are ...
