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Is This What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like?

Veritasium · 2 min read

Bouncing “walking” droplets on a vibrating oil bath can reproduce several hallmark behaviors of quantum mechanics—without being microscopic...

Walking DropletsPilot-Wave TheoryDouble-Slit Interference

How Will the Universe End? | Space Time

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Far-future physics points to a long, mostly dark endgame: the universe will spend nearly all of its infinite lifetime cooling toward maximum entropy,...

Heat DeathDegenerate MatterProton Decay

Is Quantum Tunneling Faster than Light? | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios

PBS Space Time · 2 min read

Quantum tunneling can look like faster-than-light travel, but the apparent speedup is confined to the tiny timing uncertainty built into quantum...

Quantum UncertaintyQuantum Tunnelingde Broglie Wavelength

Will Constructor Theory REWRITE Physics?

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Constructor theory is gaining attention as a potential “rewrite” of physics by shifting the foundation from dynamical equations to a cleaner set of...

Constructor TheoryCounterfactualsQuantum Gravity Test

What Caused the Big Bang?

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Cosmic inflation is built around one central mechanism: a quantum field can get trapped in a “false vacuum” with constant, positive energy density,...

Cosmic InflationFalse VacuumQuantum Tunneling

New Results in Quantum Tunneling vs. The Speed of Light

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Quantum tunneling may allow matter to appear to cross a barrier faster than light—yet the effect doesn’t automatically translate into...

Quantum TunnelingHartman EffectCausality

How Vacuum Decay Would Destroy The Universe

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Vacuum decay is a hypothetical end-of-the-universe mechanism in which a quantum field transitions from a “false vacuum” to a lower-energy “true...

Vacuum DecayHiggs FieldQuantum Tunneling

The Future of Gravitational Waves

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

LIGO’s second gravitational-wave detection is being treated as both a confirmation of the phenomenon and a stress test of the analysis...

Gravitational WavesLIGO DetectionsBlack Hole Mergers