{"quotes":[{"text":"I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy. It has revolutionized fundamental concepts, e.G., about space and time (relativity), about causality (quantum theory), and about substance and matter (atomistics), and it has taught us new methods of thinking (complementarity) which are applicable far beyond physics.","author":"Max Born","tags":["atoms","causality","ideas","illuminating","knowledge","matter","philosophers","philosophy","physics","progress","quantum-theory","revolution-relativity","science","space","theoretical-physics","thinking","time","understanding"],"id":36550,"author_id":"Max+Born"},{"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":"It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to the past. But if you could obtain large quantities of negative energy—and that's a big “IF”—then you could create a time machine that apparently obeys Einstein's equation and perhaps the laws of quantum theory.","author":"Michio Kaku","tags":["advanced","albert-einstein","einstein","energy","future","quantum-mechanics","quantum-theory","science","space"],"id":71826,"author_id":"Michio+Kaku"},{"text":"The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light. The velocity of light is to the Theory of Relativity as the elementary quantum of action is to the Quantum Theory: it is its absolute core.","author":"Max Planck","tags":["albert-einstein","einstein","light","quantum-mechanics","quantum-theory","science","scientific-theory","theory-of-relativity"],"id":91190,"author_id":"Max+Planck"},{"text":"Heisenberg's uncertainty relation measures the amount by which the complementary descriptions of the electron, or other fundamental entities, overlap. Position is very much a particle property - particles can be located precisely. Waves, on the other hand, have no precise location, but they do have momentum. The more you know about the wave aspect of reality, the less you know about the particle, and vice versa. Experiments designed to detect particles always detect particles; experiments designed to detect waves always detect waves. No experiment shows the electron behaving like a wave and a particle at the same time.","author":"John Gribbin","tags":["heisenberg-uncertainty-principle","physics","quantum-mechanics","quantum-physics","quantum-theory"],"id":96671,"author_id":"John+Gribbin"},{"text":"Another very good test some readers may want to look up, which we do not have space to describe here, is the Casimir effect, where forces between metal plates in empty space are modified by the presence of virtual particles.Thus virtual particles are indeed real and have observable effects that physicists have devised ways of measuring. Their properties and consequences are well established and well understood consequences of quantum mechanics.","author":"Gordon L. Kane","tags":["casimir-effect","evidence","observation","particle-physics","physics","quantum-mechanics","quantum-physics","quantum-theory","science","test","uncaused","virtual-particles"],"id":99319,"author_id":"Gordon+L.+Kane"},{"text":"Here the attention of the research workers is primarily directed to the problem of reconciling the claims of the special relativity theory with those of the quantum theory. The extraordinary advances made in this field by Dirac ... Leave open the question whether it will be possible to satisfy the claims of the two theories without at the same time determining the Sommerfeld fine-structure constant.","author":"Werner Heisenberg","tags":["fine-structure-constant","physics","quantum-theory","relativity"],"id":99492,"author_id":"Werner+Heisenberg"},{"text":"In his first philosophical lecture on modern physics that Pauli gave in November 1934 to the Zurich Philosophical Society he said that only a formulation of quantum theory would be satisfactory which expresses the relation between the value of [the fine structure constant] and charge conservation in the same complementary was as that between the space-time description and energy-momentum conservation.","author":"Charles P. Enz","tags":["charge-conservation","fine-structure-constant","history-of-science","physics","quantum-theory","wolfgang-pauli"],"id":133590,"author_id":"Charles+P.+Enz"},{"text":"Fine Structure Constant: Fundamental numerical constant of atomic physics and quantum electrodynamics, defined as the square of the charge of the electron divided by the product of Planck's constant and the speed of light.","author":"Steven Weinberg","tags":["electron","fine-structure-constant","fundamental-constants","history-of-science","physics","quantum-theory","universe"],"id":174193,"author_id":"Steven+Weinberg"},{"text":"If the deep logic of what determines the value of the fine-structure constant also played a significant role in our understanding of all the physical processes in which the fine-structure constant enters, then we would be stymied. Fortunately, we do not need to know everything before we can know something.","author":"John D. Barrow","tags":["constants-of-nature","fine-structure-constant","knowledge","physics","quantum-theory","science"],"id":183069,"author_id":"John+D.+Barrow"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}