Physicists Just Achieved 'Perfect Randomness' For The First Time Ever - ScienceAlert

Credit: Image generated by the editorial team using AI for illustrative purposes. Unlike classical physics, quantum mechanics generally cannot tell us exactly what will happen in an individual event. Instead, it predicts the probabilities of different outcomes. As one of the theory's early pioneers, Erwin Schrödinger played a key role in debates about what this randomness really means. However, part of his contribution has stayed hidden for more than 80 years.

A new study analyzes an unpublished Schrödinger manuscript that challenged claims that hidden information could not explain apparently random quantum outcomes. Schrödinger’s model reproduced the expected results of polarization measurements, serving as a mathematical counterexample rather than a complete theory of quantum physics.

There is an old adage that we ‘make our own luck’. There is, in fact, plenty of scientific evidence to back this up. Experiments have shown that ‘lucky’ people are less anxious, more intuitive and more resilient than those who regard themselves as ‘unlucky’.

Using IBM's quantum computer, scientists say they have shown in three different experiments that quantum computers can outpace classical machines in useful computations.