Stories by Anil Ananthaswamy

Anil Ananthaswamy is author of The Edge of Physics (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), The Man Who Wasn't There (Dutton, 2015), and, most recently, Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality (Dutton, 2018). Credit: Nick Higgins

Space & Physics

Has LIGO Seen Galaxy-Warped Gravitational Waves?

Nobel laureate George Smoot claims LIGO has observed amplified signals of black hole mergers from the very distant universe, but LIGO scientists disagree

January 18, 2019 — Anil Ananthaswamy

Space & Physics

What Does Quantum Theory Actually Tell Us about Reality?

Nearly a century after its founding, physicists and philosophers still don’t know—but they’re working on it...

September 6, 2018 — Anil Ananthaswamy

The Human Eye Could Help Test Quantum Mechanics

Experiments to confirm we can see single photons offer new ways to probe our understanding of quantum reality

July 10, 2018 — Anil Ananthaswamy

Quantum Physics

Is Our Universe a Hologram? Physicists Debate Famous Idea on Its 25th Anniversary

The Ads/CFT duality conjecture suggests our universe is a hologram, enabling significant discoveries in the 25 years since it was first proposed

— Anil Ananthaswamy