The theory of quantum mechanics has transformed daily life since being proposed a century ago, yet how it works remains a ...

Nature survey shows that disagreement about the meaning of quantum physics remains strong, even 100 years in. And that’s OK.

According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, physicists are still debating the true nature of this strange theory - and ...

Quantum mechanics involves how things work at the subatomic level, while general relativity describes classical theory, which has aspects of what physicists call local realism, where things happen ...

While quantum mechanics governs the behavior of particles at the smallest scales, general relativity describes the force of gravity on cosmic scales. Unifying these two frameworks has been one of ...