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waves that are particles, cats that are at once both alive and
But towards the end of the 19th Century, atoms were really
‘black-body’ radiation.
him into a committed atomist, but it took a few more years for
experiment'.
Push light through a narrow aperture or slit and it will squeeze
‘diffracts’.
mass and its speed and multiply these together. Job done.
closing again.
key.
the screen.
So, how are we supposed to know precisely where the next
by Max Born.
as 'quantum superposition'.
than one place at a time? No, not really. It is true to say that it
distributed.
tossed coin will land ‘heads’ simply means that it has two
ignorance.
with certainty which side will land face up. In theory, we could,
can’t assume that ‘heads’ and ‘tails’ exist before the coin has
about the coin toss, you will never be able to say with any