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Article: Quantum on Thoughts Measurement.(industrial engineering, importance of understanding quantum mechanics)
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- June 1, 2001
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Why should you care about quantum uncertainty? Measurement is of vital importance to the practice of industrial engineering. Furthermore, many industrial engineers work closely in academia and industry with scientists and engineers of other disciplines. Thus, we need to understand how quantum mechanics does, and does not, affect measurement and the practice of our professions.
The quantum world is mysterious and cannot, as yet, be completely described. The inexplicable nature of the quantum world is becoming popularly used as an analogy for complexity and unpredictability in the world at large. These popularized analogies are borrowed from some of the speculative ...