All 11 Uses
quantum
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The Three-Body Problem
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- 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....You explained to your students that all scientific accomplishments resulted from the wisdom of the working masses, and those capitalist academic authorities only stole these fruits and put their names on them.†
p. 15.8quantum = tiny, indivisible packet of energy or matter
- One of the male Red Guards said, "When you taught quantum mechanics, you also mixed in many reactionary ideas."†
p. 17.2quantum mechanics = the study of matter and energy at the atomic and subatomic scale
- You have often lectured students on the reactionary Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.†
p. 17.4
- This explanation posits that external observation leads to the collapse of the quantum wave function.†
p. 17.5 *quantum = tiny, indivisible packet of energy or matter
- Up to seven additional dimensions are locked within the micro scale, or, more precisely, within the quantum realm.†
p. 329.1
- Multiple sophons may be able to form a system to sense the macro world through quantum effects.†
p. 377.1
- Of course, the actual quantum effects necessary to create such a sophon formation are very complicated.†
p. 377.5
- After the construction of Sophon Two, Sophon Three, and Sophon Four, the quantum sensing formation was also created successfully.†
p. 377.7
- 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.†
p. 378.8
- 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.†
p. 379.1
- 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.†
p. 382.1
Definitions:
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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)