... they are altogether incorrect. There are many things that quantum mechanics can explain that classical mechanics cannot. The first of these is that light acts as both a wave and a light. Quantum mechanics explains that light actually exists as a particle, but the probability of the position of the photon is wavelike. In this way quantum mechanics explains something that classical mechanics never could. Another thing that ... Heisenberg uncertainty principle. This is the belief that exact accurate measurements can not be taken of anything. This is because when you take measurements of what...

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... than nuclear energy. For example, if a human touches its antihuman, the amount of energy created when they are annihilated would be equivalent to 1,000 one-megaton nuclear bombs (Rohrig). Antimatter can be created by using particle accelerators. They involve accelerating particles to the speed of light and powerful electric fields. Since antimatter is extremely rare, particle accelerators can create only ... less than a nanogram of antimatter each year. Antimatter can be found on the sun, which is called a solar flare一an explosion on the sun ... 000 one-megaton nuclear bombs (Rohrig)....

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... This is known as tunneling. This effect can be used to detect very faint magnetic fields in computer circuits. MANUFACTURING SUPERCONDUCTORS Commercial Superconductors Right now, the largest commercial applications of superconductors make use of their capability to conduct electrical current without resistance. In order for a superconductor to be practical for commercial applications, it must be sturdy, reliable, and relatively easy to ... Nath Bose and Albert Einstein. The condensate behaves like 1 atom, even though it is made up of thousands. The team used 2 techniques: first laser coo...

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... theory by refining the discovery made by P.A.M. Dirac of an equation describing the motion and spin of electrons that incorporated both the quantum theory and the theory of special relativity (Einstein's, of course). QED rests on the idea that charged particles (electrons and protons) interact by emitting and absorbing photons, the particles of light that transmit electromagnetic forces. These photons are virtual; ... that is, they cannot be seen or detected in any way because their existence violates the conservation of energy and momentum. The particle exchange is merely the "force" o...

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