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But he says that one attempt to describe the beginning of the universe using quantum mechanics may yield similar conclusions.
ECONOMIST: The universe, it appears, may not be alone
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His best-known work on wave mechanics known as "Schrodinger's Equation" goes some way to explaining the inter-connectivity of the universe at a quantum level.
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Newtonian physics is a simplification of our visible world that worked until advanced scientific techniques allowed scientists to conceive of quantum theory as an explanation of how our universe works.
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Others will prefer to stand in awe of a universe that they suspect began as a quantum fluctuation in pre-existing nothingness.
ECONOMIST: In praise of particle physics
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Now Vlatko Vedral, an Oxford physicist, examines the claim that bits of information are the universe's basic units, and the universe as a whole is a giant quantum computer.
ECONOMIST: Information theory
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Some of the arguments he traces are familiar, from various attempts to prove the logical necessity of the existence of god to speculations among more adventurous physicists that the universe got its start as a kind of lucky quantum burp.
ECONOMIST: The question of existence
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There is no scope for plots in which two copies of Kirk roam the universe until they meet in a dreadful epiphany: in quantum teleportation, the original copy of Kirk is destroyed by the very process of being entangled with the transporter.
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The early universe is also thought to have produced a background of gravitational waves from quantum fluctuations.
ECONOMIST: Fundamental physics
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This is that the universe popped out of nowhere about 13.7 billion years ago in a quantum fluctuation similar to the sort that constantly create short-lived virtual particles in so-called empty space.
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