Nick Herbert: Quotes about the world

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“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.”

Nick Herbert

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

Life , World

“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.”

Nick Herbert

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

World , Reality , Universe

“Although mathematics originates in the human mind, its remarkable effectiveness in explaining the world does not extend to the mind itself. Psychology has proved unusually resistant to the mathematization that works so well in physics.”

Nick Herbert

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 1, The Quest For Reality, p. 2

World , Mathematics

“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.”

Nick Herbert

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

World , Universe

“Physicists continue to debate whether Bell's theorem is airtight or not. However, the real question is not whether Bell can prove beyond doubt that reality is non-local, but whether the world is in fact no-local.”

Nick Herbert

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 13, The Future Of Quantum Reality, p. 238

World , Question , Reality

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

Nick Herbert

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

World

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

Nick Herbert

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

World , Reality

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

Nick Herbert

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

World

“The quantum world is objective but objectless.”

Nick Herbert

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

World

“Quantum physics emerged from the Stone Age with an embarrassment of riches - three quantum theories, each claiming to explain the world. As it turned out, all three were right.”

Nick Herbert

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 3, Quantum Theory takes Charge, p. 42

Age , World

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

Nick Herbert

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

World , Time