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1. Article · Aug 21, 2026 · Vlatko Vedral

   An Oxford Physicist Discovered Particles Doing the Impossible. It Could Finally Solve the Quantum Gravity Mystery. (opens the original)

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   Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: This story starts way back in 1995 when I began my PhD in physics at the Imperial College in London. I wanted to measure a particular type of relationship between particles in quantum systems, whose behavior is governed by quantum mechanics, the physics of the tiniest components in the universe. These quantum particles become entangled, which means they’re so connected that even when they are in distant points of space, measuring the properties

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2. Article · Jul 30, 2026 · Vlatko Vedral

   We Could Harness Black Holes to Eavesdrop on Alien Civilizations, Oxford Physicist Says (opens the original)

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   Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Arguably the most extreme objects in the universe, black holes have fascinated us since John Michell, an English astronomer, first proposed their possibility in 1783. He speculated that the gravitational pull of a massive star could be so strong that its escape velocity would exceed the speed of light. This idea gained a firm mathematical footing thanks to the German physicist Karl Schwarzschild, who—while fighting in the First World War in 1916

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