Light is more than a little bit inscrutable. Modern physics has sliced the stuff of nature into ever smaller and more exotic constituents, but light won't reduce. Light is light—pure ...

Physicists from Imperial College London have achieved a groundbreaking milestone in quantum physics by reimagining the classic double-slit experiment—this time in the dimension of time. Led by ...

The science that was repulsive to an idea of religious belief thus began to embrace religious ideas culminating with the ...

A new perspective on the universe could emerge if superluminal observers, those who theoretically move faster than light, ...

What is quantum physics? Put simply, it’s the physics that explains how everything works: the best description we have of the nature of the particles that make up matter and the forces with ...

The rich history of research involving photons is celebrated in a supplement to this month's Nature Physics ... by others on such topics as spin, light microscopy, DNA technologies and cancer.

His three greatest discoveries — the theory of universal gravitation, the nature of white light and calculus ... which he applied to general physics. His basic system, developed simultaneously ...

Physics attempts to both answer philosophical questions about the nature of the universe and provide solutions to technological problems. Quantum thermodynamics has provided theoretical insights ...

As light goes through an interface, its speed changes. The solution for the behavior of light on one side of the interface or ...