"We have long treated the Planck scale like a blurry limit," said Kulkarni. "But if you treat space as an information storage medium, geometry dictates a specific packing efficiency. The universe has ...

The quantum realm holds terrifying implications, insinuating so much uncertainty into our mundane, ordered view of reality. With that in mind, have you considered that our entire universe may actually ...

CALABASAS, Calif., Feb. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- For a century, the Schrödinger equation has been the bedrock of quantum mechanics, successfully predicting how matter behaves as a wave. Yet, physics ...

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