Tagged "Quantum Mechanics"

A Gentle Introduction to QM

Łukasz M.

The popular culture picture of quantum mechanics is highly inaccurate. The word “quantum” has become synonymous with weird and wacky physics. “In quantum physics, a cat can be dead and alive at the same time!”, people say. In this article I will attempt to explain QM in a way that people can understand as well as shed light on the infamous cat, while utilising minimal notation and mathematics.

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