Quantum Physics is Crazy Stuff

[happycamper374]

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/co ... 2006/224/2

[chenshack]

i'm in the college of engineering but my major is computer science, so i had to take physics etc. through thermodynamics and quantum, but F no am I taking quantum... i instead took severe and hazardous weather which was a lot cooler cuz i learned a helluva lot about hurricanes last semester

[happycamper374]

Yeah, quantum was tough...

[ugignadl]

My honours thesis was on Quantum Computing. It's kinda fun, but the maths is a little elementary .

[frogbs]

So does this mean we have perpetual motion now?

[happycamper374]

No. That's the difference between quantum and classical. Picture a nucleus with an electron orbiting around it. In classical mechanics, the electron would slowly lose energy and crash into the nucleus. Well, it doesn't. It doesn't lose energy because according to quantum mechanics it can move around in the same energy level. Kinda along those same lines is why there is no energy loss in the other example

This is a "loose" example, so the explanation isn't exactly correct, but its in the same ball park.

[hiho]

Not to be rude, but am I the only one that doesn't give a shit!