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Unintuitive aspects of quantum mechanics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Quantum weirdness encompasses the aspects of quantum mechanics that challenge and defy human physical intuition.[1]

Human physical intuition is based on macroscopic physical phenomena as are experienced in everyday life, which can mostly be adequately described by the Newtonian mechanics of classical physics.[2] Early 20th-century models of atomic physics, such as the Rutherford–Bohr model, represented subatomic particles as little balls occupying well-defined spatial positions, but it was soon found that the physics needed at a subatomic scale, which became known as "quantum mechanics", implies many aspects for which the models of classical physics are inadequate.[3] These aspects include: [citation needed]

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