By ignoring part of his own experiment, a physicist coaxed time to emerge from within a closed quantum system.

I've long been fascinated by the fundamental mystery of our universe's origin. In my work, I explore an alternative to the traditional singularity-based models of cosmology. Instead of a universe ...

I keep coming back to a strange idea: what if everything we know about quantum physics is already encoded inside a single atom? Not in a mystical sense, but in the very real way that one tiny system ...

Time seems to be one of the most obvious things in the universe: it moves forward, seconds change minutes, and the past ...

(University of Birmingham) The quantum world is mind-bogglingly counterintuitive: at the smallest scales, basic physical ...

Everything around us, from atoms and molecules to planets and galaxies, is governed by two extraordinarily successful ...

Quantum mechanics has journeyed from a strange and controversial idea to the foundation of some of humanity’s most advanced ...

A breakthrough quantum sensor has shown it can uncover hidden signals through overwhelming noise, paving the way for future ...

An experiment with a toy universe made up of extremely cold atoms shows how time can emerge from quantum interactions, ...

Quantum physics is a prime example. It began as a highly controversial idea – as a fundamental branch of physics that ...