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Quantum mechanics has been called “the skeleton in Albert Einstein’s closet,” because while he proposed the theory of relativity, which is the cornerstone of quantum mechanics, he thought that quantum laws were too random and said, “God doesn’t play dice with the universe.” But scientists have found out that He DOES.

Despite the fact that quantum physics is science at the extreme edge, a surprising number of modern technologies, some of which we use every day, have come from it?including computers and flat-screen TVs. Quantum physicist Fred Kuttner says, “Physicists can use quantum mechanics and calculate with it beautifully, but nobody understands it.”
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Non-scientists of speak of “other dimensions” and people who have had UFO encounters often say they think that’s where ETs come from. Quantum physicists call these parallel universes or “brane worlds” (membrane-like places where there are more than the 3 dimensions that exist here on Earth?4 dimensions if you include time). Do these other worlds really exist? Researchers are discovering that they definitely do.
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Newswise – Quantum physics tells us that the world is much different than we have been taught in school or perceive it to be. We are aware of 3 spatial dimensions. But physicists say there are at least nine spatial dimensions, six of them hidden from us, perhaps curled up in some way so they are tiny and undetectable.

Researchers Andreas Karch and Lisa Randall are searching for the answer to the question of why we cannot perceive these extra 6 spatial dimensions. They believe the way our universe started and then diluted as it expanded favored the formation of three- and seven-dimensional realities. It’s just chance that the one we experience has three dimensions. They say, “That’s what comes out when you do the math.”
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Scientists used to think that the ideas of quantum physics?for instance, that everything is in “superposition” (both everywhere and nowhere) until observed and that particles can be “entangled” and affect each other at great distances?applied only on the atomic level, but now they’re using quantum weirdness to create incredible new inventions.

In Business Week, John Carey quotes physicist William D. Phillips as saying, “To common sense, quantum mechanics is nonsensical.” But it’s already been used to create lasers and MRI machines. Phillips is clumping together groups of atoms that are both “everywhere” and “nowhere” at the same time. He says, “Every atom is everywhere?that’s what makes it so wonderful?It can do some amazing things.”
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