In this video, we explore the concept of free will and its implications in physics, particularly in relation to quantum mechanics. **Chapters:** 0:00 No free will was status quo 2:28 Free will defined ...

Space and time looked settled, at least in broad outline. Einstein’s special relativity gave physics a durable framework for ...

But after reading Decoherence and Quantum Darwinism, a book published in March 2025 by the physicist Wojciech Zurek, I’m excited by the possibility of an answer that does away with all those fanciful ...

The foundations of quantum mechanics rest on a conceptual framework that departs radically from classical notions of particles and waves. At its heart lies the wave–particle duality: all quantum ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

A century ago, the strange behavior of atoms and elementary particles led physicists to formulate a new theory of nature. That theory, quantum mechanics, found immediate success, proving its worth ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For the past few decades, researchers have understood that quantum computers should eventually be able to crack the widely used codes ...