Considered volume II in Susskind’s “Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics” series (volume I covered classical mechanics), the authors offer highly motivated readers an ...
MIT researchers have developed a classical physics-based formulation that can replicate solutions from the Schrödinger equation, a cornerstone of quantum mechanics. Demonstrated on quantum phenomena ...
When you throw a ball in the air, the equations of classical physics will tell you exactly what path the ball will take as it falls, and when and where it will land. But if you were to squeeze that ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN: MIT scientists explain the quantum behavior of subatomic particles through classical physics
MIT scientists explain the quantum behavior of subatomic particles through classical physics
The Conversation: Theoretical physics – like sex, but with no need to experiment
There are not many professions where people routinely ask you to justify your work, but theoretical physics is one of them. In the wake of the recent Nobel Prize to Peter Higgs and François Englert ...
Perhaps no other area of physics has enjoyed as much attention from scientists and non-scientists as quantum mechanics. The fame of quantum mechanics theories stands in juxtaposition to the physical ...
Joining the sweeping theory of general relativity to the probabilistic world of quantum mechanics is perhaps the greatest challenge in modern physics. Each has been borne out on its own scale by ...
Editor's Note: This article was provided by The Conversation UK. The original is here. There are not many professions where people routinely ask you to justify your work, but theoretical physics is ...