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In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.
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wisdom
schrodinger-s-cat
quantum-physics
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Terry Pratchett |
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Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.
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quantum-physics
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Bill Bryson |
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In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else.
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discovery
science
life
particles
understanding-the-world
quantum-mechanics
quantum-physics
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John Gribbin |
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"Please beware," came his reply, "There are a lot of people who believe that just because we don't have an explanation for something, it's quantum mechanics."
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quantum-physics
believe
belief
paranormal
physics
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Mary Roach |
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Heisenberg's uncertainty relation measures the amount by which the complementary descriptions of the electron, or other fundamental entities, overlap. Position is very much a particle property - particles can be located precisely. Waves, on the other hand, have no precise location, but they do have momentum. The more you know about the wave aspect of reality, the less you know about the particle, and vice versa. Experiments designed to detect particles always detect particles; experiments designed to detect waves always detect waves. No experiment shows the electron behaving like a wave and a particle at the same time.
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quantum-mechanics
quantum-physics
quantum-theory
physics
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John Gribbin |