#84 Bilocation, relativity of the passage of time – what does the future hold for us thanks to quantum mechanics?

If you remem­ber the myste­rio­us cha­rac­ter from „Ali­ce in Won­der­land” – the Che­shi­re Cat – you will be fami­liar with the para­do­xes of quan­tum mecha­nics. The pro­ta­go­ni­st’s smi­le rema­ined in one pla­ce, even if he him­self disap­pe­ared and appe­ared in ano­ther. An exam­ple clo­ser to scien­ce? In quan­tum phy­sics, one par­tic­le can move cloc­kwi­se, whi­le ano­ther one moves coun­ter-cloc­kwi­se. How is this possible?

Paweł Gora, a PhD stu­dent at the Facul­ty of Mathe­ma­tics, Infor­ma­tics and Mecha­nics at the Uni­ver­si­ty of War­saw and the Pre­si­dent of the Quan­tum AI Foun­da­tion, talks abo­ut the rela­tion­ships and para­do­xes asso­cia­ted with quan­tum mecha­nics and quan­tum com­pu­ters, answe­ring Dr. Justy­na Pokoj­ska’s questions abo­ut:
- assump­tions of quan­tum mecha­nics,
- the possi­bi­li­ty of bilo­ca­tion, taking into acco­unt quan­tum mecha­nics,
- ways in which scien­ce deals with the unk­nown,
- appli­ca­tions of phe­no­me­na and laws of quan­tum mecha­nics,
- the near futu­re appli­ca­tion of the many worlds con­cept,
- the fourth dimen­sion and the appe­aran­ces of the the­ory of the abso­lu­te pas­sa­ge of time,
- the pur­po­se for which it is worth lear­ning quan­tum mecha­nics,
- the use of quan­tum mecha­nics to fight COVID-19,
- the use of quan­tum mecha­nics in rese­arch con­duc­ted at UW,
- pro­blems asso­cia­ted with the use of quan­tum com­pu­ters in scien­ce,
- acti­vi­ties of the Quan­tum AI Foun­da­tion aimed at young enthu­sia­sts of quan­tum mechanics.

You can sub­mit papers popu­la­ri­sing quan­tum mecha­nics on the Quan­tum AI Foun­da­tion websi­te.