OpinionSeptember 3, 2018
What Does Quantum Theory Actually Tell Us about Reality?
Nearly a century after its founding, physicists and philosophers still don’t know—but they’re working on it
Stories by Anil Ananthaswamy
Anil Ananthaswamy is author of The Edge of Physics (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), The Man Who Wasn't There (Dutton, 2015), Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality (Dutton, 2018), and Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind AI (Dutton, 2024).
The SciencesJuly 10, 2018
The Human Eye Could Help Test Quantum Mechanics
Experiments to confirm we can see single photons offer new ways to probe our understanding of quantum reality