1. But hold on to your hat-there is more strangeness yet in the quantum world! 2. In particular, how does it come about that the imprecise quantum world yields a precise answer when it is experimentally interrogated? 3. Measurement involves an intervention by our everyday world into the quantum world. 4. Perplexities A layman venturing into the quantum world no doubt expects to encounter some fairly strange phenomena. 5. This is so that we can attain some genuine understanding of the quantum world. 6. We have to give that up in the quantum world. 7. As Einstein discovered, the most problematic aspect of the quantum world is simply inducing oneself to believe that it works the way it does. 8. In fact, many of the contradictions raised in these pages remind one of the baffling paradoxes of the quantum world. 9. That distance is minute by human standards, but gigantic for the quantum world. 10. That approach has led to a daring conception of space-time that shares characteristics with both the quantum world and general relativity. |
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