The quantum interpretation of the world

Authors

  • Valter Luiz Líbero Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC) e Centro de Divulgação Científica e Cultural (CDCC)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9060.v9i0p115-124

Keywords:

scientific and cultural development, quantum mechanics, wave-particle duality

Abstract

The scientific interpretation of the world, although based on natural phenomena, depends upon our evolutionary stage or cultural level. The development of Quantum Mechanics is one of the most beautiful example of that, in which a great deal of creativity was necessary to overcome the difficulties encountered by the Classical Physics in the end of the 19th century. The new concepts, like the universality of the wave-particle duality or the uncertainty principle in the measuring process, which govern the behavior of all matter, have no analogous in the Classical Physics. Although essential in the subatomic scales, traces of fundamental quantum properties are recently found even in the macroscopic world.

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Author Biography

  • Valter Luiz Líbero, Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC) e Centro de Divulgação Científica e Cultural (CDCC)
    Professor do Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC) e atual diretor do Centro de Divulgação Científica e Cultural (CDCC).

Published

2013-05-31

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How to Cite

The quantum interpretation of the world. (2013). Revista De Cultura E Extensão USP, 9, 115-124. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9060.v9i0p115-124