This morning on BBC Radio 4, the mathematician Roger Penrose, physicist Basil Hiley, and philosopher Simon Saunders had a lively discussion about the “measurement problem in physics” with broadcaster ...

(via PBS Space Time) The mystery of what happens when we go from a superposition to a definite state is known as the Measurement Problem, and it’s arguably the most mysterious outstanding problem in ...

For a few years, one of particle physics’ most unsettling numbers seemed to be pointing somewhere strange. The trouble ...

A physicist that the answer to the long-running debate of quantum measurement lies in the phenomenon of nonlocality. Physicist Art Hobson has offered a solution, within the framework of standard ...

Experimental physicist David Weld’s experimental research interest lies in a question that has been around for a long time, but which we’re only now approaching the ability to investigate. “There’s a ...

When it comes to understanding the Universe, scientists have traditionally taken two approaches in tandem with one another. On the one hand, we perform experiments and make measurements and ...

What is Hugh Everett's theory of parallel universes, and do physicists today buy it? Hear from Everett's biographer. Half a century has passed since 27-year-old Hugh Everett III published a version of ...