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Best books about quantum mechanics for armchair physicists and beginners

The first rule for understanding quantum mechanics, is that nobody understands quantum mechanics

Evening Standard

Stunning image shows atoms transforming into quantum waves — just as Schrödinger predicted

A new imaging technique, which captured frozen lithium atoms transforming into quantum waves, could be used to probe some of the most poorly understood aspects of the quantum world.

LiveScience

'The most magical equation in physics': How Paul Dirac accidentally revealed the strange world of antimatter

In this extract from the book 'The One Thing You Need to Know', author Marcus Chown explains how the Dirac Equation came to be.

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World's heaviest Schrödinger's cat made in quantum crystal visible to the naked eye

Physicists have placed part of a sapphire crystal into a quantum superposition, making it the heaviest object to show quantum effects, in a new take on Erwin Schrödinger's famous cat experiment.

LiveScience

Four common misconceptions about quantum physics

Quantum mechanics, the theory which rules the microworld of atoms and particles, certainly has the X factor. Unlike many other areas of physics, it is bizarre and counter-intuitive, which makes it dazzling and intriguing. When the 2022 Nobel prize in physics was awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton…

The Conversation

How philosophy turned into physics – and reality turned into information

The Nobel Prize in physics this year has been awarded “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”.

The Conversation

Column: Newsom for president — is he or isn’t he? Maybe it’s both

Is he or isn’t he?

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Refugees, welcome to Schrödinger’s Rwanda

Priti Patel’s illogical thought experiment on asylum seekers is grist to Boris Johnson’s Brexit mill

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Anne McElvoy: Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer are now both winning and losing at the very same time

On my slight acquaintance with quantum physics, the most appealing concept is Erwin Schrödinger’s thought experiment of the dead and alive cat. You might remember how it goes: the luckless feline is sealed in a box with poison and a radioactive atom, the observer cannot know if the cat survives…

Evening Standard

Quantum mechanics: Definitions, axioms, and key concepts of quantum physics

Quantum mechanics, or quantum physics, is the body of scientific laws that describe the wacky behavior of photons, electrons and the other subatomic particles that make up the universe.

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