Alice in Quantumland
A love story about girl who finds her Romeo with a little help from quantum physics.
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- M is for Multiverse
- “ Our most successful theories of cosmology suggest that our universe is one of many universes that bubble off from one another. It’s not clear whether it will ever be possible to detect these other universes. ” more from our A-Z of
the quantum world
- E is for Entanglement
- “ When two quantum objects interact, the information they contain becomes shared. This can result in a kind of link between them, where an action performed on one will affect the outcome of an action performed on the other. This “entanglement” applies even if the two particles are half a universe apart ” more from our A-Z of
the quantum world
- S is for Superposition
- “ Quantum objects can exist in two or more states at once: an electron in superposition, for example, can simultaneously move clockwise and anticlockwise around a ring-shaped conductor ” more from our A-Z of
the quantum world
- I is for Information
- “ Many researchers working in quantum theory believe that information is the most fundamental building block of reality ” more from our A-Z of
the quantum world
- P is for Planck’s Constant
- “ This is one of the universal constants of nature, and relates the energy of a single quantum of radiation to its frequency. It is central to quantum theory and appears in many important formulae, including the Schrödinger Equation ” more from our A-Z of
the quantum world
- A is for Alice and Bob
- “ In quantum experiments, these are the names traditionally given to the people transmitting and receiving information. In quantum cryptography, an eavesdropper called Eve tries to intercept the information ” more from our A-Z of
the quantum world
- M is for Many Worlds Theory
- “ Some researchers think the best way to explain the strange characteristics of the quantum world is to allow that each quantum event creates a new universe ” more from our A-Z of
the quantum world
- Z is for Zero-point energy
- “ Even at absolute zero, the lowest temperature possible, nothing has zero energy. In these conditions, particles and fields are in their lowest energy state, with an energy proportional to Planck’s constant ” more from our A-Z of
the quantum world
- R is for Randomness
- “ Unpredictability lies at the heart of quantum mechanics. It bothered Einstein, but it also bothers the Dalai Lama ” more from our A-Z of
the quantum world
- B is for Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC)
- “ At extremely low temperatures, quantum rules mean that atoms can come together and behave as if they are one giant super-atom ” more from our A-Z of
the quantum world
- T is for Teleportation
- “ Quantum tricks allow a particle to be transported from one location to another without passing through the intervening space – or that’s how it appears. The reality is that the process is more like faxing, where the information held by one particle is written onto a distant particle. ” more from our A-Z of
the quantum world
- Q is for Qubit
- “ One quantum bit of information is known as a qubit (pronounced Q-bit). The ability of quantum particles to exist in many different states at once means a single quantum object can represent multiple qubits at once, opening up the possibility of extremely fast information processing ” more from our A-Z of
the quantum world
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