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Since its origin quantum physics has not only inspired and challenged many of the brightest minds, it perplexed the general public with its radical thinking and weird ideas. No other branch of science invoked so many philosophical reflections as quantum mechanics did. The reverberations of quantum thought is prevalent as much today as it was in the early twentieth century, when the revolutionary theory came into being in an attempt to describe the microscopic components of the material world. Quantum entanglement and teleportation are two highly pursued topics even as they seem to be more like metaphysics than the modern physics.
“Anyone who is not shocked by the quantum theory has not understood it.”
– Niels Bohr, Danish physicist who received Nobel Prize in 1922 for his work on the structure of atoms.
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The property of a particle or object to exist in all the theoretically available states.
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In quantum mechanics wave function is the mathematical description of a particle or an object.
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Mathew, S. (2014). The Spooky World of Quantum Entanglement. In: Essays on the Frontiers of Modern Astrophysics and Cosmology. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01887-4_10
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