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The Strange World of Quantum Mechanics Daniel F. Styer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

And the answer to this question turns out to be: quantum mechanics. Bermuda_Triangle Well, it was inevitable. But while the ideas of quantum physics are challenging and notoriously weird, they seem to capture the public imagination and hold an enduring appeal. Physics World's podcast team discusses the enduring appeal of quantum mechanics. Evidence of this comes in part from the numerous popular-science books This episode in the Physics World books podcast series looks at the popularity of quantum mechanics in science writing. It is quantum mechanics that adds up to normality. A ball follows a path, but an electron doesn't–this is the strange world of quantum mechanics. Quantum entanglement is one of the signature effects in the strange-seeming world of quantum physics. Anyone who writes about the weird stuff that happens in this world has to, at some point, tackle two topics: Bigfoot, and the Bermuda Triangle. With a variation on the famous double-slit experiment of quantum mechanics, scientists Yves Couder and Emmanuel Fort from the University of Paris 7 are rewriting the textbooks. Einstein wouldn't have found entanglement so strange, if he'd thrown out a key pre-twentieth-century misconception. The strange world of quantum mechanics can provide a way to surpass limits in speed, efficiency and accuracy of computing, communications and measurement, according to research by MIT scientist Seth Lloyd. Their accomplishment, however, has less to fluctuations into real photons. (Phys.org) —In the strange world of quantum mechanics, the vacuum state (sometimes referred to as the quantum vacuum, simply as the vacuum) is a quantum system's lowest possible energy state. Similarly, in physics the average person can try to learn from popular sources some of the central ideas of physics. Due to a strange quantum mechanical duality, Jerry is both in Germany today, and in Wheaton, IL. De-Spooking Quantum Mechanics By GRAEME STEMP-MORLOCK • Jul 13, 2011. A classic area for cognitive dissonance in science is the tension between the strange world of quantum mechanics at the atomic or subatomic level and the physical behavior of the macroscopic world we see and touch. Recent experiments have begun to demonstrate how the weird world of quantum mechanics gives way to the familiarity of everyday experience. A professor of applied physics at Caltech, he can use the amplifier to measure the behavior of tiny mechanical devices that operate at the boundary between classical physics and the strange world of quantum mechanics.