(Nanowerk News) Quantum mechanics provides such a different description of the world compared to classical physics that even Albert Einstein had problems comprehending the implications of the theory.

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A cornerstone of modern physics is mathematics. Like it or not, without the tools provided to physicists by mathematics, physics would be dead in the water. But (and this is something that all of us ...

In a recently published article in the journal Physics Letters B, researchers investigated the propagation of light within a theoretical model known as an elliptic wormhole (EWH), characterized by ...