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Mitchell Feigenbaum, physicist who pioneered chaos theory, has died - News - 0 views
A Physicist Who Models ISIS and the Alt-Right | Quanta Magazine - 0 views
Physicists and Philosophers Debate the Boundaries of Science | Quanta Magazine - 0 views
Reimagining of Schrödinger's Cat Breaks Quantum Mechanics-and Stumps Physicists - 0 views
Universe shouldn't exist, CERN physicists conclude - 0 views
Physicists have demonstrated how to reverse of the arrow of time - 0 views
Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics | Quanta Magazine - 0 views
Physicists Aim to Classify All Possible Phases of Matter | Quanta Magazine - 0 views
Coder-Physicists Are Simulating the Universe to Unlock Its Secrets | Quanta Magazine - 0 views
For The First Time, Physicists Have Observed a Giant Magnetic 'Bridge' Between Galaxies - 0 views
Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math. | Quanta Mag... - 0 views
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Physicists who think carefully about time point to troubles posed by quantum mechanics, the laws describing the probabilistic behavior of particles. At the quantum scale, irreversible changes occur that distinguish the past from the future: A particle maintains simultaneous quantum states until you measure it, at which point the particle adopts one of the states. Mysteriously, individual measurement outcomes are random and unpredictable, even as particle behavior collectively follows statistical patterns. This apparent inconsistency between the nature of time in quantum mechanics and the way it functions in relativity has created uncertainty and confusion.