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credits: wikimedia There are good reasons to say that PAM Dirac is indeed the greatest physicist. He was present at the birth of quantum theory and took part in the debates as to the merits of the wave theory formulation due to Schroedinger, and the matrix formulation due to Heisenberg. Dirac managed to show that they were two aspects of the same thing. This alone would make him a giant. It is not clear to me that there is any similar achievement elsewhere in physics. Like Einstein he went seeking for a new theory, and managed to produce it by himself in under two years, resulting in the Dirac equation that some think is the most beautiful equation there is. Although Dirac did not realise at the time, this theory predicted the positron and so antimatter. This prediction alone would make him a giant. It is comparable to the bending of light prediction of General Relativity. The Dirac equation also accounted for the fine structure of the hydrogen atom, ranking as one of the greatest expl...

credits: wikimedia There are good reasons to say that PAM Dirac is indeed the greatest physicist. He was present at the birth of quantum theory and took part in the debates as to the merits of the wave theory formulation due to Schroedinger, and the matrix formulation due to Heisenberg. Dirac managed to show that they were two aspects of the same thing. This alone would make him a giant. It is not clear to me that there is any similar achievement elsewhere in physics. Like Einstein he went seeking for a new theory, and managed to produce it by himself in under two years, resulting in the Dirac equation that some think is the most beautiful equation there is. Although Dirac did not realise at the time, this theory predicted the positron and so antimatter. This prediction alone would make him a giant. It is comparable to the bending of light prediction of General Relativity. The Dirac equation also accounted for the fine structure of the hydrogen atom, ranking as one of the ...

Quantum mechanics is the body of scientific laws that describe the wacky behavior of photons, electrons and the other particles that make up the universe. Credit:   agsandrew   |   Shutterstock ndd  By  Robert Coolman, Live Science Contributor  |  September 26, 2014 06:36pm ET Quantum mechanics is the branch of physics relating to the very small.  It results in what may appear to be some very strange conclusions about the physical world. At the scale of atoms and electrons, many of the equations of  classical mechanics , which describe how things move at everyday sizes and speeds, cease to be useful. In classical mechanics, objects exist in a specific place at a specific time. However, in quantum mechanics, objects instead exist in a haze of probability; they have a certain chance of being at point A, another chance of being at point B and so on. Three revolutionary principles Quantum mechanics (QM) developed over many decades, beginning as a...

Quantum mechanics is the body of scientific laws that describe the wacky behavior of photons, electrons and the other particles that make up the universe. Credit:   agsandrew   |   Shutterstock ndd  By  Robert Coolman, Live Science Contributor  |  September 26, 2014 06:36pm ET Quantum mechanics is the branch of physics relating to the very small.  It results in what may appear to be some very strange conclusions about the physical world. At the scale of atoms and electrons, many of the equations of  classical mechanics , which describe how things move at everyday sizes and speeds, cease to be useful. In classical mechanics, objects exist in a specific place at a specific time. However, in quantum mechanics, objects instead exist in a haze of probability; they have a certain chance of being at point A, another chance of being at point B and so on. Three revolutionary principles Quantum mechanics (QM) developed over many deca...

credits: wikiquote It's not often scientists get to say this, but a new study has shown once and for all that the master scientist was wrong to turn his back on quantum physics. Dr Einstein famously didn't believe it was possible for two tiny particles - known as photons - to transmit information between them instantly, no matter how far apart they were, because doing so would break one of the universe's fundamental rules - that nothing, including information, can travel faster than light. His view is known as 'local realism'. While quantum physics has shown it's possible through a process known as entanglement, which Dr Einstein called "spooky action at a distance", there has long been a small loophole through which his opposition has survived. In previous experiments, pairs of photons have been entangled, then sent to different locations where they were measured. "If the measurement results tend to agree, regardless of which properties we choose...

credits: wikiquote It's not often scientists get to say this, but a new study has shown once and for all that the master scientist was wrong to turn his back on quantum physics. Dr Einstein famously didn't believe it was possible for two tiny particles - known as photons - to transmit information between them instantly, no matter how far apart they were, because doing so would break one of the universe's fundamental rules - that nothing, including information, can travel faster than light. His view is known as 'local realism'. While quantum physics has shown it's possible through a process known as entanglement, which Dr Einstein called "spooky action at a distance", there has long been a small loophole through which his opposition has survived. In previous experiments, pairs of photons have been entangled, then sent to different locations where they were measured. "If the measurement results tend to agree, regardless of which pro...