Sentences with phrase «quantum mechanics of»

It is easy to observe that H only emits very specific energies of light which are «easily» predicted by the quantum mechanics of the orbiting electrons and the allowed transitions between energy levels of those orbits.

I have been up to my neck for over a year in a huge row with Iannis Kominis about the underlying quantum mechanics of spin sensing chemical reactions, and either his papers or mine (or just possibly both) are complete nonsense: but nobody has resigned over Koniminis's paper in Phys Rev B or mine in Chem Phys Lett.

If a molecule that might radiate a photon is surrounded by more other molecules of ANY variety then collisions and even near passes at the time it is radiating will alter the exact quantum mechanics of what frequency it radiates at.

But the quantum mechanics of this world does let us describe how atoms form molecules.

Kakalios, 50, began advising the film's makers in the summer of 2007 on everything from the quantum mechanics of Dr. Manhattan (one of the superheroes of the story) down to the details in the laboratories.

For example, successfully simulating a superconductor with such a device would reveal the quantum mechanics of high - temperature superconductivity.

Almost all modern gadgets — computers, cellphones, games consoles, cars, refrigerators, ovens — contain memory chips based on the transistor, whose operation relies on the quantum mechanics of semiconductors.

Harnessing the shared wave nature of light and matter, researchers at the University of Chicago led by Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Physics Jonathan Simon have used light to explore some of the most intriguing questions in the quantum mechanics of materials.

One of the most important early applications will be to study the chemistry of small molecules or simple reactions, by using quantum computers to simulate the quantum mechanics of chemical systems.

And in any such case, it then becomes the interactions which experience has shown will have an impact on the molecule which controls the shape it takes and not anything intrinsic to the molecule considered in itself, or explained simply by the quantum mechanics of its constituents.

Not exact matches

But you don't need to understand the details of quantum mechanics to weigh claims and flag up B.S., according to Carl Sagan.

Quantum computers use quantum bits (qubits), which behave according to the rules of quantum mechanics, to solve problems.

Legendary physicist Feynman won the Nobel Prize for his work in one of the subjects that's the most difficult for the human mind to grasp — quantum mechanics — yet his top advice for accelerating learning is actually to make whatever you're studying as dead simple as possible.

Quantum computers exploit a weird property of quantum mechanics that allows a bit to temporarily enjoy a dual reality where it is both on and off at the same time, thus embodying two numbers at once.

New paradigm shifting theories (relativity, quantum mechanics, gravity waves) are the result of thoroughly and completely disproving every simple answer.

Eric Dahan, co-founder of InstaBrand, a social media marketing agency, spends his free time spearfishing and reading about quantum mechanics.

That strange quality of quantum mechanics allows qubits to complete difficult calculations many times faster than traditional bits, which have to be one or zero, on or off, black or white.

His groundbreaking research in merging concepts of quantum mechanics and Einstein's...

Mr. Hawking wins easy battles against uneducated (in science) religious persons, but taking his statement on perspective, He is based on assumptions with serious underlying problems, basically everything from mathematics, to the incompatibility of quantum mechanics and relativity, and the lack of proof and evidence for string theories, he is launching a very aggressive statement, probably his last effort on life to counter the anthropomorphic ideas of God, and this is very common in all scientists.

The reason some scientists want to prove time really does not exist is that if times does not exist then they can unify the «subatomic atomic world of quantum mechanics with the vast cosmic one of general relativity.»

The casual, hourlong discussion veers from such topics as determinism and the role of the observer (get ready to reopen the catbox), why «the God particle» is an inane name for Higgs boson, and why quantum mechanics does not make faith easier, but does make pure materialism less tenable.

Schwartz makes a good case for quantum mechanics being compatible with such a nonmaterialist view of mind.

@Reason: Not if you have any understanding of quantum mechanics.

Albert was woefully wrong in his assessment of quantum mechanics.

Let's review: From Quantum Diaries: Cause and effect went out of favor as a cornerstone of science about the time quantum mechanics was developed.

Science is confirming what the Bible says - the Big Bang (the creation), the idea of other universes (God is not of this universe), the human genome project («the language of God» according to Francis Collins), quantum mechanics, etc..

From Quantum Diaries: Cause and effect went out of favor as a cornerstone of science about the time quantum mechanics was developed.

And his book suggests that scientists should address the obvious metaphysical implications of twentieth - century physics: e.g., Einstein and quantum mechanics and the more recent developments in the field of chaos theory and nonlinear systems.

Theories of electromagnetism and quantum mechanics is a sham!

The mechanics of the transmission seem to be analogous to those of contemporary quantum theory (PR 468).

When physicists investigated the subatomic realm, however, they discovered that the principle of least action is just a limiting case of the much more subtle and sophisticated path integral principle, which is the basis of quantum mechanics, as Richard Feynman showed in the 1940s.

Meanwhile, we can have even more fun exploring our slippery grip on reality by looking into the bizarre phenomena revealed in studies of quantum mechanics.

Perhaps your «understanding» of quantum mechanics «is nothing more than faith in what is perceived»?

The vast majority of humanity is NEVER going to understand quantum mechanics, but my favorite is when the layman thinks they understand such concepts as «nothing» and «infinity».

Only in the 1920s was it discovered that complex numbers were needed to write the equations of quantum mechanics.

But in Part I Caldecott does interestingly incorporate some modern reflections upon quantum mechanics, the concept of infinity, and epigenetics among others.

«It makes no obvious difference to our salvation whether the geometry of our universe is Euclidian, whether quantum mechanics is the last word in atomic physics, or whether the Big Bang is the correct model for the development of the universe.

Our best theory of space and time — general relativity — seems inconsistent with quantum mechanics.

Einstein considered the EPR experiment to be a criticism of quantum mechanics, showing not that it is wrong, but that it is incomplete conceptually.

To be consistent we should say that quantum mechanics is a theory of the phenomena.

Of course, people have generally concentrated upon the attempt to describe things in detail, but that is just the point at which it doesn't work very well — when you try to understand the quantum mechanics and relativity together.

Simple logic hardly applies to quantum mechanics or the kinds of math involved in deducing gravity waves.

The algorithm of quantum mechanics then applies statistically to these phenomena.

I think this illustrates that the interpretation of quantum mechanics has by no means been settled.

So the attempt to define the structure of the world tube precisely in relativity would violate quantum mechanics.

Without it, quantum mechanics would collapse; it would give results of trivial significance.

Quantum mechanics would say the same thing for a different reason, because the indivisible quantum links of everything with everything imply that nothing can be separated.

This is one of the key problems behind relativity, and it will be the same problem that underlies quantum mechanics.

It can be defined in any direction you please — let's say z. Then, according to quantum mechanics, the other two components of the spin are fluctuating at random so that the spin vector is located somewhere on a cone whose z direction is always the same.

Now this really is the most crucial feature of quantum mechanics, which I call non-locality of distant connections.