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Article: Quantum mechanics, computers, WIMPS.(BOOKS)(SCIENCE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 22, 2002
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Byline: Jeffrey Marsh, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Richard Feynman, the virtuoso physicist with an unmatched insight into the quantum world, once famously remarked that "Nobody understands quantum mechanics." Despite this disturbing situation, physicists were able to use the counterintuitive results of quantum mechanics to construct the panoply of devices, from nuclear bombs to lasers, MRI machines and electronic computers, that characterized the astonishing technological progress of the 20th century.
Barry Parker, for 30 years a physics professor at Idaho State University and author of a dozen popular science books, provides in Quantum Legacy: The ...