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Quantum Physics Just Got Less Complicated

Posted by Soulskill on from the but-is-still-pretty-complicated dept.

wabrandsma sends this news from Phys.org: Here's a nice surprise: quantum physics is less complicated than we thought. An international team of researchers has proved that two peculiar features of the quantum world previously considered distinct are different manifestations of the same thing. The result is published 19 December in Nature Communications. Patrick Coles, Jedrzej Kaniewski, and Stephanie Wehner made the breakthrough while at the Center for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore. They found that wave-particle duality is simply the quantum uncertainty principle in disguise, reducing two mysteries to one.

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  1. more simplifications and fewer cats, please by raymorris · · Score: -1, Troll

    With a few more simplifications maybe I can "get it". So far, much of quantum physics sounds like goobly-gook to me, and I had no trouble with relativity in 6th grade. I had to learn a little calculus to read Einstein, bit that wasn't a big deal.

    If you understand quantum physics, or think you do, explain this. There is a cat, in a box. You can't see the cat. Is the cat alive or dead?

      Wrong, asshole. YOU can't see the cat, but I can see the cat shitting in his litter box right now. I can assure you he's very much alive. So SchrÃdinger was full of shit.

    Unless by "both alive and dead " what you actually mean is "the cat is either alive or dead, I just don't happen to know which", in which case - no shit, Sherlock. You don't know everything. Is that supposed to be a revolutionary new discovery?