Quantum Weirdness Research Articles

Antisense oligonucleotides – recent advances in preclinical safety assessment

How does the world crystallise from quantum weirdness? We might just have heard the answer, says Bob Henderson

India & US: CSRC/Continental Carbon – carbon black

How does the world crystallise from quantum weirdness? We might just have heard the answer, says Bob Henderson

Reality's whispers

How does the world crystallise from quantum weirdness? We might just have heard the answer, says Bob Henderson

Sex Difference in the Association of Androgens with Aortic Calcification

How does the world crystallise from quantum weirdness? We might just have heard the answer, says Bob Henderson

Why Bohmian Mechanics? One- and Two-Time Position Measurements, Bell Inequalities, Philosophy, and Physics.

In Bohmian mechanics, particles follow continuous trajectories, so two-time position correlations have been well defined. However, Bohmian mechanics predicts the violation of Bell inequalities. Motivated by this fact, we investigate position measurements in Bohmian mechanics by coupling the particles to macroscopic pointers. This explains the violation of Bell inequalities despite two-time position correlations. We relate this fact to so-called surrealistic trajectories that, in our model, correspond to slowly moving pointers. Next, we emphasize that Bohmian mechanics, which does not distinguish between microscopic and macroscopic systems, implies that the quantum weirdness of quantum physics also shows up at the macro-scale. Finally, we discuss the fact that Bohmian mechanics is attractive to philosophers but not so much to physicists and argue that the Bohmian community is responsible for the latter.

Blast from the future

To make sense of quantum weirdness, we need to rethink cause and effect, says Adam Becker

Relational Decision-Making Processes

The nonlocal aspect of entanglement is often considered to show the solid distinguishability of quantum weirdness from classical theory. In this paper, this peculiar facet of entanglement is discussed in light of the observer-dependent subjective model, in which vacuum is filled with the quantum negative sea of the observer's reference frame. The correlation of observers' choices with respect to the observed, as opposed to the ordinary correlation of state vectors with respect to the choice of observables in the observer-independent objective scheme, will be considered. In particular, we will argue that, unlike in the objective model, it is the observers' conscious negative sea that interact and share with each other. The presented discussion is consistent with the previous proposal of continuous or infinite negative sea as an innate aspect of universal grammar shared among observers.

What if… quantum weirdness were weirder?

What if… quantum weirdness were weirder?

Zeno of Elea Shines a New Light on Quantum Weirdness

After a brief reference to the quantum Zeno effect, a quantum Zeno paradox is formulated. Our starting point is the usual version of Time Dependent Perturbation Theory. Although this theory is supposed to account for transitions between stationary states, we are led to conclude that such transitions cannot occur. Paraphrasing Zeno, they are nothing but illusions. Two solutions to the paradox are introduced. The first as a straightforward application of the postulates of Orthodox Quantum Mechanics; the other is derived from a Spontaneous Projection Approach to quantum mechanics previously formulated. Similarities and differences between both solutions are highlighted. A comparison between the two versions of quantum mechanics, supporting their corresponding solutions to the paradox, shines a new light on quantum weirdness. It is shown, in particular, that the solution obtained in the framework of Orthodox Quantum Mechanics is defective.

The evolution and sustenance of life

An experiment with liquid nitrogen gave anomalous results, I proposed proton-ordered ice had contracted to accommodate water molecules' irregular tetrahedral shape. Recent reports of ice XIc at 72 K, below the ferroelectric transition temperature, confirmed it. Temperature fluctuations on primordial Earth’s poles released ice XIc's latent energy as ~4 m infrared laser light. After reflection by ice in clouds and on Earth's surface, it energized deoxynucleotides, turning Darwin's warm tropical waters to DNA noodle soup. tRNA analogues, transport DNAs lined proto-cell membrane pores with H-bonds. Laser light drove a ratchet pump mechanism, concentrating substrates and promoting synthetic reactions within. Replicate t-DNAs marked life's origin. They elude detection, chromosomal DNA masks ~2,000/cell. A report of DNA particles around the entry of sperm to ovum might be verified. Differentiation DNAs selecting tDNAs determine tissue cell diet and metabolism, c.f. mRNAs selecting tRNAs for protein synthesis. Adequate trace elements tDNAs employ govern survival. Twenty-one flat protein hairpins bind 189 base-pairs forming a ring, nine rings complete a minion. Minions pack chromosomes and ensure error-free replication. Their roles as biological clocks and chips in the brain explain psychology. Computers modeled on them promise human-friendly intelligence. They control nine metabolic pathways, predating enzyme synthesis. Adequate trace element nutrition promises better mental and physical health and longevity, public assurance of their safety is vital. ATP's Pi~Pi bond stores~4 m wavelength energy, e.g. sarcomeres form ½-wave resonant cavities for muscle contraction. Oscillating H-bond chains accelerate protons along adjacent minion tunnels fast enough to fuse with obstructing nuclei. Trapping the g-rays released could provide clean power, resolving global warming. My proposals restore the simplicity and public trust in science prevailing c 1900 AD, reinterpreting quantum weirdness and cosmology would redirect funds to conservation, humanitarian projects and diplomacy, ensuring a happy future.

