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How to do quantum physics at the beach?

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Schrödinger at the beach.

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By: Caroline Lachowsky

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Forget all your certainties to take the plunge on the shore of the infinitely small, into the strangeness of the quantum world: a world of imaginary waves and ephemeral vibrations where anything can happen and overlap... Ready for the quantum adventure?  

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Let's go on a fabulous journey into quantum strangeness: this mysterious world where cats can be both dead and alive, where everything is only probabilities and imaginary worlds, where matter is an ephemeral vibration in perpetual co-creation with what 'observed.

Abandon all your certainties to make the great quantum leap to the scale of the infinitely small, but not only, because quantum physics is already present on a daily basis in our telephones and our GPS, via lasers and medical imaging. .while waiting for the new quantum revolution of our computers see quantum teleportation...

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(lecturer at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of Condensed Matter), for his book

, published by Dunod.

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