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Astronomers discovered a new rogue planet lurking in archival data gathered by the Hubble Space Telescope, and the find is thanks to a little serendipity — and a little help from the genius himself, Albert Einstein. Rogue, or “free-floating,” planets are worlds that don’t orbit a star. They earn their rogue status when they are ejected from their home systems …

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists performing what they described as an “idealized” version of the infamous double-slit experiment, showing light exists as both a particle and a wave, a core component of quantum physics, have confirmed the original test’s results and proven that a related proposal about light’s dual nature from famed scientist Albert Einstein was wrong. The MIT …

Scientists have long grappled with a fundamental question: what exactly is light? Is it a wave, flowing like ripples across water, or is it made up of tiny particles, like miniature paintballs zipping through space? This fundamental question was at the heart of the double-slit experiment, demonstrating light’s dual nature. Just recently, physicists at MIT conducted an experiment using incredible …

MIT Just Proved Einstein Wrong in the Most Famous Quantum Experiment  SciTechDaily Famous double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials  MIT News MIT confirms Einstein was wrong in century-old light experiment  Interesting Engineering Like Superman, light has two identities that are impossible to see at once  Tech Explorist Niels Bohr defeated Einstein: scientists created a diffraction grating of «frozen» atoms that …

For more than a century, physicists have relied on two separate rulebooks to describe nature. Quantum mechanics excels at explaining atoms, photons, and every jiggle inside laboratories. Einstein’s general relativity, meanwhile, accounts for the way planets and stars bend the very fabric of space-time. Each framework is staggeringly accurate inside its own arena, yet they cannot be combined in a …