A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...

Nearly a century after Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr turned a technical disagreement into a philosophical duel, a new generation of experiments has given Bohr the edge in their most famous clash. By ...

Along with Schrödinger’s Cat, the Infinite Monkeys Theorem is one of the most famous thought experiments. A new study, with tongue firmly in cheek, has calculated that you might be waiting seven ...

One of the most famous quantum thought experiments is that of the "Schrödinger's cat"—a cat whose life or death depends on the decay of a radioactive atom. According to quantum mechanics, unless the ...

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