British theoretical physicist Paul Dirac was one of the most significant figures in the early days of quantum physics, who along with Erwin Schrödinger won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1933. But it ...

The internet is stuffed with online quizzes and surveys, ranging from which "Friends" character you are to who you're about to vote for. But the BBC recently asked something more profound of its ...

In 1958, Aharonov and Bohm (AB) predicted that two parts of the wavefunction of an electron can accumulate a phase difference even when they are confined to a region in space with zero electromagnetic ...

"Of all the equations of physics, perhaps the most magical is the Dirac equation." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. British ...