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What does it mean to interpret quantum physics?
The United Nations has designated 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. Many physics magazines and journals have taken the opportunity to publish more articles on quantum physics than they usually do, and that has meant quantum physics … Continue reading
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Tagged Bohmian mechanics, classical physics, Copenhagen interpretation, hidden variables, many-worlds interpretation, Nirmalya Kajuri, nonlocality, QBism, quantum computing, quantum cosmology, quantum entanglement, quantum physics, quantum superposition, wavefunction
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Exploring what it means to be big
Reading a Nature report titled ‘Step aside CERN: There’s a cheaper way to break open physics‘ (January 10, 2018) brought to mind something G. Rajasekaran, former head of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, told me once: that the future … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, classical physics, cyclotrons, Large Hadron Collider, laser wakefield acceleration, tabletop accelerators
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Feeling the pulse of the space-time continuum
Humans have known about the force of gravity since ancient times. Yet, we are still exploring its true nature, how it works, and why it works the way it does. Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, binary pulsars, classical physics, general theory of relativity, gravitational waves, IndIGO, interferometry, Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, LIGO India, wave physics
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A closet of hidden phenomena
Science has been rarely counter-intuitive to our understanding of reality, and its elegant rationalism at every step of the way has been reassuring. This is why Bell’s theorem has been one of the strangest concepts of reality scientists have come across: … Continue reading
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Tagged classical physics, EPR paradox, John Stuart Bell, locality, quantum entanglement, realism, unification of forces
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