Quotes About Quantum

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

You need virtual reality to understand high level science or high level math. It's very helpful to explain third and fourth dimensional things that people are constantly addressing in quantum physics. But, as soon as you're creating an avatar, and you can live and you can start to feel sensations on VR, that has gone too far.

Relativity keeps anything from happening at once. Quantum mechanics keeps everything from really happening at all.

Non-Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange background of multi-dimensional reality behind the ghoulish hints of Gothic tales and the wild whispers of the chimney-corner, one can hardly expect to be wholly free from mental tension.

Thus energy may be regarded as the universal currency of the sciences,

It has been noted that one needs only 39 digits of Pi to make a circle the size of the observable universe accurate to one atom of hydrogen.

La Mecánica Cuántica ha bautizado con el término "Lattice", a la estructura. La Lattice enrejado o celosía debe poseer una capacidad de inclusión informacional colosal para permitirle contener toda la información del Universo en cada uno de sus puntos.

It was only a small step in logic to conclude that in our act of participation as an observer in the quantum world, we might also be an influencer, a creator.8 Did we not only stop the butterfly at a certain point in its flight, but also influence the path it will take – nudging it in a particular direction? A related quantum effect suggested by

Curiously, though, we only have to look at one of the two slits for the outcome of the whole experiment to be affected, as if the electrons passing through the other slit also knew what we were doing. This is an example of quantum "non-locality," which means that what happens in one location seems to affect events in another location instantly. Non-locality is a key feature of the central mystery of quantum mechanics, and a vital ingredient in quantum computers.

whole universe can be thought of as a delayed-choice experiment in which the existence of observers who notice what is going on is what imparts tangible reality to the origin of everything. Following

single electron, or a single photon, on its way through one hole in the wall, obeys the statistical laws which are only appropriate if it 'knows' whether or not the other hole is open. This is the central mystery of the quantum world.

The electrons not only know whether or not both holes are open, they know whether or not we are watching them, and they adjust their behaviour accordingly.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Einstein

The one sure thing we know about the quantum world is not to trust our common sense and only to believe things we can see directly or detect unambiguously with our instruments. We don't know what goes on inside a box unless we look.

Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.

Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith.

The mystery about ? is actually a double mystery. The first mystery – the origin of its numerical value ? ? 1/137 has been recognized and discussed for decades. The second mystery – the range of its domain – is generally unrecognized.

Really really really difficult, Tony allowed. But theoretically possible because, hey, it's a quantum physics universe.

Unless you are intellectually numb, you can't escape the allure of the quantum, the tantalizing possibility that we are immersed in mystery, forever bound within the shores of the Island of Knowledge. Unless you are intellectually numb, you can't escape the awe-inspiring feeling that the essence of reality is unknowable.

Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the Old One. I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.

One of the most curious consequences of quantum physics is that a particle like an electron can seemingly be in more than one place at the same time until it is observed, at which point there seems to be a random choice made about where the particle is really located. Scientists currently believe that this randomness is genuine, not just caused by a lack of information. Repeat the experiment under the same conditions and you may get a different answer each time.

You don't have any need for a creator. Quantum fluctuations mean that we are seeing something appearing from nothing all the time.

Indeterminism does not confer freedom on us: I would feel that my freedom was impaired if I thought that a quantum mechanical trigger in my brain might cause me to leap into the garden and eat a slug

I am an old man now, and when I die and go to Heaven there are two matters on which I hope for enlightement. One is quantum electrodynamics and the other is the turbulent motion of fluids. And about the former I am rather more optimistic.