SF and Quantum Mechanics, #1

Some comments by Ted Chiang, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Nathaniel Hellerstein and others in my recent post on got me to thinking about the relationships between science fiction and quantum mechanics. This is a big topic, so I'm going to break it up into two or possibly more posts.

First, a throwaway remark—a chemist friend of mine once remarked that it would be entertaining if fundamentalist religious types got into attacking quantum mechanics. They're always just hammering ...