When you throw a ball in the air, the equations of classical physics will tell you exactly what path the ball will take as it ...

Physicists at Stevens Institute of Technology used Christiaan Huygens' 350-year-old theorem, which explains the workings of pendulums and planets, to reveal new properties of light waves. (Courtesy: ...

This system of laws is one of the very greatest accomplishments of human intellect: modern engineering is almost entirely the practice of applying them to design. Instead of relying upon conjecture, ...

MIT researchers have demonstrated that quantum phenomena like the double-slit experiment can be exactly calculated using a reformulated version of classical mechanics' Hamilton-Jacobi equation. By ...

During its teenage and young adult years—what is now referred to as its “classical” period—physics made a lot of mistakes. In the old physics, mass and energy were separately conserved; particles’ ...

Perhaps no other area of physics has enjoyed as much attention from scientists and non-scientists as quantum mechanics. The fame of quantum mechanics theories stands in juxtaposition to the physical ...

Over at NPR's science blog, Adam Becker has a post on "The Puzzle Of Quantum Reality". It's a good example of what it is, namely yet another explanation of the measurement problem and interpretations ...