Perhaps one of the most famous experiments in physics has been giving us the wrong message all these years. For nearly two ...

BERKELEY, CA -- The big world of classical physics mostly seems sensible: waves are waves and particles are particles, and the moon rises whether anyone watches or not. The tiny quantum world is ...

God does not play dice with the universe,” Albert Einstein famously declared in 1927, sparking one of the most enduring ...

In something akin to a double-slit experiment, scientists at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, in co-operation with researchers from the California Institute of Technology in ...

There is some misunderstanding about interference in the double-slit experiment. The electron doesn’t interfere with the next electron, but with itself. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your ...

When small quantum systems, atoms or molecules, absorb a highenergy photon, electrons are emitted with a well-defined energy and a highly symmetric angular distribution, ruled by energy quantization ...

One of the most fundamental interactions in physics is that of electrons and light. In an experiment, scientists have now managed to observe what is known as the Kapitza-Dirac effect for the first ...