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Quantum Physics

Date Submitted: 01/01/2003 20:08:20
Length: 6 pages (1560 words)
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While researching quantum physics, I realized that I had just finished a book that was based on quantum theory. At the time, I didn’t quite realize that quantum theory and quantum physics were related except in name. Niels Bohr once said, “Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.” He believed this because quantum physics makes the common laws of classical physics false on small scales. First, quantum physics is …

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…ability to measure things accurately, and now quantum mechanics is saying that it's impossible to get those measurements exact. But the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is a fact of nature, and it would be impossible to build a measuring device that could get around it. In conclusion, quantum physics, mechanics, and theory is extremely confusing to me and I am not sure I understand them although I am shocked by what my research suggests. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**

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