Quotes About Wave

But when Herndon took off on some "deep volume," like the writings of Immanuel Kant, Lincoln would wave it away as indigestible.

Self begins to reveal its nature. In the depths of meditation, we begin to recognize again that we are One with Brahman—that we are that wave that is nonseparate from the sea. Memory is restored!

Surfing is always a sport of waiting. We wait for the right season, we wait for the right swell, we wait for the right tide, we wait for first light, we wait for the night wind to cease, and then we wait for the right wave. All this waiting for just a few seconds of the most dazzling beauty a human can ever know. So

The process of radiation may be, and is, continuous - at any rate within limits extending to far smaller quantities than the quantum.

Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently cresting on her face, she had to speak through it when she talked.

But if I make an observation, what is to determine which state I am in? This means that someone else has to observe me to collapse my wave function.

The wave had not yet reached its lowest ebb when suddenly it began to rise again. Swaying, it rose higher than the first, and over this second wave, like foam boiling up on the crest, there seethed up a whistling and, here and there, the outcries of women distinguishable through the thunder...And those were moans of women who were crushed as the crowd surged forward. (40)

Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease.

Life is a wave of love in the ocean of humanity.

Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling

So, whereas Bohr argued away by fiat all but one outcome in a measurement, the Many Worlds approach, combined with decoherence, ensures that within each universe it appears as though the other outcomes have vanished. Within each universe, that is, it's as if the probability wave has collapsed. But, compared with the Copenhagen approach, the as if provides for a very different picture of the expanse of reality. In the Many Worlds view, all outcomes, not just one, are realized.

a) The probability wave for a macroscopic object is generally narrowly peaked. (b) The probability wave for a microscopic object, say, a single particle, is typically widely spread.

If a wave of veganism washed over the land, in six months there would be Broccoli Kings, Taco Bell Peppers, and McTofu Drive-Thrus.

Matter can simultaneously be defined as a solid (particle) and as an immaterial force field (wave).

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.

All this good fortune, all this fierce joy ... it was wrong. Surely the universe could not allow this amount of happiness in one man, not without presenting a bill. Somewhere a big dark wave was cresting, and when it broke over his head it would wash everything away. Some days, he was sure he could hear its distant roar ...

I told you Imo made many worlds. I told you that sometimes I think I can see a little way into the world where the wave did not happen. Well, now you will get onto that ship, or... you won't. Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow of the other world. There will be no unhappy memories.

The wave can live the life of a wave, but it can also do better. It can live every moment of its life deeply touching its nature of no-birth and no-death, that is, its nature as water.

The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.

A wave has a right to live her life as a wave, but she must also learn to live her life as water because she is not only a wave. She is also water. And water lives without the fear carried by the wave.

Enlightenment is when the wave realizes that it is the ocean.

He might be my wave, but he wasn't my surfboard. Knowledge and usefulness were all that stood between me and the riptide.

I've always thought my attraction to water was because it offers an unending source of renewal. It's there with each wave—with each tide. Always wiping the shore clean of all imperfections in time for the next tide.

Think of a Mexican wave travelling around a stadium (a Mexican wave is a transverse wave as the cycle of the motion is up and down, while the wave travels at right angles to that direction, round the stadium). The medium here is the mass of spectators who bob up and down. But they stay in their seat positions