"No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon." — John Archibald Wheeler We used to think the observer was a passive witness to the universe. What if the observer is part of ...

Quantum physics didn’t set out to explain the mind. It set out to explain matter. And yet, the deeper scientists went into the smallest building blocks of reality, the harder it became to ignore one ...

Researchers at Hiroshima University have developed a realistic, highly sensitive method to detect the Unruh effect—a long-predicted phenomenon at the crossroads of relativity and quantum theory. Their ...