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Quantum weirdness

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Quantum weirdness encompasses the aspects of quantum mechanics that challenge and defy human physical intuition.[1]

Human physical intuition is based on macroscopic physical phenomena as are experienced in everyday life, which can mostly be adequately described by the Newtonian mechanics of classical physics.[2] Early 20th-century models of atomic physics, such as the Rutherford–Bohr model, represented subatomic particles as little balls occupying well-defined spatial positions, but it was soon found that the physics needed at a subatomic scale, which became known as "quantum mechanics", implies many aspects for which the models of classical physics are inadequate.[3] These aspects include: [citation needed]

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References

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  1. ^ Paul Sukys (1999). Lifting the Scientific Veil: Science Appreciation for the Nonscientist. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8476-9600-0. p. 135: Quantum weirdness refers to those quantum phenomena that appear to defy common experience when explained in terms of everyday life.
  2. ^ Ball, Philip (2018). Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics is Different. Bodley Head. ISBN 978-1-84792-457-5.
  3. ^ William J. Mullin (2017). Quantum Weirdness. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-879513-1.
  4. ^ a b c Lisa Grossman (November 18, 2010). "Universe's Quantum Weirdness Limits its Weirdness". Wired.
  5. ^ a b c Hans Christian von Baeyer (2013). "Quantum Weirdness? It's All in Your Mind". Scientific American. 308 (6): 46–51. Bibcode:2013SciAm.308f..46V. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0613-46. PMID 23729070..
  6. ^ Carlo Rovelli (March 10, 2021). "Quantum weirdness isn't weird – if we accept objects don't exist". New Scientist. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
  7. ^ Tom Siegfried (November 20, 2010). "Quantum weirdness". ScienceNews. 178 (11).

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