Hidden In Plain Sight Quotes

“any unifying idea has to be simple.”
― Andrew H. Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“We see beauty in simplicity because we can see its underlying efficiency.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“To weigh something one needs a platform on which to stand to do the weighing.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“Whereas, all that is happening is the Earth is following a straight line in curved space.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“Quantum mechanics tells us that everything is connected as one object: the universe. And relativity tells us that the universe is the only thing that exists.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“The message from quantum mechanics is that we should treat the universe as one connected, entangled object.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“As string theorist Brian Greene says in The Elegant Universe: "Another possibility, should strings fail to be the final theory, is that they are one more layer in the cosmic onion.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“Likewise, when an isolated particle encounters a randomised environment, the effect of the environment will be to destroy the ordered coherent phases of the particle's wavelike nature. The regularity dissipates into the environment and can never be reformed — just like a broken egg.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“Just like a wine glass breaking, or a car rusting, the entropy of a closed system will always increase with time.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“The observation of an object by an observer results in an equivalent observation of the observer by the observed object.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“In the Copenhagen interpretation, the role of the observer is to bring an object into reality. Before observation, the object appears to be in a peculiar, multi-valued superposition state, and it is only after observation that we find a single, well-defined reality. The role of the observer is clearly crucial in this case. As for defining the nature of the observer, as we discussed, it was believed at one point that only a conscious human observer was capable of performing an observation, though I think we can discount this theory. In the Many Worlds interpretation (MWI),”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“An excellent definition can be found in the book Quantum Enigma by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner: "Whenever any property of a microscopic object affects a macroscopic object, that property is 'observed' and becomes a physical reality." For example, when a microscopic photon hits the macroscopic screen in the double-slit experiment, then”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“Such pairs of properties — such as momentum and position — which behave in this way are called conjugate variables. The theory which expresses this uncertainty in conjugate variable values is called the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. According to the uncertainty”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“We all have an intuitive feeling of the passage of time. We feel the immediacy of a "now" moment as if it is the only real moment, we remember the past as "somewhere we have been", and we look to the future as "somewhere we are going". In this sense, it feels as if our "now" moment is moving through time, from the past to the future. The movement of the "now" point has the effect of turning the uncertain and malleable future into the fixed and unchangeable past. So, if we are going to answer the question”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“As we move about in space, we are also moving forward in time. This means we effectively navigate a path through spacetime called a world line.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“The process of unification could be equated to a tree, with each theory being a leaf on the end of a twig.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“solipsism”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“If a force can disappear purely because the point of view of the observer changes, then this means the force does not exist: it is dependent on the observer, it has no objective reality (i.e., not all observers experience it as real). It is not a real force. Therefore, Einstein realised gravity was just a fictitious force.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“the two forces of electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force were, in fact, the same force behaving in two different ways at our everyday low energies. If it is sufficiently hot enough then the electromagnetic force and the weak force would merge into a single force. This was confirmed in the 1980s in CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics, when they recreated the temperature of the early universe and demonstrated the existence of the so-called electroweak force.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“Michael Faraday demonstrated that if you push a magnet through a coil of wire, an electric current flows. Conversely, if you pass an electric current through a wire it can deflect a nearby magnetic compass. From this, Faraday deduced that electric currents create magnetic fields, and moving magnetic fields create electric currents. Thus was electromagnetism discovered, unifying electricity and magnetism.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“Galileo stated that there was no experiment you could possibly perform which could detect if you were stationary or moving at a constant velocity. This unification of "being stationary" and "moving" stands as the first of the great unifications in physics.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“Quantum mechanics tells us that there is no such thing as a completely isolated object: objects are connected. The impression of separateness is just an illusion.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“The first theme is "connectedness". Quantum mechanics tells us that there is no such thing as a completely isolated object: objects are connected. The impression of separateness is just an illusion.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“As the great physicist John Wheeler said: "To my mind there must be, at the bottom of it all, not an equation, but an utterly simple idea. And to me that idea, when we finally discover it, will be so compelling, so inevitable, that we will say to one another: 'Oh, how beautiful. How could it have been otherwise?”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“Scientific discovery consists of seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“Complexity is seen as a virtue, a selling-point.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“you would expect that at the ultimate base of Nature, we will surely find a principle which is simple, beautiful, and elegant. As the great physicist John Wheeler said: "To my mind there must be, at the bottom of it all, not an equation, but an utterly simple idea. And to me that idea, when we finally discover it, will be so compelling, so inevitable, that we will say to one another: 'Oh, how beautiful. How could it have been otherwise?”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

“Totalitarian Principle: "Everything which is not forbidden is compulsory".”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics