In 2022, three physicists won the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on “spooky” quantum entanglement. Some quantum seekers now envision having a Halloween party in the subatomic world. There, they hope to experience firsthand the weird quantum effects that have long stoked their imaginations.
But what would the subatomic world look and feel like, and how would you get there?
The good news is the quantum world is not far away. We live in it. The theory of quantum mechanics describes the entire universe, including the everyday world we are familiar with. However, at the macroscopic level, the weird quantum effects are relatively weak and hard to perceive.
To readily experience quantum weirdness, a human would have to shrink to about the size of an atom, says Jim Kakalios, a physics professor at the University of Minnesota. The problem with that is all atoms are about the same ...
