The classical scientific theories by which we understand the world around us do not hold good at the subatomic level. There, ...

Physics has a problem—their key models of quantum theory and the theory of relativity ... quantized spacetime is played by ...

A bold new quantum theory of gravity may finally bridge the long-standing rift between Einstein’s general relativity and ...

Classical physics theories suggest that when two or more electromagnetic waves interfere destructively (i.e., with their electric fields canceling each other out), they cannot interact with matter. In ...

The seeds of quantum ... theory came together properly 100 years ago in 1925 – and has exerted its influence ever since, as this timeline shows. > 1905 Riffing on earlier work by Max Planck ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics ... describes low-energy excitations in bosonic quantum quasicrystals. Their newly devised theory, outlined in a paper published in Physical ...

A black-body model of sufficiently high ... the irreversibility of thermal processes, Max Planck turned his attention to the problem of black-body radiation in 1897. He attempted to explain with ...