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Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human ...
A hundred years ago this week, at the height of the quantum revolution, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger submitted a ...
A century ago, Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that says how the quantum world behaves. Now scientists are asking ...
That piece, Einstein’s Light for Violin and Piano, was written by Adolphe a decade ago for the 100th anniversary of the ...