Dartmouth researchers have discovered a potentially important piece of the quantum/classical puzzle – learning how the rules of physics in the quantum world (think smaller than microscopic) change when applied to the classical world (think every day items, like cars and trees).

The ability to exploit the extraordinary properties of quantum mechanics in novel applications, such as a new generation of super-fast computers, has come closer following recent progress with some of the remaining underlying mathematical problems.

By Goldberg, Cait FROM CLOCKWORK TO CRAPSHOOT: A History of Physics ROGER G. NEWTON Newton, professor emeritus of physics at Indiana University, recounts the transformation of science from recorded observations to discoveries about how the world operates.

By Weinberg, Steven I am one of the few contributors to this issue of Doedalus who is not in any sense a historian. I work and live in the country of physics, but history is the place that I love to visit as a tourist.