Thought experiments can be extremely powerful ... Take [AlphaPhoenix]’s simple question: “Are solid objects really solid?” On the face of it, this seems like a silly and trivial question ...

None of this is magic, of course. Rather, as optics aficionado [Les Wright] explains, non-linear optics is all about physics. Big physics, too, like the kind that made the National Ignition ...

AMO physicists strive to understand and control atoms, molecules, and light in new ways that were hardly dreamed about, only a decade ago. Experiments pioneered in the Department of Physics and in the ...

Gabriele makes physics accessible and fun. "Each chapter also includes simple scientific experiments to do at home, such as observing the propagation of sound using spoons, water and glasses".

Do you ever feel like you're living in a simulation? What if the world as we know it isn't actually real? Could we really be ...

What is quantum physics? Put simply ... Erwin Schrödinger and others. It characterises simple things such as how the position or momentum of a single particle or group of few particles changes ...