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Forget the multiverse. In the pluriverse, we create reality together

A radical idea that resolves many quantum paradoxes suggests there is no objective view of reality. How can the cosmos be stitched together from interlocking perspectives?

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Fractal conceptual illustration of supersymmetry or superstrings. Supersymmetry (SUSY) is a particle physics theory that proposes a type of spacetime symmetry relating two basic classes of elementary particles: bosons, which have an integer-valued 'spin', and fermions, which have a half-integer spin. If supersymmetry is a true symmetry of nature, it would explain many mysterious features of particle physics and would help solve paradoxes such as the cosmological constant problem. There is only indirect evidence for the existence of supersymmetry, primarily in the form of evidence for gauge coupling unification. Direct confirmation would entail production of superpartners at collider experiments, such as at the Large Hadron Collider.

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A crisis in cosmology may mean hidden dimensions really exist

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An artwork made my layering many paper cutouts, showing an astronaut near a black hole. Within the black hole are colourful swirls, stars and specks

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Black hole entropy hints at a surprising truth about our universe

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A new understanding of causality could fix quantum theory’s fatal flaw

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A new understanding of causality could fix quantum theory’s fatal flaw

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The forgotten women of quantum physics

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Why no one can agree on what quantum physics really means

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Why John Stewart Bell has been haunting quantum mechanics for decades

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Quantum computer circuitry illustration. Conventional computers store information as 'bits', with each transistor holding either a 1 or a 0. Quantum computers use quantum bits, or qubits, which operate according to two principles of quantum physics. One of the principles, supposition, allows a qubit to store a 1 and a 0 at the same time. This means two qubits can hold four values at once. The second principle, entanglement, means that the state of one qubit can depend on the state of another. As you expand the number of qubits, the machine becomes exponentially more powerful.

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Quantum theory at 100: Let’s celebrate its power and provocation

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Where exactly does the quantum world end and concrete reality begin?

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Where exactly does the quantum world end and concrete reality begin?

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Could the ancient Greeks have invented quantum theory?

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Could the ancient Greeks have invented quantum theory?

There were hints that the world may be quantum long before the development of quantum mechanics in 1925 – could we have come up with this revolutionary theory hundreds or even thousands of years earlier?

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What does quantum theory really tell us about the nature of reality?

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How a quantum innovation may quash the idea of the multiverse

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Physicists in 2024 searched the quantum realm for the truth about time

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Quantum time crystals could be used to store energy

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