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A Chapter Full of Speculations: Bohr’s Atom, Schrödinger’s Cat, “Spooky” Interactions, and the Double-Slit

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It may well be that you feel a bit disappointed at this point. You probably had heard about the utter magic of quantum theory, where particles may be in different places at the same time, where cats (Schrödinger’s cat) may be dead and alive at the same time, and where particles have a telepathic knowledge of the fate of remote particles.This chapter tells more about this “big magic”.

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van Holten, T. (2017). A Chapter Full of Speculations: Bohr’s Atom, Schrödinger’s Cat, “Spooky” Interactions, and the Double-Slit. In: The Atomic World Spooky? It Ain't Necessarily So!. Atlantis Press, Paris. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-234-2_15

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