Saturday, March 20, 2010

Objects are more quantum than they appear

Quantum mechanics (QM) is popularly viewed as a collection of laws of physics dealing with the atomic and sub-atomic world. QM describes the behavior, or defines limits of predictability, of energy and matter. At the visible level, the consensus among non-scientists is that Newtonian or classical physics applies, that at some point in scale, QM gives in to the laws of physics with which we have an experiential relationship. This is an oversimplification of the physical world.

Boingboing reports that researchers at UC Santa Barbara have demonstrated that QM applies to objects in the visible world.

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