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These are most mind-melting physics discoveries of 2024
The universe is even weirder than you’d expect andrey_l/Shutterstock The following is an extract from our Lost in…
These are the most mind-melting physics discoveries of 2024
The universe is even weirder than you’d expect andrey_l/Shutterstock The following is an extract from our Lost in…
The Inner Clock review: How bad is modern life for our body clocks – and what can we do?
Humans defy internal clocks; the little penguin (pictured below) lives by them Alex Ramsay/Alamy The Inner ClockLynne Peeples…
Nuclear clock: How the most precise timepiece ever could change our view of the cosmos
Ekkehard Peik is a clock-maker. But instead of spending his days looking at tiny cogs and springs through a…
Time travel sci-fi novel is a rip-roaringly good thought experiment
Shutterstock/Sarath maroli The Other ValleyScott Alexander Howard (Atlantic Books (UK); Atria Books (US)) The Other Valley by Scott…
You can turn any random sequence of events into a clock
Not all clocks look like a pocket watch Oleksandr Perepelytsia / Alamy Any random sequence of events, such…
How materials that rewind light can test physics’ most extreme ideas
For an experiment designed to reverse time, the apparatus was surprisingly simple: little more than a tank of…
Time may be an illusion created by quantum entanglement
Where does time come from? Quality Stock / Alamy Time may not be a fundamental element of our…
Quantum time travel: The experiment to ‘send a particle into the past’
Ryan wills/istock/Amtitus When Seth Lloyd first published his ideas about quantum time loops, he hadn’t considered all the…
Quantum ‘arrow of time’ suggests early universe had no entanglement
Was there entanglement at the dawn of time? Panzer/Shutterstock In the beginning, there was no quantum entanglement. That…