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This book concludes our exploration of Quantum
Mechanics in the Everyone’s Guide Series.
Here, we discuss the outstanding mysteries of Quantum Mechanics and the
meaning of Reality. Our topics include:
- EPR paradox
- Parallel Universes /
Many Worlds
- Bohm’s pilot waves
- Bell’s Inequality
- Tests of Locality
& Realism
- Spacetime
Quantization & the Planck scale
- Rovelli’s Relational
Quantum Mechanics
We also explore frontier
applications of Quantum Mechanics:
- Cosmology and Loop
Quantum Gravity
- Quantum Computing
- Teleportation
- Communication
Security
Example
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In
1964, Irish physicist John Stewart Bell devised a test to determine
whether or not particle spins are well defined before they are
measured. His clever idea requires measuring how the two spins
correlate when measured in different directions.
Quantum
Mechanics and classical physics both say spin-measuring devices
oriented in the same direction will report opposite spin values. But
things get more interesting when the devices are pointing in different
directions, as in the above sketch.
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