Quantum 101
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If beauty were a disease, you'd be in a coma!
Quantum Mechanics 101
The purpose of this paper is to provide a simple and understandable guide to some of the
fundamental ideas of Quantum Mechanics. The reason I'm writing this is because I constantly
see that people are being "conned" by people who claim to be experts in Quantum Mechanics,
and particularly by the complex and obscure language that these people use. I hope that by
imparting a very basic guide to the real concepts behind Quantum Mechanics, more people
will be able to see for themselves what's likely to be true or false.
The best way of starting is to look at the history of Quantum Mechanics and how it arose.
In the early part of the 20th century scientists finally derived a model of the atom. In this
model, an atom was supposed to consist of various subatomic particles like protons, neutrons
and electrons. The atom had a nucleus of heavy particles and these were either protons, or a
combination of protons and neutrons. Orbiting around the nucleus there were electrons
which were much smaller than either protons or neutrons (approx 1800 times smaller).
However, each proton was considered to have a fixed electric charge of +1, the neutron had
no charge and the electron had a fixed electric charge of -1...