There are moments in the history of human thought when a simple realization transforms our understanding of reality. A moment ...

Because scientists studying quantum field theory — a framework that ... it would collapse like a house of cards." The false vacuum theory isn't new. But the researchers believe that their ...

Physicists have performed a simulation they say sheds new light on an elusive phenomenon that could determine the ultimate fate of the universe. Pioneering research in quantum field theory around ...

Quantum field theory marries the ideas of other quantum theories to depict all particles as “excitations” that arise in underlying fields. The British physicist Paul Dirac started the ball ...

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Physicists have proposed a radical approach that questions decades of belief about how gravity, spacetime, and quantum mechanics fit together.

the study provides a potential pathway to a unified theory of quantum gravity. Moreover, the G-field could offer new insights into the nature of dark matter, a long-standing puzzle in cosmology.