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The Lost Symbol
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- 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.†
Chpt 15-16quantum = tiny, indivisible packet of energy or matter
- In 2001, in the hours following the horrifying events of September 11, the field of Noetic Science made a quantum leap forward.†
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- Most of Katherine's books bore titles like Quantum Consciousness, The New Physics, and Principles of Neural Science.†
Chpt 15-16
- 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.†
Chpt 29-30
- In recent years, however, these tanks had taken a quantum leap.†
Chpt 111-112
- 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.†
Chpt 129-130
- It sounds like your work in Noetics will be a quantum leap forward.†
Chpt 133
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(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)