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“Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory does not understand it.” NIELS BOHR, 1927
“What are you telling me? England used to own France?”
These must be the dumbest Americans in history.
Studying history was as pointless as learning Morse code, or how to drive a horse-drawn wagon.
Well, good luck surviving the apocalypse! : )
stockbrokers owed the very notion of a market economy to the Middle Ages.
Men didn’t seem to realize that rebound behavior was slightly insulting.
“The multiverse is the world defined by quantum mechanics.
energy wasn’t a continuous wave. Instead, energy seemed to be composed of individual units, which he called quanta. “The discovery that energy came in quanta was the start of quantum physics,”
physicists began to realize that not only light, but all energy was composed of particles.
all matter in the universe took the form of particles.
“The particles are discrete units, or quanta. And the theory that describes how these particles behave is quantum theory.
Sometimes two particles will interact with each other even though they’re a million miles apart, with no connection between them.
Supermarket scanners, lasers and computer chips all rely on quantum mechanics.
I so wish he explain this a bit more.
Eventually, even scientists who won the Nobel Prize for contributions to quantum theory had to admit they didn’t understand it.
That’s depressing- so me highlighting the key points here probably isn’t getting me any closer to comprehension.
Therefore, the interfering photons must be in other universes. And that proves that the other universes exist.”
Logically, that is only one possible explanation.
Everyone inside the hall was silent, unmoving, staring down at their feet. It was as if the room had suddenly become a still life,
Their empty debates could never be resolved; the questions could never be answered. Yet there had been so much intensity, so much passion in those debates.
The universal vigor of graduate school debates over beer.
“That’s never going to work,” Chris said. “We need the damn key, André.”
Seriously? With all the unlikely plot events, they can't just whack open a medieval lock with a sword?
the conception of a brutal medieval period was an invention of the Renaissance, whose proponents were at pains to emphasize a new spirit, even at the expense of the facts.
quantum teleportation has been demonstrated in laboratories around the world,
Cool, cool.
