Have we heard the whisper of reality making itself?

7/11/2018

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New Scientist (July 11) -- A new experiment has seen a hint that quantum critics may be right. The result must still be corroborated by many other tests, some now getting under way, but there’s no overstating the significance if it is shown to be correct. “It would be revolutionary,” says physicist and Nobel laureate Anthony Leggett at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “It would shatter the notion that quantum mechanics is the whole story about the physical world.”


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This story was published July 11, 2018.