The scientist on why studying elementary particles is only one way of explaining phenomena, how the 3D printer could change the world, and her optimism about women in science Chiara Marletto is a ...

Theoretical physicist Marletto takes a wide-ranging look at the “counterfactual properties” of science in her lyrical yet complex debut. Modern science focuses on physical reality, she writes, but ...

(Phys.org)—Quantum measurements are often inherently unpredictable, yet the usual way in which quantum theory accounts for unpredictability has long been viewed as somewhat unsatisfactory. In a new ...

There is a vast class of properties, which science has so far neglected, that relate not only to what happens - the actual - but to what could or could not be: the counterfactual. This is the science ...

You may think of physics as a way to explain the behaviors of things like black holes, colliding particles, falling apples, and quantum computers. But a small group physicists today is working on a ...

I agree with Chiara Marletto and Vlatko Vedral that we need to test quantum gravity experimentally (Nature 547, 156–158; 2017). However, the idea of measuring quantum superpositions of the ...

Alternative reality If a lifeboat is never used, because the ship it is on never sinks, is it still a lifeboat? (Courtesy: iStock/Tramino) If a 1 kg mass is dropped from a height of 100 m, what is its ...

The elusive, yet seemingly inevitable, quantum nature of gravity may finally be demonstrated experimentally. Two separate groups in the UK; Chiara Marletto and Vlatko Vedral at the University of ...