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Physics World September 2022

Physics World September 2022

The fabric of reality: can quantum physics knit space and time together?

In this month’s cover feature, Clara Aldegunde from Imperial College London goes on an intellectual journey to understand how quantum phenomena may thread together the fabric of space–time, giving rise to our reality. It’s mind-bending stuff and well worth a read. Elsewhere, you can enjoy a feature about the pioneering scientist Hertha Ayrton and find out from Krysta Svore what Microsoft Quantum is up to. Meanwhile, Peter Main wonders why more and more UK universities are handing out so many first-class degrees in physics.

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Photo of two pairs of hands on a board table with an EU flag and a UK flag analysis

UK science in limbo over Horizon

View of the ISS from a SpaceX mission analysis

Space station future put in doubt

Illustration of hands knitting an item covered in space-time equations feature

Knitting space–time out of quantum entanglement

Portrait of Hertha Ayrton in 1906 by Helena Darmesteter feature

Hertha Ayrton: pioneering inventor and suffragette

A quantum computer analysis

Quantum computing gets down to business

person walking barefoot on grass lateral thoughts

Staying grounded

Vertical farming opinion

The power of photonics

Krysta Svore interview

Democratizing the quantum-computing ecosystem

illustration of a door opening between two walls of abstract quantum simulations opinion

When physicists and philosophers realize they share a noble truth

Erwin Schrodinger in Austria in 1937 review

Erwin Schrödinger: why did he fail at Oxford?

graduates celebrating opinion

Why we need to tackle university degree inflation

Pandoras box with green smoke on a wooden background review

Climate intervention: a possible hope in the face of humanity’s biggest problem

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