Events in Physics
Myungshik Kim, Imperial College, UK
Quantum mechanics has been extremely successful in explaining nature from first principles without having to introduce phenomenological arguments. It is also generally believed that quantum mechanics will be the backbone of the next generation of technology. However, quantum mechanics is not flawless and its paradoxical consequences contradict what we experience in everyday life. Even though there have been many suggestions to go beyond, modify or improve quantum mechanics, nothing has been concrete. It is partly because there are no experimental tools to prove or disprove the suggestions. Recently, the accuracy of experimental tools for mechanical oscillators has been getting ready to test the boundary of quantum mechanics. We will discuss some of the efforts in this direction.