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quantum
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Hyperion
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- With a three-week time-debt, you can rendezvous with the Yggdrasill before it goes quantum from the Parvati system.†
Part Prol. *quantum = tiny, indivisible packet of energy or matter
- Closing his eyes, he tried to recall his memories of rendezvous just before the Templar ship went quantum.†
Part 1
- Oh, yes, we were challenged the moment we tunneled down from quantum leap.†
Part 1
- 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.†
Part 1
- —'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.†
Part 1
- 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.†
Part 4
- "So she came through quantum leap without fugue?" demanded Sol.†
Part 4
- Possibly to erase some quantum of knowledge that died with my cybrid.†
Part 5
- To handle every variable of space, time, and history as a quantum of manageable information.†
Part 5
- The Hegemony had chosen us to help crew one of its precious quantum-leap spinships, so how could we be less than gods?†
Part 6
- When the Los Angeles spun back up to a quantum state, I went with her.†
Part 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(quantum) smallest “packet” or chunk of energy or matter that something can have in modern physicsIn quantum physics, energy and matter don't flow smoothly like water but come in tiny, indivisible chunks called quanta. An object can only gain or lose energy in specific amounts—just enough to jump from one allowed energy level to another. During a "quantum jump," the object doesn't gradually move between levels; it simply vanishes from one level and appears at another, as if teleporting.
Science has revealed that the universe behaves very differently at extreme scales than it does in our everyday lives. At incredibly small scales (atoms and smaller), quantum physics rules. At incredibly large scales (planets, stars, and galaxies) or extreme speeds, Einstein's theories of special and general relativity take over. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)