Observer Effect in Physics I don’t know about ‘quantum healing’ or ‘quantum golf’, but I started to think about a possible connection between quantum theory and how people use concepts in 1998 when I ...

The modern scientific world prides itself on precision, empirical rigour, and the pursuit of measurable truth. Yet, some of ...

In quantum mechanics, "observation" is synonymous with quantum measurement and "observer" with a measurement apparatus and observable with what can be measured. Thus the quantum mechanical observer ...

Alyssa Ney is professor and chair of metaphysics at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, and Religious Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany. This week, physicists are ...

In quantum mechanics, particles do not behave like everyday objects. Instead of existing in one clearly defined state, they ...

A hundred years ago this week, at the height of the quantum revolution, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger submitted a manuscript for publication. Its centerpiece was an innocuous-looking equation ...