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Higgledy-Piggledy

John Wheeler, one of the legends of modern physics, used to say that “everything comes from higgledy-piggledy”. This was his usual reply to the question “Why quantum?”, to which no one has so far found an answer.

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As quantum mechanics turns 100, a new revolution is under way

One hundred years ago on a quiet, rocky island, German physicist Werner Heisenberg helped set in motion a series of scientific developments that would touch nearly all of physics. There, Heisenberg developed the framework of quantum mechanics. At the time, quantum theory was just a loose collection of ideas about the quirks of physics on the scale of atoms.

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The bold attempt to solve the toughest mystery at the heart of physics

Finding out whether gravity – and therefore space-time itself – is quantum in nature has long been thought impossible. But innovative new ideas might be about to help answer this crucial question.

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It’s Only the Sound of a Rainbow (But I Like It)

A Zen koan is a statement (such as “what’s the sound of one hand clapping?”) meant to lead to a complete cessation of thinking. The whole point of Zen is to get us to be at one with the universe (“all is one and one is all”).

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Only the soul gets teleported

One of the inventors of quantum teleportation, the late Israeli physicist Asher Peres, was once asked by a journalist if a human being was to be quantum teleported, “Would the whole being be teleported with the soul or only the body?” His witty reply was: “No, only the soul gets teleported!”

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Flat Qubiters

Flat Earthers are a small but growing community of people who, as the name suggests, believe that the Earth is flat. They claim, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that they can account using flat geometry for all the experiments revealing the Earth’s spherical shape.

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