quantum weirdness
English edit
Etymology edit
Coined by American physicist Heinz Pagels in 1982.[1]
Noun edit
quantum weirdness (uncountable)
- The phenomena of quantum mechanics that cannot be explained in terms of the experiences of everyday life.
- 2018 October 29, Jonathan O’Callaghan, ““Schrödinger's Bacterium” Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone”, in Scientific American[1], archived from the original on 29 October 2018:
- Perhaps the most famous example of quantum weirdness is Schrödinger’s cat, a thought experiment devised by Erwin Schrödinger in 1935.
References edit
- ^ Heinz Pagels (1982) The Cosmic Code, page 65: “These properties of the quantum world—its lack of objectivity, its indeterminacy, and the observer–created reality— which distinguish it from the ordinary world perceived by our senses I refer to as “quantum weirdness”.”