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The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is celebrating 10 years of cutting-edge gravitational wave science by confirming predictions made by physics luminaries Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Roy Kerr — and potentially revealing a path toward a theory of quantum gravity. LIGO achieved this latest milestone by detecting gravitational waves, or tiny ripples in spacetime. The existence of gravitational waves …

Rainer Weiss, Who Gave a Nod to Einstein and the Big Bang, Dies at 92  The New York Times Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, influential physicist who forged new paths to understanding the universe, dies at 92  MIT News Nobel prize winner and gravitational wave pioneer Rainer Weiss dies at 92  Space Nobel physicist key to world’s 1st gravitational wave discovery in Eastern WA …

The Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens: The newly discovered ultramassive blackhole lies at the centre of the orange galaxy. Far behind it is a blue galaxy that is being warped into the horseshoe shaped ring by distortions in spacetime created by the immense mass of the foreground orange galaxy. Credit: NASA/ESA It may be the most massive black hole ever found. …

Abstract illustration of a quantum double-slit experiment. Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. MIT physicists have recreated the most iconic experiment in quantum physics — this time with individual atoms acting as the slits and single photons barely grazing past. Their results have firmly answered a question that has lingered for nearly a century: Can we ever observe light’s particle and wave nature …

Researchers at MIT have conducted what they are calling the most “idealized” double-slit experiment yet, finding further evidence that Einstein’s take on the phenomenon is likely incorrect. The double-slit experiment and its variations is one of the weirdest results humans found as we began to study the world scientifically. In 1801, Thomas Young took a light and shone it through …

For over 100 years, quantum physics has taught us that light is both a wave and a particle. Now, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have performed a daring experiment using single atoms that confirms that, while light can behave as either a particle or a photon, it cannot be seen to behave as both at the same …

Robert Wilson, Provocative Playwright of ‘Einstein on the Beach,’ Is Dead at 83  The New York TimesView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

Incredible Re-Run of the Double Slit Experiment Proves Einstein Wrong Again  extremetech.com MIT Just Proved Einstein Wrong in the Most Famous Quantum Experiment  SciTechDaily Niels Bohr defeated Einstein: scientists created a diffraction grating of «frozen» atoms that scatter  ITC.ua MIT Recreates Double-Slit Experiment with Ultracold Atoms, Confirms Quantum Duality  WebProNews MIT Shatters Einstein’s Quantum Beliefs with Groundbreaking Double-Slit Experiment  MSN Source link

In a stunning new demonstration of quantum mechanics, a team of MIT physicists has settled a nearly century-old debate between Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, with the results showing Einstein was wrong. The team performed an idealized version of the famous double-slit experiment, confirming that light has a dual identity as both a particle and a wave, but that these …

In a striking display of quantum physics, a team of researchers has recreated one of science’s most legendary experiments—with unprecedented precision. At MIT, scientists cooled thousands of atoms to nearly absolute zero, arranged them in a neat lattice using laser light, and then used those atoms to scatter individual photons of light. The experiment is a modern version of the …