Quantum Time Quotes

“Even a contrary view, when argued from a platform of civility, becomes not an ideological threat to vanquish, but an alternative to consider and an opportunity to grasp the diversity of humanity.”
― Douglas Phillips, Quantum Time

“When you don’t have any rules prohibiting it, misinformation always wins. It gives people exactly what they want to hear. Doesn’t matter if it’s true.” “Confirmation bias,” Daniel said. “People accept what fits within their belief system and reject everything else.”
― Douglas Phillips, Quantum Time

“A new take on an old con. A method to produce a perfect fake. They record hours of video—a person speaking, for example—and then break the digital results down into small clips of a few pixels each, called shards. They can reassemble the shards into a new video that looks just as real as the original but is complete fantasy”
― Douglas Phillips, Quantum Time

“America has always done a piss-poor job of defining what is news and what is misinformation. When you don’t have any rules prohibiting it, misinformation always wins.”
― Douglas Phillips, Quantum Time

“Yeah, America has always done a piss-poor job of defining what is news and what is misinformation. When you don’t have any rules prohibiting it, misinformation always wins. It gives people exactly what they want to hear. Doesn’t matter if it’s true.” “Confirmation bias,” Daniel said. “People accept what fits within their belief system and reject everything else.”
― Douglas Phillips, Quantum Time

“Confirmation bias,” Daniel said. “People accept what fits within their belief system and reject everything else.”
― Douglas Phillips, Quantum Time

“Closed timelike curves come in several forms but they all have one startling characteristic in common: a portion of the path points backward in time. Any spacecraft following that portion of the CTC path would end up in the past. Crazy, but theoretically true and mathematically proven.”
― Douglas Phillips, Quantum Time

“timelike curve is a path through spacetime that never strays beyond the cone of space accessible at the speed of light. In other words, it’s a path that a spacecraft could follow (an ordinary, non-Star-Trek-warp-drive kind of spacecraft). When influenced by an intense gravitational field, the light cone tips toward warped space (a.k.a., gravity). Enough tipping and the timelike curve twists back on itself, eventually into a complete circle. It’s what astrophysicists call a closed timelike curve, or CTC.”
― Douglas Phillips, Quantum Time

“Je suis au bar. Bonne connexion internet, excellent vin.”
― Douglas Phillips, Quantum Time

“It’s the block universe question,” Mathieu answered. “Does space-time exist as a single unchangeable block? Every event, for eternity, existing all at once. For years, physicists thought they had the answer. The passage of time, along with our free will to affect change, is just an illusion. We’re on page eighty-seven of a novel, and nothing we do will change the ending.”
― Douglas Phillips, Quantum Time

“Mais ne joue plus à tes jeux,”
― Douglas Phillips, Quantum Time

“A chronon is a discrete unit of time. A quantum tick of the clock. You can’t subdivide time any smaller. Theoretically, it’s the time it takes to push an electron to a higher orbital, but it’s not like anyone has ever measured that. It’s kind of a new frontier in physics.”
― Douglas Phillips, Quantum Time

“A lie begun at the top and perpetuated by underlings who accepted it as truth was the hardest to detect.”
― Douglas Phillips, Quantum Time

“Most quantum physicists now agree that uncertainty is a natural part of our universe.”
― Douglas Phillips, Quantum Time

“Skeptical thinking is not that different. I’m open to some pretty strange ideas—most scientists are—but not without evidence. The stranger the idea, the more evidence required, or I’m not on board.”
― Douglas Phillips, Quantum Time

“At age forty-four, Daniel was still figuring women out.”
― Douglas Phillips, Quantum Time

“First contact with a very different civilization was more about domination than learning. They’d sparred on many topics, scientific, religious and alien, sometimes in private conversation, but other times on the stage in front of hundreds of others. But throughout the back and forth, there was no animosity, no insults, and in the end, a genuine respect had developed between them. Even a contrary view, when argued from a platform of civility, becomes not an ideological threat to vanquish, but an alternative to consider and an opportunity to grasp the diversity of humanity.”
― Douglas Phillips, Quantum Time