Quotes About Entanglement

A man knits and knits, and then entangles himself.

the various currents are not isolated entities.

Paris, however?because of her purely fortuitous beauty, because of the old things which have become a part of her, because of her entanglement of buildings and tenements?Paris yields herself in discovery as an attic beloved in our childhood gave up its secrets.

Explore me,' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you and I cannot find the way out. Sometimes I think I'm free, coughed up like Jonah from the whale, but then I turn a corner and recognise myself again. Myself in your skin, myself lodged in your bones, myself floating in the cavities that decorate every surgeon's wall. That is how I know you. You are what I know.

The essential feature in quantum interconnectedness is that the whole universe is enfolded in everything, and that each thing is enfolded in the whole.

All points in space become equal to all other points in space and it is meaningless to speak of anything as being separate from anything else. Physicists call this property "nonlocality.

handbag strap tangled around her chair.

The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.

And it was if our lives collided in an unbelievable exquisite mess.

Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.

As I believe I told you before, there had been some slight unpleasantness between us, arising from the occasion when she had sent me over to New York to disentangle my cousin Gussie from the clutches of a girl on the music hall stage. When I tell you that by the time I had finished my operations Gussie had not only married the girl but had gone on the halls himself and was doing well, you'll understand that relations were a trifle strained between aunt and nephew.

Decoherence – entanglement with the environment – is the very process by which information passes from the quantum system to its environment. It's what makes this information accessible: what makes the pointer move. Thanks to einselection, the information gets filtered in the process so that only the pointer states survive.

In that moment, something crystallized--all the vague uninformed feelings of a lifetime suddenly snapped into focus with an enhanced clarity. Everything is tethered to everything else. With people, it isn't gravity or cables--it's money, promises, blood and feelings. The tethers are all the owrds we use to tie each other down.Or up. And we whirl around and around, just like asteroids cabled together. From Stars (anthology) Riding Janis

If there were no one else involved, it would be an easy choice. But isn't that always the case? And there's always someone else involved.

If there was no one else involved, it would be an easy choice. But isn't that always the case? And there's always someone else involved.

We hold each other hostage to our eccentricities." I smiled again, an unseen smile. "We're made for each other.

Involved is neither good nor bad. It is just a consequence of living, a consequence of occupation and immigration, of empires and expansion, of living in each other's pockets... one becomes involved and it is a long trek back to becoming uninvolved.

The Quantum Age takes us far beyond the Information Age to a way of living in which we delight in uncertainty, thrive in entanglement, and flourish with an awareness of many possibilities.

Look around," said Sean. "Everyone in this bar was born here. Most had plans to leave at one time or another, but then at some point they got caught in a snare, and like an animal, lacked the cunning to undo the clamp.

I want a certain density that encourages savoring. I want to slide warp over woof, I want to make knots. I want entanglement, unexpected connections, reverberations, the weight of pouring rain on red earth. Mud is where life begins.

Women of about the age of fifty are often distrustful, and perhaps it is that very distrust and cunning that entangles them. If you care to hear them, I can tell you some particulars some day. I do not know whether all women become more serious in getting older, and then want to govern and correct their daughters, which they do in exactly the wrong way.

Yes, yes, yes, he felt uncontrollable tenderness for his own shit-filled life. And a laughable hunger for more. More defeat! More disappointment! More deceit! More loneliness! More arthritis! More missionaries! God willing, more cunt! More disastrous entanglement in everything. For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.

Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.

imbranglement"—period colloquialism; an onomatopoetic word that means just what it sounds like: complicated and involuntary entanglement, whether physical, legal, or emotional.