{"quotes":[{"text":"[..] when we get down to the subatomic level, the solid world we live in also consists, again rather worryingly, of almost nothing and that wherever we do find something it turns out not to actually something, but only the probability that there may something there.","author":"Douglas Adams","tags":["humor","physics","quantum-mechanics"],"id":8524,"author_id":"Douglas+Adams"},{"text":"To study the self is to forget the self. Maybe if you sat enough zazen, your sense of being a solid, singular self would dissolve and you could forget about it. What a relief. You could just hang out happily as part of an open-ended quantum array.","author":"Ruth Ozeki","tags":["buddhism","japanese","life","meditation","physics","quantum-mechanics","science","sense-of-self","spirituality"],"id":9434,"author_id":"Ruth+Ozeki"},{"text":"If we look upon the earth as a place where our 'higher selves' have come to learn, to experience, or even to be judged, then the splitting of realities that occurs with the many-worlds interpretation is merely an extension of these functions.","author":"Kevin Michel","tags":["faith","holography","illusion","inspirational","law-of-attraction","loa","many-worlds","many-worlds-interpretation","quantum-mechanics","quantum-physics","reality","religion","self-help","subconscious","subconscious-mind"],"id":15737,"author_id":"Kevin+Michel"},{"text":"Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.","author":"John Archibald Wheeler","tags":["acausal","big-bang","cosmology","laws-of-nature","nobel-laureate","origin-of-the-universe","origin-of-universe","physical-law","physics","quantum-cosmology","quantum-fluctuations","quantum-mechanics"],"id":16796,"author_id":"John+Archibald+Wheeler"},{"text":"Mankind has uncovered two extremely efficient theories: one that describes our universe's structure (Einstein's gravity: the theory of general relativity), and one that describes everything our universe contains (quantum field theory), and these two theories won't talk to each other.","author":"Christophe Galfard","tags":["describe","description","efficient","einstein","gravity","mankind","quantum-field-theory","quantum-mechanics","relativity","science","structure","theories","theory","theory-of-general-relativity","uncover","uncovered","universe"],"id":20763,"author_id":"Christophe+Galfard"},{"text":"Which came first — the observer or the particle?","author":"Vanna Bonta","tags":["quantum-mechanics","quantum-reality","quotes","reality-creation"],"id":26883,"author_id":"Vanna+Bonta"},{"text":"If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live . . .","author":"John Gribbin","tags":["physics","quantum-mechanics","science"],"id":35596,"author_id":"John+Gribbin"},{"text":"The strength of the familiar electromagnetic force between two electrons, for example, is expressed in physics in terms of a constant known as the fine structure constant. The value of this constant, almost exactly 1/137, has puzzled many generations of physicists. A joke made about the famous English physicist Paul Dirac (1902-1984), one of the founders of quantum mechanics, says that upon arrival to heaven he was allowed to ask God one question. His question was: 'Why 1/137?","author":"Mario Livio","tags":["fine-structure-constant","heaven","history-of-science","physics","quantum-mechanics"],"id":38947,"author_id":"Mario+Livio"},{"text":"All perception is the result of electrical impulses in the brain - the world of the individual is tantamount to a highly advanced computer running and analyzing programs in its working memory.","author":"Kevin Michel","tags":["ai","brain","computers","hologram","holography","illusion","many-worlds-interpretation","maya","quantum-mechanics","quantum-theory","singularity"],"id":44147,"author_id":"Kevin+Michel"},{"text":"There was a young lady named Bright,Whose speed was far faster than light;She started one dayIn a relative way,And returned on the previous night.","author":"Arthur Henry Reginald Buller","tags":["arthur-henry-reginald-buller","physics","quantum-mechanics"],"id":61410,"author_id":"Arthur+Henry+Reginald+Buller"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":54,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}