If gravity arises from entropy, scientists could unite Einstein's general relativity with the quantum realm while shedding ...

Physicists may need to come up with a new theory for how the universe works, after a dark energy experiment has produced ...

I've long been fascinated by the fundamental mystery of our universe's origin. In my work, I explore an alternative to the ...

A new theory suggests that gravity could possibly be the result of entropy. If true, this would mean that everything in the ...

New research challenges our understanding of black holes, proposing they may not be cosmic dead ends after all.

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking took gravity to its ultimate limits. In doing so, he made a number of significant ...

Physics has a problem—their key models of quantum theory and the theory of relativity do not fit together. Now, Dr. Wolfgang Wieland from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is ...

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In a study published March 11 in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters, two researchers applied quantum mechanics to ...

Quantum scientists now believe time isn’t fundamental at all—instead it emerges from interactions among things.

A "theory of everything" that encompasses both general relativity and quantum physics has thwarted the efforts of minds as great as Stephen Hawking, and even Einstein himself. One of the major ...