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  • They both just looked at me, as if I'd suggested I could explain quantum physics while juggling bowling pins.†   (source)
  • But as a point of argument, in theory only, he wondered what we'd learn by going deeper into structures beneath the standard model, down under the quantum, a million billion times smaller than the old Greek atom.†   (source)
  • Like quantum particles, they're neither here nor there, impossible to place, impossible to predict.†   (source)
  • The electron wavelength is smaller than the quantum of light.†   (source)
  • The quantum physicists have it right; they are beginning to think like Indians: Everything is connected dynamically at an intimate level.†   (source)
  • They appeared to be mining not stone but white light, and when they took the stone in slabs and caused it to float through empty space, tracked by searchlights, hanging on gossamer cables and unseen chains, it was as if they were handling light in cubic measure, cutting and transporting it in dense selfgenerating quanta from the heart of magical cliffs.†   (source)
  • Something about quantum reactions of the materials.†   (source)
  • We kissed for a while and then lay together listening to The Hectic Glow's eponymous album, and eventually we fell asleep like that, a quantum entanglement of tubes and bodies.   (source)
    quantum = an indivisible unit
  • It sounds like your work in Noetics will be a quantum leap forward.†   (source)
  • Oh, yes, we were challenged the moment we tunneled down from quantum leap.†   (source)
  • Multiple sophons may be able to form a system to sense the macro world through quantum effects.†   (source)
  • "So she came through quantum leap without fugue?" demanded Sol.†   (source)
  • In recent years, however, these tanks had taken a quantum leap.†   (source)
  • To handle every variable of space, time, and history as a quantum of manageable information.†   (source)
  • Possibly to erase some quantum of knowledge that died with my cybrid.†   (source)
  • When the Los Angeles spun back up to a quantum state, I went with her.†   (source)
  • "What if I embarrass you?" he said, as if posing a theory, like, say, quantum physics.†   (source)
  • I told him he could stay here and type my doctoral thesis on quantum physics, but he's not interested.†   (source)
  • This explanation posits that external observation leads to the collapse of the quantum wave function.†   (source)
  • Most of Katherine's books bore titles like Quantum Consciousness, The New Physics, and Principles of Neural Science.†   (source)
  • Up to seven additional dimensions are locked within the micro scale, or, more precisely, within the quantum realm.†   (source)
  • These great minds had all made quantum leaps in human understanding, advances that, according to some, were the result of their exposure to ancient wisdom hidden within the Invisible College.†   (source)
  • And they continue to have secure quantum entanglements between them, just like how, if you break a magnet in half, you would get two magnets.†   (source)
  • After the construction of Sophon Two, Sophon Three, and Sophon Four, the quantum sensing formation was also created successfully.†   (source)
  • The bright and sterile work space glistened with advanced quantitative equipment: paired electro encephalographs, a femtosecond comb, a magneto-optical trap, and quantum-indeterminate electronic noise REGs, more simply known as Random Event Generators.†   (source)
  • One day soon the light would dawn, and mankind would finally begin to grasp the simple, transformative truth of the ancient teachings …. and take a quantum leap forward in understanding his own magnificent nature.†   (source)
  • Closing his eyes, he tried to recall his memories of rendezvous just before the Templar ship went quantum.†   (source)
  • Of course, the actual quantum effects necessary to create such a sophon formation are very complicated.†   (source)
  • The Hegemony had chosen us to help crew one of its precious quantum-leap spinships, so how could we be less than gods?†   (source)
  • Even if four sophons were placed at opposite ends of the universe, they could still sense each other instantaneously, and the quantum formation between them would still exist.†   (source)
  • Because they're highly intelligent, they can precisely determine through the quantum sensing formation the paths that the accelerated particles will follow within a very short period of time and move to the appropriate location.†   (source)
  • The thought that she was flying away from him faster than the speed of light, wrapped in the artificial quantum cocoon of the Hawking effect, seemed unnatural and ominous to him.†   (source)
  • -'after nine years" absence from Pacem because of the quantum-leap time-debt-just an old man returning with the same lies he was exiled for-Oh, dear God, if they destroy the data let them destroy me as well.†   (source)
  • Even a few years ago, you could feel the political winds shifting in academia and prepared yourself For example, when you taught, you changed the names of many physical laws and constants: Ohm's law you called resistance law, Maxwell's equations you called electromagnetic equations, Planck's constant you called the quantum constant….†   (source)
  • The Consul could recall seeing no other passengers during his rushed hour between rendezvous and fugue, but he had put that down to the imminence of the treeship going quantum, assuming then that the passengers were safe in their fugue couches.†   (source)
  • "So," I said as he did another perfect throw, Jesus, "I'm all right if I suck at, say, quantum physics.†   (source)
  • I've received letters from young soldiers in Iraq, telling me how reading popular accounts of relativity and quantum physics has provided them hope that there is something larger, something universal that binds us together.†   (source)
  • —Whose foulest cry was shafted with his passion, whose greatest music flowered out of filth— "Nulla potest mulier tantum se dicere amatam Vere, quantum a me Lesbia amata mea es."†   (source)
  • And if he was talking about the mysterious part of parentage, that our organs could receive waves or quanta of the same length, I didn't know enough about it to differ with him.†   (source)
  • Once here, however, I am going to stay until to-morrow, and at any rate sleep _quantum satis.†   (source)
  • If you are unable to make up your quantum, my boy, you had better address yourself to a principal; there are plenty of principals in the profession, you know, and what is not worth the while of one, may be worth the while of another; that's my recommendation to you, speaking as a subordinate.†   (source)
  • The average price of wage-labour is the minimum wage, i.e., that quantum of the means of subsistence, which is absolutely requisite in bare existence as a labourer.†   (source)
  • The reader will perhaps be curious to know the quantum of this present; but we cannot satisfy his curiosity.†   (source)
  • Wit, valour, and politeness, were likewise proposed to be largely taxed, and collected in the same manner, by every person's giving his own word for the quantum of what he possessed.†   (source)
  • But the success has not hitherto been answerable, partly by some error in the quantum or composition, and partly by the perverseness of lads, to whom this bolus is so nauseous, that they generally steal aside, and discharge it upwards, before it can operate; neither have they been yet persuaded to use so long an abstinence, as the prescription requires.†   (source)
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