Quantum weirdness

Quantum weirdness is used in many titles of books and articles about aspects of quantum mechanics. The implication is that these aspects challenge and defy human physical intuition. These aspects include:

• quantum entanglement;
• quantum nonlocality, referred to by Einstein as "spooky action at a distance"; see also EPR paradox;
• quantum superposition, presented in dramatic form in the thought experiment known as Schrödinger's cat;
• the uncertainty principle;
• wave–particle duality;
• the probabilistic nature of wave function collapse, decried by Einstein, saying, "God does not play dice".

See also

• Bell's theorem
• Renninger negative-result experiment
• Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment

References

• William J. Mullin (2017). Quantum Weirdness. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-879513-1.
• Ball, Philip (2018). Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics is Different. Bodley Head. ISBN 978-1-84792-457-5.

Further reading

Book reviews

• Siegfried, Tom (6 January 2019). "'Beyond Weird' and 'What Is Real?' try to make sense of quantum weirdness". Science News.
• Boyle, Alan (January 9, 2023). "Sci-fi author and scientist team up to write a novel about consciousness and quantum weirdness". GeekWire.

Articles

• Gardner, Martin (October 1982). "Quantum Weirdness". Discover: 69–75.
• Cho, Adrian (13 September 2005). "Outracing Quantum Weirdness". Science.
• Boyd, R. W.; Chan, Kam Wai Clifford; O'Sullivan, Malcolm N. (28 September 2007). "Physics. Quantum weirdness in the lab". Science. 317 (5846): 1874–5. doi:10.1126/science.1148947. PMID 17901320.
• d'Espagnat, Bernard (20 March 2009). "Quantum weirdness: What We Call 'Reality' is Just a State of Mind". The Guardian.
• Grossman, Lisa (18 November 2010). "Universe's Quantum Weirdness Limits Its Weirdness". Wired.
• von Baeyer, Hans Christian (2013). "Quantum Weirdness? It's All in Your Mind". Scientific American. 308 (6): 46–51. Bibcode:2013SciAm.308f..46V. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0613-46. PMID 23729070.
• Musser, George (19 January 2016). "Quantum Weirdness Now a Matter of Time". Quanta Magazine.
• Ananthaswamy, Anil (19 February 2016). "Quantum weirdness may hide an orderly reality after all". New Scientist.
• Wolchover, Natalie (7 February 2017). "Experiment Reaffirms Quantum Weirdness". Quanta Magazine.
• Wolchover, Natalie (11 October 2018). "Famous Experiment Dooms Alternative to Quantum Weirdness". Quanta Magazine.
• Schnabel, Roman (29 January 2020). "'Quantum Weirdness' in Exploitation by the International Gravitational-Wave Observatory Network". Annalen der Physik. 532 (3): 1900508. arXiv:1909.13723. doi:10.1002/andp.201900508.