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Focus: Watching an Object Go Quantum

Katie McAlpine

Published Aug 21, 2007• 0 citations
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In the near future, a vibrating bar could be made small enough and cold enough to violate Newton’s laws and behave quantum mechanically, according to calculations.

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Abstract As the end of the nineteenth century, the search for Nature’s basic laws seemed close to its goal. There was a sense of a task accomplished. Physics presented an orderly scene that fit the proper Victorian mood of the day. Objects both on Earth and in the heavens behaved in accord with Newton’s laws. So, presumably, did atoms. The nature of atoms was unclear. But to most scientists the rest of the job of describing the universe seemed a filling in of the details of the Great Machine.
I nd it hard to reconcile the beauty of this scene with what I know about the nature of light. is is part of the mystery of quantum reality. Our world of large-scale (macroscopic) objects such as trees, bushes, and cricket balls is made up of small-scale (microscopic) things such as protons, neutrons, and electrons. e laws of physics that describe the large-scale world have been known and understood since the 1700s. We have known about the physics of the small-scale world since the 1900s. e problem is that the small-scale laws describe a way of behaving that, judged by the standards of everyday experience, is utterly bizarre. It is very di cult to see how all the funny business going on at the atomic scale can lead to the regular, reliable world we spend our lives in.