What quantum physics is not

"It all the books and articles written for the layman about quantum theory were laid end to end, they´d just about cover my desk. That doesnt´t mean that quantum theory is unheard of outside the halls of academe. Indeed, quantum mechanics has become hightly popular in some quarters, being invoked to explain phenomena such as telepathy and spoon bending, and providing a fruitful input of ideas for several science fictio stories. Quantum mechanics is identified in popular mythology, so far as it is identified at all, with the occult and ESP, some weird and esoteric branch of science that nobody understands and nobody has any practical use for"

John Gribbin (1984) in the introduction to his book
In Search of Schrödinger´s cat - Quantum Physics and Reality


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Ann-Marie Pendrill, Fysik, GU / CTH, 1997-05-17