{"id":690,"date":"2008-05-27T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/05\/27\/quantum-weirdness\/"},"modified":"2008-05-27T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T13:53:00","slug":"quantum-weirdness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/05\/27\/quantum-weirdness\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Weirdness"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood a single word. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Niels Bohr<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/view\/generic\/id\/32558\/title\/Tight_deadline\">Science News<\/a> reports on an odd experiement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s no way around it: The nature of light seems different depending on how it\u2019s observed. Light can act like a particle or wave, and all shades of gray in between. Now, physicists have the most dramatic demonstration yet that this range of behaviors between wave and particles really is unavoidable, and that light itself doesn\u2019t know what it is while it\u2019s propagating&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can change choices which, common sense says, had to be made at the beginning,\u201d comments Wojciech Zurek of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. \u201cIn some sense, you can rewrite the past by what you measure now.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood a single word. Niels Bohr Science News reports on an odd experiement: There\u2019s no way around it: The nature of light seems different depending on how it\u2019s observed. Light &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/05\/27\/quantum-weirdness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}