Oh... Now I remember." I said. (I did only vaguely - but I wanted to save myself from getting scratched, which I seemed to be in imminent danger of.) "Wasn't he the famous quantum scientist?"

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I scanned my bookshelves. Suddenly illumination lit up on me. "Bulgakov! The Master and Margarita!" I exclaimed. No leía este libro desde que tenía unos 16 o 17 años. En aquel entonces comenzaba a enamorarme algo de la física y este libro definitivamente hizo parte del proceso. Hoy quiero que otros se enamoren del tema y quería saber que podía aprender del libro para mi propio ejercicio de divulgación. Yes: There are fuzzy "infinitely small" quantities that blip away to 0 when we measure them, but are non-zero in their own world. These tiny quantities can interact with each other and can predict how our "macroscopic" numbers behave. Si bien mucha agua ha pasado por el río de la física contemporánea desde el tiempo en el que el texto fue escrito (finales de los 80) los temas y las discusiones tienen una actualidad pasmosa que demuestra lo poco que realmente hemos avanzado en la comprensión de la teoría cuántica. Naturalmente la teoría cuántica moderna ha evolucionado, especialmente en las técnicas para su aplicación, en los sistemas a los que se aplica y en su poderoso rol en la tecnología, pero los problemas de fondo, las preguntas de fondo de las que se ocupa este librito siguen teniendo todavía mucha actualidad.As an incurable optimist it is the interpretation of quantum mechanics that appeals most to me. All things are possible. And by our actions we choose our own paths through the many worlds of the quantum...one of the anecdotes told and retold about Niels Bohr is that when someone came to him with a wild idea purporting to resolve one of the puzzles of quantum theory in the 1920’s he replied, “Your theory is crazy. But it’s not crazy enough to be true.”” Also it was interesting finally to find out what stands behind the overused metaphor of Schrodinger's cat:-) Yes! He practically defined quantum reality. He left me in a box with a poison vial, a radioactive isotope, and a Geiger counter. If the counter detected any radioactivity, the poison vial would break and I would die. If it didn't, the vial would stay as it is and I would live." She beamed.

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For me now it has become apparent that time travel, teleportation, antimatter and multiple realities are well established phenomena of physics, not of unhealthy imagination. scarcely any of them will realise that every item on that list has its roots in quantum mechanics, a branch of science that they may never have heard of and almost certainly do not understand. They are not alone. All of those advances have been achieved by quantum cookery, using the rules that seem to work although no-one really understands why they work...it is doubtful that anyone understands why the quantum recipes work.” stars for science nerds, 3 stars for everyone else. An in depth discussion of the birth of quantum physics, where it is now and what it means for the future. Not much math and fairly accessible but not as easy to read as Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. I enjoyed it for the survey of physics giants in the early 20th century from Einstein to Heisenburg. The last 1/3 of the book were a series of explanations of experiments used to prove some of the theorems which were fascinating. I think a great deal of the genius was expressed in merely coming up with ways to prove ideas. Because it's absurd for a macroscopic object to be "blurred" (right?), the subatomic particle can't truly be blurred

In his book In Search Of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics And Reality, John Gribbin tries to make sense of the bizzare world of probabilities, uncertainties, ghost electrons, multiverses and time travel- concepts that are difficult for humans to even visualise. Current Google Definition - Note it doesn't say the argument was meant as a criticism against quantum mechanics See, I don't know anything about QM. But I've read enough (2 paragraphs of his paper) to realize the majority of QM explanations miss Schrödinger's point. Oh! How cruel!" I felt that this Schrodinger guy must be a bounder of the first water, famous scientist or not. "He must be reported to the SPCA!" After we understand the original argument, we can debate whether the criticism makes sense. If particles appear to be blurry at a quantum level, then perhaps: