Quantum

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"Quantum" in a Sentence (20 examples)

At the atomic scale we observe quantum mechanical effects that can not be explained by classical mechanics.

History is like quantum physics: the observer affects the event observed. Is the Kennedy assassination a particle or a wave?

Quantum physics is too difficult for a mere mortal to understand.

Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

Modern understanding of the dynamics of quantum particles took a non-intuitive turn with the introduction of the particle-wave duality concept.

Japanese is a quantum language. It is to languages what quantum physics is to physics.

How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics.

Einstein described quantum entanglement as "spooky action at a distance." So, before Einstein's own Theory of General Relativity, might Newton's theory of gravitation have been described.

The book was about quantum physics.

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The reader will perhaps be curious to know the quantum of this present, but we cannot satisfy his curiosity.

A certain quantum of power must always exist in the community, in some hands, and under some appellation.

Otherwise I will have given the lie to my maxim that whether you work eight or twenty hours, the quantum of work that gets done on a normal day is the same.

The Congress's core ministerial panel on Friday gave its green signal to raising motor fuel prices but the quantum of increase emerged as a hitch.

Each man has only a quantum of compassion, he argued, and mine is used up for the day.

The dream of flying, according to Strümpell, is the appropriate image used by the psyche to interpret the quantum of stimulus [translating Reizquantum] proceeding from the rise and fall of the lungs when the cutaneous sensation of the thorax has simultaneously sunk into unconsciousness.

The quantum of light energy was later called a photon.

Developing for quantum has never been more accessible.

Defined parts of a manifoldness are called Quanta

Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.

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