Six Impossible Things: The 'Quanta of Solace' and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World

by John Gribbin

sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”’

Schrödinger

Heisenberg

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Generations of students have been told, in effect, to ‘shut up and calculate’ – don’t ask what the equations mean, just crunch the numbers.

for any given colour of light the energy of each electron was always the same.

The amount of energy carried by a photon depends on the colour of the light, but for any colour all photons have the same energy.

‘single-electron double-slit diffraction’.