Quantum Physics: Alice In Wonderland

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Anna Sansing Mr.Sanders Chemistry December, 7 2015
Introduction
In the beginning of the book we find Alice bored and wanting something to do. Since all her friends seem to be gone, there is little chance that Alice will find something to do. So she starts reading Alice in Wonderland, and while she reads she wishes she was like that Alice. Soon after that, she finds that there is something wrong with her television. So she walks over to check it out -tripping over her Alice in Wonderland book- she falls into the television. And this is when the fun journey of Quantum Physics begin.
Key Idea 1 With mysterious dots swarming around Alice she cannot see where she is or what the things swarming around her are. Soon after the madness dies down, Alice can see she is at a train station, then one of the dots start talking to Alice. Telling her that they are electrons. (This nine weeks we learned that electrons have a negative charge, and that basically almost all electrons are identical. The only way to
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When Alice went into the school she saw an emperor, ugly duckling, mermaid, uniformed soldier, and a ragged little girl with a tray full of matches. Alice had wondered how she got to the school, and the professor explained how they spotted her when she was in different states. So since they were the first to spot Alice in this state, she ended up at the school, while all the other Alices disappeared. Wanting more explanations, the emperor came up and share his theory. The emperor went to the front Explaining The Emperor Theory, which basically was that when we observe something, the universe knows it has been observe. So it remains thereafter in the condition in which it had been

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