title: Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure
author:  Craig Lancaster 
description: The success of any short-story collection hinges on the authors ability to create characters that immediately connect with readers. Lancaster (The Summer Son, 2011) excels on this point, ironically so because the inability to connect is his underlying theme. The stories, set in small towns along back roads, are populated with a sad-sack lot: an estranged father and son, a disgruntled newspaperman, miserable husbands and wives. Many of these individuals are actively engaged in running away from or toward something, the art of departure referenced in the title, often with no goal in mind other than to escape loneliness. On occasion, Lancaster, who has a gift for illuminating workaday life, relies on surprise twists to juice the plot or provide speedy resolution, as if he doesnt quite trust the innate drama of everyday situations. Hes at his best in Alyssa Alights, a tale about a teenage runaway that unfolds honestly and organically. Though generally bleak in tone, Lancasters collection offers a glimmer of hope, concluding on a grace note with the aptly titled Comfort and Joy. --Patty Wetli
zlib_text: Complementary & The Copenhagen Interpretation
  
   **Complementarity and the Copenhagen**
  
   **Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics**
  
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  **Introduction**
  
  Neils Bohr (1885 - 1962)