From Chalkboards to Qubits, A Hundred Years of Quantum Curiosity

By David Manney 

Quantum mechanics turned 100 years old! A century ago, a group of physicists stared into a strange new world that refused to behave like anything they had ever known. They found electrons that acted like waves, particles that appeared only when measured, and energy levels that jumped rather than slid. It felt as if nature waited until the late 1920s to reveal a private joke.

Everything people trusted about classical physics held only until atoms arrived; then the rules changed.

Scientists 100 years ago did not see electrons. They saw nature behaving in ways only quantum ideas could explain…

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