Nick Herbert Quotes

Nick Herbert is an American physicist and author, best known for his book Quantum Reality.

✵ 7. September 1936   •   Other names Nick Herbert (physicist)
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Famous Nick Herbert Quotes

“One of the best-kept secrets of science is that physicists have lost their grip on reality.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 2, Physicists Losing Their Grip, p. 15

“Though today's quantum theory shows no sign of weakness, someday it may collapse.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 3, Quantum Theory takes Charge, p. 52

“The simplicity of Bell's proof opens it to everyone, not just physicists and mathematicians.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 12, Bell's Interconnectedness Theorem, p. 215

Nick Herbert Quotes about the world

“Strictly speaking, there are no "measurements" in the world, only correlations.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 9, Four Quantum Realities, p. 174

“No local reality can explain the type of world we live in.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 13, The Future Of Quantum Reality, p. 245

“So minuscule is the scale of quantum events compared to the actions of everyday life that it's a wonder humans ever found out about the quantum world at all.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 8, "And Then A Miracle Occurs": The Quantum Measurement Problem, p. 150

“A universe that displays local phenomena but upon a non-local reality is the only sort of world consistent with known facts and Bell's proof.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 12, Bell's Interconnectedness Theorem, p. 230

“The entire visible universe, what Bishop Berkley called "the mighty frame of the world," rests ultimately on a strange quantum kind of being no more substantial than a promise.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 10, Quantum Realities: Four More, p. 195

Nick Herbert Quotes about reality

“Bell's theorem says that reality must be non-local.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 12, Bell's Interconnectedness Theorem, p. 212
Context: Bell himself managed to devise such a proof which rejects all models of reality possessing the property of "locality". This proof has since become known as Bells theorem. It asserts that no local model of reality can underlie the quantum facts. Bell's theorem says that reality must be non-local.

“The gist of Bell's theorem is this: no local model of reality can explain the results of a particular experiment.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 11, The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox, p. 199 (See also: John Stewart Bell)

Nick Herbert Quotes

“Physicists cannot explain atoms to their children, not because we are ignorant but because we know too much.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 10, Quantum Realities: Four More, p. 197

“The quantum world is not made up of objects.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 9, Four Quantum Realities, p. 162

“Physicists, for all their odd notions, are basically a conservative lot.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 4, Facing The Quantum Facts, p. 55

“The quantum world is objective but objectless.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 9, Four Quantum Realities, p. 162

“Most everywhere, most of the time, the world dwells in an unmeasured state.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 6, Meet The Champ: Quantum Theory Itself, p. 94

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