Month: September 2022

CATUNDRUM. "Extrapolated to the scales of our everyday life quantum theory leads to situations such as the famous example of Schrödinger's cat: the cat is neither dead nor alive, but in a so-called quantum superposition of both." https://lnkd.in/eKpZF_Y View in LinkedIn

QUANTUM SHOCK. "One of the founders of the theory, Niels Bohr, stated that "those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it." The shocking aspects of quantum theory can be summarized by three issues: uncertainty, nonlocality and the measurement problem (or the problem of "Schrödinger's Cat")." https://lnkd.in/ehjPGYz View in LinkedIn

FUNCTION OF COMPLEXITY. "An alternative explanation, in which quantum mechanics holds sway at all scales, posits that interactions with the environment bring different elements of an object's wavefunction out of phase, such that they no longer interfere with one another." https://lnkd.in/ereU_8S View in LinkedIn

FUNCTION OF COMPLEXITY. "Larger objects are subject to this decoherence more quickly than smaller ones because they have more constituent particles and, therefore, more complex wave functions." https://lnkd.in/ereU_8S View in LinkedIn

SPOOKY QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT at a distance. Particles appear to communicate at faster than the speed of light at any distance. Any distance. An unresolved conundrum. https://lnkd.in/eizAhRM View in LinkedIn

MACRO SUPERPOSITION. "Successful experiments involving superpositions of relatively large (by the standards of quantum physics) objects have been performed. (1) A "cat state" has been achieved with photons. (2) A beryllium ion has been trapped in a superposed state. (3) A double slit experiment has been performed with molecules as large as buckyballs." https://lnkd.in/esfdVrj View in LinkedIn

DELICATE ENTANGLEMENT. "What happens when you try to scale entanglement up to bigger objects? Maintaining a superposition of states is a very delicate operation." https://lnkd.in/esGsJRk View in LinkedIn

DELICATE ENTANGLEMENT. "Most particle interactions cause the superposition of states to collapse into a single state, a process called “decoherence.” Even a stray light particle, a photon, could knock the whole entangled system out of its superposition state and into a single definitive state." https://lnkd.in/esGsJRk View in LinkedIn

QUANTUM SUPERPOSITION. "Schrödinger's microbe: physicists plan to put living organism in two places at once. Although it has attracted enormous interest, no quantum superposition state of an organism has been realized." https://lnkd.in/erBq7Wx View in LinkedIn

QUANTUM SUPERPOSITION. "We propose a straightforward approach to put a microbe into a superposition of two spatial states, that is, the microbe will be at two different positions at the same time." https://lnkd.in/erBq7Wx View in LinkedIn