Sentences with phrase «macroscopic classical»

Surveying key experimental findings from the past three decades, the authors explore links between the microscopic quantum and macroscopic classical worlds.

Not exact matches

Present states or movements in the inorganic arena appear to us to be determined totally by the history of past commotion in the macroscopic order as described by classical physics.

Typically, very small things obey quantum mechanics; classical mechanics governs macroscopic objects.

In macroscopic objects such as a current of water, the fact of observing the current does not affect the flow of the water and, in accordance with the laws of classical thermodynamics, this flow would take place from the upper to the lower part of the system.

and Sir Roger Penrose's explanation for the lack of macroscopic quantum effects: It would seem that the absence of «quantum strangeness» on the macroscopic level is well predicted by classical quantum theory.

It describes particles, atoms and molecules but gives way to ordinary classical physics on the macroscopic scales of pears, people and planets.

Hence, it is not the electromagnetic repulsion between electrons and nuclei that is responsible for two wood blocks that are left on top of each other not coalescing into a single piece, but rather it is the exclusion principle applied to electrons and protons that generates the classical macroscopic normal force.