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{{coinage|en|Heinz Pagels|in=1982|nat=American|occ=physicist}}.<ref>{{cite-book|1=en|year=1982|author=Heinz Pagels|title=The Cosmic Code|page=65|text=These properties of the quantum world—its lack of objectivity, its indeterminacy, and the observer–created reality— which distinguish it from the ordinary world perceived by our senses I refer to as “'''quantum weirdness'''”.}}</ref> |
{{coinage|en|Heinz Pagels|in=1982|nat=American|occ=physicist}}.<ref>{{cite-book|1=en|year=1982|author=Heinz Pagels|nobycat=1|title=The Cosmic Code|page=65|text=These properties of the quantum world—its lack of objectivity, its indeterminacy, and the observer–created reality— which distinguish it from the ordinary world perceived by our senses I refer to as “'''quantum weirdness'''”.}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 11:08, 13 May 2024
English
Etymology
Coined by American physicist Heinz Pagels in 1982.[1]
Noun
quantum weirdness (uncountable)
- The phenomena of quantum mechanics that cannot be explained in terms of the experiences of everyday life.
- 2018 October 29, Jonathan O’Callaghan, ““Schrödinger's Bacterium” Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone”, in Scientific American[1], archived from the original on 29 October 2018:
- Perhaps the most famous example of quantum weirdness is Schrödinger’s cat, a thought experiment devised by Erwin Schrödinger in 1935.