This is the 100th issue of Physics World. The occasion is marked by a small section that starts with an article by Philip Campbell, who edited the first 85 issues of Physics World before leaving to become editor of Nature, and ends with my own efforts to predict the future. In that item I make […]
Read article: Electronic publishing and visions of hypertext
Tim Berners-Lee predicts the future of online publishing in an article he wrote for Physics World in 1992
Read article: Isaac Asimov: ‘There is nothing more fascinating than odd corners of mathematics’
Isaac Asimov reviews Think of a Number by Malcolm E Lines
Read article: Against ‘measurement’: John Bell on our continuing struggles with quantum mechanics
Uncertainty over terms such as ‘apparatus’ is still rife in serious discussions of quantum mechanics, over 60 years after its conception, says John Bell
Read article: Shifts in atomic understanding
Atoms subjected to intense, ultrashort pulses of laser radiation ionise in surprising and, as yet, not wholly understood ways, explain Pierre Agostini and Guillaume Petite
