Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman has been quoted as saying that it’s safe to say “that nobody understands quantum mechanics.” But even though the study of the quantum world may be counter ...

They may look like simple oil drops, but they evoke many of the strange features of quantum theory. Coincidence? Jon Cartwright investigates Experimental physics: wave-droplet "walkers". (Courtesy: ...

In October 1927, some of the greatest minds in physics gathered for the Fifth Solvay International Conference to debate the troubling implications of the then-nascent theory of quantum mechanics. A ...

IT occurred to me some time ago that the phenomenon of superfluidity might be qualitatively understood on the basis of the concept of de Broglie waves in analogy to the Ramsauer effect. At ...