Niels Bohr

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Using 10,000 atoms and 1 to probe the Bohr-Einstein debate

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Analysis Scicomm Science Albert Einstein Bohr-Einstein debate complementarity Debye-Waller factor double-slit experiment hidden variables lasers Niels Bohr optical lattice optical tweezer Pan Jianwei quantum entanglement Quantum mechanics rubidium atoms scattered light uncertainty principle wavepacket Wolfgang Ketterle

The double-slit experiment has often been described as the most beautiful demonstration in physics. In one striking image, it shows the strange dual character of matter and light. When particles such…

The calculus of creative discipline

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Culture Op-eds classical mechanics creative discipline critical points Dan Shechtman differential calculus EPR paradox fantasy fiction Imre Lakatos JK Rowling Karl Popper literary criticism M John Harrison Malazan Book of the Fallen mathematical analysis nerdism Niels Bohr Paul Feyerabend Philosophy of Science quasicrystals replication crisis smooth functions Steven Erikson Thomas Kuhn Viriconium world-building

Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building. World-building is dull. World-building literalises the urge to invent. World-building gives an unnece…

Disentangling entanglement

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Scicomm Alain Aspect Albert Einstein Anton Zeilinger Boris Podolsky communication loophole detection loophole EPR paradox John Clauser John Stewart Bell Nathan Rosen Niels Bohr Nobel Prize for physics quantum entanglement Rober Hanson spooky action at a distance Wolf Prize

There has been considerable speculation if the winners of this year's Nobel Prize for physics, due to be announced at 2.30 pm IST on October 8, will include Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger. They&…

Jayant Narlikar's pseudo-defence of Darwin

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Op-eds Scicomm Charles Darwin cosmology fluid dynamics Jayant Narlikar Navier–Stokes equations Niels Bohr original of life principle of correspondence quantum coherence quantum gravity Quantum mechanics theory of evolution

Jayant Narlikar, the noted astrophysicist and emeritus professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, recently wrote an op-ed in The Hindu titled 'Science should ha…