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2 - What's It Like to Discover Quantum Mechanics?

Why This Universe?

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Quantum Mechanics Is Different From Classical Physics

Quantum mechanics is fundamentally different in its probabilistic nature. We can no longer certainly say that an object is an x location with y speed. An object can be in multiple places at once by having its wave function be in a superposition of different states. And you could think of the implications of this on something as fundamental as whether our universe is deterministic.

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