Thirteen and a bit billion years ago, before galaxies, before atoms, before even space and time as we know them, there may have been almost nothing at all – just a seething fog of quantum uncertainty. Out of that nearly featureless state, tiny random jitters in energy could have been amplified into everything: stars, ...
For more than a century, quantum physics has quietly rewritten the rulebook of reality, yet most of us still live as if the everyday world is all there is. We picture planets circling stars and galaxies drifting through space, but beneath that grand cosmic stage lies a hidden script of probabilities, entanglements, and fluctuations ...
In a feat that sounds like it was plucked straight from the pages of a science fiction book, a group of Italian physicists have done what was previously considered impossible: they’ve frozen light into a supersolid form. Reported in Nature on March 5, this find compels us to redo our definition of matter itself. A ...
