New Scientist - 05 May 2010
- From undead cats to particles popping up out of nowhere, from watched pots not boiling – sometimes – to ghostly influences at a distance, quantum physics delights in demolishing our intuitions about how the world works.
Michael Brooks tours the quantum effects that are guaranteed to boggle our minds. - Wave-Particle Duality: Corpuscles and Buckyballs
Light is both a particle and a wave – and we're starting to prove that everything else is too. - Off the Boil: The Hamlet Effect
To be decayed or not decayed, that is the analytically unsolvable question. - The Casimir Effect: Something for Nothing
They might not stick around for long, but particles that pop in and out of existence could gum up nano-machines. - Love the Quantum Bomb: The Elitzur-Vaidman Bomb-Tester
You can use quantum trickery to shine light on a light-triggered bomb – and stay safe a guaranteed 25 per cent of the time. - Entanglement: Spooky Action at a Distance
Reality, free will or the speed of light? One's got to give, because quantum mechanics says you can't have them all. - The Aharanov-Bohm Effect: The Field that isn't There
You have to think about where an electromagnetic field isn't, as well as where it is, as far as particles are concerned. - Miracle Matter: Superfluids and Supersolids
Forget radioactive spider bites and exposure to gamma rays, it's quantum theory that gives you superpowers. - Paradoxes: Nobody Understands
Paradoxes are only conflicts between reality and your feelings of what reality ought to be.