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the greatest contribution of science to civilization: to ensure that the greatest books are not those of the past, but of the future.
My favorite definition of reality still is that given by the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, who said, “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
Every major triumph we celebrate with a name and a prize is accompanied by a legion of hardworking, often less heralded, individuals, each of whom moves forward the line of scrimmage by a little bit. Baby steps are the norm, not the exception.
inherently the Heisenberg uncertainty principle has nothing to do with observation at all.
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle tells us that if we measure a system for some time interval, then there is an associated uncertainty in the measured energy of the system. Moreover, as the time interval gets bigger, the associated uncertainty in energy gets smaller.
