NOUN
- (physics) a physical theory that certain properties occur only in discrete amounts (quanta)
How To Use quantum theory In A Sentence
- But this information about the distribution of matter is given to us only statistically by quantum theory. The Origin of the Universe
- Erwin Schrödinger, one of the founders of quantum theory, used the word entanglement to refer to connections between separated particles that persisted regardless of distance. ENTANGLED MINDS
- In the quantum theory of gravity, on the other hand, a third possibility arises.
- Shrinking electronic or mechanical systems further, he says, will inevitably require new paradigms involving quantum theory.
- Predicted by quantum theory, ghost radiation is a negative energy field that dampens normal positive energy.
- Using quantum theory to understand gravity makes as much sense as trying solve a crossword puzzle with the key to your door.
- The effect is (in some sense) as much the cause of A as (in a different sense) A is of B. (Aside: this makes John Cramer's transactional quantum theory sound weirdly Aristotelian.www. npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw16. html) Consequently, when Hume and the other Early Moderns tossed out finality, they wound up tossing out causation as well and wound up with something weirdly like al-Ghazali's occasionalism. November 4th, 2009
- This is a profound question, and present-day quantum theory does not really provide us with a satisfying answer.
- The written section was tough - hardly anything on quantum theory, and a brute of a paper on the cell chemistry of Micronesian diatomic plankton.
- I'm a brilliant polymath, a clocked genius breasting the tape as an expert in philosophy, literature, sociology, quantum theory, a virtuoso on all stringed and keyed instruments, a capable visual artist, and an obscenely degenerate chain-smoking drunk! Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0