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Cambridge University Press eBooks

Small Phenomena, Big Implications

Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Simson Garfinkel

Published Nov 18, 2021• 0 citations
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Introduces Law and Policy for the Quantum Age, with a discussion of the key phenomena needed to understand quantum mechanics: the uncertainty principle, entanglement, and superposition.
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10.1017/9781108883719.005

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