Quantum Everything
Quantum Everything
The word “quantum” can cause shrugs in even highly educated shoulders, but with a “discrete quantity” of knowledge, quantum physics, and the technologies based on it, can be illuminated for everyone.
Let’s start with the theory
There once was a classical theory
Of which quantum disciples were leery.
They said, 鈥淲hy spend so long
On a theory that鈥檚 wrong?鈥�
Well, it works for your everyday query!
In science’s ongoing effort to describe everything, there have always been small, troublesome gaps.
There is classical mechanics
It describes so much of our everyday world, but can’t always accurately describe the very big or the very small.
There are the theories of relativity
They describe so much about the universe, from gravity to time, but can’t always accurately describe the smallest scales.
There is quantum mechanics
It describes the atomic and subatomic scales, like photons and electrons, but begins to raise philosophical problems at the human scale.
The short answer
What is quantum physics?
Students and faculty from across 蜜桃影像 explain the basics of quantum physics and why it鈥檚 so important.
The long answer
How does it work (and not work)?
“Quantum physics works phenomenally well. By almost any measure it is the most successful scientific theory of all time … but, there is a problem,” says science reporter and astrophysicist Adam Becker.
But Neils Bohr, what is it good for?
Nobel Prize winning quantum thought leader Neils Bohr could not have imagined the amazing applications that quantum physics is making possible.
A nano-optic endoscope that uses a metalens could play a major role in lung cancer diagnosis.
Better lenses
Lenses and filters are created using techniques that鈥攚hile refined鈥攈ave been largely unchanged for centuries.
Metalenses manipulate light at the microscopic level, offering compactness and new functionality that isn’t possible with traditional lenses and filters.
Better credit cards
Researchers created a material that can do many of the thing