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Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time | Quanta Magazin

When quantum mechanics was first developed a century ago as a theory for understanding the atomic-scale world, one of its key concepts was so radical, bold and counter-intuitive that it passed into popular language: the “quantum leap.

Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time | Quanta Magazin

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