analogue experiments

Using controllable laboratory systems to mimic high-energy or cosmological processes.

Articles about analogue experiments

Physics
Is Reality a Hologram?

Is Reality a Hologram?
The holographic principle — born from black hole thermodynamics and sharpened by string theory — posits that the information in a volume of space can be encoded on its boundary. P…
Space
Space as a Sticky Fluid?

Space as a Sticky Fluid?
A late‑2025 arXiv preprint proposes that the vacuum behaves like a viscous, elastic medium with 'spatial phonons'—a phenomenological model that the author says can reconcile tensi…
Physics
The First Law, Rewritten

The First Law, Rewritten
Researchers have extended the First Law of Thermodynamics to account for energy conversion in systems far from equilibrium — a formal generalisation with practical consequences fo…
Physics
How Feynman Rewrote Motion

How Feynman Rewrote Motion
Richard Feynman's path-integral idea shows that classical motion is an emergent pattern of quantum possibilities; a 2023 experiment made that emergence visible by measuring single…