A Brief Exploration in Statistics and Quantum Mechanics
Date
2011-05
Authors
Blankmeyer, Eric
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Publisher
Texas State University-San Marcos
Abstract
Quantum mechanics has some probabilistic or statistical features that have been considered paradoxical or exotic; at least, this impression is frequently conveyed in introductory textbooks on the subject and informal explanations of quantum theory. The often idiosyncratic treatment of statistics and probability seems unhelpful to the student and the interested layperson: it may tend to exaggerate and mystify the real differences between the microscopic and the macroscopic worlds. In this paper I try to show that some of the statistical esoterica of quantum mechanics can be
made more transparent by their very close analogies to several
macroscopic topics.
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Keywords
quantum mechanics, statistics, uncertainty principle, Bell's inequality
Citation
Blankmeyer, E. (2011). A brief exploration in statistics and quantum mechanics. Texas State University-San Marcos, San Marcos, Texas.