Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have used auditory illusions to examine how moments of silence can distort people’s perception of time, tackling the age-old philosophical question of whether silence can be perceived as more than the absence of sound. A team of psychologists and philosophers at Johns Hopkins University used auditory illusions to show that … Read more
When you turn on a lamp to light up a room, you’re experiencing light energy transmitted as photons, which are small, discrete quantum packets of energy. These photons have to obey the sometimes strange laws of quantum mechanics, which, for example, dictate that photons are indivisible, but at the same time allow a photon to … Read more
When you turn on a lamp to light up a room, you’re experiencing light energy transmitted as photons, which are small, discrete quantum packets of energy. These photons have to obey the sometimes strange laws of quantum mechanics, which, for example, dictate that photons are indivisible, but at the same time allow a photon to … Read more
When you turn on a lamp to light up a room, you’re experiencing light energy transmitted as photons, which are small, discrete quantum packets of energy. These photons have to obey the sometimes strange laws of quantum mechanics, which, for example, dictate that photons are indivisible, but at the same time allow a photon to … Read more
