Like the proverbial tree falling in the forest, scientists wonder: does reality exist on its own . . . or just when you observe the world?

Einstein wasn’t satisfied. At a 1927 conference, he suggested a way to catch light in both modes. If you could detect the ...

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Physicists at MIT recreated the double-slit experiment using individual photons and atoms held in laser light, uncovering the ...

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MIT researchers used ultracold atoms to isolate the quantum trade-off between wave interference and particle path detection.

A groundbreaking experiment demonstrates yet again that light exists both as a wave and a particle in the quantum world—but ...

For a chosen electron and positron velocity of 100 meters/second, for example, the de Broglie wavelength is 7.28 microns.

A new version of the famous double-slit experiment showed that it's impossible to measure light as both a wave and a particle ...

MIT’s quantum experiment validates Bohr’s theory and disproves Einstein’s local realism using ultracold atoms and single ...

It's time for the latest update in confirming things we already knew—and, as always, it's being far more interesting than you ...

The double-slit experiment and its variations is one of the weirdest results humans found as we began to study the world ...