Physicists should take time to ponder the strangest ideas

There are different methods to elucidate wave-particle duality than Albert Einstein’s, however we do not train them. Excluding the conceptual challenges of quantum mechanics from the classroom limits our college students, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

QUANTUM physics – identified to practitioners as quantum mechanics – is a topic that physicists study in a fairly peculiar approach. We all study to calculate utilizing its mathematical framework, however that doesn’t imply we will actually clarify what all of it means. If we go far sufficient in our schooling, we get the chance to see simply how precisely these calculations match experimental outcomes, so we study to belief that they’re accurately describing actuality.

But how can a cat be each alive and useless inside a field earlier than we have a look at it? We can do calculations which might be according to this …