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Explaining The Quantum World... Sort of

How can something be in two places at once? How can objects in completely different locations aff...

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07.00 9 Apr 2019


Explaining The Quantum World... Sort of



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07.00 9 Apr 2019


How can something be in two places at once? How can objects in completely different locations affect each other instantaneously?

These are just some of the questions that quantum physicists must try to answer? And indeed, many have tried!

So what conclusions have they arrived at?

Jonathan asks Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex and Author of Six Impossible Things, John Gribbin for some answers.


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Atoms Copenhagen Interpretation Decoherence Electrons Entanglement Many Worlds Interpretation Quantum Quantum Computing Schrödinger's Cat Subatomic Superposition

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