Quantum Mechanics

Quantum mechanics (QM; also known as quantum physics or quantum theory), including quantum field theory, is a fundamental branch of physics concerned with processes involving, for example, atoms and photons. In such processes, said to be quantized, the action has been observed to be only in integer multiples of the Planck constant. This is utterly inexplicable in classical physics.

Quantum mechanics gradually arose from Max Planck's solution in 1900 to the black-body radiation problem (reported 1859) and Albert Einstein's 1905 paper which offered a quantum-based theory to explain the photoelect ...more

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“ [T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts. ”
― Werner Heisenberg

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“ **“There’s a land across the cosmic sea, That we are all headed towards, But we shall never see. Oh, what a time that shall be— Headed toward that time that shall never be... At least that’s the way it should be.”** "(SRM) Structured Resonance Mechanics Field Theory gives us the gift of knowing where we are going, even if we do not get to go there directly. — @NeurodivergentDaveND3 This is part of the Structured Resonance Mechanics Framework (SRM), a fully copyrighted mathematical paradigm… ...more ”
― NeurodivergentDaveND3

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