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Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of ...

Regarding collapse of a wave function – a quote in a Grant Callin book has the aliens saying to us “So you have developed an entire physics based on the premise that a sentient observer is ...

Previous work that claimed to propose a way to test whether the wave function is real made a splash in the physics community, but turned out to be based on improper assumptions, and no one ever ...

“Could we hear the pop of a wave-function collapse, and if so, what would it sound like?” asks Antoine Tilloy of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany. To find out why the “sound is ...

By interpreting the wave function as personal degrees of belief, it gives precise, mathematical meaning to Bohr's intuition that “physics concerns what we can say about nature.” ...

Researchers developed a technique to calculate quantum wave functions 350 times faster than previous methods.

Experiments led by Humphrey Maris, professor of physics at Brown, suggest that the quantum state of an electron -- the electron's wave function -- can be shattered into pieces and those pieces can ...