Quotes About Quantum

It seems that no matter how hard we try, or how unreasonable the resulting definition of reality, we just cannot avoid having to invoke the collapse of the wavefunction.

For more than four hundred years we nurtured the belief (should that, perhaps, be faith?) that evidence-based investigation meeting scientific standards of rigor would reveal the true mechanism of nature. and yet when the mechanisms of nature were revealed to be quantum mechanisms, the worlds of science and philosophy were set on a collision course. instead of truth and comprehension, we got deeply unsettling questions about what we can ever hope to know about the world.

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think

I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

Bell's theorem...proves that quantum theory requires connections that appear to resemble telepathic communication.

If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed.

It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.

But this quantum only takes on its full significance when we try to define it with regard to a concrete natural movement — that is to say, in duration.

Quantum theory tells us, Mr. Thomas, that every point in the universe is intimately connected to every other point, regardless of apparent distance. In some mysterious way, any point on a planet in a distant galaxy is as close to me as you are.

Any thoughtful physicist, he said, well schooled in quantum mechanics, would agree that all time exists simultaneously, which I subsequently learned was the case. In truth, Father said, as the first instant of the universe, all of time was present, all our yesterdays and today and all our tomorrows, everyone and everything that was and ever would be existed at that moment.

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.

On the quantum level, reality is spookily fragile and can be manipulated. By whom? By us. —Ganesh

Remember Carl Jung. Werner Heisenberg. The tenuous nature of reality on the quantum level. Attitude, attitude, attitude!

On the quantum level, reality is spookily fragile and can be manipulated. By whom? By us. —Ganesh Patel

Bohr orbits

subatomic particles

subatomic particles aren't fixed.

Parallel Universes and Quantum Reality

Planck minimums of space and time all the way to the gravitational fine-structure constant.

The waves of probabilities collapse into a physical reality through observation by a conscious mind.

This property of reversibility in dynamics leads, however, to a difficulty whose full significance was realized only with the introduction of quantum mechanics. Manipulation and measurement are essentially irreversible. Active science is thus, by definition, extraneous to the idealized, reversible world it is describing.

Advanced research along these lines has established that in each and every minute an immensely astronomical number of information bits do enter through our whole-body receptors. Additionally, during

Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly in the New Lecture Hall. And when he was done, Professor Whitehead , who presided, thanked him for his efforts, and not least for 'leaving the vast darkness of the subject unobscured'.

It's hard to feel down when you're out in the natural world, and there's a reason for that. Scientists would call it quantum physics,