22 January 2018
Quantum-enabled satellite passes key tests
...photons) and relies on one of the fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics to make the encryption safe. Put very basically, when...Last year, China successfully launched the world's first quantum-enabled satellite called Micius. Named after the ancient ...
15 March 2018
A shining light in physics is lost
... supported widely by fellow physicians however, as his hypothesis was at odds with one of the most basic laws of quantum mechanics; the survival of information. In Hawking’s theory there was no relationship between matter going into a black hole and...
January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
... their interaction with the solar sail produces no significant thrust. Photons have no rest mass but, thanks to quantum mechanics, they do have momentum. And, like any particle with momentum, they can impart some of it to an object that...
01 February 2017
Researchers find substantial observational evidence for a holographic Universe
... Universe has been effectively described by two dominant sets of physics; those governing the very, very small – quantum mechanics – and those controlling the very, very large – Einsteins theory of general relativity. However trying to fit the...
May 2021
Taking quantum into space
... very small scales, some of the most interesting discoveries in the last decade have been in the field of quantum mechanics which have laid bare the curious uncertain reality of our world. Today, we are already for a long...
26 January 2016
Scientists reveal a new way to test the origins of the Universe
... back and forth. Consequently, these oscillations or quantum wiggles appear as fine oscillatory structures that would manifest... are suggesting that the heavy particles can move quantum-mechanically without having to be pushed initially and are encoded...
