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I rather like Terry Tao, not only because he is Australian, a great mathematician, maybe even the greatest currently living, whose contributions range across a wide gamut of areas including QM (which interestingly he actually failed at university - but that is a story of bad study habits for another time) but because he maintains an interesting blog.

I came across the following which I found rather thought provoking about QM and the game Tomb Raider:
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/02/26/quantum-mechanics-and-tomb-raider/

Interesting.

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Bill
 
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That was an interesting article. Thanks for sharing it here. I think you should've included "Tomb Raider" in your headline. :smile:
 
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Insights auto threads is broken atm, so I'm manually creating these for new Insight articles. Towards the end of the first lecture for the Qiskit Global Summer School 2025, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Olivia Lanes (Global Lead, Content and Education IBM) stated... Source: https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/quantum-entanglement-is-a-kinematic-fact-not-a-dynamical-effect/ by @RUTA
If we release an electron around a positively charged sphere, the initial state of electron is a linear combination of Hydrogen-like states. According to quantum mechanics, evolution of time would not change this initial state because the potential is time independent. However, classically we expect the electron to collide with the sphere. So, it seems that the quantum and classics predict different behaviours!

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