It is called quantum reconstruction, and it amounts to trying to rebuild the theory from scratch based on a few simple principles. If these efforts succeed, it’s possible that all the apparent oddness ...

Quantum mechanics is perhaps the most unintuitive theory ever devised. And yet it’s also the most successful, in terms of sheer predictive power. Simply by following the math of quantum ...

Physicists are trying to rewrite the axioms of quantum theory from scratch in an effort to understand what it all means. The problem? They’ve been almost too successful.

Their best theory of everything else is quantum physics, which is astonishingly accurate when it comes to the properties of matter, energy and subatomic particles.

Scientists have shown for the first time that entanglement, the mysterious link between quantum particles, can be reversibly manipulated just like heat or energy in a perfect thermodynamic cycle.

Schrödinger’s bewilderment Quantum theory radically challenged this state of affairs because its building postulates were phrased in terms of complex numbers.