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Charlie Marcus Knows That Quantum Facts Aren’t Complicated

The Joy of x

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Red Paint Works Because of Quanta Mechanics

The origin of red paint is fundamentally quanta mechanical. You don't have to do a complicated experiment in order to verify quanta mechanics, he says. An l e d that shines doesn't occur in nature; someone had to understand how to build an l e d and make it work. The simplest problem where quanta mechanics would show up? It would be something that could be in one of two states.

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