Quotes About Subatomic

Mr. Thomas, did you know that in an experiment with a human observer, subatomic particles behave differently from the way they behave when the experiment is observed while in progress and the results are examined, instead, only after the fact? Sure. Everybody knows that. He raised one bushy eyebrow. Everybody, you say. Well then you realize what this signifies. I said, At least on an subatomic level, human will can in part shape reality.

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subatomic particles aren't fixed.

Down there—in the land of hadrons, quarks, and Schrödinger's cat—things get freaky.

More and more the picture of reality Bohm was developing was not one in which subatomic particles were separate from one another and moving through the void of space, but one in which all things were part of an unbroken web and embedded in a space that was as real and rich with process as the matter that moved through it.

How and why sub-quark wave events are captured and read, how they let us view the past, and why they show us only possible pasts, is difficult to explain. So instead of a technical lecture, I'm going to engage in what popular science journalists call "oversimplification". In academia, we call this "lying".

Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.

The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night.

I think the fear gets into your blood. It makes your subatomic particles twist and distort. You change, chemically. The fear changes, too. It because not your helper, but your master. You are a slave to it.

In 1981 the American physicist Murray Gell-Mann, inspired by Mendeleyev's example, came up with a classification table for subatomic particles, which he named the eightfold way.