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Nearly Gone Paradox

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In Nearly Gone by Elle Cosimano, the protagonist, Nearly “Leigh” Boswell, is targeted by an unknown enemy that is killing people that she has only one connection to. In the book, Nearly is learning about Schrödinger’s cat, then when reading Missed Connections in the newspaper she is confronted with a science riddle that mentioned Isaac Newton. And she also has to teach someone how to balance equations. These are the three different examples I will be describing and making parallels to. Schrödinger’s cat paradox in the book is briefly talked about in the very beginning of the book in her AP Chemistry class. Her class is discussing quantum mechanics which is the mathematical description of the motion and interaction of subatomic particles, …show more content…

One of the other main characters, Anh Bui, argues that it’s thought experiment, “Schrödinger presented a scenario in which a live cat is sealed in a box with a toxic substance to prove that you can’t know for certain if the cat is dead or alive until the box is opened.” [p. 11] In which the professor says, “Proof by contradiction! An indirect proof by which a proposition is proved true by proving it is impossible to be false. . . Schrödinger presents a paradox. The cat cannot be both alive and dead at the same time, and yet to the universe outside the box, earlier theories of quantum mechanics suggest the cat would be both--dead and alive.” [p. 11-12] The cat maybe dead inside the box but until the box is opened it could also be alive; without looking inside the box we do not know the state of the …show more content…

We clash with yellow. Find me tonight under the bleachers.” Newton was wrong in his first and second laws of motion because with the new information and exceeding technology that we have today we can study closer and at a higher intensity than we could during Newton’s time. The first law of motion ,often referred to as the “law of inertia”, violates the Uncertainty Principle which is the principle that the momentum and position of a particle cannot both be precisely determined at the same time. The second law of motion violates the of equation of quantized energy. Quantize means to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of

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