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Apr 15, 2021
4 minutes
Simply Quantum Physics
IF YOU DON’T LOOK, IT DOESN’T EXIST
We still don’t really understand why Schrödinger’s cat is both dead and alive
■ Author: DK
■ Publisher: DK
■ Price: £9.99 / $12.59
■ Release: Out now
Protons, neutrons, gluons, beta decay, wave-particle duality, Planck’s constant, Schrödinger’s cat – there’s nothing simple about quantum physics whatsoever. We can’t even see the particles (or waves?) it describes with our naked eye because things at a quantum level are billions of times narrower than the width of a human hair. Our most powerful light microscopes can’t even get close to resolving an image of an atomic nuclei, so the only way we can
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