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unusual facts about quantum physics



Bill DeSmedt

In his debut novel, Singularity (2004), Bill deploys a lifelong layman's fascination with quantum physics and cosmology in the service of bringing believability to the long-disparaged hypothesis that the devastation of the Tunguska basin in 1908 was caused by a submicroscopic, primordial black hole.


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Artur Ekert

From 2002 until early 2007 he was the Leigh-Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University and a Professorial Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Cosmic Quantum Ray

Hickey and McCoy based all their stories on principles and theories from quantum physics, with Dr. Bhaumik literally providing the math.

Induced high electron mobility transistor

Researchers from the Quantum Electronic Devices Group (QED) at the Condensed Matter Physics Department, School of Physics at the University of New South Wales have created both n-type and p-type HEMT for studying fundamental quantum physics of electronic devices.

Khayman

In The Queen of the Damned, it is stated in his point of view that he understood everything in a machine he sees operating, even down to the level of quantum physics.

Mac Taylor

He looks at a crime scene (and often the world) with Veneziano’s theory of quantum physics in mind: Everything is connected.

Moralistic fallacy

Without quantum physics, however, much technology of communications and imaging, by other applied science, could have been renounced.

Paul Suni

He studied at University of California at Berkeley (Experimental Quantum Physics); Stanford University (Semiconductor Device Physics); the Institute for Theoretical Physics at University of Helsinki (Theoretical Physics) and Helsinki Conservatory of Music (Classical Piano and Music Theory).

QCI

Quadratic configuration interaction, an extension of configuration interaction in quantum physics

Schrödinger's paradox

Schrödinger's cat, a thought experiment relating to quantum physics

Stephan W. Koch

(abbreviated as SLEs); the SLEs describe the quantum physics where quantum fluctuations of light initiate incoherent light emission from spontaneous recombination of Coulomb-coupled electron–hole pairs.

TrueMoneyGames

TrueMoneyGames also implemented a hardware random number generator designed by the Swedish company Protego, which is based on quantum physics.

Wigner distribution

Wigner quasiprobability distribution, a quasiprobability distribution used in quantum physics

Wormhole

The debate on this matter is described by Kip S. Thorne in the book Black Holes and Time Warps, and a more technical discussion can be found in The quantum physics of chronology protection by Matt Visser.