Designs for a quantum electron microscope

One of the astounding consequences of quantum mechanics is that it allows the detection of a target using an incident probe, with only a low probability of interaction of the probe and the target. This ‘quantum weirdness’ could be applied in the field of electron microscopy to generate images of beam-sensitive specimens with substantially reduced damage to the specimen. A reduction of beam-induced damage to specimens is especially of great importance if it can enable imaging of biological specimens with atomic resolution. Following a recent suggestion that interaction-free measurements are possible with electrons, we now analyze the difficulties of actually building an atomic resolution interaction-free electron microscope, or “quantum electron microscope”. A quantum electron microscope would require a number of unique components not found in conventional transmission electron microscopes. These components include a coherent electron beam-splitter or two-state-coupler, and a resonator structure to allow each electron to interrogate the specimen multiple times, thus supporting high success probabilities for interaction-free detection of the specimen. Different system designs are presented here, which are based on four different choices of two-state-couplers: a thin crystal, a grating mirror, a standing light wave and an electro-dynamical pseudopotential. Challenges for the detailed electron optical design are identified as future directions for development. While it is concluded that it should be possible to build an atomic resolution quantum electron microscope, we have also identified a number of hurdles to the development of such a microscope and further theoretical investigations that will be required to enable a complete interpretation of the images produced by such a microscope.

Where does quantum weirdness end?

Howgego talks about the laws of quantum mechanics which insist that subatomic particles such as electrons routinely pull off a feat. This particular brand of quantum weirdness is best illustrated by the double-slit experiment, where one fire a beam of electrons, one after another, at a screen containing two slits

Path to enlightenment

People have become accustomed to the universe blowing their minds--perhaps too accustomed. Quantum weirdness--things like particles being in two places at once, or appearing to share a telepathic link--has been baffling all for more than a century now. The physicist Richard Feynman once said that nobody really understands the quantum world. Or as others have put it: if one thinks he understands it, then he definitely doesn't. So it is tempting to throw up their hands and say human brains can never grasp it. Here, Ananthaswany explains quantum weirdness which is just a matter of perspective.

Quantum Darwinism, classical reality, and the randomness of quantum jumps

The core principles that underlie quantum weirdness also explain why only selected quantum states survive monitoring by the environment and, as a result, why we experience our world as classical.

Quantum weirdness: All in the mind?

The microscopic world seems to be a confusingly random and uncertain place – but that might be because we ourselves are uncertain about the world

Quantum Perspectives of Consciousness, Cognition and Creativity: The Dirac Equation in a New Contour Integral Model of Brain Plasticity

The quantum dynamics of consciousness, cognition and creativity are entangled in seemingly mysterious relationships with the classical Newtonian world view. Penrose, for example, believes that a completely new theory is required to integrate the classical and quantum perspectives on the royal road to reality. Mathematicians and physicists typically address such issues with questions about how cosmos and consciousness are related via the “Objective Reduction of the Quantum Wave Function” to Classical Newtonian Reality as people typically experience it. Aspects of the Penrose and Dirac quantum oriented perspectives of consciousness and cognition are integrated in this paper with recent RNA/DNA psychosocial genomic research in the classical-to-quantum and quantum-toclassical loops of information transduction that are proposed to account for so-called quantum weirdness as well as creativity and psychological crises in problem solving. Quantum perspectives are integrated with applications of the Dirac equation in a new contour integral model of brain plasticity, consciousness, cognition and creativity that could be utilized in translational medicine, psychotherapy and counseling. The development of new psychosocial genomic chips for documenting the loops of information transduction between consciousness and cognition to verbalization, RNA/DNA transcription, brain plasticity, new neural networks and the 4-stage creative cycle is recommended for facilitating further research on a quantum field theory of the human condition.

Quantum weirdness: The battle for the basis of reality

Reality, relativity, causality or free will? Take quantum theory at face value and at least one of them is an illusion – but which, asks Michael Brooks

Quantum Weirdness? It's All in Your Mind

In this article the author discusses a version of quantum theory that removes the paradoxes of the microscopic world making quantum information a figment of the imagination. Topics include some bizarre paradoxes of quantum mechanics, such as the appearance of particles in two places at the same time, the development of a model in 2001 by a team of physicists that eliminates quantum paradoxes by combining quantum theory with probability theory and reimaging the wave function, called Quantum Bayesianism (QBism), physicists' use of the wave function to calculate the probability that a particle will have a certain property, and some criticisms of QBism, such as its inability to explain complex macroscopic phenomena in microscopic terms.

Where worlds collide: taking quantum weirdness into space

What happens when our two greatest theories of reality, quantum theory and relativity, collide? Soon they could be slugging it out above our heads

In pursuit of the unknown: 17 equations that changed the world

Why Equations? 1. The squaw on the hippopotamus 2. Shortening the proceedings 3. Ghosts of departed quantities 4. The system of the world 5. Portent of the ideal world 6. Much ado about knotting 7. Patterns of chance 8. Good vibrations 9. Ripples and blips 10. The ascent of humanity 11. Waves in the ether 12. Law and disorder 13. One thing is absolute 14. Quantum weirdness 15. Codes, communications, and computers 16. The imbalance of nature 17. The Midas formula Where Next?