Totally Random: Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics (A Serious Comic on Entanglement)

133 Pages·2018·37.91 MB·English

by  Tanya Bub

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minds?
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that behind it all
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STUFF UKE SPOOKYA CTIONA T A DISTANCE!
MATHT HATM AKESY OUS ADJ UST TO L..OOKA T IT!
CATST HATA REB OTH AUVEA NDD EADA T THE SAMET IME!
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people might actually find
interesting and put in your Super
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Entanglement ·
Because the world needs a
comic about a weird relationship
between two quarters. We can
,, call it 50 Cents in Gray.
I would not call [entanglement] one but rather the
c aracter1st1.ctr ait o quantum mec an1cs, t e one
Ha ha, It's not about quarters, It's
about entanglement, the bizarre
that enforces its entire departure from
link between quantum particles.
The comic will give readers a gut classical lines of thought.
feeling for entanglement through
our superquantum correlated
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of the photon quantum correlation
that highlights precisely what's so
strange about entanglement. You
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really GET the other "cool stuff."
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