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finger, y and your thumb, z. At any moment you can move your hand to point in any direction and take a measurement. We will have to round up or down. Quantum mechanics is named ‘quantum because ail the readings must be whole numbers. You will never see 10% spin in x, 90% in y and 85% in z; just ones, and z

box? Was the result of the decay measured by the Geiger counter, the cat, or are we waiting for someone to open the box and observe the result? The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics — named after the main center of early quantum theory at the Niels Bohr Institute — says the cat is both alive an

of the philosophical argument. I also avoid a strongly historical narrative, but if you enjoy the history of science I recommend, The Missing 4%, and Quantum for a really clear exposé of the issues HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016087 398 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? around quantum mechanics, relativity and cosmolo

124 Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire 333 Contact 68 convergent thinking 300 Conway, John 173, 343 Conway's Game of Life 173 Cope, David 7 Copenhagen interpretation 327 Copernicus 42 Cormack, Allan 102 counter factual experiments 282 counting system 181 Coyle, Daniel 37 Craddock, Travis 50, 119, 1

e. In 1918, when Fermi graduated from high school in Rome, the possi- bilities open to a brilliant young scientific mind were far less constrained. Quantum mechanics had just been born, new ideas were everywhere, and the rigorous mathematics necessary to deal with these ideas had not yet been developed

with a thesis on the subject and continued to explore the issue for the next few years as a National Science Foundation post- doctoral researcher in Copenhagen. In his Nobel lecture twenty years later, Glashow indicated that he and Schwinger had planned to write a manuscript on the subject after Glashow gr

d. Stark Reality: Breaking Bad or Beautiful? 187 condensate of particles. It would again be like trying to move a truck by throwing popcorn at it. Quantum mechanically the result is similar. In this case we would say that to change the configuration of the conden- sate would require the whole condensat

rary dorm there in their first semester before going their sepa- rate ways. While Glashow went to Harvard for graduate school, Wein- berg moved on to Copenhagen—where Glashow would spend time as a postdoc—before arriving at Princeton to complete his PhD. Both of them were on the faculty at Berkeley in the e