Quotes About Quantum

Time is a quantum, psychological trap of our subconsciousness in which the script of our life is built, our fate is programmed by our subconscious.

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which boils down in popular discourse to saying that the very act of observing things changes the things you observe, works just as well, worryingly, when you look in the mirror.

physicist Werner Heisenberg, whose famed uncertainty principle says that you can know the position of an electron as it orbits the nuclear heart of an atom, or you can know its velocity, but that you can't know both at once.

Indeed, the uncertainty principle ensures that in the nature of things physics is unable to do more than make statistical predictions.

I've never worked on quantum entanglement, which Einstein once dismissed as "spooky action at a distance." It's a real phenomenon, though, one that has less to do with communication than with a shared history that causes a pair of particles, even once they've been permanently separated, to behave as if they knew what each other was thinking.

Least Action is the minim- um of energy, multiplied by the minimum of time.

It's simultaneously hard and soft. Until you measure it—which he probably does often, hoping against hope to see something different than last time. But then the wave function collapses to something a little flaccid.

Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.

There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature...

Quantum theory has led, for our purposes, to a new association of energy and information. A crude form of this association occurs in the theories of line noise in a telephone circuit or an amplifier. Such background noise may be shown to be unavoidable, as it depends on the discrete character of the electrons which carry the current; and yet it has a definite power of destroying information

Chopra is vastly fond of the word "quantum," and it gives a distinct coloration to his pitch.; In the context of his discourses, "quantum" is chiefly flaunted before audiences who would run in terror from any discussion of self-adjoint operators on a separable complex Hilbert space, though they might be lured back by the suggestion that Hilbert space is a domain of inexpressible spiritual bliss.

Consciousness has quantum field properties. Because of that, at the most primal level, we are all connected. We are part of, live in, and respond to the same or similar vibrational fields.

You, making the assumption that you're an average-size human being, contain no less than 7 times 10 to the 18th (7 1018) joules of potential energy.

The universe doesn't know good or bad, only less or more.

The gestation period of ideas in the policy stream varies from rapid to gradual. The content ranges from totally new to a minor extension of the old. The typology that emerges from these criteria yields four types: quantum (rapid propulsion of new ideas), emergent (gradual gestation of new ideas), convergent (rapid gestation of old ideas), and gradualist (slow gestation of marginal extensions of existing policies) (Durant and Diehl 1989). Integration

The interpretation of quantum mechanics has been dealt with by many authors, and I do not want to discuss it here. I want to deal with more fundamental things.

The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.

It seems clear that the present quantum mechanics is not in its final form. Some further changes will be needed, just about as drastic as the changes made in passing from Bohr's orbit theory to quantum mechanics. Some day a new quantum mechanics, a relativistic one, will be discovered, in which we will not have these infinities occurring at all. It might very well be that the new quantum mechanics will have determinism in the way that Einstein wanted.

In their later years, each (Einstein and Schrödinger) hoped to find a unified field theory that would fill in the gaps of quantum physics and unite the forces of nature. By extending general relativity to include all of the natural forces, such a theory would replace matter with pure geometry - fulfilling the dream of the Pythagoreans, who believed that "all is number".

They searched for unity almost in unison. (Einstein and Schrodinger)

One of the motifs of the cat paradox is the clash between what goes on at the microscopic and macroscopic levels. As Schrödinger described in his paper, uncertainty on an atomic scale becomes linked with fuzziness on a human scale. Because such macroscopic murkiness is never observed, microscopic indeterminacy similarly mustn't exist.

Because it is harder to measure smaller things by relating their positions and momenta to those of other known objects, uncertainty is much greater at the atomic level than at the astronomical level. Therefore, quantum uncertainty is not a fundamental feature of nature but the result of human inability to measure everything in the universe with absolute precision. (Eddington)

What is the mass of a feeling? What is its wavelength, its position on the electromagnetic spectrum?

This parallel between physics and psychology should come as no big surprise, for it is the human mind that has created quantum physics in the first place.