The Quantum Leap - Neil Johnson's 1999 Christmas Lectures 3/5

In his third Lecture, Neil Johnson asks why the quantum world is so weird, and does our understanding of it have any practical applications This was recorded on 3 Dec 1999. What is the shortest time-scale that can be measured, and is there any in-built uncertainty which will ultimately limit the accuracy of such a measurement? Such issues force us to look into the ultrasmall world of atoms, and the seemingly magical properties of 'quantum mechanics'.

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