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The phenomenon of entanglement, described by Einstein as “spooky action at a distance,” is getting the Marvel treatment. Physicist Chad Orzel explains how it works.
The more precisely you know the position of a particle in a quantum system, the less well you know its momentum (and vice-versa). But it gets more complicated.
The Standard Model is the modern physical understanding of three of the four forces of nature: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force.
Photons carry the electromagnetic force, and act as both particles and waves.
Our modern lives are ruled by clocks and watches, smartphone apps and calendar programs. While our gadgets may be new, however, the drive to measure and master time is anything but—and in his new book - "A Brief History of Timekeeping" – Union College Professor Chad Orzel traces the path from Stonehenge to your smartphone.Predating written language and marching on through human history, the desire for ever-better timekeeping has spurred technological innovation and sparked theories that radically reshaped our understanding of the universe and our place in it.Orzel, a physicist an...