Scattering takes place across the universe at large and miniscule scales. Billiard balls clank off each other in bars, the ...

To begin with, there’s no single quantum theory. There’s quantum mechanics, the basic mathematical ... of the nucleus at the heart of the atom; and the weak nuclear force, which explains ...

Did these researchers truly just crack our fundamental concepts of (quantum) physics wide open ... in the photonic energy getting absorbed by an atom, boosting the energy state of its electron ...

For over a century, quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general relativity have stood as the cornerstones of modern physics, yet ...

you could place a cat in a box with a poison whose release was triggered by a radioactive decay governed by quantum mechanics—and, until the box was opened and observed, the atom would both have ...

Instead, neutrons are held together inside an ... model of an atom, after his discovery of the electron." It was so unexpected, Li calls it "a pretty crazy solution to a quantum mechanical problem." ...