Sentences with phrase «whereas classical physics»

Whereas classical physics insists that two light beams will pass right through each other untouched, some of the earliest predictions of QED stipulate that converging photons occasionally scatter off one another.

Not exact matches

Thus the Inconsistency between Bohr's quantum theory and the assumptions of classical physics worried some physicists very much when it was first proposed, whereas others thought this inconsistency of little importance compared to the accuracy of the predictions which it yielded.

Whereas classical philosophy grounded such laws in natures, but restricted their application insofar as matter introduces contingency, nineteenth - century physics subjected material realities to inviolable law.