quantum weirdness
nounEtymology Coined by American physicist Heinz Pagels in 1982.
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The phenomena of quantum mechanics that cannot be explained in terms of the experiences of everyday life.
- Perhaps the most famous example of quantum weirdness is Schrödinger’s cat, a thought experiment devised by Erwin Schrödinger in 1935.2018 October 29, Jonathan O’Callaghan, ““Schrödinger's Bacterium” Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone”, in Scientific American, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2018: