I keep coming back to a strange idea: what if everything we know about quantum physics is already encoded inside a single atom? Not in a mystical sense, but in the very real way that one tiny system ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Physicists have successfully simulated false vacuum decay, a quantum process theorized to be capable of ending the universe as we ...

Waterloo scientists have developed a new way to understand how the universe began, and it could change what we know about the Big Bang and the earliest moments of cosmic history. Their work suggests ...