Einstein was wrong: Why 'normal' physics can't explain reality
14 November 2018
The most ambitious experiments yet show that the quantum weirdness Einstein famously hated rules the roost – not just here, but across the entire universe
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28 October 2015
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10 September 2014
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31 July 2013
Reality, relativity, causality or free will? Take quantum theory at face value and at least one of them is an illusion – but which, asks Michael Brooks
Wormhole entanglement gives space-time the bends
24 July 2013
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