The Reality Tests. Phd student Simon Gröblacher sits behind the floating table where he spends evenings doing Schrödinger’s cat-style experiments.
Photograph by Mark Mahaney. In the summer of 1925, Werner Heisenberg was stricken with hay fever and having trouble with math. He asked his advisor for two weeks off and left for a barren island in the North Sea. He spent his mornings swimming and hiking, but every evening Heisenberg tried to describe atoms in a theory that included only what could be measured. 'Time Crystals' Could Upend Physicists' Theory of Time. Physicists plan to create a “time crystal” — a theoretical object that moves in a repeating pattern without using energy — inside a device called an ion trap.
Image: Hartmut Häffner In February 2012, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek decided to go public with a strange and, he worried, somewhat embarrassing idea.
The Scale of the Universe 2. Mars Science Laboratory. Home - Mars One. Living Universe Foundation.