Quotes About Quantum

Is the universe holographic? Probably. Get microscopic enough and you start seeing pixels. I don't know about you, but that makes me laugh. Until I think about how easy it is to hack a program. Any program.

Superfluid helium is a realization of the hypothetical quantum liquid that we imagined when performing the thought experiment with the buckets on the staircase. Its behavior is almost surreal.

This weird behavior is a manifestation of quantum sync. All liquids become highly ordered when cooled to very low temperatures. Normally they freeze into a crystal. But the two isotopes of helium, helium-3 and helium-4, never solidify, at least not at ordinary pressures. They remain liquids all the way down to absolute zero.

Do such infinitesimally small things exist in the real world? Quantum mechanics has something to say about that.

The solution to Schrödinger's equation shows that a small portion of the electron probability wave exists on the far side of an impenetrable barrier.

At such small scales, space and time might seethe and roil at random. They might fluctuate like bubbling foam.

In 1899, the father of quantum theory, a German physicist named Max Planck, realized that there was one and only one way to combine these fundamental constants to produce a scale of length.

Space and time would no longer make sense below these scales. They're the end of the line.

Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics! -The Doctor (Matt Smith)

Fine Structure Constant: Fundamental numerical constant of atomic physics and quantum electrodynamics, defined as the square of the charge of the electron divided by the product of Planck's constant and the speed of light.

Physicists are more opportunistic, demanding only enough precision and certainty to give them a good chance of avoiding serious mistakes. In the preface of my own treatise on the quantum theory of fields, I admit that "there are parts of this book that will bring tears to the eyes of the mathematically inclined reader.

we think that all the forces of nature become united at something like the Planck energy, a million billion times larger than the highest energy reached in today's accelerators.

Finally, there is a more subtle relation among F, E, and V.

Do radioactive cats have eighteen half-lives?

I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.

I still pinch myself that I have a second-hand Aston Martin DBS Volante, the convertible model of James Bond's car from 'Quantum of Solace' and 'Casino Royale.'

To believe in an invisible order, a divine or implicate order, as quantum physics calls it, or the order beneath the disorder that chaos theory describes, is a healthier, more interesting choice than seeing no meaning in life whatsoever.

The human mind is woven into the energy fabric of the universe. John A. Wheeler

George Gamow

Hackett's Equation.

Zero kelvin is the lowest possible temperature. At absolute zero, all motion comes to a standstill. It is obvious that a lower temperature is not feasible because there is no velocity smaller than zero and no energy content less than nothing.

According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.

Having those extra dimensions and therefore many ways the string can vibrate in many different directions turns out to be the key to being able to describe all the particles that we see.

The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.