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Quantum Mechanics, In Order

Not a set of separate concepts: each article begins with the question the previous one ended on. The rule of the series is never to let a widespread wrong explanation pass.

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Leg 1 · Why Energy Comes in Lumps — Counting It Whole Made It Work

  1. 11900Max Planck
  2. 21905Einstein · The photoelectric effect
  3. 31913Niels Bohr

Leg 2 · Why the Electron Does Not Fall — A Jump With No Middle

  1. 41911Rutherford
  2. 51924Louis de Broglie · Matter waves

Leg 3 · In Two Places at Once — Superposition and Probability

  1. 61801Thomas Young · The double slit
  2. 71926Schrödinger
  3. 81926Max Born · The probability rule
  4. 91948Richard Feynman · Sum over paths

Leg 4 · Not Unknown but Absent — The Uncertainty Principle

  1. 101927Heisenberg · Uncertainty
  2. 111814Pierre-Simon Laplace

Leg 5 · Two Objections in 1935 — Entanglement and the Cat

  1. 121935Einstein · Podolsky · Rosen
  2. 131964John Bell · The inequality
  3. 141982Alain Aspect · Testing entanglement

Updated 2026-09-12