Month: September 2022

DUALITY. "At the quantum scale, particles can also be thought of as waves. Particles can exist in different states, for example they can be in different positions, have different energies or be moving at different speeds." https://lnkd.in/eMmJwW6 View in LinkedIn

SIMULTANEOUS EXISTENCE. "Because quantum mechanics is weird, instead of thinking about a particle being in one state or changing between a variety of states, particles are thought of as existing across all the possible states at the same time. It’s a bit like lots of waves overlapping each other. This situation is known as a superposition of states." https://lnkd.in/eMmJwW6 View in LinkedIn

TWO PLACES AT ONCE. "If you’re thinking in terms of particles, it means a particle can be in two places at once. This doesn’t make intuitive sense but it’s one of the weird realities of quantum physics." https://lnkd.in/eMmJwW6 View in LinkedIn

ADDITIVE STATES. "Quantum superposition is a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics. It states that much like waves in classical physics, any two (or more) quantum states can be added together ("superposed") and the result will be another valid quantum state; and conversely, that every quantum state can be represented as a sum of two or more other distinct states." https://lnkd.in/esfdVrj View in LinkedIn

IS THE MACRO STATE DIFFERENT? "It is natural to ask why ordinary everyday "real" (macroscopic, Newtonian) objects and events do not seem empirically to display quantum mechanical features such as superposition. Indeed, this is sometimes regarded even as "mysterious", for example by Richard Feynman." https://lnkd.in/esfdVrj View in LinkedIn

TWO TYPES OF WORLDS? "Our daily experience suggests that there exists a fundamental boundary between the quantum and classical worlds." https://lnkd.in/ereU_8S View in LinkedIn

TWO TYPES OF WORLDS? "Quantum superposition states simply break down when a system exceeds a certain size or level of complexity – its wave function is said to "collapse" and the system becomes "decoherent." https://lnkd.in/ereU_8S View in LinkedIn

HEISENBERG'S UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE. "No matter how hard you try, you can’t be in two places at once. But if you’re an electron, popping up in multiple places is a way of life...subatomic particles exist in this superposition of states until they are measured and found to be in just one – when their wave function collapses." https://lnkd.in/efzCiyA View in LinkedIn

SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT. "In 1935, Erwin Schrödinger devised a well-known thought experiment, now known as Schrödinger's cat, which highlighted the dissonance between quantum mechanics and Newtonian physics, where only one configuration occurs, although a configuration for a particle in Newtonian physics specifies both position and momentum." https://lnkd.in/esfdVrj View in LinkedIn

SIMULTANEOUS STATES. "Schrödinger's thought experiment to prepare a cat in a superposition of both alive and dead states reveals profound consequences of quantum mechanics and has attracted enormous interests." https://lnkd.in/eC_GWVa View in LinkedIn